[JCBreckenridge]

I was expecting something like underwater basketweaving, or law.

Astrophysics is a pretty difficult discipline, and it’s a hard science. I have to respect anyone who commits and finishes something like that, even if they don’t end up where one might expect them to be.

And programming’s a honest profession. There are lots of quiet folks out there that prefer a steady position to something more ambitious.

Folks like your brother are the folks that we are going to need if we are going to get anything done in this country.

[cripplecreek]

Folks like your brother are the folks that we are going to need if we are going to get anything done in this country.

Agreed but we're going to need hands on people too. Despite our ideological differences, he and I do agree that we should be much further ahead in space technology. I've been leaning on him to talk to the folks who want to get into asteroid mining.

Actually it was the incident with the car that convinced him that America's future in space won't always belong to a handful of cross trained PhD s. True success in space will require PhD s and wrench turners.