[tahotdog]

You might want to read the story about the ocean explorations of the Chinese under the third and fourth Ming emperors. China only had to walk through an open door and they'd have dominated the world for the next five centuries, and they walked away from it. We're facing a similar door.

[Flightdeck]

What's the scale on that picture you claim is a village?

[RightWhale]

walk through an open door

Good metaphor. The door is always open, just knock. Why would one knock on an open door?

[BikerNYC]

We're facing a similar door.

No we're not. And I don't think our mission should be to dominate Mars.

We got to the moon first and I don't see no stinkin' condos on Mare Tranquillitatis yet.