The Point of No Return
People are busy devising plans to reach Mars. TO REACH MARS!!! So there must be a big profit for those arriving first. Yet there’s no good reason. Who needs a good reason? An old Apollo Astronaut sternly warns the nation we should first return to the moon, and build up an infrastructure there before heading on to Mars. Of all the human gifts, among the most predictable is losing our minds. Alcohol, cocaine and sex are all complicit accomplices, but nothing motivates a man to insanity like money and power. Many men get lost in Asia, others disappear in Africa or in South America. Some just go around the block and are lost forever. So resist taking a rocket to Mars. When you go too far you may never return. I learned early on not to climb a tree from which I could not climb back down.
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