Comments on: Space Travel Ain’t Easy http://rocketscientist.today.com/2008/10/28/space-travel-aint-easy/ Melding fiction and science in life and on paper Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:09:46 +0000 http://www.today.com/version-2.3.1 By: stephanieebarr http://rocketscientist.today.com/2008/10/28/space-travel-aint-easy/#comment-220 stephanieebarr Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:02:38 +0000 http://rocketscientist.today.com/2008/10/28/space-travel-aint-easy/#comment-220 Ain't that the truth? Ain’t that the truth?

]]> By: shakespeare http://rocketscientist.today.com/2008/10/28/space-travel-aint-easy/#comment-218 shakespeare Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:45:28 +0000 http://rocketscientist.today.com/2008/10/28/space-travel-aint-easy/#comment-218 When I consider how difficult FLYING is...how hard it is to physically make something float up into the air, resisting gravity...yet we have to add onto this the levels of atmosphere, the flotsam out in space (most of it man-made, which you have written about before), and the dangers of space itself, it's amazing to me that we've traveled into space at all. We are lucky...very, very lucky. Where we err is in our belief that we are merely brilliant, without being lucky. When I consider how difficult FLYING is…how hard it is to physically make something float up into the air, resisting gravity…yet we have to add onto this the levels of atmosphere, the flotsam out in space (most of it man-made, which you have written about before), and the dangers of space itself, it’s amazing to me that we’ve traveled into space at all.

We are lucky…very, very lucky. Where we err is in our belief that we are merely brilliant, without being lucky.

]]> By: flit http://rocketscientist.today.com/2008/10/28/space-travel-aint-easy/#comment-213 flit Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:05:19 +0000 http://rocketscientist.today.com/2008/10/28/space-travel-aint-easy/#comment-213 how sad is it that it even needs saying? how sad is it that it even needs saying?

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