Curiosity-- NASA Mars landing Monday

[Donovan]

Obviously there was a hell of a lot more involved than spare bicycle parts, but the point is that before man could even conceive of rockets those two had to prove we could even get off the ground. And using MS' reasoning, we should never have bothered if they couldn't immediately fashion a Concord. There was no discernable benefit for the work they did, hell the plane wasn't even up long enough to get a bag of peanuts. But it wasn't what they did that was so important as what it meant. We are a race of toolmakers. This latest venture proves we haven't yet reached our upper limit of potential. And that value cannot be measured in dollars. Can you imagine how fucking tedious this planet would be if we as a collective people didn't constantly try to do impossible shit just to see if we could?
That right there is your Biblical tree of Knowledge that so badly rattled our Gods way back when.
"Now they are like unto us." Fuckin aye right.