It’s like Feynman says, physics is like sex — it may give practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
Randall Munroe on Physics
15 February 2008
Space has been a little disappointing for the last few decades. Since the moon, everything has turned out kind of barren. Every SETI-related result of the past 30 years has been disheartening — “there was once water on Mars” doesn’t really do it for me.
Randall Munroe on Space