Comment Re:Your biggest screw up (Score 2) 452
We're not talking about Slashdot.
With luck it will end the lunatic Euro-dream too.
World War II called and wants its lunatic Euro-dream back.
Sorry, the helping out relatives story is not in the interest of Greece.
Unless, of course, your wife loves the money you send back and doesn't want you to come home.
I had roommate's brother who came from the Philippines to do electronic assembly work in Silicon Valley. He hated the job but his wife didn't want him to come home. After a few years, he quit, returned home and got divorced. His wife spent every dime he ever made in the U.S.
You could always sign up.
NASA had proposed several Apollo to Venus back in the 1970's, including a triple flyby that would take 800 days. The rational back then was to keep funding to manned space program going after the Moon landings were completed.
https://falsesteps.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/manned-venus-flyby/
Anything goes wrong you are dead, whether dead quickly or dead slowly.
That's space travel in a nutshell.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin
