Quotes 2.5

So it cut off like half of my last blog, so let's try this again. Just for a reminder, the quote is:



"There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." -JFK


So i was talking about challenge. And about why we should seek out challenge. I support challenges. I think that if you try hard at something difficult, you still succeed. 

But the mountain thing is what really gets me, even more than the comment about Rice and Texas, which is probably more similar to JFK's point. People climb mountains not just because they're hard, but because they're there. Curiosity is such a driving factor in humanity. That's why we go to the moon, too. Because we want to know what's there. OUr daily lives wouldn't change if we didn't know what was on the moon, but we look anyway. We invest billions of dollars in research, because we want to know.



This was bad, i'm sorry. It's gotten all confused because my blog cut me off and stuff. Next quote series will be better. I promise.