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@bsletten So true, so true. And yet, as I have pointed out, the mission is in a way a replication of the Columbiad mission just after the Civil War, courtesy of the Baltimore Gun Club, at a time when the promise of technology seemed open-ended. https://fediscience.org/@martinvermeer/111896017713222867 Jules Verne was a remarkable judge of character. He just knew that, if anyone ever was going to do something as wildly impossible as this, it would be Americans. Nothing is impossible. Now go and get guns off the streets, and everybody proper health insurance!