I wouldn't put it past them to "wag the dog" with the space program. And if they did...well, it worked like a charm cause they've managed to bilk a bajillion dollars out of our pockets to further space exploration. Unless they aren't doing anything! Maybe those blastoffs were just holograms like they used to use on Scooby Doo! Those Bastards! I bet the Mar's rovers aren't even real! They're probably just taking pictures of red rocks out in Sedona, AZ!

<---runs off to start wallpapering his house with aluminum foil. They are definately coming after me for this little outburst!

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.