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“Don’t go there.”
“What do you mean? Why not? That’s Mars.”
“Don’t go there.”
“But it represents a vision of a humanity joined in common cause, united by wonder, unencumbered by irrational divisions driven by hate and fear of the other. A mission to mars is a journey in man’s hearts as much as it is a voyaged through God’s skies.”
“Don’t go there.”
“Maybe your right. Maybe it is folly for me to imagine a world without difference. Who am I to say? The cold, glossy eye of science has hurt more people than it has ever helped. It reduces human beings, each animated by his or her own unique inner light, to nothing more than indiscriminate specimens pinned to a display case.”
“Don’t go there!”
“Yeah talking serious can be so embarrassing.”
“Like that episode of Friends!”
“The one with the ick factor!”
Yeah, the one where Ross is like Hi I’m Ross. I’m a paleontologist.
Yeah. And the girl is like paleo-in-what?
And Chandler’s like “Ross?! Dinosaurs extinct! Her, not so much.”
Yeah.
That’s a good one.
Yeah.
Which one are you again?
It doesn’t matter.