Part of if is the fact that's it's a real technical achievement (just like you can see enthusiastic crowds, even in the USA, just to watch the A380 fly - because it's quite simply amazing), but also because of the fact that it's a highly complex performance that requires collective work (directly, form hundreds of people, and indirectly, by many more to make it all possible) and that we do all participate to it and make it possible - if only be believing that it's the State's role to get these things going/done. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Congratulations to everyone who made it happen. Genius and hard work go unrecognized FAR too often. Anyone who has ever tried to do something difficult stands in awe of your accomplishments. "Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"
Glory is underestimated, though feeding the poor is not bad either. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
