re: #479 jeffreyw

“We choose to go to stand these stone guardians in this placee 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. ” - Big Man of the Rapa Nui, probably.

According to some anthropology text I once read, Stonehenge as a percentage of GDP and presentation of technological prowess, was approximately equivalent to our moonshot.