Hmmm.... Tonight's close encounter with Mars represents a missed opportunity for us. What we should have done is trained suicide astrophysicists to go to Mars and hijack it. Instead, we'll just sitting here, staring at the sky, and marvelling at the vastness of Allah's creation. It is at such moments that I realize how petty our differences on here on Earth seem. For if you think about it, do we all not bleed the same blood when cut? But then I'll hear about another bus bombing in Israel and come to my senses.
Well, as I understand it, we'll have another chance in 284 years.

----------Dana Summers, Orlando Sentinel