A.A.P.A.
Ad Astra Per Aspera is a well known Latin phrase.The only controversey is the definition of the word "aspera." It is the root of the English word "asperation."So, the phrase might be interpreted like this: It is our aspiration to go to the stars. But, aspera as it was used, I am told, is also often interpreted as being a word that indicates difficulty or hardship which is the way It is iterperted when the phrase is used as a motto, or aphorism. So my favorite interpretation would be: "Through hardship, to the stars."There has been some discussion of late about the way certain young people feel about success. In some cases it is said that they (Mostly Millenials) expect to "have it all" once they graduate college, and that as one can easily see, leaves out the "aspera" part of the motto.Most of us know that life is not a day at the beach. We realize that in order to achieve, we must put forth effort, and in so doing it may well cause hardship and yes, sacrifice. The question then becomes, is success worth the effort required in order to achieve it. The first question an Objectivist might ask is, what would Rand say? Not being a philosopher, I will not answer except to say My use of the phrase is interpreting "aspera" as "hardship." Because I have never achieved much without lots of hard work. I would be interested to hear from Gulchers as to their thoughts on this subject..
I know this because when a teen I used to go listen to great local band called Lamont Cranston and my dad told me about the radio drama when he ask where I was going.
Ditto, Ditto, Ditto.
Regards.
Maritimus
From 13 Sept 1970 until 30 Oct 2014 I was never out of a job more than about a week and a half at a time, and that was the extreme case, and occurred only once (mainly because I moved to Richmond, and took some time off to have things put in storage, and get other business done). Sometimes it might be about 4 days, or 2 days; once in 1976 I walked off a job because of how I was treated, and was unemployed that time approximately 4 hours and 15 minutes. I don't like the notions that some people seem to have, that a "higher" education should automatically entitle them to a job, if their education is not relevant to the job they apply for.
But I also don't like the way some people try to push higher education and ram it down everybody's throats, when it's not something they need, and not going to get them a job.---But I am still trying to get another job. I'm willing to work, and I know how to do things.
You ought to read The University of Maryland's Prof. Dave Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design at
https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_...
The last law is the best one:
Space is a completely unforgiving environment. If you screw up the engineering, somebody dies (and there's no partial credit because most of the analysis was right...).
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