Mars

As a kid, I had always been obsessed with Mars. Somehow all the adults around me seemed to think Mars was a fine place to go picnic around and if you took a liking then build a house on this lonely planet. So I said I definitely want to be on the spacecraft which goes to Mars. But as I grew up the realities of science hit you and you start wondering why were you surrounded by a bunch of morons who never told you that Mars was a very hot and cold place ; a picnic there could end up in a ghastly way! Well, in some way I am glad they dint tell me all that ( they probably dint know it themselves too well). So I could go on dreaming as long as I wanted to.
There was this book from "World Series", some "amazing or wierd facts", some something like that. And there was this story about an old woman who dreamt of going to Mars all her life and as she died she had left all her money to the future, i.e. to that someone who would be the first to reach Mars. Now that I had read this, I thought I was getting all the signs of doing this mission impossible all by myself :-)
Well, someday somebody with a 100 million dollar suit and 10 years worth training maybe able to step on Mars land and obtain all the money left by the old woman, but I am no more in the running for it, I have resigned!
But I still longingly look up at the wonderful object in the night sky, reddish, starkly different from the stars of the yonder and planets that pale, and wish to look at it through my telescope. Yes! I have still not really seen it through my scope yet!!!
Damn the time which keeps running, and I am not able stop about to watch it!
But when I do see it, hopefully sometime soon, its there in the night sky close to zenith this week ( just waiting for the moon to go away), I will blog again!
(The other connection between the co-author of this blog, me and Mars is the chocolate! I miss that)