>>So, let me get this straight. We COULD have done something years ago but didn't. Now we SHOULDN'T even try because it's too late.<<

I said no such thing. You can try anything you like. It just won't do any good. Far be it from me to tell anyone what they should or shouldn't do. Just don't say in the end that no one told you the truth.

>>Now that's the good old American get up and go that we all know and love. Why, with that kind of enthusiasm we shouldn't have tried any large projects at all. Why build a canal through Panama?<<

I don't know. why?

>>Ships can go around the Horn.<<

Fine with me.

>>Why build a railroad all the way across America?<<

To ruin the Indians' hunting grounds?

>>We have ships going around the Horn and stagecoaches to do the in-between work.<<

And if they'd stuck with that, we probably wouldn't be crying big crocodile tears over global warming, would we?

>>And going to the Moon is a ridiculous idea! Why bother? It's too much work.<<

I could care less that we ever went to the moon. What's that to me? So what?