On Monday, December 17, 2018 at 6:59:37 PM UTC-7, RichA wrote:

You can't be serious. It's like spending $1 billion on a moon rocket that can't
break orbit then blaming the rocket.

The difference is that escape velocity is known in advance, whereas the energy
regime in which new physics may be found... is unknown.

So it's not like a rocket that can't get to orbit; it's like a rocket that _does_
get to Mars... but fails to find life there.

John Savard