Earlier today, NASA called me and was like, “Hey, we were going to send Curiosity to Mars, but maybe you would like to go instead?”

And I said, “Well, yeah, of course.  I’ve always wanted to go to Mars.  The only problem is Mars would explode if it came into contact with my raw kinetic energy.”

The NASA people were like, “Oh no.  We have just re-tabulated the telemetry and you are correct.  Perhaps it is your eternal curse to be a child of one world with his heart of another.”

“Perhaps,” I said to NASA. “Perhaps you’re right, NASA.”