The function of prayer is not to influence God but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.
