En route to Barranquitas, I worried my curiosity might prove ill-advised.
On the day of the landing last August, Bellutta admits he was in pieces, although he's adamant he wasn't worried that Curiosity might be too.
Even those who've caught the Mars bug and are excited about Curiosity worry that with the new rover, NASA has "put all the eggs in one basket," said Robert Zubrin, an aerospace engineer and founder of the Mars Society, which advocates for manned missions to the planet.
Although many space scientists worried that the Curiosity would be a last hurrah for planetary exploration for years to come because of constraints on NASA's exploration budget, the agency unveiled a new mission on Monday to examine the internal structure of Mars.
But it can be the most difficult thing, because to follow your curiosity without apology or restraint means accepting that you and you alone can answer the question, "What is a good life?" To follow your curiosity you cannot worry about fitting in, or sounding smart, or doing the "right thing".
Educators worry about the "boomerang effect", in which talk about drugs feeds curiosity about them.The success of the campaign against methamphetamine suggests the boomerang effect is overdone, at least for older teenagers.
The curiosity seekers are wondering what that will be like, but I have to worry about getting our part of it done".
In general, I am opposed to doxing—I worry about vigilante mobs, false positives, slippery slopes but not opposed enough, apparently, to overcome my curiosity.
Lots of academics worry that focusing too much on the real-world impact of research threatens pure, curiosity-driven science.
Curiosity about another child's body is a perfectly innocent rite of passage which is absolutely nothing to worry about.
