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Comment author: scott_clark 12 May 2008 06:10:05PM 9 points [-]

Chris Hibbert hits on a good point.

Many of the top physicists on the Manhattan Project drove the military crazy because they spent their downtime cracking safes and picking locks and going into places "they weren't supposed to go", which is exactly the sort of behavior you need to exhibit, when trying to explore unknown territory.