What's happening to the Montana is part of the natural process, and it's OK. Ultimately, the river will carry the Montana away, and that's what is supposed to happen.

My passion is very much along the line of Nelson's in this case. I love the Montana and I love her story.

She's a skeleton in the sand right now. She comes and she goes.

All I can say is that my door will always be open.

There's something cool, even on a philosophical level, about understanding the bigger picture and exploring faith, if you will, in a very real way. The more you delve into it and give into it, you just have to have faith. The more you invest in faith, wherever it takes you, some of those jagged edges become less sharp.

If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.