[ronilan]

Brian, you are reading it wrong.

That was an observation.

And specifically you are reading the term “no x other than y” wrong.

It actually means x is an attribute of y, or a group, and y is of importance. As in “no player other than LeBron”

It was used in this context in a way similar to “We should send humans to Mars for no rational reason other than to prove that it is technically possible”.

Thus, this comment has no rational reason other than to set the record straight.