Re: A question to everyone

"Ron Hammon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Mylon wrote:
> >
> snip
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> > I sorta have my head rooted in science fiction
> > with the whole idea of colonizing new worlds, yet it's rather difficult
to
> > ponder on such ideas if we don't know of any such worlds that could be
> > colonized.
>
> For the moment (for my lifetime and the lifetime of everyone I know), we
> aren't going anywhere.  Sad, but true.  One thing about accepting this
> fate is that we have to deal with being stuck here.  There is no more
> "there" to go to anymore.  There is no escape.  Not only must we avoid
> "shitting in our bathwater" (protect the environment), at some point, we
> will have to decide when people must die (or, not be born) to allow
> other animals species to survive.

There are plenty of places to go!  Back to the moon for one, for more
long-term scientific purpose this time (i.e. moon-based telescopes,
spaceports for exploration of the solar system, mining the asteroid
belt...etc.)  There is PLENTY of 'splorin' to do in our own back yard.  Mars
is only a trillion dollars away.  A mars mission might spur human-kind into
a new age of cooperation.

Missions to the stars will have to wait for a hundred generations... The
biggest problem is in the short run.  We keep slashing NASA's budget and
tell them to do more with it and then all but halting the entire manned
space program everytime there is a fatality.  Exploration is dangerous, it
always has been and always will be.  By its very nature, exploration is
pushing against human boundaries.  As a species we are losing our stomach
for it.  This may be our undoing in the end.

- Harrison