[ExI] rebuilding a saturn v today

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Sat Mar 26 21:56:41 UTC 2011


On 26 March 2011 20:47, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> I think it is safe to say most people no longer look to space as the final
> frontier.  We now set our sights on inner space, cyber space and thought
> space.  Ultimately I think interplanetary space will be the future abode of
> our mind children, but not humans in our current form.  We take up too much
> space and have too much material hanging all over us which doesn't do much
> of anything useful.

Cultural decadence and slowing of change not having any part at all in
such POV? And yet falling back on "inner space" and complaining about
the technical hardship and/or pointlessness of previous goals is
hardly a new phenomenon in human history...

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Stefano Vaj




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