[ExI] An Elegy for the Age of Space

[Amon Zero]

On 13 October 2011 15:17, Ben Zaiboc <bbenzai at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Yep, the space age is dead.  Long live the space age!
>
> The space age is dead in the sense that the horse-drawn-carriage-age is
> dead.
>
> There will be no Post-Simians on Mars, alas!



Yes, that's very much how I view it, too. As the article suggests, this just
represents the end of the industrial age as it pertains to space
exploration. The end of the industrial phase isn't the end of tech
development.

- A
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