[ExI] NASA: go Go GO back to the moon

[Giulio Prisco]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 6:32 PM BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> I expect space travel to be for intelligent robots, or vastly changed
> post humans. Perhaps if conditions on earth become too terrible
> (dystopia, famine, war, etc.) then humans will be forced to go into
> space as their best chance for survival.

I used to think so, but now I am persuaded we shouldn't wait: we need to be
in space for our mental health as a specie. Think of the enormous
difference between the zeitgeist of the 60s, or even the 90s, and our sad
post-911 world.
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