[ExI] An Elegy for the Age of Space

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 15:06:28 UTC 2011


On 13 October 2011 16:17, 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.
>

No, I am more inclined to see it dead in the same sense that speed records
for ground, sea, air, space have been stationary for decades, and speed
*averages* are even declining, so that horse-drawn carriages may actually be
on the way of becoming fashionable again.

So much for the law of exponential returns. :-(

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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