Are we being held back?

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

 


The more I experience reality, the more I am convinced Earth is a lifeboat: a survival colony for homo sapiens who fled natural disasters from changes in the solar system. Those planets (Venus and/or Mars or who the fuck knows/cares) are now uninhabitable. Earth was not so much environmentally inhabitable, as just as dangerous as fuck place; full of sub-species that eat and kill (many perhaps ferried over to Earth from the others like rats on a ship?).

The hope of survival was that humans were capable of re-inventing space travel (we did!) and could continue on infecting the universe with our bacteria laden island-bodies (which, on an icky level are what we are).

 

But we have GOVERNMENT in control of space exploration funding. Now, the primary function of any sentient entity, especially government (the 'bacteria' of the government 'body' being bureaucrats, which sounds like 'bacteria' in Ukranian!), is to survive and grow.

 

Government needs people in order to survive. If we have de-planed the planet, and are off gallivanting across the known universes, how can they tax and boss us around?

 

QUESTION: Could there be motive for a government agenda (or those who monopolize energy generation, same thing) to keep space exploration in a pre-adolescent phase, given for each dollar generated for the space program regenerates $8 for the public sector's benefit?

 

No links, just an old guy's nostalgic observation remembering when each manned rocket launch was an 'event'.

 

Since we are talking all weird shit today

Oh and gay marriage.

Comments

[a-new-machine.livejournal.com]

That's an image of a sunset. As seen from Mars.

We are living in the future.

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

Appropos of nothing, I finished "A Wizard of Mars" today.

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

that was one of the greatest cheezy sci fi movies ever!

Erm

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

This was the 9th book of the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane....I doubt IT has been made into a movie yet, since it only came out last year.
I will have to look up what you are talking about. I used to live for cheezy 50s SF movies :D.

Re: Erm

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Mars

Re: Erm

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

What a difference an "article" makes. Difference between "a" and "the".....

Oh 60s cheezy SF is a whole other thing, especially since they had Carridines in so many...gag me with a spoon!!!!

Re: Erm

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

I'm just going to look at that for a minute, it blows me away. Whilst I share the deep sense of sadness that many do with the end of the shuttle programme, the truth is that robots are a much better way to do space exploration now. Imagine the cost for that photo to have been taken by a human?