[Nateman]

At the turn of 2001 I wrote something similar. 2001 and it had little in common with the movie. I use to worry if we'd manage to get people living off this planet before we slipped back to some new dark age. I still do.

The hope I believe lies in automation, machines that can not only make copies of themselves but which can be reprogrammed from afar to do other things. That would make living in space not only cheap but profitable.

Reaching for the stars is still only a wish but the solar system is tantalizingly close to becoming a fresh home. I dream of seeing a new America reborn out there in our solar system free of the collectivist swamp of earth bound Obamanations.

[Nowhere Man]

At the turn of 2001 I wrote something similar. 2001 and it had little in common with the movie. I use to worry if we'd manage to get people living off this planet before we slipped back to some new dark age. I still do.

I do believe we are in such a race, we need to get out there before we manage to whimper out or blow ourselves up. We managed to forge ahead and then we retracted and stagnated, even in some cases, fell backwards. I fear we might be losing this race. I can see maybe a new civilization thousands of years from now landing on the Moon and wondering about our artifacts there, that is, if the chain of history is broken. Red China orbits a man in space, big deal, the Soviet Union and United States did that 40 years prior to that and with vacuum tube and discrete transistor technology.