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Marie2, no one dreams of eradicating poverty.

Especially young kids. Can you imagine yourself looking up at the stars and being told that for some reason, your dream as a little kid is to eradicate poverty?

Don’t think so.

Actually, I CAN create a scenario like that, but it would be a dream of power, and how to achieve it, by stealing the dreams of mankind.

I appreciate the response though.

It gets the thought process going. :)

No truly, a lot of kids have very “mission of mercy” type dreams.

I often envisioned myself as a medical missionary of some type, spreading healing around to needy people. Florence Nightingale comes to mind. She spent her childhood doctoring little animals and dreaming of being a doctor.

I also daydreamed about taking in unwanted children a lot.

Perhaps boys feel differently, and imagine being on spaceships or fighting big battles, I don’t know.

I'm 42 and have the same dream as you. I really have no problem with government programs to explore space although if a private venture wants to do so, I have no problem either. In a way, Columbus' voyages were a "government program" funded by Queen Isabella of Spain, sometimes that is needed as a kick start and the private sector takes over, except for defense of course.

I was hoping to see a man on Mars by now, let alone "by the 1980's." Now I wonder if I'll see before I croak.

BTW, like your description of the Milky Way sans any artificial lights around, it reminds me of the descriptions that were given to me from a World War II vet when he was aboard the USS Melvin, a destroyer in the Pacific, where all lights were out so it would make it harder for the Japanese to find them. He said the Milky Way was so bright. My father saw the same thing when he was on his way to Korea in the mid 1950's on an Army troop ship.