My favorite on the list is #19. In my maternal grandmother’s lifetime (1899-1975) humanity progressed from the first tentative winged flights to Sky Lab. In my childhood I was taken by the new images of Saturn and Jupiter from the Pioneer satellites. Many items on this list don’t excite me about my own long-term space travel. For more thoughts on humanity’s prospects, read this.
November 16, 2007 at 3:51 am |
When nobody calls me on the phone and I am all alone and
I’m meditating in the zone, all alone and
Space is the place where I will go
–Spacehog,