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Tuesday, 12 April 2011 12:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eighthphaseQuick post because I was just reminded of this and think it's important:
Fifty years ago today, the first human being went into space. Thirty years ago today, the first space shuttle was launched.
How far have we come since then? How much further do we have to go? How much further are we going to go?
I know the answer to the first question, and to the second. I don't know the answer to the third question, but I'm afraid of what it might be. I'm afraid that it might be "not very," or even "not at all."
Anybody reading this journal is probably very well aware of my feelings about the space program and space exploration, so I don't think I need to go over all that again. (Plus I'm being hounded to edit articles right now, so I don't really have the time to go over all that again.) However, I will say this: I hope we don't stop. I hope we never stop. We can't get complacent with the things we've already accomplished - we need to use them to drive ourselves to accomplish more, not because we need to accomplish more, but because we can. We're human, after all - that's what we do.
Fifty years ago today, the first human being went into space. Thirty years ago today, the first space shuttle was launched.
How far have we come since then? How much further do we have to go? How much further are we going to go?
I know the answer to the first question, and to the second. I don't know the answer to the third question, but I'm afraid of what it might be. I'm afraid that it might be "not very," or even "not at all."
Anybody reading this journal is probably very well aware of my feelings about the space program and space exploration, so I don't think I need to go over all that again. (Plus I'm being hounded to edit articles right now, so I don't really have the time to go over all that again.) However, I will say this: I hope we don't stop. I hope we never stop. We can't get complacent with the things we've already accomplished - we need to use them to drive ourselves to accomplish more, not because we need to accomplish more, but because we can. We're human, after all - that's what we do.