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In reply to the discussion: We should have been colonizing the solar system by now. [View all]GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)Go? Fine, I loves me some science, adventure and slipstick romance.
Don't go? Fine, there's plenty that's interesting right around me - here in my backwater corner of this middling planet circling a nondescript star partway out one medium-sized arm of a nothing galaxy in the middle of an enormous cosmos.
I've been both a science geek (a 1960's amateur rocketboi even) and a Deep Ecologist. I've believed that human ingenuity was the closest to godhood we'd ever get, and the our utter trashing of the planet the closest to demonic.
I'm still both of those (two mints in one...) All of my angst on both sides of the fence hasn't changed the unfolding of the present one iota - or even an epsilon. So now I just watch what people believe, think, say and do, and say "Cool to be human, isn't it?"
So whatever you kids decide to do, count me along as a witness.