nasa goes deep

[alocispepraluger102]

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/porco07/porco07_index.html

[porcy62]

When I was a young boy I imagined the future like Kubrick's 2001 or Dick's novels, it depended on the mood. Now we are in 2007, we still deep rooted in the earth, wasting natural resources and engaged in any sort of religious wars...

My god, I really need a good psychiatrist. ...or I will have some joints and spin some Jefferson Airplane's records...

Edited November 19, 2007 by porcy62

[RDK]

As a wide-eyed child of the 60's, it pains me no end that we long abandoned our commitment to space exploration (at least on a human level). It would have been unfathomable, back in 1972, to imagine that we wouldn't have made it back to the moon by now. Like so many others, I grew up dreaming of becoming an astronaut, and those ideals have guided my life in so many ways.

I was thrilled, just yesterday, when my 6-year old daughter, working on a first grade project on careers, chose to do hers on "astronauts." Glad to see there's still some hope out there...

[porcy62]

I think that, overall, as "western" or "civilized" or "rich", call us whatever you want, we lost the capability of big dreamin: a better future, space travelling, ecc. I mean that science maded huge progress since I was a boy in every fields: medicine, physic, computers, communication, but we lost hope for Biggest Global Achivements. I look at my 18 y/o stepson and his friends and I feel that they suffered our lost of hope, they have minimal goals: a secure job, a house, a decent living standard. I know that this is far to be accomplished by poor countries, but still I suffered for our sons. Probably we are simply facing the decline of our old world and the future owns to China, India and the so called "developping countries". Anyway I am a bit sad I will not spend holyday on Mars's Holyday Inn during my lifetime.

[alocispepraluger102]

I think that, overall, as "western" or "civilized" or "rich", call us whatever you want, we lost the capability of big dreamin: a better future, space travelling, ecc. I mean that science maded huge progress since I was a boy in every fields: medicine, physic, computers, communication, but we lost hope for Biggest Global Achivements. I look at my 18 y/o stepson and his friends and I feel that they suffered our lost of hope, they have minimal goals: a secure job, a house, a decent living standard. I know that this is far to be accomplished by poor countries, but still I suffered for our sons. Probably we are simply facing the decline of our old world and the future owns to China, India and the so called "developping countries". Anyway I am a bit sad I will not spend holyday on Mars's Holyday Inn during my lifetime.

'big dreams' of today are dreams of huge bank accounts.

[MoGrubb]

Wonder what they're doing up there. The NASA program seems to be more about providing jobs, busy work. The communication satellites are a good thing, as long as nobody shoots them down.