Our generation will go into space

0 responses to “Our generation will go into space”

1. Brian | January 16, 2007 at 10:58 pm |

   Our generation will go into space
   Maybe. Probably. But it’s not written in stone that the ones that get there will speak English.

2. Dick Stanley | January 18, 2007 at 6:09 pm |

   That’s the title of Black Line Ascension’s animation clip. My father’s generation has already been into space, if you count humans on the moon and mine sent robots to the outer planets. But a space elevator certainly would make it easier for the next generation (yours?) to go on to Mars and maybe beyond.

3. Brian | January 18, 2007 at 9:50 pm |

   But a space elevator certainly would make it easier for the next generation (yours?) to go on to Mars and maybe beyond.
   I’m not sure what my generation is. I was born in 1967 – too late to be a boomer. Too young to be whatever Generation comes after.
   A space elevator would make a number of things cheaper. I suspect nothing in space is ever going to be easy – we’ll just get better at it.

4. Dick Stanley | January 19, 2007 at 12:36 am |

   Main thing, it seems to me, is to privatize as much of it as possible, as soon as possible. The government will always be hamstrung by the politics of the moment.

5. Brian | January 19, 2007 at 10:00 am |

   Main thing, it seems to me, is to privatize as much of it as possible, as soon as possible.
   I’m all for that. I’m biased of course but I’m pretty sure I’d hold that opinion even if I didn’t stand to benefit (directly) from it.