Now that the Obama administration has pulled the fuse from the American Candle pointed at our own Miss Luna, like, who's going to go? I remember the excitement when Armstrong muffed his line from Mare Tranquillitatis (or somewhere in Arizona). Jeepers, those were the days!
Has something stalled in Manifest Destiny? Or, were all those Westerns, portraying wagon trains and the cavalry striking out to tame the frontier and kick out the indigenous and Latinos alike, exaggerating the spirit of adventure?
Or, perhaps the wiser among us know that space travel is sheer poppycock? The distances are too large! It takes too long! We'll never attain the technology! Why, if it were possible, don't you think some other civilization would have been poking around our skies, chewing on a few hapless range crawlers?!
Nevertheless, I'd like to see some other nation take up the challenge! If nothing else, it's great TV! But can you really trust the Russians, Indians, Chinese, or, choke, the Old Europeans "to boldly go"?
Hmmm....
Has something stalled in Manifest Destiny? Or, were all those Westerns, portraying wagon trains and the cavalry striking out to tame the frontier and kick out the indigenous and Latinos alike, exaggerating the spirit of adventure?
Or, perhaps the wiser among us know that space travel is sheer poppycock? The distances are too large! It takes too long! We'll never attain the technology! Why, if it were possible, don't you think some other civilization would have been poking around our skies, chewing on a few hapless range crawlers?!
Nevertheless, I'd like to see some other nation take up the challenge! If nothing else, it's great TV! But can you really trust the Russians, Indians, Chinese, or, choke, the Old Europeans "to boldly go"?
Hmmm....