Quote: >Gads Ed! You have been in a dark and depressed funk. Yes, the Sun will become a red giant and subsume all the inner planets, but that will be in 4 billion years! We all have time for a good meal, a bottle of fine wine, and a pleasant holiday before then. Actually, I was thinking how futile the personal expression would be. What would I gain when whatever I, Ed, single human, did in regards to Pluto? Certainly the spirit of adventure by joining in would be there (for some at least), but my corporeal body won't ever make the trip, while my thoughts on space and space travel have been there and back, a much more satisfying option. Quote: In 4 billion years if there is still a remnant left of what was once humanity (doubtful), it will have long since left its ancestral home and be scattered among the stars. “Oh”? And who is going to pay for that trip? Only we adventurous Europeans have that utopian view of the world or eternity. I do try not to be cryptic when I write, but I also expect that most people are on the same page as me. Explaining every word or phrase is at least tiring when the written nuances are lost on readers who are not where I am. Frankly, your own thoughts as expressed here surprise me. I would have thought you of all people would not have swallowed that "the future for humanity is in the stars" BS. Why "BS"? Because the future (immediate or long term) for humanity is not in the stars, but in saving what we have here on Earth. Even the “environmental” paradigm is too expensive for most human civilizations. The same goes for “Recycling”. Until we solve those problems, “space travel” will of necessity be put on the back burner by this future governments. And if the bleakness of your "escapist" view of humanity holds true, those who cannot afford to leave the Earth are doomed in any case. Quote: Long before Earth becomes a cinder, it will have ceased to even have been a memory for any that could trace their origins to this cosmic address. Precisely the point of my observation. What you also missed was the reality that what is corporeal humanity will eventually rejoin the Cosmos in any case. Quote: If we can survive our own lunacy, our future is far from here. Yep, as atoms, as noted in my observation.Quote: Cheer up! In a hundred years you will look back and laugh.
Anyone who cares to, can read my 1997 copyrighted story, “Symbiosis: a love story” dealing with this very topic. Reading “Symbiosis” will reveal that your own halcyon view of the future exactly mirror mine, less the corporeal, “escapist" view. If you’d like, I’ll send you an author’s copy of “Symbiosis”.
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