“I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be in space. It will be
difficult enough to avoid disaster on planet Earth in the next
hundred years, let alone the next thousand, or million.
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human
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have
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Let’s hope
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spread the load. Our only chance of longterm
survival is not to remain looking inward
on planet Earth but to spread out into
space. We have made remarkable
progress in the last hundred
years.
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continue beyond the next
hundred
years,
our
future is in space.” -Stephen Hawking, Big Think
resulting from such current events as the shuttering of the n a s a a t l a n t i s s p a c e m i s s i o n s i n 2 0 11 , a n d i n n o v a t o r s s u c h as richard branson founding space travel company virgin galactic, it is evident that the privatization of space travel is on the horizon. as our world economies recover from global recession, reflect on predicted apocalyptic doom, and react to increasingly limited resources, individuals reach a moment of reflection, introspection, and outward curiosity for a fresh start in the unknown universe at large. the journey to space is both inward and outward, the vast s c o p e n e a r l y i n c o m p r e h e n s i b l e . To a t t e m p t u n d e r s t a n d i n g is to push the boundary of fantasy and conventional thinking, dreamlike in its expanse, free-form yet mathematically ordered. dare to explore the dark unknown, for there is the light of a million suns washing over the powdery surface of distant foreign lands.
“o n l y t h o s e w h o a t t e m p t t h e absurd will achieve the impossible� m.c. escher
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we are “nostalgic for the future,� in a perpetual state of becoming -rye dag holmboe
“what is real and what is imaginary? is the distinction just in our minds?� -stephen hawking