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When you look at the major Star Fleet characters in all the Star Trek shows and movies, most are American if they are not alien. I realize not all, but most. Star Fleet is located in San Francisco. An American, Zefram Cochran, invented our warp drive. And Kirk’s sexual harrassment of Yeoman Rand was pure American. Although, she did wear the boots… perhaps it was the other way in private… “Jim, have you been a naughty, naughty boy?”
Back on topic. My God! Baseball is played by aliens, America’s sport! How cool is that?
Back on topic. The pause that has been our space program for two decades must end. A lunar base and a landing on Mars should be our prority. Let privitization take over the Space Station. The stars are out there, just out of reach for now. It’s time to end the purposeless existance that is NASA. We MUST LOOK OUTWARD NOW.
This is the defining moment for our space program. After the moon landings, we rested on our laurels. Challenger seems to have embeded even deeper into NASA a bureaucratic desire to avoid risks, blame, and action. Our space program must have a reason to exist, and it should be the ever outward march of humanity.
Because, if it’s not us, it WILL be the Chinese. They think in terms of decades and centuries, and so should we. Let’s meet the Vulcans of our reality out there, on our terms and in our space.
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Star Trek and Our Manifest Destiny
February 3rd, 2003 | Comments Off
When you look at the major Star Fleet characters in all the Star Trek shows and movies, most are American if they are not alien. I realize not all, but most. Star Fleet is located in San Francisco. An American, Zefram Cochran, invented our warp drive. And Kirk’s sexual harrassment of Yeoman Rand was pure American. Although, she did wear the boots… perhaps it was the other way in private… “Jim, have you been a naughty, naughty boy?”
Back on topic. My God! Baseball is played by aliens, America’s sport! How cool is that?
Back on topic. The pause that has been our space program for two decades must end. A lunar base and a landing on Mars should be our prority. Let privitization take over the Space Station. The stars are out there, just out of reach for now. It’s time to end the purposeless existance that is NASA. We MUST LOOK OUTWARD NOW.
This is the defining moment for our space program. After the moon landings, we rested on our laurels. Challenger seems to have embeded even deeper into NASA a bureaucratic desire to avoid risks, blame, and action. Our space program must have a reason to exist, and it should be the ever outward march of humanity.
Because, if it’s not us, it WILL be the Chinese. They think in terms of decades and centuries, and so should we. Let’s meet the Vulcans of our reality out there, on our terms and in our space.
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