RE: space travel vs. creator
May 20, 2012 at 9:44 am
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2012 at 9:47 am by Napoléon.)
(April 18, 2012 at 9:49 pm)RaphielDrake Wrote: These are the people incharge, these people who are so dull they would rather add a few more figures onto their wealth than be remembered for all time as leaders who ushered in a new age of limitless possibilities. An age where we might eventually colonize new planets with earth like atmospheres reducing over-population and unemployment rates. Where technology reaches new heights it could almost be considered magic and our understanding expands to answer the questions we previously thought unanswerable. This is the very endeavor they don't believe to be worth their precious time, they instead use this time to accumulate mass quantities of paper.
Fucking morons.
In reality space exploration more than likely won't be like that for a VERY long time, if it will ever be like that at all. It's more than a little naive to think that these leaders would ever expect that they would go down in history as 'great leaders who ushered in a new age'. It's just as naive to think that all of what you mentioned is plausible at all. What do you seriously think they would do? What would anyone do, given their situation? Politicians aren't there to push space exploration, they're there to run countries. Unfortunately it seems at this present time space exploration isn't top of the agenda for running countries, maybe you hadn't noticed that, as sad as it is.
They may be incredibly inept at doing what they're supposed to do, I'll grant you that, but calling them 'fucking morons' for not doing what is in your fantasy head is pretty obnoxious in my opinion.
