I think our technology is primitive at a level that we can’t comprehend. Like an ant that has wandered into a steel mill. We see things, but can’t possibly understand them. In fact, what we see is in the past. The further away it is, the more distant a time it is. Even your own vision is not suited for space observation.

Humans are creatures of mind, body and spirit. Neglect even one of them and you suffer. We will require food, water, heat, cooling, oxygen, light and other creature comforts required to maintain. Obtaining them, lugging them about the cosmos, storing them and preserving them. Quite a tall task.

One day, locomotion about the solar system might be a thing. It will be nowhere near like we imagine it though. I suspect it will be practically instantaneous travel similar to what we think of a wormhole. There is no possible other way to do it with a finite lifespan and mortality. Speed kills. Gravity kills. Toxic gas kills. Radiation kills. Cold kills. Dust kills. Any major problem with the ship kills. Any major problem with you kills. Anything we just didn’t think of will probably kill too. What if lunar screw worms awaken only once every 500 years, and we just don’t know about them yet. What if they like to molest their dinner before eating it?

We get no plan B. We should focus our efforts in the here and now. Failure to do so is extinction.

Stop it! You’ll go blind.

I remember it from the 2000’s. The internet was up and we could all share our own pet names for things or just make up a new word. mIRC and newsgroups were big on that. Weird times but cool for sure. Some of it stuck. I still use the exclamation ‘Blargh’ occasionally.

The first time I remember it was someone from California asked me to ‘code summin’ for their daughter. I had to make sure what they were asking of me before I agreed. 2002 maybe.

I really don’t think the moon is going to be in our long term future nor Mars or any other body in our solar system. Robots and computers, maybe, but not humans. Too hostile of an environment.

We are too fragile for space. We are not meant to travel the stars, as cool as that would be. We should have used that money to undo the damage we’ve done down here. Maybe explore the oceans even. It was neat, but i’m totally unimpressed by the mission itself. Good will come from it, but I’m not sure it’s worth the risk or money while things on Earth are the way they are.