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I wouldn't be born for another 6 years. But my half-sister was watching the moon landing with my parents, who might or might not have been married by then.
There's cool filk about it all; see here for a couple samples.
I used to be more into space and space colonies and such, but now I have no problem with the thought that sending people to space is currently expensive, dangerous, and nigh-useless. I wouldn't make any predictions about "we don't go back" -- seems likely that if wealth increases, someone will eventually go privately. Colonies are a harder bet but I hope Terragen life has a long, long, future, plenty of time to expand. Especially as AI or robots better built for it all. But for now, I care more about sustainable wealth on Earth, and bringing 5/6 of the world's population into the promised land of electricity and running water, and Americans into universal health care, and such. And doming cities and managing vulcanism and deflectng asteroids and generally being a deep-time Kardashev Type I civilization. And immortality, biological or or cyborged or uploaded. Give us that, and space will take care of itself.
There's cool filk about it all; see here for a couple samples.
I used to be more into space and space colonies and such, but now I have no problem with the thought that sending people to space is currently expensive, dangerous, and nigh-useless. I wouldn't make any predictions about "we don't go back" -- seems likely that if wealth increases, someone will eventually go privately. Colonies are a harder bet but I hope Terragen life has a long, long, future, plenty of time to expand. Especially as AI or robots better built for it all. But for now, I care more about sustainable wealth on Earth, and bringing 5/6 of the world's population into the promised land of electricity and running water, and Americans into universal health care, and such. And doming cities and managing vulcanism and deflectng asteroids and generally being a deep-time Kardashev Type I civilization. And immortality, biological or or cyborged or uploaded. Give us that, and space will take care of itself.