Space! Outer Space! The sooner, the better! Or so I claimed yesterday : “Space is the obvious next horizon for human beings. Want to diminish the biotech revolution to its proper role as a curer of disease? Offer a more exciting goal. Build a rocket ship, and fly it to Mars.”
The recent news from the Moon is a good first step. If there’s water there, then the Moon can serve as a reasonable staging platform for the ascent to Mars. Where’s the Vatican’s space program? Where’s the plan we need?
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