We peer forward into speculative futures and sometimes see them peering back at us. Chuan says that the project to transform Phobos and terraform Mars:
"'...was always more an ideal...than a business venture... Not unlike the state of Israel or the movement for a viable space program on twentieth-century Earth.'" (p. 338)
How will our remote descendants regard us?
Since writing the immediately preceding post, I have:
attended a Zen group where two of us agreed that maybe our Prime Minister is currently facing a "koan," an unanswerable question;
returned home and watched TV news coverage of the Prime Minister facing questions and accused of lying;
reread and posted about Chuan's remarks as above.
And that brings us up to date. As ever, the future stretches ahead from this moment, from tomorrow morning and in sf.
Tempus fugit.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I love that idea, Israel having its own space program and founding off-Earth colonies, perhaps on Mars. I hope that happens!
I won't weep if Sir Keir's weak and ineffectual Labour gov't soon falls!
Ad astra! Sean
I regard all politicians as complusive, serial liars unless exhaustively proven different.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I agree, with rare exceptions like Churchill.
Ad astra! Sean
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