My OperaA race of exploration?
Friday, July 24, 2009 12:51:38 PM
I mostly want to reiterate something i read on Ryan Sohmer's blog. We often refer to ourselves as a species of exploration. A race which likes to explore every inch of its surroundings.
But something seems to have come to a halt, its been 40 years since man first landed on the moon, and in those 40 years we've come no closer to exploring the universe or reaching the stars. I heard the other day that the US government had spent 1 Trillion Dollars on military action since 9/11, i can only imagine what we might have achieved if that money was given to NASA.
Again the same can be said for the deep ocean, i often hear it referred to as our planets last mystery yet we put so little money into trying to discover those mysteries.
This is mostly a rant, but personally i think we've let down the generation of 1969 who thought that once we had landed on the moon it would open the doors or exploration.. instead we seem to have closed them.
But something seems to have come to a halt, its been 40 years since man first landed on the moon, and in those 40 years we've come no closer to exploring the universe or reaching the stars. I heard the other day that the US government had spent 1 Trillion Dollars on military action since 9/11, i can only imagine what we might have achieved if that money was given to NASA.
Again the same can be said for the deep ocean, i often hear it referred to as our planets last mystery yet we put so little money into trying to discover those mysteries.
This is mostly a rant, but personally i think we've let down the generation of 1969 who thought that once we had landed on the moon it would open the doors or exploration.. instead we seem to have closed them.
