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To keep Mir alive, we must continue. We must push ever forward, expanding humanity ouward to the stars. Additional space stations, habitats, and developments in Earth orbit or Near-Earth space.
Moonbase. Mars. Europa. Titan.
There is so much still to be done, so much we are capable of, if we only TRY... and who knows how much time before the next Dino-killer arrives?
I once wrote a short story (more a political piece, to be truthful) about a solo astronaut, stranded in space, and his last message to the people of Earth, via his radio. The text was lost in the burn of '96, but it had a little bit like this:
"Don't you DARE stop now. Don't you even THINK about stopping. Don't let this all have been for nothing. If you want my death to MEAN something, then for God's sake you HAVE to keep coming out here. Do you understand? THIS is where it is. THIS is our big chance. THIS is the meaning of life. To LIVE. To GROW. To EXPAND."
------------------ The government that seems the most unwise, oft goodness to the people best supplies. That which is meddling, touching everything, will work but ill, and disappointment bring. - The Tao Te Ching
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Hogwash. The alledged "Space station" was nothing but a model being exposed to high intensity heat in a soundstage in Neveada. Yeah, and that footage of debris falling? Nothing but fireworks released by a high-atmospheric jet craft!
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Anybody see how the moon landings were faked? Fox showed it this week. Anyone with a brain cell could blow away the argument made on fox, but it was funny, up to the point that they accused NASA of killing the crew of Apollo 1.
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Infinity: He said 'For great humor'. Thusly meaning, it was in jest.
------------------ "Instructed by history and reflection, Julian was persuaded that, if the diseases of the body may sometimes be cured by salutary violence, neither steel nor fire can eradicate the erroneous opinions of the mind."
-Edward Gibbons, The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire.
However, I'm truly afraid every time I run into another person who actually believes that the moon landings were fake. Really seems we are on the edge of another dark age here folks.
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