February 6 2018, Falcon Heavy: a great step forward for humankind
February 6, 2018
Anyway,
Elon Musk today brought humanity into the real Space Age with the Falcon Heavy.
If you can, watch those two boosters
landing simultaneously – that is something never before seen and now he makes
it seem routine. Unbelievably awesome.
We
are on our way to space, as we should be, as we must do, IMCO, to give us time
to evolve. Because putting the cork in the bottle and saying we must stay on
the planet to solve our problems first seems just Quixotically ridiculous. Humans
aren’t capable yet of solving all of our own problems. In our thousands of years of
history we barely were capable of acknowledging women as people in the last hundred. Give me a
break. We are not mature enough as a species yet to be confined with our nasty
irrationality. See United States of America since 2016.
There is a Holocaust
denier about to be elected to office (unchallenged by any Republican) in Amerika – a former American Nazi party man. In the 21st
Century. We are NOT evolved. Getting off the planet buys us time. Cannot recommend
strongly enough Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, even
though they are so far behind out-there thought now. True classics. In the meantime, let's try to avoid nuclear war, choking on our own plastic garbage, and electing Nazis.
That being said,
the winter of 2018 is an auspicious one. Both for humankind and personally. Falcon Heavy passed its test. I
have been offered a Teaching Fellowship at Queen’s. I will publish my fourth
novel in the Smithyman Saga, The King's Salt (book cover below). My daughter got another
promotion at FixMeStick! Press on, and damn the torpedoes!
Cheers!!
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