92. I was hoping we'd be a space-faring race by now.I'm big into science fiction. But in my heart I had always hoped that the stories I had read would motivate our species into exploring space. I certainly figured that by now, we'd be at the outer edges of our solar system and making way to get to the next star system. What a huge disappointment. Instead, we've got this clunky, puny space station that leaks; a shuttle craft that is about as safe as being strapped to an armed cruise missile; no base camps of any kind on any moons or planets.... About the only things we can brag about is that we have an orbiting telescope taking pretty pictures of places we should have visited by now and a pair of unmanned rovers on Mars that would make the Energizer Bunny look drained. The US is talking now about building a moon base as a dress rehearsal for trips to Mars, but I don't really think they have their heart in it - it's just a diversion to distract us from other, more topical and depressing news. Private enterprise is more likely at this point to get us into space.
I feel cheated because I'm likely to expire before I see reports of landings on other systems, encounters with other life forms and so on. Yo - ETs! Get your alien butts over here and attack something so we finally get off our lazy asses and go exploring.........
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The aliens have already come. They sneak into bedrooms and kidnap humans so they can milk their gonads and probe their rectums. Fortunately they leave us gorillas alone.
Karl, our race is no where near evolved enough to be Trekking out and Colonizing space. As it is, our species barely understands / or is able to operate, the technology that we rely on to function day to day. I personally, am not ready to send a group of colonists out on a spaceship to represent our race, who can barely operate a desktop computer, or drive a car.
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