If the Cassini nuclear awakening doesn't turn into some kind of global nuclear
awakening, then the Cassini protests become just a diversion. Anyone who
looks into the nuclear issues facing the world, in any serious way, is going
to see that the extremely limited use of nuclear technology in space pales in
comparison to the potential risks we face from terestial nuclear technology.
Onward to the stars, with great difficulties...
(some Roman guy 2000 years ago)
Aaron
>
>"So Commander, after all you've just gone through, I have to ask you the same
>question
>a lot of people back home are asking about Space these days. Is it worth it?
>Should we
>just pull back, forget the whole thing as a bad idea, and take care of our
>own problems
>at home?"
>
>"No. We have to stay here, and there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different
>scientists
>about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten
>different answers.
>But there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it
>happens in a hundred
>years or a thousand years or a million years eventually our Sun will grow
>cold and go out.
>When that happens it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao
>Tsu, and Einstein,
>and Morabuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophones and all of us, all of us, was
>for nothing.
>Unless we go to the Stars."
>
>Commander Jeffrey Sinclaire, Space Station Babylon 5, "Infection"
>
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