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I am so freaking in to all of it. I am fascinated that there is a human presence (or better yet, human "footprints" so to speak) on another planet.
This low-earth orbit crap is just old hat. We need to get on the moon and start colonizing it and mining that m-f.
Just think, in 200 years or so, people are going to be taking Spring Break on the moon! It probably won't even be that expensive and tour guides will bring people in space suits on tours of the surface...tourists will be able to see the earth in all of it's brilliant light waxing and waning and literally providing "earthlight" (as opposed to moonlight on earth) and they will settle down in pressurized colonies deep underneath the surface. Old people will probably end up retiring on the moon - the 1/6 gee will be very, very easy on their brittle bones. Companies will form, jobs will open up - cold fusion will happen.
Man - you guys have no f*cking idea how mad I am to not be around for it. I wish more than anything I was born a few hundred years from now so I could be a part of it.
(Yes - I am a total sci-fi dork, admitted.)
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