... until you watch the movie, Capricorn One.

Yeah, I was a six-year-old in the sixties, and I wanted as much as anyone to believe, as my parents did, that President Kennedy's impossible-to-achieve promise had come true, and that it would happen not just once but several times. I never paused to wonder why "the Russkies" weren't racing us to get there; why no other country was even attempting it. It was "the American way," and we were "Americans!" If our government said that it was so, then, by gawd, it was!

... except it wasn't.

The Moon is beyond (most of) the Earth's magnetic envelope, and so it is completely unshielded from the radioactive fury of a solar furnace a mere 96 million miles away. Our telephone-booth spacecraft could not shield its occupants in their tiny "space suits." But American pride, and trillions of dollars in government funding(!), was on the line, and no one had ever seen special effects. So, we "made President Kennedy's promise come true, right on schedule."

Yes, I sort-of understand why they did it. (They couldn't pull the same thing off today.) But, like any human being, I'd like to one day see humans venture beyond the relatively safe confines of "low-Earth orbit," and truly "reach for the stars." I don't think that we should ever stop trying.

But first, we're going to need anti-gravity spacecraft ... the so-called "flying saucer." It must be big enough to transport big things, and safe enough to arrive and depart from actual "spaceports."

Those strange experiments out at Groom Creek AFB (fairly near Roswell, NM) are going to have to bear fruit. Obviously the technology that Nikola Tesla was experimenting with during his lifetime must be extremely dangerous and unpredictable, but if it could actually be "first, acknowledged to exist(!), and then, perfected ..." That would be something that would make the first serious inroads to opening-up space to any sort of human contact.

We can't keep strapping ourselves on top of rockets, arriving in orbit out-of-fuel, and then literally fall down: we have to be able to so-to-speak drive both ways, without the benefit of atmosphere. Only a functional anti-gravity technology would be capable of that. We've seen glimpses of such spacecraft enough to know that they exist, but they've been kept profoundly secret. I really don't know why.

Enorbet, yes. There are so few inspiring conspiracy theories and perhaps we can coax them with the like, don't think biologically if you don't want, even computers evolve. (Thanks for trying on the movie, all I could find was long lists. Maybe we'll come across it someday?)

(I definitely do not remember seeing that movie, yet.) Sundialsvcs while I agree it's a harsh environment, with steep () learning curves that like anything will kill people. We do evolve "unimaginable tracks of" space and Earth will die someday! Some of us have black skin related to some of those radiations. Why keep throwing people at war when we can unite and ignite (or whatever will evolve) into space?!

Ever since I've heard of the top universities competing by students getting a [storage pod] to turn into a technologically advanced, green living space, have been intrigued. Now there's shows like Green- or Tiny- Homes, it's basically my long term plan to live out of a van or something while I build my plot to retire. I'd be down () to to go to Mars if they want.

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