re: Requiem for the future
Maybe the best model for Space Exploration/Exploitation is a child taking it's first steps. One day soon, hopefully, we will with confidence stride across space. But right now we stubble and get up wabble around stubble...
As I've said before our imagined future can so much better than what reality really brings. Still all in all I like this future so far. At least we aren't eating Solent Green! 8-)