Sometimes I forget to look at things like that. Guess I'm feeling my own mortality so the Earth's just kind of hit me hard.

I have always thought of time as a bunch of bubbles, all next to one another but also superimposed on one another, the access to other times, lives but a thin membrane away.

"Space travel will eventually be done the same way - crunching numbers and turning space ships into teleportation devices. Actually passing through any space to get somewhere is so passé in most parts of the universe. "

This is the position I used to hold in arguments with RNE, he discounting it, telling me WHY it was impossible and me explaining that nothing is impossible. Yesterday's magic is tomorrow's science.

We do need to get off this planet but we're being held back by short-sighted politicians. OTOH, perhaps the best way is for individual entrepreneurs to do this so as to give access to more than just governments.

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