Where's My Flying Car? I Want My Flying Car!

Tuesday, July 26, 2005 7:23 PM

Gorrammit, we did it! We're back in space! Hot damn! I can't begin to tell you how excited I am for this!

And I had to listen to it on the radio as I drove to work, but Amber called me and said it looked awesome. They even have cameras mounted to the shuttle now. Reminds me of "Serenity" when they're blasting away from the Reaver ship! :D

But this is so much bigger than any of us realise. I remember (I think it was) an Allstate insurance commercial from years back where Commander Sisko was asking where were our flying cars!? See, everyone looked at the 21st century as this potential new golden age where science fiction would become reality and we'd have moonbases and trips to Mars and interstellar exploration.

So what do we have? We have a world that is scared and looking inward and very paranoid. If the Shuttle program had failed, been shutdown and mothballed, then I seriously feel like that would have been the end for our hopes of ever reaching off-world. The whole 'verse as we love watching would never have a chance of becoming reality! We need to keep reaching out, reaching beyond our Earthly limits, we need to strike out for the black and leave atmo' behind (tho, not forever)!

Thank you NASA and thank you to the crew of Discovery for returning us to flight. You're our brightest hope for the future.

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