There is strong hope for this space program then…. hehe

“Earth is the cradle of man, but man does not live in the cradle forever.”

— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

( yea so i say we bulit some ship , and try our luck at invading that Goldilocks Planet (Gliese 581 c) in any luck we wont screw that place up as bad, as earth …………………….no what am i saying i am sure we will.

do we all get to put our flag down ? ( actually i say we nick this star trek united earth flag , but the just me . http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Image:United_Earth_logo.png )

so would they all speak English on the trip to mars , or russian , or one of the many european langrauges etc. ( come to think of we better make a universal translater fast)

i mean stupid stuff like this might seems unimportant, its the kinda the stuff , that slow down counties working together . but to be fair we have come a long away already towards working together , its justing going to be slow going.

Oh the plus side , the x prize and spaceship one , are all very good things in my opinion as they make aerospace technology more available, will come up with need ideas , and bring the price of space travel down .

Anyway, I was starting to think about how today’s society appears to based largely on pettiness and greed. I began to remember Gene Roddenberry making a comment about petty dictatorships and that which humankind hungers for. I also remembered that according to Star Trek 6, Zefram Conhran’s motivation for the Phoenix was dollar signs. He humbled a bit eventually, when he got to see the perpective of this lone blue planet in the vastness of space, didn’t he?

International cooperation for space exploration, even though the document is non-binding.. what more can one ask given the circumstances of the day?

I guess what I’m getting at is, I agree – it will probably take a private entity to get us where we need to be.

I don’t know, but I’m starting to babble. To stop myself I’ve found that quote I was thinking of:

“The much-maligned common man and common woman have an enormous hunger for brotherhood. They are ready for the 23rd century now. They are light-years ahead of their petty governments and visionless leaders.”

– Gene Roddenberry, 1976

Government AND private. Individual nations AND international cooperation. It will take the efforts and commitments of many, working in many different ways, to meet the challenges of space exploration and development.