Text

[darkforcerising]

Who else blew off work to watch Perseverance land on Mars today? Show of hands?

Comments

[darkenedmoon]

I'm not about to raise my hand, I suppose, but that is just...so impressive to me. Some things in one's life are meant to stop and give one pause, and I believe that is one of them, no?

[darkforcerising]

Someday we'll have an actual colony on the moon! And that's exciting.

[darkenedmoon]

On the moon? I wouldn't mind being an old woman and seeing something like that, if you ask me. Of course, there's the question of atmosphere, but I imagine that might be like some of the science fiction films. Domes and such...

[darkforcerising]

The moon and Mars at least. But probably also colonies on Jupiter and Saturn moons. Probably places in the asteroid belt for mining purposes.

Soon. We'll be setting up places like that all over the Solar System soon.

[darkenedmoon]

The entire solar system? Is that even possible? I mean...I suppose if it's done on the Moon, it wouldn't be beyond humans to do it all over, but the time involved...there's no fast travel, that will take a few decades, won't it?

[darkforcerising]

"Soon" is a relative term scaled to the history of human exploration.

Maybe not within the next five years, but within our lifetime. This lifetime.