Moonstruck

[Monte Davis]

What worked well as NASA PR in the 1960s -- that space technologies would
improve (and become cheaper) as rapidly as aviation had, with comparably
immediate incentives and rewards...

And worked so very well as metaphor in GR -- that expansion of human
activity and settlement into space would be a continuation of
colonial/imperial history...

 -- both turned out not to be true. I published some thoughts on that:
http://www.space.com/1450-thinking-space-part-hustling-future.html
http://www.space.com/1470-thinking-space-part-ii-space.html
http://www.space.com/1491-thinking-space-part-iii-hardware-hand-waving.html
http <http://www.space.com/1506-thinking-space-part-iv-virtuous-cycle.html>
://www.space.com/1506-thinking-space-part-iv-virtuous-cycle.html
<http://www.space.com/1506-thinking-space-part-iv-virtuous-cycle.html>

It's most useful to take that almost instantly hackneyed phrase "Space Age"
seriously -- as an *age*, on a scale of generations and centuries as in
"age of sail" or even "Bronze Age," not on the buzzwordy time scale of
"information" age" or "age of social media"...

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks!  Though, having watched the moon landing w/ my dad whilst
> building a Saturn V model, replete with capsule + lander, I remain a
> big fan of the space program, + hope to see the human element
> reinstated/installed.  I saw astronauts golfing on the moon.  Why
> aren't they golfing on Mars by now?
>
> "Will our new Edge, our new Deathkingdom, be the Moon? I dream of a
> great glass sphere, hollow and very high and far away . . . the
> colonists have learned to do without air, it's vacuum inside and out
> ..." (GR, Pt. IV, p. 729)
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=GGPm4I3BbxAC&pg=PT539#v=onepage&q&f=false
>
> Project Orion
>
> http://books.google.com/books/about/Project_Orion.html?id=r_Gu4f0QxrkC
>
> Ascension
>
> http://www.syfy.com/ascension
>
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 6:28 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > http://issues.org/23-2/br_roland-3/
> > -
> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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