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One giant slide backward for mankind
Feb 1, 2003

I just heard on the news that the Space Shuttle Columbia has broken up on re-entry.

It takes me right back to 1986, when I was a starry-eyed, science-fiction-addicted twelve-year-old, and I truly believed that humans would be living on other planets (even if only the Moon and Mars) by now. The Space Shuttle seemed like such a wonderful thing, bringing that dream one step closer. And then Challenger exploded, and all that was set back years.

I've long since resigned myself to the fact that humans living anywhere but on Earth is a long, long way off, if it ever happens at all. And right now I think we as a species need to sort out our own planet and develop some sense of environmental responsibility first, otherwise we'll just go out there and ruin other worlds once we've destroyed ours. But still, this makes me remember those childhood dreams, and think how different the reality has become.

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Refugee from another site...
Jan 15, 2003

I seem to have become a refugee from my normal posting board, which has become very quiet and, when there is any activity, it's inclined towards fairly pointless fluff...

So I've become more active here, although I have to say the size of the place is still a bit daunting...but I seem to be finding my way around without too many problems!

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This Journal
Jan 9, 2003

I'm just not going to end up putting a lot in here: I already have an online journal, and unless things change hugely I'll continue to use that for my ramblings rather than inflict them on the people here.

Anyone who's interested can check out http://white_hart.livejournal.com/ to find out more about what I'm up to

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