In my last post, I described our present era in the mindset of someone living 30 years in the past. So what will the next thirty years bring us? Maybe we will follow the plans by influential men like Elon Musk and have established colonies on Mars and maybe even the Moon. Maybe we will take our species and go beyond our 8 planets (sorry Pluto) and make an interstellar voyage. Maybe we could have discovered ancient structures of a bygone alien life buried in the sands surrounding the ice caps of Mars and maybe even find traces of ancient bacterial life in the ice and water on Europa. Maybe we will make a space station with it's own orbit around our star for civilians and scientists alike to live in. Maybe, we could even make the Human species interplanetary or even interstellar. There are so many unknowns, so many things yet to discover. The future is vast, expansive, and terrifying, yet at the same time it is small, comforting, homely, and safe. While you could decide to go out and be the next Christopher Columbus and discover new worlds (accidentally, but we don't talk about that) and go on a life long harrowing journey with absolute certain death, either from old age or lack of supplies, you could also choose to sit at home, watching your holo-screen as the first interstellar ship departs for it's maiden and possibly final voyage into the unknown while you sip your home-style coffee, made from hot water poured over some ground beans, rather than the usual instant coffee that tastes just as the old-school coffee does.
Would you be one of the ones to jump aboard the first flagships of the Human Race, or would you relax on your real grass lawn on your home planet as you look up in the sky with a telescope to watch it depart? Let me know in the comments below and be sure to follow to stay up to date on the latest science and technology news.
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