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I finished reading 2001: A Space Odyssey last night.
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Trendal, are you here? Am I the only one that laid down when he was done reading the book, and was filled with an immense sense of wonder mixed with a lingering remorse at the nature of our mortality? At the knowledge that these things shall come to pass, in whatever way they do, and that for better or worse wherever we go when we die we likely won't be around to "see" it? God, I want to bear witness to glorious space travel.

I need to make millions, only so that by the time Space Tourism becomes a fixture in the later years of my life, I can lift off beyond earth's gravitational hold and see the motherland from above, the way time sees it.


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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.

-Erik Davis

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Re: I finished reading 2001: A Space Odyssey last night. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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Welcome home, sailor :grin:

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Re: I finished reading 2001: A Space Odyssey last night. [Re: Boom]
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My god, it's full of stars! :smile:


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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.

-Erik Davis

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Re: I finished reading 2001: A Space Odyssey last night. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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Oh, how I hope I will be alive to see the day space travel becomes common!! I have dreamed, since I first learned humans could go into space, of going up there and looking down on this little chunk of rock we call Home.

What a truly humbling experience that must be!!! To see the ball that gave birth to Life, the only place we know Life to exist, as an outsider would see it - small. Then to turn your head and gaze out into the inky blackness of space...the emptiness, devoid of Life, that completely surrounds us. In contrast to our little sphere, space is fucking huge. There's no comparison.

Cold and uncaring...but we need to go there!! :wink:


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Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.
But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

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Re: I finished reading 2001: A Space Odyssey last night. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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What a great book.  :thumbup:

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Re: I finished reading 2001: A Space Odyssey last night. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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How did that make it as a book. It would start out with some Apes smashing each other, maybe a chapter if your lucky. Then about 300 empty pages then a talking space ship and a black object.


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"What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet?" - Bill Hicks

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Re: I finished reading 2001: A Space Odyssey last night. [Re: barfightlard]
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I just started the book a few days ago.

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Re: I finished reading 2001: A Space Odyssey last night. [Re: barfightlard]
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There's a LOT more to it than that. The book was written by Arthur C. Clarke, one of the great sci-fi writers. It's a great read and explains much of the movie.

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Re: I finished reading 2001: A Space Odyssey last night. [Re: trendal]
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Oh, how I hope I will be alive to see the day space travel becomes common!!

I'm afraid Peak Oil will kill that dream in its crib, but its one I share ever so fondly. Historically we have never perfected our species, we just left behind the less perfect ones in their homeland.

Maybe some genius will come up with a new energy source and save the dream?

Who knows?


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“The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought.”  -- Rudiger Dornbusch

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