OutOfTheCradle.net
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Out of the Cradle
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In your everyday life, you probably don’t give much thought to outer space. But the reality is that you’re surrounded by it on all sides. If your car could go straight up, you could drive to space in about an hour, and without risking a speeding fine. Down here on Earth, we’re a bit like well informed goldfish in a bowl - we might know on an intellectual level that there’s a lot more to the universe than our little habitat, but we can’t really imagine ever going there, or any use for it. It’s just an interesting curiosity for goldfish “astronomers.”
It’s not easy to get out into space, and there doesn’t seem to be much point - with our current technology it’s hard to imagine any Earthly problems that could be solved from up there. Well, apart from global communications, weather prediction, climate and ecological monitoring, spy satellites, and precision global navigation - but they’re the low-hanging fruit, right? Space is too expensive to do anything significant there, isn’t it?
The right answer to that question is “not for much longer.” There’s still a fair level of uncertainty about the value of “much” - but times are changing. One day, one of the many entrepreneurial space companies out there is going to climb to the top of the vast pile of failed predecessors, make it to space, and find a way to make money there. It could take a hundred years to happen - or it could be happening right now. When it happens, everything changes. The goldfish will no longer be confined to the bowl.
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