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Roger von Oech's avatar

What a delightful tour d’horizon, Glenn!

It’s like you’ve been waiting to express all of these strands in the history of ideas — and they came gushing out today as a well-woven golden braid.

What a hopeful message!

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Roger von Oech's avatar

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Secrets of Privacy's avatar

Elon does deserve enormous credit. We owe him a debt for these morale boosts. I suspect that will be repaid of sorts when he starts mining asteroids and becomes the first trillionaire and then multi-trillionaire.

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JR's avatar

A person who commercializes space and/or unlocks fusion power will have access to resources unimaginable to us.

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Stanley Tillinghast's avatar

Just wish I could get me some shares of SpaceX.

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Jane Whitson's avatar

Glenn, absolutely one of your best articles ever! A homerun with all the bases loaded, a piece well worth reading and rereading.

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Zayphar's avatar

Ad Astra Per Aspera - 'to the stars through hardship'

Kanasas state motto

More along the lines of settling the American frontier(Manifest Destiny).

Hopefully a model for a social movement we could emulate.

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Hawkeye701's avatar

Woot! I am willing to give up my own jet car with tootling burbles to see the first circular ring orbital station at one of the LeGrange points.

Asteroid mining from there, baratna's!

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The Drill SGT's avatar

One more 1492 event and its "Peace Dividend". The Reconquista.

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Betsy's avatar

Well said. And amen.

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The Drill SGT's avatar

Glenn, I think the Instapundit site is bugged right now

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Polynices's avatar

Great article. I was born a few months before the moon landing and I’ve been a space fan since I was old enough to know what space was. It was all so lame for so long. I didn’t want to be a government contractor in a stultified bureaucracy just to be able to work on space things. Ended up in medicine. But now my son is graduating high school tomorrow and headed off to Purdue with aspirations to be an aerospace engineer and build rockets for a living. It’s a realistic goal for him and the companies that are hiring seem exciting in a way NASA or Boeing are not.

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Michael Wilson's avatar

What is the gross weight of the political class? Just musing.

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Randall Fox's avatar

Thanks for the big perspective on humanity and our next steps.

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Michael Fitzgerald's avatar

I think I'll frame this in my office to keep me on the right track.

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Thad Puckett's avatar

So do you think Starlink will go down by a factor of 10?

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Mark Sizer's avatar

I think of it this way: My Starlink bill is funding Starship development. I have no idea what my cable bill is funding. I'm willing to pay a premium for that - and it's not much of a premium.

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Thad Puckett's avatar

I like that viewpoint!!

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Tom Hill's avatar

Nah. Starlink is funding the Mars research. The service will continue to get better, though.

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Jeff Keener's avatar

Elon Musk, our greatest living African American.

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Ardath N Blauvelt's avatar

You are a breath of fresh air. Than you.

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