From: Hubert Mania (humania@t-online.de)
Date: Fri Feb 14 2003 - 09:34:33 MST
Anders wrote:
> >What really got people pro-space in the tragedy was the mythical
> >aspects - the disaster itself just got people to sit up and
> >notice a myth that has been rather silent for a while (but now
> >also fits in with the somewhat more 40's/50's narrative elsewhere
> >in the media). Heroes dying on the way back to Ithaca in a great
> >fireball. The promethean determination to dare dangers and the
> >occasional punishment for hubris in order to rise up to the
> >stars.
And Amara answered:
> One point of the above essay is that the positive 'stories' come not
> externally imposed from the outside, but from the individual exploring
> their internal life stories. Already existing mythic templates can
> provide clues and aid you from other human's experiences. Future mythic
> templates naturally emerge on their own if enough clear voices are heard
> to forge a cohesive path in a particular set of transhuman life
> experiences.
To which I would like to add some words of the American physicist J. Richard
Gott. In his latest book "Time Travel in Einstein's Universe" he compares
the Egyptian pyramids with the Saturn V. There has been a comparatively
small time window in Egyptian history when the efforts to build such
incredible artefacts were successful. After that it was never attempted
again.
The same seems to apply to the Apollo programm of the NASA with the Saturn V
rocket as a contemporary Cheop's pyramid. The time window for building such
roaring vehicles seems to be shut already, leaving the window for space
migration ajar for only a tiny amount of years in the late 1960's and
1970's.Gott fears that the efforts for space migration of the human race
will cease with each passing year and that Saturn V. has already become a
modern myth, an admirable piece of architecture, but never to be built
again, being useless like the pyramids.
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