My thoughts on the news this evening...

We live in space. For limited periods of time and under very defined and limiting set of rules. In time, probability willing, we might master the process and make it a commodity to be accepted as commonly as floating in a boat. A little farther down the larger number of us might live in the sky and look at land based existence as the aberration. The pictures to the left show some amazing thing. Makes me think of something else I once watched on the tube...human spirit (and maybe stupidity). We humans do random incomprehensible things in random instances. We build upon each other.

I stare at global climate change and I think about our species pushing along and trying to get into space maybe as an escape. Maybe (as many of these scientists like to think) there are a multitude of universes and our universe happens to have a set of properties which makes it very costly to get into space and as a result no other race in the universe has gotten there yet and the future is peering back hoping we are to be the first.

You see us building pretty neat things these days hoping to keep from killing ourselves. Our houses have finally become more important. They are off to a good start. These gentlemen have a carbon neutral house. Why only neutral? Why not build the house that has a negative carbon footprint? The technology, tweaked here and there (big tweaks of course, nonetheless tweeks), is already here. Solar power. Wind power. Biomass energy. All making hydrogen stored in tanks spread in small volume tanks (just in case anyone begins to worry about blowing up their neighborhood).

I have confidence. I am wary. I wonder of the true potential and what we will find once we get there. Will we skip over it as we learn to leap beyond it?