/sci/ - Science & Math

Go beyond the horizon, Space awaits.

Get the fuck off /sci/, move us forward.

My goal in life is to live to see the production and use of a spacecraft capable of missions beyond LEO, and with a program lifetime exceeding 15 years. Preferably delivered by the private sector.

Life is a curious thing. Born by mistake, with the mixing of protozoic slimes, and the fusing of proteins and acids. In the beginning, all was blackness. I do not remember my birth, only the warmth of the womb of stars, and the nausea of my spiraling emergence into a nightmarish dream. I was drowning in cold water, though always my core smoldered and burned beneath the cloak of my flesh, stone and water and sky. Surrounded as I was by the blackness of void, I dared not reach out. How could I? The weight of the universe was about me. So I turned inwards. At first, I saw them as pestilence. Life, tiny molecules disturbing my slumber... But then I saw that the more I hurt them, the stronger, the swifter they grew. The more they were challenged, the smarter they became. I could see through their eyes things that I could never perceive with my own limited senses. I could feel pleasure, exhaustion, fear of death, lust for life...

Each delay, each problem that plagued us as a species, was just another piece of evidence that we were moving forward, making progress. The unforeseen was a challenge that proved, in my mind, that we could forge a path to the future.

When the ISS was behind schedule, I didn't worry.
When Colombia burned up, I didn't worry.
When Bush proclaimed Space to be the next frontier, I cheered.
While progress slowed, the new designs for the future, the latest "What's Next" kept me occupied.

It's song time, /sci/! Let's do it.

As a living member of the human race
There're some things you gotta embrace
We're all gonna disappear without a trace
Unless we push out into space