I read today that the penny finally dropped and that the man leading the charge into the future has shifted targets and is focusing now on building a new home for mankind on the Moon. I can't see anything wrong with that because to put it mildly, Mars was a long shot at best. Looking at Musk's plans for building a mass driver and putting gigawatts of solar power plants in orbit as a start is fascinating for a number of reasons but it is obvious that far more money and investment can be found near earth than in the outer worlds.
I'm still not clear on who is paying for all this stuff that Musk apparently builds but somebody must be buying it or leasing it because he appears to have plenty of money to burn. Of more than a hundred family members I know only one of them has a Starlink. He also lives off the grid and is even now heading for a place in Florida that will take him and his low impact lifestyle. He's a digital nomad.
Still, I'm impressed, I get to see mankind start to build a new life in space close at hand. I just wonder where are they going to find all the slaves out there that the universe down here on earth seems to think built the entire new world all by themselves the last time. On the gripping hand, the last time the old world sent pioneers to take new worlds, they were the ruthless warriors that had taken their country back from hundreds of years of muslim occupation. I trust that this will not be a requirement for the spaceX pioneers or we won't see any English, Scots, German or Spanish at all in the new world this time around.
I've been assured that the moon quakes are really quite mild and you hardly notice them at all from here.
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