Randal Monroe on Space Flight

The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.

Notes:

Envisioning a universe filled with the planetary grave sites of civilizations that did not see the economic worth of space exploration.

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 65 Years
Electronic/World Wide Web>Blog:  Monroe, Randall (2011), 65 Years, xkcd, Retrieved on 2011-06-02
  • Source Material [xkcd.com]
  • Folksonomies: exploration space flight


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