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11/28/2003 Archived Entry: "HAVE WE HUMANS PEAKED AS A SPECIES?"

HAVE WE HUMANS PEAKED AS A SPECIES?

Dane sent this to me a long time ago and I just forgot to run it. It is a very good essay and I think you'd enjoy reading it.

In part: "I would say, here, “if we can send a man to the moon, …” but we even gave that up. About the same time American aerospace industry canceled its own version of the Concorde — the stillborn “SST” — America’s space priorities shifted from manned interplanetary adventure to hauling cargo into orbit. Not coincidentally, I would argue, that’s about when we set a national speed limit of 55 miles per hour, had our last house call from a doctor or fresh milk delivered in cold glass jars at the front door."
As Concorde goes, so do we