Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Intertemporal Communication" video.

  1. I guess ya have to be a child of Apollo to understand how disillusioned our generation is, how we feel we got robbed, like that band titled "They Promised us Jetpacks." We were told with basically 100% certainty that the galaxy was teeming with life, that by the time we reached adulthood, colonies on Mars and the Moon would be a reality, that we would continue to move up and out, that we would boldly go where... Then we find out that it is actually really tough to go to these places and that if NASA hadn't been so risk averse, and sent a man instead of a monkey up in 1961, Alan Shepard would have made it to space before Yuri Gagarin and the whole Moon shot might never have happened in the first place. I guess mostly we just grew up, and the more we learned about the real world the more science fiction became just that for us, fiction. Thanks Einstein! Thanks for breaking my heart! I've gone from believing we would have had several long-distance calls with ET by now to believing that will flat out just never happen. The distances are too great and the laws of physics are just too tough to overcome. I now believe if there is life out there, we are separated by design. We each have our own destiny to live out, distinct from one another. Maybe in the next life we get to meet our cosmic cousins, but for now, I guess I'll just have to settle for those old Star Trek reruns. Live long and prosper ET. Hope the weather is fine wherever you are.
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