advanced nanotechnology: Building new worlds become the greatest generation
Al Globus has a vision and plan to use $4 billion in government prizes and programs to catalize a larger space colonization effort. I think it is a good plan and hope that it can get implemented.He had right up to the last bit.
Even better is if we used it and other plans like it to start taking up the challenge to become the greatest generation. Tom Brokaw wrote about the World War II generation as the greatest generation for rising up to stop Hitler from conquering the world. This generation could become the greatest generation ever by building new worlds and conquering space. From Mars, the moon and space colonies in asteroids we could tap in resources and living space that is hundreds of times what is available on earth. Again Al Globus quantifies the benefits and scale of what needs to be done.
If we had the will we would mount a D-Day scale invasion of space.
D-Day didn't happen because some guys woke up in 1941 and decided to make the world a better place. It happened because some truly evil men attacked their country. D-Day was a limited operation whose ultimate goal was to let millions of boys finish a dirty job so they could go home.
I'm all for the space colonization goal - but 'Greatest Generation' and 'D-Day' is the wrong metaphor. I'll take realistic plans and notions of how this all gets paid for over rhetoric, any day.
