To Boldly Go....

James Pinkerton over at TCS.

I am a big proponent of not only space exploration, but MANNED space exploration -- in whatever manner is possible (private, public, whatever--just get there, already!). So it was a piece of good news that Dr. Stephen Hawkings, this generation's answer to Albert Einstein, went out recently and stated that we need to get off the planet in a speech in Hong Kong. Pinkerton picks up on that speech and gives several reasons why we haven't, and why that is a unfortunate thing. Too bad he doesn't mention all the great work by Robert Zubrin and the Mars Society in trying to make that happen. The promise of Apollo really hasn't been realized yet, and I don't want to have to speak Chinese in order for it to happen for me.