Can We Please Have These Problems?

03/06/04 00:00:00    

By Michael Mealling

Found via Instapundit: A Washington Times article, New age of exploration, suggests that the President's new space policy will lead us into a period of expansion into space similar to our expansion into the New World during the 1700s. The article suggests several potential problems: new vulberabilities, new competitors, and high costs. Given the potential of the payouts that might happen, could we please have these problems? Some problems are good to have. Citing them is sort of like complaining that your massage was to long at your private resort.

As I'm sure it is with most of you, the most fundamental, indeed, the most core dream of my life is to be able to see humans expanding across the solar system and beyond. But whether or not President Bush's policy shift is the beginning is something I'm still not convinced of.