Man, I feel so guilty. This country's going to hell in a handbasket! The GOP controls the presidency, the House, and the Senate. These warmongers will bring World War III upon us. Uuuggghhh... seriously, if there's one issue I don't agree with right now, it's the "war on terrorism." Gives them a reason to infringe upon civil liberties and strike or imprison suspects without due process. Have we not become the terrorists? Dang it... I wish I'd voted. =(

You know, I got to thinking tonight... I got into aerospace/science with the lofty ideal of forwarding the human race, of making scientific breakthroughs, and "boldly going where no man has gone before." But great science has had a history of being utilized for war and destruction. Just in aerospace, planes have been used to drop bombs, and rockets are used to carry warheads. Nuclear power was developed to create a bomb. Technology is a double-edged sword.

I like to dream about the future. I like to think of a day when we'll travel among the stars, with distant colonies stretched across the solar system, galaxy, and beyond. Going by the life cycle of a star, we've got about 5 billion years to get out of this solar system- which seems like plenty of time for scientific advances and whatnot. But like I was thinking about earlier, with the destructive nature of man, will we really make it 5 billion years? I think the real worry is that we'll be the cause of our own extinction. To get to the nearest star takes a tremendous amount of energy. That kind of energy could surely be harnessed into a fearsome weapon- one very capable of destroying the Earth. *sigh* I feel that mankind is doomed to wipe itself out. How depressing... =/