2 thoughts on “More Space Safety Thoughts”

  1. *sigh* It’s almost getting to the point where the scenario of Charlie Stross’ story “A Colder War” is beginning to look plausible — that this is all a cover for a determined effort by our government to keep us from exploring space without telling us why they want to keep us earthbound. In Stross’ story, it was because it turns out that Lovecraft’s eldritch enitities — Cthulhu, shoggoths, and all the rest — really are out there …

    He hopes that if the balloon ever does go up, if the sirens wail, he and Andrea and Jason will be left behind to face the nuclear fire. It’ll be a merciful death compared with what he suspect lurks out there, in the unexplored vastness beyond the gates. The vastness that made Nixon cancel the manned space program, leaving just the standing joke of a white-elephant shuttle, when he realised just how hideously dangerous the space race might become. The darkness that broke Jimmy Carter’s faith and turned Lyndon B. Johnson into an alcoholic.</blockquote?

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