Comments on: Science fiction and cultural focus http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/science-fiction-and-cultural-focus/ Science fiction, science fact, and all that's in between ... Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:49:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: trollop23 http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/science-fiction-and-cultural-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-2691 trollop23 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:02:52 +0000 http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/science-fiction-and-cultural-focus/#comment-2691 I'm afraid I'm going to sound a bit ignorant, but I don't understand your reference to Antarctica. Could you please elaborate? You're certainly entitled to your own opinion, but space travel during the Cold War did not help America and Russia get along at all. In fact, it provided another reason for the people of both countries to feel greater animosity toward each other. We no longer have the USSR as "The Great Enemy", but America doesn't seem to have trouble finding new ones. I still feel that unless major changes occur, some countries will have a hard time working together to achieve such a dream. Here is a link to a few interesting articles on the <a href="http://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle17277.html" rel="nofollow">logistics of space travel.</a> While it's not completely relevant to the discussion, I think you might enjoy it anyway. I’m afraid I’m going to sound a bit ignorant, but I don’t understand your reference to Antarctica. Could you please elaborate?
You’re certainly entitled to your own opinion, but space travel during the Cold War did not help America and Russia get along at all. In fact, it provided another reason for the people of both countries to feel greater animosity toward each other. We no longer have the USSR as “The Great Enemy”, but America doesn’t seem to have trouble finding new ones. I still feel that unless major changes occur, some countries will have a hard time working together to achieve such a dream.
Here is a link to a few interesting articles on the logistics of space travel. While it’s not completely relevant to the discussion, I think you might enjoy it anyway.

]]> By: Jose http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/science-fiction-and-cultural-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-2684 Jose Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:35:31 +0000 http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/science-fiction-and-cultural-focus/#comment-2684 trollop, I could write a lengthy rebuttal of your space conflict concerns but at the risk of sounding trite I'll just sum it up in a word.... antarctica trollop,

I could write a lengthy rebuttal of your space conflict concerns but at the risk of sounding trite I’ll just sum it up in a word…. antarctica

]]> By: trollop23 http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/science-fiction-and-cultural-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-2660 trollop23 Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:09:35 +0000 http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/science-fiction-and-cultural-focus/#comment-2660 I have concerns that space travel will only serve to increase global conflict. Who owns the moon? Does the American flag that supposedly still sits there mean that we have a Lunar America? Who owns Mars if people ever colonize it? The first guys to land? While I'm thrilled that a love of science/space fiction can unite people with such political differences, I'm afraid that the reality of spaceflight will not. I have concerns that space travel will only serve to increase global conflict. Who owns the moon? Does the American flag that supposedly still sits there mean that we have a Lunar America? Who owns Mars if people ever colonize it? The first guys to land?
While I’m thrilled that a love of science/space fiction can unite people with such political differences, I’m afraid that the reality of spaceflight will not.

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