Tai's Take - #001
Tai’s Take
Tai here.
I'm always pitching hard to open the next frontier, yet I realize such a future isn't a guarantee of teacups and rainbows.
Possibly worse things will come with the good.
Cyberpunk lunar gangs?
Could happen.
Martian warlords?
That too.
Space is complex, and will bring with it whole new dangers.
There’s beauty to simplicity. I get that. A life on the farm, say. A fantasy setting; castles and princesses and noble quests. More wholesome ways of life. Something akin to an Avatar-like existence, for instance, living in harmony with an energizing ecosystem.
There are ways to have such an existence right now, right here on Earth.
Yet that existence will live within a world of technology.
One can, for example, with effort, get off the grid. Lead a simpler life, if so desired.
Still, the foundation of that existence will be civilization.
What I'm pushing for is more playing fields, not a way of life. Some of us may not want spaceships and laser guns. Some of us may prefer dragons and magic.
Dragons and lasers?
(I like dragons, btw.)
In all cases space is the next step. If we’re to have those other playing fields, if we’re to have those other lives, we must make it to space. If we don’t want to risk everything we know evaporating in a one-world catastrophe, we need to create other options.
Right now there’s only one world where we and our castles and our simple life can exist. Also right now, coincidentally, we, for the first time, have the ability to get to the next worlds.
At last we can actually do something about it.
Adventure is out there. Opportunity.
But we have to get there.
So let’s work together and make it happen.
The simple fact of the matter is, Earth can’t be our only place to play.
That’s my take.
Tai Rade ( / tie rah-day / ) is a former Space Marine turned space advocate. Hailing from the nearby Proxima B star system, she's become an active voice for our pursuit of space here on Earth, as well as taking on the role of spokesperson for Forty Suns.
If you’re curious and want to know more, Tai has her own page …