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  The Moonshot Mindset Contents The Moonshot Mindset Doing It Moving the Needle Responsibility Good Control The Importance of Asking Questions Ethics Greatest Good Trade-Offs > Failure The Turning Point __ We used to live in caves and fear tigers in the bushes. We no longer live in caves and no longer fear tigers in the bushes. Today we live in cities and fear other things. One day we’ll live on entire other worlds and have all-new new fears, but the fact is we’ll be living on other worlds and all our troubles of the present will, in the same way, seem quaint. Progress is part of our existence. The Moonshot Mindset So what are we dealing in? Growth. Big Think. Gains. Pushing the technology envelope. Creating bold futures on all fronts. In short, the “Moonshot Mindset”. You’ve probably heard the term before, coined during the Space Race of the 60s, where it epitomized the thinking behind the literal slew of incredible, impossible, can’t-be-done items on the checklist to get a ...

  Vested Interests vs Space Contents The Elephant In The Room Forty Suns Vested Interests Greatest Good __ Forty Suns is a look to our space future. But wait. Shouldn’t we (not the ‘royal’ we, but the ‘we the people of this Earth’ we) be concentrating on things here at home? Of course. That will always be true. However, should we ever allow ourselves to become so consumed with local problems that we don’t look out? That we don’t dream of, and work toward, more? Absolutely not. The Elephant In The Room We don’t dispute:   Space is hard. Space takes incredible resources. There are problems here on Earth. You, us — everyone needs resources too.   There’s no question “doing” space takes a lot of effort. Sacrifice. But we must be doing it. For all our sakes. And so Forty Suns is pushing for that near-term — and mid-term, and far-off — future. The advances that will ensure we never collapse under the weight of our local problems. Yes, someone needs to tend the farm. But at leas...