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Monday, September 11, 2006
But When We Come Down... "The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis has docked with the International Space Station, carrying the first piece of new hardware for the outpost since 2002" (more here) Still, it’s nice to look out at the stars and think that someday, they will be in reach, just as they are in every science fiction TV series from Buck Rogers to Babylon 5. Every great technological advance began with a dream, and sometimes we have spent decades dreaming about it before our technologies ever begin to catch up with the dream. Consider flying… the ancient Greeks dreamed of making it possible with wax and feathers, Leonardo drew fantastically complicated flying machines, and the Montgolfier brothers finally launched a hot-air balloon in the late 18th century. That kicked off another hundred years of frantic and frenetic tinkering, while more and more writers and thinkers imagined how it would, once the technology was there. And then it was, and not only did the technology adapt with almost light-speed, but in the main, people who had always dreamed of it, adapted to using it with almost equal speed. I was always amused to look back, and think that my grandmother, born in 1896 on a farm in Pennsylvania where horses provided most of the locomotive and mechanical power, was in grade school when the Wright Brothers successfully demonstrated the possibility of powered flight. And she lived long enough to not only see a man walk on the moon, but to fly to Europe, and the Orient herself, in the sort of vehicle that could only be imagined, when she was a child. "Sgt. Mom" is a freelance writer, and retired Air Force NCO, who blogs at "www.sgtstryker.com" who lives in San Antonio with five cats, two dogs and a daughter. Quixotically, she prefers driving herself, rather than flying, these days. Blogger News Network is advertiser-supported, and your visits to our advertisers help BNN to meet its expenses. Help keep us afloat! posted by Sgt. Mom at 2:07 PM |
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