Google and Virgin got together to play an April Fool's joke on us. Clever, yes. But also pretty darn painful.
The painful part is that it IS all a joke, but it didn't have to be. If we had not effectively abandoned manned space exploration in 1972 with the last Apollo mission, we might very well be preparing a permanent manned Mars base at this moment.
Instead, we frittered it all away on reality TV and Wrestlemania-on- demand.
Having been raised on a steady diet of promises of a glorious future in space exploration, not a single one of which proved to be real, this April Fool's joke is especially poignant and painful for me.
April Fools (re: The Dream that might have been)
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