And after the moon? Mars!

@Graingy Hm I guess.

@TheLoadingGorilla mitosis
server hamster shifts aren't lined up properly.

Wait what why is it so fast now???
Edit: I suppose am a pretty pessimistic writer (and person, in general). I enjoy exploring dark topics like hatred, revenge, grief that morphs into fury, power that consumes the soul, etc. Hopefully people find it interesting, because I myself find such topics deeply fascinating.

@Graingy Ok. I don’t know what the heck the site is doing. It said "failed to submit comment" twice and yet both of the comments that failed to submit are there, plus a duplicate. I don’t even know how that’s possible...

@TheLoadingGorilla Entertainment.
Though Tolkien-style "everything is only going to get worse forever and there's nothing we can do to reverse it" is perhaps not what the world needs as its cultural heavy-hitters.

@Graingy ...
I am a bit put out at the moment. I need to breathe. I'll be back in a few minutes...

Holy what

@Graingy ...
I am a bit put out at the moment. I need to breathe. I'll be back in a few minutes...

@Graingy A bit more what?
Also, holy lag what is going on with the site right now??

@TheLoadingGorilla Need a bit more than that, but sure, why not?

@Graingy Space-travel is long and tedious, maybe a good book would make them happy while they float through the endless void?🥺

@TheLoadingGorilla Not everyone joined in the fields themselves. Not every farmer is remembered - most aren't.
What I'm trying to say is that your support is valuable. You may not be an astronaut, you may not be an engineer, but you can contribute to a culture which values sustained progress over notions of imaginary profit or treehugging.

lol, all this to say that I probably won't see the Artemis II launch.

@Graingy I do hope that someday I'll be worth studying... I hope to accomplish that by writing books though, not through advancements in the technological world of spacecrafts and other stuff like that.

@TheLoadingGorilla Africa was the home of Homo Sapiens for thousands of years. While it still has a massive population, Asia's is greater, while Europe's, North America's, and South America's are nothing to scoff at. They're also generally more developed (in the present age), though that has as much to do with circumstances of history as it does geography.
It is because of the present that the past was created! Every moment you read about was the moment somebody seized to make something worth reading about.
Be part of the history that some future gorilla will spend their days studying.
It is through thinking of the past that history is written, but not that it is made in the first place.

@Graingy Things have been developing faster and faster, but I would be incredibly surprised if regular citizens started living in space within the next century. It's possible, I'll admit, but I don’t see it coming anytime soon. Earth has been the home of humans for... forever, I doubt space will become more populated than earth.
(History is simply something I find interesting, like linguistics, and biology, and many other things.) You say nothing meaningfully changed, but it is because of the past that we can progress into "the future". Advancements were made all throughout history, without which none of our own advancements would've been made. It builds off of itself. Without the Ancient Greeks and their work with mathematics (and many other things) none of our current technology would exist, and without our current technology there would be no future advancements. The present is possible because of the past, and the future is possible because of the present. Time is linear.

@TheLoadingGorilla You enjoy life's luxuries because millions before you decided to cooperate in tilling fields and harvesting crops. Once upon a time that was the cutting edge of society. That was throwing in with the new, not sticking with the old.
"History" is the end of what has happened until this point, not the beginning. You're not reading the past nearly so much as you're simply rereading the most recent chapters in humanity's story. Chapters preceded by hundreds of thousands of years of the same plots day after day where nothing meaningfully changed.

@Graingy *I don’t want to cooperate with anything space related... I’m great at not saying what I mean... 😔
Once again, true.

@TheLoadingGorilla If you have no will to co-operate, then expect nothing of your own existence. Only the exceptional can succeed alone, and no ape is truly exceptional.
There isn't much because nobody with the means is trying.

@Graingy Both are true.
I don’t want to cooperate though :)
...and at the moment there isn’t much being done to truly fix the future. Well, from what I can see.

@TheLoadingGorilla Space can only be conquered with co-operation.
The future's only bleak when nothing is done to fix it.

@Graingy Firstly, I highly doubt the entirety of space will be under the sway billionaires during my lifetime (sure it's possible, but it's not likely to come for a long time). Secondly, no matter what I do I will never be able to conquer space. It is completely beyond anything I could do, and (for the moment) it is far beyond anything (nearly all) the inhabitants of earth could do. Thirdly, I personally prefer the past. This is simply my preference. That’s why I read history and old books. I don’t like to think much about the future of the US because it seems pretty bleak (yes, I know the future of the US is only a minuscule chunk of the future, but that is the chunk I live in).
Anyways! Hope you enjoy this launch. Not really my cup of tea but it's definitely important.

@TheLoadingGorilla You don't need to be an expert to know this is big.
Look up for once. Space is the future, and there's nothing bigger to ponder but the future. If you don't bother looking up, it'll be claimed by the first person who will.
Do you really want the future - in its entirety - to be conquered by the first billionaire to try?

@ComradeSandman Space stuff is interesting but waaaaaaaay out of my field of understanding (or caring, if I’m being completely honest). I (supposedly) have better things to use my time on. Well, at least, things I enjoy more, like writing, piano-ing, gaming, and thinking. I like thinking.