Good morning. 🌅🌥️☕
27 December 2025
The holiday season is almost over—just one more hurdle to clear, New Year’s Day. After that, it should be smooth sailing into 2026… hopefully. 🤞
We’re already 27 years past the imagined future of the ’60s and ’70s, when 1999 was the benchmark of what “the future” would look like. I’ve mentioned the show Space: 1999 before, because back then the year itself felt mythic—pure science fiction. Yet here we are, nearly three decades beyond it, and Moonbase Alpha is still just a storyboard dream. Nations have talked about building bases on the Moon, but it turns out the task is far more complicated than simply saying, “Let’s do it.” We’re practically back to celebrating the same milestones we reached in the ’60s, when Alan Shepard rode Freedom 7 as the first American in space, following the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
My guess is that putting people on the Moon isn’t the biggest challenge—though that alone is enormous. The real obstacle is getting the materials and equipment there to actually build a station. And then there’s the ongoing logistics of keeping a Moon base alive: oxygen, water, food… a constant supply chain stretching across a quarter million miles. A true engineering and survival puzzle.
Hmm… my thoughts wandered farther than I intended. All I really meant to say is that the fictional futures imagined in the mid‑20th century never came to pass—yet the years kept moving forward anyway.
“The future is not what it used to be." - Arthur C. Clarke
“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” - Carl Sagan
“The future is much like the present, only longer.” - J. Robert Oppenheimer
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