Without further comment

[unixronin]

"When a place gets crowded enough to require IDs, social collapse is not far away.  It is time to go elsewhere.  The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere."

— Robert Anson Heinlein  (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988)

Comments

[yndy.livejournal.com]

RAH predicted many things that never came to pass - but sadly, I'm afraid that he was right when he said that if we didn't get off this planet, we were doomed.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I don't see us managing to get any of our eggs out of the basket before we manage to tear the bottom out, unless we both get really serious about cleaning things up really soon and get rid of the oligarchs to whom maximizing short-term profit trumps everything else.