When I was a kid, my heroes were mostly astronauts, explorers & the like. Then I grew up, in the bloody 80s & they were increasingly replaced by journalists. I suspect many kids growing up today will have a similar trajectory.
Yeah, that increasing gulf between what humans could achieve, and what they kept doing to each other was pretty much what made me end up doing what I do. Plus, Challenger dashed all our dreams pretty hard.
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*nods* It was like a wave of childhood dreams replaced with a wall of "No, you can't. Sit down. Shut up while we break stuff" for all but bankers
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You're going to love this graphic novel (esp. the preface), it captured that exact feeling https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43737.Orbiter … thankfully, we always had excellent scifi & actual scientific progress to tide us over, and now we're nearing the next golden age in space exploration
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We might not live long enough to witness it, and it may start w colonialism & exploitation, but wondrous possibilities are tantalizingly close & we can imagine so much more now :)
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