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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA for short. It’s been in the news regarding it’s new budget from President Obama.

This got me thinking…

Why is it even in the budget? It’s the Space Age, and yet, we’ve only made our way to our Moon with our own men. While this is a huge leap from what had been done before, it’s still only so far in the grand scheme of things.

Sure, we’re traveling into space via our machines, and a lot has been done in the last 40 years in these respects…

But imagine a world where we didn’t limit our space exploration, due to an invention of our own: money.

Imagine if all those advancements, if all the discoveries, all the missions had of happened years before. We’d be that much further ahead.

One of the biggest reasons is that our current system, at least in this area of the world, is capitalism: money runs everything. It’s what we know, it’s what we do.

But that’s not to say things can’t change. Things have changed in the past, and they will change in the future, but it’s a matter of when. So why not now?

Space exploration should be on the top of our list. Not only are many of the technologies developed by NASA in use in today’s gadgets and utilities, but NASA are also changing the world every day, by developing even more for their use. These will eventually find their way to consumer use as well.

These technologies create jobs, and most important push us even further towards space, and all that it has to offer.

Which brings me back to my point. Why are we holding them back?

Why are we telling them, “you can do this much, but that’s it for now, maybe more later”.

Why is it even an option to not push the limits of what we know and what we can do, at all times, and as far as they can?

So, how do we thwart this capitalism to give this wonderful cause some structure? My only idea would be an “International Initiative”.

One of the big issues of giving something unlimited money, would be dealing with the inflation that that causes against the people giving. So why not make it everyone’s responsibility?

We as a world community allow this to happen. We allow them to keep on developing past any boundaries that are laid out by “budgets”.

We might just find ourselves those years ahead, and in places where we never thought of even reaching.

These are the places we should be.

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To anyone familiar with Aesop’s fables, this short story will be familiar. I wanted to take a break from the regular, and just discuss how important the moral of this story is.

A gaunt Wolf was almost dead with hunger when he happened to meet a House-dog who was passing by. “Ah, Cousin,” said the Dog. “I knew how it would be; your irregular life will soon be the ruin of you. Why do you not work steadily as I do, and get your food regularly given to you?”

Better to starve free than be a fat slave.



We’re seeing a change in the way people not only look at the world, but interact with it.

People are finding more of a sense of community, even with people they’ve never met, and who may live thousands of miles away.

The key difference is that these communities don’t thrive on the competition that typical corporations would. They thrive on the generosity of others. Anyone familiar with aspects of P2P, or social media knows this very well.

Through this, we have the ability to express ourselves, and help others, without expecting anything in return, except the satisfaction of knowing a job was well done.

Now, I digress, but the point I’m trying to make is, these communities didn’t start themselves. These communities were built by people, people with an idea.

They also weren’t put there by corporations (although many of the larger ones have since been acquired, but the practice still holds true), they were put there by people like you or me, people like your friends, your neighbors, your family.

Going into work every day to make someone else a pretty penny can be taxing on this freedom, on one’s self-image.

With a great idea and some hard work, one can create their own community, their own life, their own vision, and succeed with it.

Now while the stories ends with the wolf choosing to starve, it’s more a matter of his choice for freedom, his choice to be able to choose, and this is the most important point.

Getting stuck in a dead end job may be for some, but if you have an idea, or a dream, why not follow it?

The world is always changing, and it’s not going to wait for you, you have to make these changes happen for yourself.

You also have to be free to do it, that collar and chain will always wear you away, but the freedom will open up the world, and all it has to offer.

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