I leave for college in 5 days, so I can't focus on anything but that. I'm worrying about my future and what I'm going to do with my life. All my friends are telling me about the great adventures they are having, making me lust more after the moment when I step on Columbia's campus. So here is a college flavored space habitation post. Maybe I'll be more sane tomorrow.
When I go to college, I want my support for and believe in space habitation to be challenged. I want to see the world in its current state, not the tinted view I have of it. I think I may have an unrealistic view of the world, I might be too optimistic, if I am, I need that flawed view to be revealed because it makes my arguments for space habitation weak. I want to become more of a skeptic, I want to see reality, I want to see how far the rabbit hole goes(I had to quote Matrix, I just had to). I guess I'm trying to say that I want college to find any fallacies in my support for space habitation. I want to spend a whole night in the library researching because someone stumped me with a question about space habitation.
I want to have to lay out all my assumptions and explain why they are reasonable. I what to have to explain to someone who has had nothing in their life why they should support space habitation and pay the cost, I what that type of challenge so my perspective on the world is not rose colored. I've lived a fairly good life, I've never gone hungry. I want to talk to someone who has gone hungry and understand their perspective on life. I've been convinced that space activity will help the world, but I need to be forced to justify everything about space habitation. I want there to be one night where I feel absolutely hopeless about the dream of space habitation because my argument was ran over by someone; I want to be at the point where I'm considering giving up on space habitation. In that moment is when I can learn the most about space habitation.
I live in an echo chamber, when ever I talk to my friends, they agree, but they are all space cadets. I've only lived around space cadets. I want to argue with someone who thinks NASA should be shut down because it is a waste of money. In short, I want college to make me stop drinking the kool-aid and make my dream realistic. I also want to see all sides of the argument for space habitation.
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