Wouldn't have killed the Ingress to bring in more people like you. People who can handle space without having to read a pamphlet about it, I mean. [By the way: thanks for that, Banner.
But then, it's a bit too early to tell if the machine's operating under some sort of logic or not. From the sounds of it, not even the captains (old or new) know.]
Forty years ago, the furthest away humans had been was to our moon. Guess we just had enough going on down on Earth, that space stopped being as much of a priority.
[The augmentation industry had expanded so rapidly, so explosively, that it's almost as if all focus had gone into developing that to the exclusion of all other fields. Hard to imagine a world where that might've not been the case, where they could've been making contact with whole other civilizations. He curls the fingers of one hand, almost unconsciously.]
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But then, it's a bit too early to tell if the machine's operating under some sort of logic or not. From the sounds of it, not even the captains (old or new) know.]
Forty years ago, the furthest away humans had been was to our moon. Guess we just had enough going on down on Earth, that space stopped being as much of a priority.
[The augmentation industry had expanded so rapidly, so explosively, that it's almost as if all focus had gone into developing that to the exclusion of all other fields. Hard to imagine a world where that might've not been the case, where they could've been making contact with whole other civilizations. He curls the fingers of one hand, almost unconsciously.]