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From: Ross Olson <ross{at}rossolson.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2020
To: opinion{at}startribune.com
Subject: Lost in Space
Lost in Space
Megan McArdle wants us to be excited about America’s return to space in an Opinion
piece published in the Star Tribune 8/6/2020. I was also one of those space geek kids,
reading science fiction and looking forward to visiting nearby planets, perhaps meeting
their inhabitants. Over time, the inhospitability of space and the enormous cost of
travelling in it became apparent. Now there is another motivation to go – saving the
human race.
It is true that “most educated people are aware that a meteor killed the dinosaurs,” but
most don’t know that the hypothesis does not explain all the data. There was a
time when most educated people recognized that the vast layers of sedimentary rock
covering the earth, filled with billions of fossils resulted from a world-wide watery
disaster.
We now recognize evidence of watery disasters on Mars but fail to see it on earth. And
we think it quaint that once a small number of the human race was saved from
extinction by a Divine plan, not to mention the reason for it. “The LORD saw how great
human wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of their thoughts
was only evil all the time.”
There is a disaster coming and a space colony is not going to prevent it. Ironically, the
extinction of the past of all but the minority is instructive. Can we learn from that?
Ross S. Olson
Richfield MN 55423
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