I’ll See You on The Dark Side of the Moon
CU just received a $17 million grant from NASA to probe the faint sounds of the early universe and better understand the lunar environment. I wonder if the Colorado Center for Lunar Dust and Atmospheric Studies will adopt Pink Floyd as their official band. Whenever I hear of something NASA is funding, I think of the exchange between Josh and Leo in the West Wing episode The Warfare of Genghis Khan.
Leo McGarry: My generation never got the future it was promised. Thirty-five years later, cars, air travel’s exactly the same. We don’t even have the Concorde anymore. Technology stopped.
Josh Lyman: The personal computer?
Leo McGarry: Where’s my jet pack, my colonies on the Moon?
I think Go Fast is making my Jet Pack.
Given that I have poor impulse control, I want it now.
Jet packs would be so great. Except that I can't think of anything with a lower fuel efficiency! Even if they were to be powered by actual jet engines rather than H2O2 rocket engines.
I hope that the ultimate transportation system, which would be some kind of molecular deconstruction/reconstruction system, would be better. Plus, the concept is even scarier than a rocket belt with a 30 second endurance.
Fun to dream, anyway!
They’ll eventually run off of a nuclear fusion powered engine.