Peace, The Final Frontier…Space

No this is not a blog about Star Trek, though I could talk hours about the subject, thats not what I intend. I will admit, and many would agree, that if you look beyond the “Space Opera” of the show you see something more extrodinary than science fiction.
The premis of Star Trek is that a starship and it’s crew seek out new life and civilizations, they fly around at Warp speed and get to the destination solve the problem and move on.
Look closer and you see alien races co-habitating with humans, everyone happy and content, at least till the Dominion, the Romulan’s or even the Borg come and cause problems.

Our space program hopes to achieve the same purpose, except we don’t have Klingons roaming around the space shuttle.
Imagine what it would be like, all people on earth cooperating for a single purpose:
Increasing mankind’s knowledge of the galaxy.
There are Black’s, white’s Russian’s, American’s, Israeli’s, Arab’s, Filipinos,Latinos, chinese,japanese,
etcetera, etc. All of them cooperating, there are no wars on earth, only wars against earth and her allies. Granted war sucks, but at least star trek has a view that everyone on this planet of ours is co-operating, and I believe that our space program could do just that.

If we could all drop our predjudices imagine what we could do.

If every country laid down their arms and said:
We could save the world together, eliminate hungry, disease, poverty. I know, I know it’s too optimistic to say that we could do that, there are so many people out there who believe that they’re right about their cause, but think about what is at stake.
It’s not and ideal, a belief, a way of life, it’s life itself that we’re risking.
Again, imagine if the international space station had the cooperation of every country on the planet, it would become a space station, where the worlds most able and brilliant minds have come together to insure that MANKIND( I know I should say Humankind, but you get it right?) survives, because in case no one has noticed, we have one earth, and despite it being a little crowded, we all want to survive.
We cannot change the past, we all know that, then why destroy the future of humankind, because of the past?
I believe that the space program is our opportunity to invite all countries on the planet to participate, because on every country on the planet, there are brilliant minds who want to do more than make the world better, they want to make humankind better.
As optimistic as it sounds, lets drop our weapons, and cooperate in space to insure that mankind survives.

Oh…I forgot we can’t because we’re too stubborn, and beliefs can’t be changed.

That’s too bad, because I want your children to live and not know hate for others. I want your family to survive and make the world a better place.

How naive of me to want peace and cooperation on earth.

Thanks again for reading.

JF