Rik
2012-01-29 18:58:07
As much as it sounds hip to make the equivalency argument, they are not remotely the same. It was technologically feasible, while dangerous, expand westward. It could be done by a community with their wagon trains. When our personal vehicles are capable of slipping Earth’s escape velocity, or frankly, even when a private craft can do it regularly, I’m sure the nature of human exploration and expansion will kick in, but for now, it’s no more realistic than for those same settlers to have established an undersea colony.
