Down the rabbit hole...
This is from a 2013 draft for a post: Has anyone else had the feeling recently that they're living in a dream? Or more precisely, a novel? Let me share a couple incidents that make me feel that way. First, Mars One . I came across this project near the end of 2012. Looking through this proposal to send permanent residents to Mars, I couldn't help but feel that it would work. It was surreal to realize that I was seriously considering the plausibility of the plans that would separate humans from their primeval home and plant them on a remote sphere out in space. I really can't lay it out better than that. If you want to get a sense of what I was experiencing read through the pages in the Mission section of the Mars One website. Then again, if you're not inclined to read sci-fi novels, then maybe you won't feel the same way. However this concept ought to rouse some subtle emotions in all of us. Next, this story posted in The Bl...