I’ve added another video blog about Space Vikings and Space Pirates. It’s not about fictional characters. It’s about how history is vaguely interacting with the present and perhaps the future. The video explains itself, so have a look.
Space Pirates and Space Vikings takes me to
It feels as if we’re in a second space race. The first one started in the 1950s and went on into the 1970s. This one is not about superpower posturing. It is all about which private companies (often in conjunction with national organisations) can create practical solutions to reaching orbit and space exploration. I’m by no means the first person to put this idea forward and its not the first time I’ve felt it. The British launch sites make it feel more real and more personal.
This time the Space Race happened step by step and without ticker tape parades. This time instead of global nationalistic broadcasts, we have YouTube. Yet around the world, companies are building, innovating and launching. It opens up possibilities.
Some of those possibilities are the ones that science fiction authors have been writing about for decades. The worlds created by an expansion into space. About the societies, politics and attitudes that will change everything about how we live.
It may even be that we are in the origin story for Solar Stories.
A space launch from Cornwall leads to a video and this blog. Acts of history are triggers and triggers make lots of things happen
Maybe even Cornish Pasties in space.
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