Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching. - P. J. O'Rourke - Quotesmemo.com

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Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure irrespective of any of the risks on Earth. Will this happen before our technological civilization disintegrates, leaving this as a might-have-been? Will the self-sustaining space communities be established before a catastrophe sets back the prospect of any such enterprise, perhaps foreclosing it forever? We live at what could be a defining moment for the cosmos.

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P. J. O'Rourke

Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

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