The world as we know it...

[jard]

I'm worried about our future. I look at it this way history always repeats itself and I dont want to be stuck in the middle of another depression or to see our country go down the tubes like other super power nations before use (ie. Rome or more recently U.S.S.R).

Saddam is a tyrant like Castro and many others. I've seen what people will do to get away from an opressive goverment. I was on a Naval ship outside Cuba when the Cubans began leaving in '94' and those people were desprate to get out of there they would risk death at sea for the chance at a life someplace else. I pulled a 9 year old boy who left on his own because he had no real family to take care of him, when we found him he was in a innertube for a large truck tire with a pair of flippers on his feet with no food or water and no land in sight. We pulled 804 refugees out of the water in 72 hours.

I think its time to pool our resources to explore our solar system. That way if our planet becomes uninhabitable because we destroy it or some natural event occur's we as a race will continue. And a little extra breathing room never hurts.



Just my 2cp