By now, we've all heard William Shatner's comments upon his return from his brief flight into space. Yes, he was emotional and awed by what he experienced and saw....but I have a feeling he was, for the most part, preaching to the choir.
Those of us who care at all about Star Trek or Shatner already shared these feelings--and without having been in space. We were awed by the images sent from the moon in July 1969, by the pictures taken with the Hubble telescope, by the pictures beamed back by our Mars explorer robots.
What we need is for someone that a much larger community cares about to make that same trip and come back with similar thoughts. How about somebody like Mary J. Blige or Jay-Z? How about one of the Kardashians? Or, for a real challenge, how about Ted Cruz or Ron deSantis--imagine if either one of them came back with an epiphany about the fragility of our planet and our need to all work together?
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