According to the very groovy logo on Google today, it's 50 years since the first manned space flight. All those great hopes launched in a blaze of optimism.
A mere eight years later, we were walking on the moon. So over the next 42 years, you'd have thought we'd have really gone places.
Oh I know there's robots running around on Mars and amazing telescopes being built but I just find it disappointing that 50 years after we first went into space, we're all still here. No-one is living on the moon and I can think of a few people that should be.
Meanwhile back on planet earth, even our planes fly slower today than they did 30 years ago. It wasn't like this in the Jetsons! Are we never going to get jetpacks?
It's not all bad though. We do have Facebook and Twitter, so at least we can whinge more quickly.
One always has such high hopes when sitting down to write something, but in truth, all that springs to mind are the small oddities one encounters...Then again, maybe I've just become a grumpy middle-aged man!
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