The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if its plane coincided with that of the Earth's equator, would revolve with the Earth and would thus be stationary above the same spot on the planet. It would remain fixed in the sky of a whole hemisphere ... [to] provide coverage to half the globe, and for a world service three would be required, though more could be readily utilized. (1945) [Predidicting geosynchronous communication satellites]

Our own grandchildren may demonstrate that-sometimes- Gigantic is Beautiful.

The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.