{"id":254,"date":"2013-02-13T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2013\/02\/13\/%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1-ray-bradbury-on-space-exploration-2010-comic-con-interview-%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1\/"},"modified":"2013-06-30T19:34:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T19:34:16","slug":"%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1-ray-bradbury-on-space-exploration-2010-comic-con-interview-%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2013\/02\/13\/%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1-ray-bradbury-on-space-exploration-2010-comic-con-interview-%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1-%e2%99%a1\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2661 \u2661 \u2661 \u2661 \u2661 Ray Bradbury on Space Exploration (2010 Comic-Con Interview) \u2661 \u2661 \u2661 \u2661 \u2661"},"content":{"rendered":"

SW:<\/span> One of the technologies you have been in favor of is space exploration. Why is space exploration so important to you?<\/p>\n

RB:<\/span> Because we are gonna live forever, if we go out in space, if we go back to the moon \u2014 we should\u2019ve never left the moon \u2014 we should go back and build a base, we should go back and build a base on the moon and go on to Mars and we should put a civilization on Mars and then, 500 years from now, move out into the universe, and when we do that, we have a chance of living forever. That\u2019s why I believe in space exploration.<\/p>\n

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SW:<\/span> What should we be investing in for the future, to assure our future? What should we focus on for tomorrow?<\/p>\n

RB: <\/span>We\u2019ve gotta reinvest in space travel. We should\u2019ve never left the moon. We\u2019ve gotta get back to the moon and build a firm base there, so that sometime in the next 40 years we can take off and go to the planet Mars. We\u2019ve gotta become the Martians. I\u2019m a Martian \u2014 I tell you to become Martians. <\/span>And we\u2019ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now, into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever. So our future is investing, right now, in space travel, and money should be given to NASA sometime next year to build the rockets to go back to the moon.<\/p>\n

Brain Pickings<\/a>: “Conducted by Bradbury\u2019s official biographer<\/a>, Sam Weller, at Comic-Con 2010 and recorded by Jeff Goldsmith<\/a>, maker of the free storytelling app Backstory<\/a>. At 90, Bradbury is as full of zest as ever, brimming with a love of life as he discusses space exploration, libraries, technology, and the importance of doing what you love. The full Q&A<\/a> runs over an hour.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SW: One of the technologies you have been in favor of is space exploration. Why is space exploration so important to you? RB: Because we are gonna live forever, if we go out in space, if we go back to the moon \u2014 we should\u2019ve never left the moon \u2014 we should go back and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction-writing","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}