losing the dream

On Oct 5, 2011, at 7:55 PM, Lucio de Souza Coelho wrote:

> Surely it is sad that the Western civilization [*] has reached that
> state of mind where all the dreams and aspirations for the future are
> dead, and perhaps it is just one of the many early symptoms of its
> decline

We are living proof this is not true. People have always ridiculed
space development, including Apollo. So far, they have always been
wrong.