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Dan Gillmor on the Columbia

by Tim O'Reilly
Feb. 2, 2003
URL: http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000768.shtml#000768

Dan Gillmor said it perfectly: "We would dishonor the memory of the astronauts, and take away from our own future, if we let this tragedy turn us away from the heavens. Space is humanity's destiny, if it has one. We are an exploring, expansionist race. We must go on.Space is humanity's destiny, if it has one. We are an exploring, expansionist race. We must go on."

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