LOOKING TOWARDS THE FUTURE

So I guess the question is what's the legalities of mining asteroids for precious minerals?  Does asteroids belong to the general public or could asteroids be purchased and/or traded between corporations?  Which country actually owns the legal rights to anything in outer space.  Some people might claim that it's finders keepers out there.  Other people might say that anything in outer space belong to everybody on the Planet Earth and should be community property.  The problem with it all is budget and technology.  Number one, NASA has been gutted by budget cuts so severely, that America is lucky if it can launch a space sattelite let alone sent human beings to an asteroid.  Number two, human beings don't have the technology to travel faster than light.  Human beings don't have the capacity to create a spaceship that can take off like an airplane, fly around like a spaceship and land like an airplane.  So the legalities of who owns anything in outerspace is a moot point since nobody can actually reach anything in outerspace beyond the Earth's Moon.  Yeah, we can send a few unmanned probes to Mars and stuff like that, but that's about it.  Yes, it's possible that space travel will be about as common as riding a bike someday in the future.  However, that day isn't today.

While I'm thinking about the future of NASA, here are some photos of film and television actress Kat Dennings.

Good news everybody.  www.livejournal.com is back online.  What ever caused livejournal to crash like that has been resolved.  So that at least has a happy ending.  Now all I need is to be employed again so I could repay my United States Government College tuition loans.  I'll start feeling better about myself when I can get that debt behind me once and for all.