User:Dlyttle2001

I am an avid fan, although some may prefer the word, "worshiper," of 2001: A Space Odyssey, though I have been known to devour a great deal of Star Trek and Twilight Zone, but that's when I'm moving through a land of those other mental dimensions whose boundaries are that of the imagination.

In my personal Mancave, I have set up four computer monitors with each running a Hal:9000 screensaver. With the lights down low and all four monitors flashing readouts like "NUC, ATM, COM and NAV," it is as if I have a piece of the american spacecraft Discovery One's mission control deck right before my eyes.

I love anything that has to do with space... Ahhh, a billion brilliant pinpoints of light adrift in that utterly elegant emptiness.

In real life I am an Adjunct Professor at Sinclair Community College. I write, I teach and I strive to inspire others to make the future of humanity a time worth living for. I am greatly disappointed that we do not live in a world like that of 2001. Sure we have I-pads and we have I-phones but no spacecraft like Discovery, Orion or Aries IB. As Arthur C. Clarke once said, "Our space station is a collection of junk as compared to Space Station V."

Given our present technological prowess, we should have hundreds if not thousands of men, women and children living, working and playing in deep space. Our lack of progress is mere politics and a lack of vision.

I am doing my part to help us survive to create the world in which we have the resources to reach out into space. I am co-chair of the Greater Dayton Elecric Vehicle Association through which we promote greater public understanding of the benefits of electric vehicle ownership and I am working to set up an ethanol production operation to help promote increased use of ethanol as an automotive and general-purpose fuel.

I urge you to do your part... The future begins with a dream (like 2001: A Space Odyssey) and ends with a reality in which we all have a share.