"The last several decades have been breathtaking to live through.
Space travel in and out of our solar system. Amazing inventions both with and without handwavium. Even a war where not just right and wrong, but 'good' and 'evil' were clearly defined like few times in recent memory.
But it is that first point - space travel - that is most important. Not just for the Convention, but for humankind as a whole.
Our homeworld, our place of birth, is changing. This is nothing new, it has always been happening. This is simply the first time humans have been able to acknowledge as well as understand said changes.
And we now have an opportunity as well.
In every previous great change of our world, much has been lost. The ecosystems, the very biospheres that sustain our lives, are altered. The ancient man at the end of the last ice age anywhere on the planet would find a much different world today in the exact same place than he would have found familiar.
This is why the people of Oceania have chosen Hawaiki. The world orbiting 85 Pegasus A is a young one. It has some primitive life, but is otherwise a blank canvas, a tabula rasa.
Or put more accurately, a garden awaiting its planting.
We choose to save our beloved world by building it anew. With our own hands in the present we will grow the future by transforming our virgin world into a tribute to our past one, so that those generations to come will be able to appreciate their predecessors' legacy and thrive there.
It will take time and effort. But we are not afraid of hard work.
- Chief Representative of the nascent Commonwealth of the Pacific, 2020 UN-FC Interstellar Colonization Conference, Marduk City, Luna
Space travel in and out of our solar system. Amazing inventions both with and without handwavium. Even a war where not just right and wrong, but 'good' and 'evil' were clearly defined like few times in recent memory.
But it is that first point - space travel - that is most important. Not just for the Convention, but for humankind as a whole.
Our homeworld, our place of birth, is changing. This is nothing new, it has always been happening. This is simply the first time humans have been able to acknowledge as well as understand said changes.
And we now have an opportunity as well.
In every previous great change of our world, much has been lost. The ecosystems, the very biospheres that sustain our lives, are altered. The ancient man at the end of the last ice age anywhere on the planet would find a much different world today in the exact same place than he would have found familiar.
This is why the people of Oceania have chosen Hawaiki. The world orbiting 85 Pegasus A is a young one. It has some primitive life, but is otherwise a blank canvas, a tabula rasa.
Or put more accurately, a garden awaiting its planting.
We choose to save our beloved world by building it anew. With our own hands in the present we will grow the future by transforming our virgin world into a tribute to our past one, so that those generations to come will be able to appreciate their predecessors' legacy and thrive there.
It will take time and effort. But we are not afraid of hard work.
- Chief Representative of the nascent Commonwealth of the Pacific, 2020 UN-FC Interstellar Colonization Conference, Marduk City, Luna
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“They opened up a can’a dumbass!” – Jon Stewart regarding Fox News, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein