Week 9: Space + Art, A Race to the Beginning?

I would like to explain my title.

Thinking about space to me, is like thinking about the supernatural. There’s things that we know and things that we do not. Then you have the things that we want to know, and that’s where the imagination comes in.

I remember watching the episodes of The Jetsons Meet the Flinstones. Having to watch a bit of it again, and seeing the way the characters of the past (The Flinstones) act with futuristic technology (e.g. hitting the time machine with a club to make it work) of the Jetsons, makes me think about not only how far we as humans have come, but also how we have came to the point that we now and how the past enables our future. (Binary oppositions- one cannot exist without the other-past/future-primitive/civilized). 

Definitely, innovation is sparked by imagining the otherwise "impossible" becoming "possible; thinking out side of the box (#Heatherwick). I mean, before it was even possible to just make it into the atmosphere and even the moon, man has been looking up at the stars, imagining a world(s)
beyond our own. Examples of this in recent could be seen as the popular TV shows like Star Trek and Star Wars.  Thanks to technology and great imaginators, space travel is possible and soon living on the moon might be humanities next step.

So as to "how the past enables the future" and binary oppositions,with all of the advancements man has made to space, one can imagine what it would be like to live on the moon; however, when on the moon, people are not going to have access to everything that they had on earth. So humanity, even though technological advances has made us to live on the moon in outer space, it’s a new beginning and earth will be the old. So then what would be the binary opposition to civilized? Extra civilized? Pre-futuristic to futuristic? 

Space really is the final frontier, and if it's possible to live on the moon, imagine all of the other possibilities beyond it. Societies will be continuously starting over and reinventing itself to an age at people like us couldn't even begin to imagine. BUT, someone will, and someone after that...I mean that's how the past became what it is today, right?


It’s just something to think about I guess.

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