@markmccaughrean well, I suppose (geographical-) we could build the service modules and bits of #Gateway and look round for a different boost to #orbit and Beyond
If the missions make sense.
#SciFi #FredPohl wrote a series of #Heechee SF novels based on Gateway asteroid, a relic. Interesting. Dystopian Earth.
It is said that engineers grow up to invent what science fiction they read as teenagers, i.e., Star Trek Spock's tricorder was the inspiration for the mobile phone.
The #ChatGPT is the closest thing I've ever seen to the regurgitated, recombined knowledge of the deceased, as described by Frederick Pohl in his #Heechee saga books, such as in "Heechee Rendezvous".
For, 'motoring through', read 'skipping the tedious bits'.
Weird... So I'm really flying through the #Heechee series, kind of glad I've only discovered them now since had I found them when I was within the age range that they're aimed at I'd have thrown them away in disgust.
To be fair Gateway isn't bad, but so far the rest have been a little too juvenile, so I would probably have not bothered reading much further than the second one.
As it is, with nothing better to do, other than #TheMongoliad to plough through, I'm motoring through them.
Which is my convoluted way of saying I'm currently reading the #Heechee series in MoonReader+ while also still reading #TheMongoliad in FBReader.
Just finished #Gateway in the former, actually.
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