05-15-2007, 01:38 AM
No IÂ wasn't, despite my long-standing interest in spaceflight (when IÂ was in my twenties IÂ ran a small magazine on space policy, called Orion).
The parallel between our exploration of the Moon and the Roman conquest of Britain has struck me for many years now. A first not very useful exploration (the Apollo program, Julius Caesar); followed a coupla generations later by a longer, more productive, better thought-out occupation.
The parallel even extends to... well, since Jona is on a Plutarch kick, read it in Plutarch's Life of Caesar, 23.2 and my note.
Bill
The parallel between our exploration of the Moon and the Roman conquest of Britain has struck me for many years now. A first not very useful exploration (the Apollo program, Julius Caesar); followed a coupla generations later by a longer, more productive, better thought-out occupation.
The parallel even extends to... well, since Jona is on a Plutarch kick, read it in Plutarch's Life of Caesar, 23.2 and my note.
Bill
