I was caught by surprise when I saw the trailer for the film Elysium. While I'm still critical of the idea that anyone will be living on space platforms, I think that it an important trope in sci-fi. It hammers home the idea that the place that's better is always somewhere else. Meanwhile, here on Earth, we have to figure out what we can do with what we have.
A recent Onion headline announced: "Desperate Earth Increases Speed of Rotation in Effort to Hurl Humanity Off." Or something along those lines.
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