Entrepreneur Elon Musk finally lands a rocket on Mars and begins building his human city. However, no sooner has he poured his first slab of concrete when millions of martians come out of the ground pointing advanced laser guns at him.
Elon Musk falls to his knees and screams "Oh Lord! I'm finished!"
However, a voice booms from outer space: "No you're not! Take the laser gun from the small martian and fire it at the martian leader."
Musk grabs the laser gun and fires it at the martian leader, who in seconds melts into the red Mars dust.
The voice from outer space booms again: "Now, you are finished!"
I was going to tell you about the pub that Neil Armstrong opened on the moon, but it failed. No atmosphere.
Earlier this week, it wasn't exactly huge news in Australia when a joint project between the European Space Agency and Russia's national space corporation, Roscosmos, failed its second test for landing a spacecraft on Mars.
I don't think we make much of a big deal about space travel here in Australia, even though one of the three tracking stations in the world capable of still communicating with Earth's farthest spacecraft, the Voyager 1 satellite (more than 21 billion kilometres from Earth) is in Canberra.
By its very nature, advances in technology create advances in technology. But rarely do we recognise that the spike in technology over the last 50 years is heavily in debt to space travel.
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