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with high-ranking representatives from every aspect of space exploration – military, civilian, scientific, and commercial. The exhibit hall, where all the latest space hardware is on display, is open to the public during the last two days of the Symposium. If you love space and love talking to people who are experts in the field, I suggest you attend. I don’t know if you’ll see this note, or if you’ll remember me from our troubled youth, but we often wrote poems and got drunk together, before you went off to fame and fortune, and I to abundant obscurity. I’ve been reading this magazine of yours, to familiarize myself with your ways of thinking and I have enjoyed reading it, and even copied some hotshot’s investment advice you guys were featuring. I’ll let you know how it comes out. What I’ve enjoyed the most though, is reading your wise-ass commentary, which is the main reason I signed up (along with the price) and which has not diminished with the years. – Joe M. P.J. O’Rourke comment: Hi, Joe! It’s great to hear from you! My wise-ass commentary is, as ever, probably worth about what it costs to subscribe to American Consequences . Somehow I’m doubting that “abundant obscurity” phrase of yours. (Sounds like you haven’t lost your touch for poetry.) But, if the people who’ve been prominent in America lately are anything to go by, “abundantly obscure” might be the best thing for a person
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Just found you this morning. I guess I simply didn’t pay attention to your e-mails. Anyway, this issue looks fabulous. Just what I need. Thank you marvelous people! We need you so keep going. – Barb J. P.J. O’Rourke comment: You’re welcome, Barb. We’re glad you were able to find us, or glad that we were able to find you, or however that works in the deep dark woods of electronic media. It’s easy to get lost out there and hard to get found. Let us know if you have any suggestions for how we can send up a better signal indicating our location (which we like to think of as “under the tree of knowledge”). Can we get PJ to do an update on SpaceX and the state of our space program? I love his perspective. – Tom K. P.J. O’Rourke comment: Tom, one of the things that was high on our list of future topics for American Consequences – before pandemic pandemonium broke out – was the space industry. Like SpaceX returning to the moon, we will get back to it. Thank you for your kind words. I served for a decade on the board of directors of the Space Foundation. Every spring (except, sadly, this one), the Space Foundation hosts the Space Symposium at the at The Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs, CO. It’s the world’s largest international space industry gathering
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