I consider immortality is the only goal worth striving for: immortality in Space. Man is an artifact created for the purpose of Space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present state anymore than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole. But man is in a state of arrested evolution.
Time is that which ends, and man is in Time.
The transition from Time to Space is quite as drastic as the evolutionary transition from water to land ... Immortality is something you have to work and fight for ... The Old Man of the Mountain discovered that immortality is possible in Space, and this is the Western Lands of the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
The Western Lands is a real place. It exists, and we built it, with our hands and our brains. We paid for it with our blood and our lives. It's ours, and we're going to take it.
