>If you insist on using 3rd party interpretation rather than 1st party intent to decide the meaning of a statement, I've got 16 upvotes on my comments here so o

>If you insist on using 3rd party interpretation rather than 1st party intent to decide the meaning of a statement, I've got 16 upvotes on my comments here so others seem to be reading it the same as I "Argument by upvote" is weak, especially in a forum where I can't actually see your comments vote totals. Also, you are not the first party, so why do you feel so confident in being able to claim sole interpretation of "1st party intent." They clearly meant that that space colonization was such a far off goal, that the difference in intensely focusing on it and moderately focusing on it won't cause measurable differences in our lifetime. Or they didn't, I'm not a mind-reader, but I've given just as much evidence to back up that claim as you have yours.