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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '2000-10-31T09:25:51'
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title: The world changed today. We
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The world changed today. We now live in a different age. If things go as planned, future generations will remember today as the day mankind joined together and permanently estalished [residence off the surface of this planet](http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/10/30/soyuz.launch/index.html). First earth orbit, then the planets, and then the stars!