Eliezer, maybe you should be writing fiction. You say you want to inspire the next generation of researchers and you're spending a lot of time writing these essays and correcting misconceptions of people who never read or didn't understand earlier essays (fiction could tie the different parts of your argument together better than this essay style. Why not try coming up with several possible scenarios along with your thinking embedded in them. It may be worth remembering that far more of the engineers working on Apollo spoke of being inspired by Robert Heinlein, than by Goddard and von Braun and the rocket pioneers.