The post is mostly a retelling, but here's the summary:

We live in an age when technology is often portrayed as an implacable enemy of nature and humanity, when our young adults are coddled and infantalized as "mere children" into their late 20s and where great deeds, idealism and aspiration are looked upon with a mixture of contempt and amusement. With science and rationality portrayed as a gateway to success, young adults who ARE adults, even in the most terrifying circumstances, people of vision overcoming all manner of obstacles to achieve their dreams, and a future where the sky itself is no limit, Rocket Girls is a dynamic and enjoyable rejection of those contemptible pathologies.

Because of the appeal to the real excitement, it is important for Rocket Girls to map into real world instead of a made-up world, such as Allison and Lillia are set in.