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On Thursday, NASA just launched Orion as a test run for the first manned mission to Mars, slated to happen sometime in the 2030s. Reminded me of this speech from The West Wing. Were the most dominant nation on Earth; but too often, the face of our economic superiority is corporate imperialism; our technological dominance shown by smart bombs and Predator drones - we could do something else, something generous and uplifting for all humankind. We could send the first representatives of Earth to walk on another planet. We could land people on Mars. Voyager, in case its ever encountered by extraterrestrials, is carrying photos of life on Earth, greetings in 55 languages, and a collection of music, from Gregorian chants to Chuck Berry - including Dark Was The Night (Cold Was The Ground) by 20s bluesman Blind Willie Johnson, whose stepmother blinded him at 7 by throwing lye in his eyes after his father beat her for being with another man. He died, penniless, of pneumonia, after sleeping bundled in wet newspapers in the ruins of his house that burned down. But his music just left the solar system. https://youtube/watch?v=J92MxvIANEQ
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 07:55:37 +0000

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