Sunday, May 25, 2008

The Phoenix Has Landed

Without getting into a huge debate over the practicality of the space program (I, personally, think that we're soon going to have several billion folks who need to go somewhere), I just have to say kudos to NASA as Phoenix joins her sisters Spirit and Opportunity.

It hasn't always been easy, but it's been a nifty string of successes y'all have had lately.

As for the debate I don't want to get into:
Say to me, "No more Apollo"
Say to me, "The job is done"
And I say, "Your words are hollow
And our work has just begun"

Say to me, "We need the money
Just to feed the poor"
And I say, "Gee, that's funny
It's for them that we explore."

Say to me, "We should be fighting"
Say to me, "The world's at war"
And I say, "We are uniting
People tired of war and more"

Say to me, "There's too much danger
Say, "We could be lost"
And I say, "I am no stranger to danger
That's the cost"

Say to me, "The world is dying,
Ready for its last hurrah"
And I cry, "Keep on trying,
We must find our Shangri-La."

Say to me, "No more Apollo"
Say to me, "The job is done"
And I say, "Your words are hollow
And our work has just begun
And our work has just begun"
 -- "Apollo Lost," Cynthia McQuillin

1 comment:

Luke Bretscher said...

The song is by McQuillin, yes, but the words are a poem by Alfred Worden (the astronaut that got the short end of the stick with that stamps-in-space fiasco).