Bumbling Humans Made It to the Moon

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

Notes:

Written after the success of the Apollo mission, Baker points out how bumbling people are in everyday life, but with technology we can go to the Moon.

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Why on Earth Are We There? Because It's Impossible

Periodicals>Magazine Article: Russell Wayne , Baker (21 Jul 1969), Why on Earth Are We There? Because It's Impossible, New York Times, Retrieved on 2011-12-15

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