28 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
What opposite discoveries we have seen!
What opposite discoveries we have seen!
(Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.)
One makes new noses, one a guillotine,
One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets;
But vaccination certainly has been
A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets, ... Folksonomies: poetry
Folksonomies: poetry
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From science, bombs and immunizations, guillotines and life-saving surgery. A poem by Lord Byron.
03 MAR 2011 by ideonexus
Carl Sagan on the Audacity of John F. Kennedy's Moon Miss...
Once upon a time, we soared into the solar system, for a few years. Then we hurried back. why? What happened? What was Apollo really about?
The scope and audacity of John Kennedy's May 25th 1961 message to a joint session of Congress on "Urgent National Needs" -- the speech that launched the Apollo program--dazzled me. We would use rockets not yet designed and alloys not yet conceived, navigation and docking shemes not yet devised, in order to send a man to an unknown world--a world not yet...
1 Sagan describes his reaction to Kennedy's speech to a joint session of Congress asking for funding for the Apollo program.
