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
Folksonomies: history moon Memes
15 DEC 2011
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. 1 
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notesWritten 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.
15 DEC 2011
Man Traveled to the Moon because it was Impossible
What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him an impossible job and he will reduce it to a possibility so trite that eventually it bores him. Folksonomies: inspiration impossibility
Folksonomies: inspiration impossibility
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notesThe impossible infuriates us, so we must make it possible so it can become mundane and boring.
