The mockery of Science and the flight to outer space: lines written in 1946, in poetic premonition of Elon Musk’s venture to Mars.
Sarcastic Science, she would like to know,
In her complacent Ministry of Fear,
How we propose to get away from here
When she has made things so we have to go
Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show
Us how by rocket we may hope to steer
To some star off there, say a half light year
Through temperature of absolute zero?
Why wait for science to supply the how,
When any amateur can tell it now.
The way to go away should be the same
As 50 million years ago we came,
If anyone remembers how that was.
I have a theory but it hardly does.
On the Musk Mars venture, see here. See also here John Hawthorne’s view of the venture’s possibility.
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