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Step on the Gas
Juiced up from the heat of plutonium
creating its own power supply,
far past the heliosphere of our sun
Voyager-One speeds on to alien skies...
Launched from Florida's cape Canaveral
way back in nineteen seventy-seven,
fifteen billion miles past but still local
they've not yet reached those high gates of heaven...
More than thirty-eight thousand miles an hour
at that speed twenty thousand years will pass,
before it nears the star Alpha Centauri
unless it can somehow step on the gas.
So, I guess, I'd best not try to hold my breath
but wish, bon voyage and praise it in verse
for all I know Voyager may be the new Seth
bearing our seed on and on across the universe...
creating its own power supply,
far past the heliosphere of our sun
Voyager-One speeds on to alien skies...
Launched from Florida's cape Canaveral
way back in nineteen seventy-seven,
fifteen billion miles past but still local
they've not yet reached those high gates of heaven...
More than thirty-eight thousand miles an hour
at that speed twenty thousand years will pass,
before it nears the star Alpha Centauri
unless it can somehow step on the gas.
So, I guess, I'd best not try to hold my breath
but wish, bon voyage and praise it in verse
for all I know Voyager may be the new Seth
bearing our seed on and on across the universe...
Published 2nd Dec 2023
Author's Note
If interested in such. copy & paste
voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/
Proxima Centauri has 2 perhaps 3 planets.
" Seth" I lifted from the old testament merely to rhyme with breath/death but strangely, I found in the Midrash, Seth is the progenitor of the human race...
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/seth-in-the-bible/
voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/
Proxima Centauri has 2 perhaps 3 planets.
" Seth" I lifted from the old testament merely to rhyme with breath/death but strangely, I found in the Midrash, Seth is the progenitor of the human race...
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/seth-in-the-bible/
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2nd Dec 2023 3:13pm
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2nd Dec 2023 5:09pm
Haha!
A few years back I had a doctor tell me that there was no reason I shouldn't live to be 100, to which I replied..."I'll try".
Voyager may be the best thing to come out of the '70's, but I was also a big fan of the moon landings and punk rock.
A few years back I had a doctor tell me that there was no reason I shouldn't live to be 100, to which I replied..."I'll try".
Voyager may be the best thing to come out of the '70's, but I was also a big fan of the moon landings and punk rock.
2nd Dec 2023 6:09pm
2nd Dec 2023 6:30pm
They things are going it will still be someone older, but smoke signals will suffice:)
1977 was a GREAT year! I was a junior in high school and it was the life! I'm pretty certain I watched that launch ( I saw so many ). And, like MS, I also saw Star Wars! Nice poeting! Brought back memories. The good kind!
2nd Dec 2023 6:06pm
I believe in space conquest, but i deny and doubt that space is what we think is..From the relative physics. space is moving, and what we see is only light years back
space time would never be at our hand, and may be some future light years when earth takes another's planet orbit, like Mars or Venus, then may be another seed'' human seed '' exported thru LY in space..who knows, and how it will happen????
As i can thin and cogitate, There is a spot in space where human race is born, any planet revolving around that spot will generate
the human race,whatever the name is takes, but as we are terrestrial beings, it will surely take the name Earth..
space time would never be at our hand, and may be some future light years when earth takes another's planet orbit, like Mars or Venus, then may be another seed'' human seed '' exported thru LY in space..who knows, and how it will happen????
As i can thin and cogitate, There is a spot in space where human race is born, any planet revolving around that spot will generate
the human race,whatever the name is takes, but as we are terrestrial beings, it will surely take the name Earth..
3rd Dec 2023 4:47pm
I Thank you kindly for the visit and comment.
There's so much that humans do not know and probably will never know except by exercising the imagination. Like Einstein did.
There's so much that humans do not know and probably will never know except by exercising the imagination. Like Einstein did.
3rd Dec 2023 4:50pm
Imagination is based on knowledge and scientific basics it can,
it could give virtual solutions at least until some time in the future and not much further as every thing is in perpetual motion..
all is moving changing shifting from the cocoon, till the butterfly and so .
it could give virtual solutions at least until some time in the future and not much further as every thing is in perpetual motion..
all is moving changing shifting from the cocoon, till the butterfly and so .
3rd Dec 2023 5:05pm
