Left to right: Armstrong, Collins, Aldrin

The Apollo 11 Crew ( and damn it, if you don’t know their names just toddle on back to your phone and Twitter or do whatever it is you’ve done to divorce yourself from the world because this post will mean nothing to you ) wants the President ( and that includes the rest of us of course ) to begin to think about returning to the Moon and to Mars.

The thing of it is, I think there is one big obstacle to making this goal and it’s not money.

The big obstacle to reaching Mars is that nobody dreams anymore.

People do not wonder anymore, they don’t imagine anymore because- well, I’m at a loss there because the human brain loves to be fed ideas and only an idiot would starve it to death, right? I mean would you deny yourself food or water because it takes to much effort on your part to open your mouth to chew and swallow?

Still.

Look around you:

Movies are based on Computer Game Characters, music sounds the same ON PURPOSE and people are walking around wired to their cellphones where they are fed ideas by a machine because God help us all if we have to create a thought on our own.

Go back to the Moon? Make it to Mars? Who is going to get us there? A Twitter Addict? A Facebook Group? An American Idol Fan? Enlighten me, because if this is where we spend most of our time I can’t see people making it to their backyard to chat with a neighbor over their fence let alone taking the time to wonder how to get to Mars.

So where does it start?

Here’s an idea, I use it myself before I write:

The next time you are flying on a plane, or sailing on a boat or a Ferry or when you see something strange where nothing strange should be visible-

Wonder about it.

LINKS:

NASA

BUZZ ALDRIN

NEIL ARMSTRONG

MICHAEL COLLINS

MARS EXPLORATION ROVER MISSION

WHY THE MOON?

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured a new, infrared view of the choppy star-making cloud called M17, or the Swan nebula.