Strange, but fun, dream
Feb. 11th, 2015 02:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gridloreHad this one last night.
I was the President of the United States, and was speaking at the opening ceremonies of a Baltimore Worldcon. I was using the occasion to announce my administration's goal of landing not just a couple of test pilots, but a full scientific outpost on Mars. It was a good speech too. I invoked SF's history of predictions, the constant theme of discovery, and used Clarke's "The Haunted Spacesuit" for a laugh line. ("spoiler alert, it was a kitten.")
I finished by referencing JFK's speech at Rice in 1961, stating that going to Mars was going to be hard, it would take dedication, sweat and blood, but that is how we built this nation. We will go to Mars, to the asteroids, to the outer system, and someday, our descendants will go to the stars, not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
Standing ovation. The Republicans hated me.
I was the President of the United States, and was speaking at the opening ceremonies of a Baltimore Worldcon. I was using the occasion to announce my administration's goal of landing not just a couple of test pilots, but a full scientific outpost on Mars. It was a good speech too. I invoked SF's history of predictions, the constant theme of discovery, and used Clarke's "The Haunted Spacesuit" for a laugh line. ("spoiler alert, it was a kitten.")
I finished by referencing JFK's speech at Rice in 1961, stating that going to Mars was going to be hard, it would take dedication, sweat and blood, but that is how we built this nation. We will go to Mars, to the asteroids, to the outer system, and someday, our descendants will go to the stars, not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
Standing ovation. The Republicans hated me.
