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JFK Rice University Speech 9/12/62
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"The human race is at total war. Our enemy is ignorance, pure and simple.
The last 25 years of NASA's Solar System exploration including Earth is
telling us what we need to do to preserve our species. This new knowledge
is useless unless we act on it. Large volcanoes on Earth, giant impacts on
Earth, or unreliable solar activity cannot be ignored. Historical statistics
show that these events are likely in our lifetimes or the lifetimes of our
children and grandchildren. Knowing what we know now, we are being irresponsible
in our failure to make the scientific and technical progress we will need for
protecting our newly discovered severely threatened and probably endangered
species -- us. NASA is not about the 'Adventure of Human Space Exploration,'
we are in the deadly serious business of saving the species. All Human
Exploration's bottom line is about preserving our species over the long haul."
-- Astronaut John Young |
Dana Holland's John Young Tribute
