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A long time ago Men landed on the moon Some said, "What's the point?" But they were too soon To say that those men In their white and gray suits Shouldn't have gone there To stomp around in their big boots No, to complete the mission There is one last thing to do We need to summon our forces AND SEND A GIRL TO THE MOON! She will need the correct toys Buzz Lightyear or such-like She'll need a white space-suit To get around she'll need a bike She'll go to astronaut school Learn science and rocket-ships How to bounce around in zero gee Deal with space-chapped lips Yes, to be a space girl would be Lonely and glorious too To plant a flag and look back At Earth, that little stone of blue

  Pioneer plaque The Pioneer plaques are a pair of gold - anodized aluminium plaques which were placed on board the 1972 Pioneer 10 and 1973 Pioneer 11 spacecraft , featuring a pictorial message , in case either Pioneer 10 or 11 are intercepted by extraterrestrial life . The plaques show the nude figures of a human male and female along with several symbols that are designed to provide information about the origin of the spacecraft. [1] The Pioneer spacecraft were the first human-built objects to leave the solar system . The plaques were attached to the spacecraft's antenna support struts in a position that would shield them from erosion by stellar dust . Physical properties Material: 6061 T6 gold-anodized aluminum Width: 229 mm (9 inches) Height: 152 mm (6 inches) Thickness: 1.27 mm (0.05 inches) Mean depth of engraving : 0.381 mm (0.015 inches) Mass: approx. 0.120 kilograms Wikipedia  At the far right, the ...

"I understood this myself when I read your novel The Time Machine. All human conceptions are on the scale of our planet. They are based on the pretension that the technical potential, although it will develop, will never exceed ‘terrestrial limit’." "If we succeed in establishing interplanetary communications, all our philosophies, moral and social views will have to be revised." V.I. Lenin in conversation with H.G. Wells from Emerald City