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Tue 26 Mar, 2013 12:50 am
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You now face a new world, a world of change. The thrust into outer space of the satellite, spheres and missiles marked the beginning of another epoch in the long story of mankind - the chapter of the space age. In the five or more billions of years the scientists tell us it has taken to form the earth, in the three or more billion years of development of the human race, there has never been a greater, a more abrupt or staggering evolution. We deal now not with things of this world alone, but with the illimitable distances and as yet unfathomed mysteries of the universe. We are reaching out for a new and boundless frontier. We speak in strange terms: of harnessing the cosmic energy; of making winds and tides work for us; of creating unheard synthetic materials to supplement or even replace our old standard basics; of purifying sea water for our drink; of mining ocean floors for new fields of wealth and food; of disease preventatives to expand life into the hundred of years; of controlling the weather for a more equitable distribution of heat and cold, of rain and shine; of space ships to the moon; of the primary target in war, no longer limited to the armed forces of an enemy, but instead to include his civil populations; of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy; of such dreams and fantasies as to make life the most exciting of all time.
@oristarA,
It doesn't make sense to me.
Maybe it's a misprint. It looks like a mistake.
If you remove the comma, "satellite spheres and missiles..." is one possibility which would be okay.
@McTag,
However, it did make sense to Douglas MacArthur in 1962..
@McTag,
McTag wrote:
It doesn't make sense to me.
Maybe it's a misprint. It looks like a mistake.
If you remove the comma, "satellite spheres and missiles..." is one possibility which would be okay.
What is satellite spheres, McTag?
@oristarA,
Quote:What is satellite spheres, McTag?
Spherical satellites. Look up your dictionary if you're unsure of the meaning.
Although I am aware that most satellites are actually not spherical, the article was written a long time ago.
@timur,
timur wrote:
However, it did make sense to Douglas MacArthur in 1962..
The comma appears in the contemporary typewritten speech. I am quite certain it is an error.
Scanned PDF of original type speech here
http://www.blogbat.us/blog/m/USMA%20MacArthur%20Farewell%20Address%2062.pdf
A version at the University Of Chicago website omits the comma
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Army/USMA/MacArthur/1962_speech_to_the_Corps.html
Many satellites of that time (early 1960s) were spherical, especially the American Echo series.
Oristar, why don't you bother saying where you get these pieces of text from? You only had to write "Macarthur's farewell speech at West Point in 1962".