Thank you, Henny! (or is it Alman King?)
Posted on 01/10/2015 7:53:24 PM PST by Jamestown1630
This is a vanity; a whimsy that I came up with tonight.
IF you were going to send a rocket into outer space, that included a little package containing all of the things that YOU wanted to preserve for posterity and communicate to extraterrestrials that might be out there, What would you send?
I thought of a few things; not a complete list by far, and not in any particular order (except for the first four ;-)
1. The Holy Bible - OT, NT, Tanakh
2. The Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States of America
3. The Magna Carta
4. The Pledge of Allegiance (including the 'UNDER GOD' part!)
5. All of Shakespeare
6. A video of Ronald Reagan saying "Tear Down This Wall!"
7. Bobby Hatfield singing 'Unchained Melody'
8. Anything that Julia Child or Red Skelton or Victor Borge, did on TV
9. The latest edition of 'The Joy of Cooking'. (In case they want to cook for man, instead of 'Serving Man')
10. A copy of Dickens', 'A Christmas Carol', and videos of all the movies that have been made of the story.
Carry On!
-JT
This ‘time capsule’ would contain anything that anyone would want to put into it.
It’s up to the receivers of the capsule, to figure out what they think about our civilization, on the basis of the available evidence.
-JT
Re: #8: to that I’d add Carol Burnett, Ed Sullivan and Star Trek: the original series.
You’re right! I posted from memory which wasn’t quite on target.
A weeks worth of Rush from the 90s, and a weeks worth of TGO...
My Man!
-JT
Both of my senators.
Obama on a one way trip!
Thank you, Henny! (or is it Alman King?)
all libs and muzzis
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"The Messiah!" by George F. Handel
"Die Schöpfung (The Creation) by Haydn
"Karmina Burana" by Karl Orff
"Silent Night" by Franz Xaver Gruber in Guitar.
"Down By the Riverside" as arranged by Carmen Dragon for a large Chorale
"Karyatid Who Has Fallen Under Her Stone" copy of a sculpture by Rodin
"Firedance" bronze sculpture by Erte.
"Ode" an 1873 poem by Arthur O'Shaughnessy which includes the lines:
We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;—
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
"The Road Not Taken," 1916 Poem by Robert Frost
"The Gettysburg Address," by Abraham Lincoln.
"Singing in the Rain" Complete Movie with Gene Kelly
"To Kill A Mockingbird" complete Movie.
"The Wizard of Oz" complete Movie.
"Stranger in a Strange Land" novel by Robert A. Heinlein.
"To Kill A Mockingbird" novel by Harper Lee.
"The Lord of the Rings" Trilogy by J.R.R.Tolkien.
"Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus" novel by Mary Wolstonecraft Shelley.
"The Fountainhead" novel by Ayn Rand.
The Kennedy family, every last one of them, including the ones who are no longer with us.....if they are never to return.
Do you think we could get a group rate discount?
Do you think that the dead ones wouldn’t still find a way to vote?
How many votes here for 0bama?
Alice is already on the moon. Have to find someone else. :)
“All’s Well That Ends Well”, eh what?
“Do you think that the dead ones wouldn’t still find a way to vote?”
I wasn’t thinking in terms of voting. I was thinking that they would no longer dirty the planet anymore than they already have.
all progressives and communists on the planet
Dale wins for being 1st.
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