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[diesel_mercedes] OT: General Mc Arthur's last speach: Excerpt way out there.
In one paragraph he touches on many diverse thoughts. Alternate energy &
synthetic materials.
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.
http://www.nationalcenter.org/MacArthurFarewell.html Full speach.1962 at West
Point.
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