Taken For a Ride
ET me confess at once that I have an ~ ynconquerable aversion to interplanetary travel for myself, so that I listened to a BBC Focus on this subject with an ear that was admittedly jaundiced, I was prepared to be convinced that a visit to the moon is (a) possible (b) valuable and even (c) enjoyable, but it was going to take some reasoning to do the trick, not merely the old argument by analogy — "People said that aeroplanes were impossible," etc. Still, this was labelled a "documentary," so I listened on, hoping for a few of the facts that term usually implies. I climbed aboard the rocket and shot through space, taking an obedient look at the starshow big they are!-and a _ backward glance at the earth--it’s big, too, and has beautiful colours! — wondering all the while how the script-writer was going to reach a climax, since, as this was supposed to be a documentary, he could hardly give us a minute by minute account of life on the moon and bring us back again. He didn’t; and for me, it was just up with the rocket and down with the stick. We chewed once again on the dry bone of analogy--‘*People used to say no human could stand a speed of 100 miles an hour’--and found we had been taken for a ride in more
ways than one,
Loquax
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 655, 25 January 1952, Page 11
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234Taken For a Ride New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 655, 25 January 1952, Page 11
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