Hiroshima
Today is the 62nd anniversary of the Hiroshima catastrophe, the world's first nuclear attack.
And even though everything about this drama has been said and captured in print and film many times, even though it is an event that the younger do not remember or pay attention to I can only recall the words of Carl Sagan through the mouth of Contact's character Ellie Arroway :
(Ellie facing the committee that selects the Machine's passenger ):
Panel member: If you were to meet these Vegans, and were permitted only one question to ask of them, what would it be?
Ellie Arroway: Well, I suppose it would be, how did you do it? How did you evolve, how did you survive this technological adolescence without destroying yourself?
That is a good question that needs to be answered by our species.....will we ever get to answer it I wonder?
And even though everything about this drama has been said and captured in print and film many times, even though it is an event that the younger do not remember or pay attention to I can only recall the words of Carl Sagan through the mouth of Contact's character Ellie Arroway :
(Ellie facing the committee that selects the Machine's passenger ):
Panel member: If you were to meet these Vegans, and were permitted only one question to ask of them, what would it be?
Ellie Arroway: Well, I suppose it would be, how did you do it? How did you evolve, how did you survive this technological adolescence without destroying yourself?
That is a good question that needs to be answered by our species.....will we ever get to answer it I wonder?
Labels: Anniversaries, Philosophy, Sagan
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