Forever a Dream

Still image of a representation of Sputnik orbiting the Earth. Image can be found through flickr. Made available with a creative commons license by Bruce Irving.

Rose: Hey big sister Jamie, do you think I will ever get to go into space?

Jamie: Are you kidding me! I don't think anybody will ever go up into space let alone a little girl of 8 like yourself.

Rose: Why is that? I really want to go now!

Jamie: Well, I will just borrow a little from Bill Thomas's single "The Sputnik Story" to explain to you. Human space exploration is futile. Only people as crazy as a loon would want to go up into space. America, also doesn't even have the technology to make it to the moon and thats the closet thing to the Earth. Anyways, why would anyone even want to go up towards the moon? Its not like there is anything up there to begin with.

Rose: Oh, well thats a bummer.