WHY NOT AT LEAST SOME AWE FOR AWESOME UNIVERSE AROUND US?(Editorial)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: March 13, 1998 | Copyright information

Awe, reverence, wonder. Aw shucks, folks, who needs it?

Maybe you heard last week's report from National Aeronautics and Space Administration that there may be water on the moon? Frozen beneath the moon's surface, in its polar regions, lies water. It's not all moon dust and lunar rocks after all. There's water on that there moon.

Without so much as a ``gosh,'' a ``wow,'' or ``imagine that,'' the NASA guy moved to talking about mining the moon's surface for its frozen water. ``It will be difficult as the temperature there is about 200 degrees below zero, but mining the ...

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