Unswung, So Missed?
by Alfred Lehmberg
Do we behold another "thing" on which our humanity very tragically misses the point, if not the swing... like we behold these pearls but must overcome our swinishness to have that necessary appreciation for them when they're cast before us. Must this always be the case, reader, where we could perhaps make it somehow less important to make an obscene profit singularly funneled or where ALL the credit must go to its narrowest focus...
We're humanity and could be a team sharing profit and credit. Teaming up?! We could populate our asteroid belt and perhaps live like gods? ...But we get ahead of ourselves.
Cut to the chase? Must these near-Earth asteroids be ONLY the "Planet Killers" we paint them out to be in our fervid "asteroid lore"?
These monstrous bolides of priceless metal sailing down so close to Earth's orbit seem like they could be something else, entirely. ...Could they not BE but an intimated boon? Could they not be those aforementioned pearls, cast?
On the orbit simulations animator (and a reader can find the aforementioned at the NASA URL [if not destroyed by DOGE]), the slowly tumbling potential treasure troves DO resemble simple stones across an inky brook of empty interplanetary space... but are they not merely places for a humanity to more easily step... and then courageously stand as it strides away... and very necessarily away... from the planet of its birth?
Are they not but habitats in the form of eventual slingshots to the stars! Are they not but huge collections of concentrated wealth not taken from the bosom of our abused planet mother! Are they not but GIFT more than they are THREAT! Are they not but BOON, and not the catastrophe inculcated!
Are they not but a BLESSING and not a curse? Are they not but an OPPORTUNITY to excel and NOT an impossible hurdle to crash over or into! Are they not but our SALVATION! Are they not but our DELIVERANCE! Are they not but our REDEMPTION!
Astonishingly, this is not hyperbole and entirely reasonable only given the will to make it so! We can do such astonishing things given "the will"! Sincerely, one can only be disgusted with an aggregate humanity standing around wringing its petulant little hands and whining every time one of these things sails... fortuitously... by.
One's embarrassed by an aggregate humanity apparently oblivious to the wealth that these cruising bolides more than abundantly indicate. Moreover, one's angered by the non-elected leadership allowed by an aggregate humanity encouraging this kind of shortsighted and reptilian cultural mal-behavior!
What's everybody so worried about anyway, unless we just LET these asteroids smash into us like we were deer, stunned frozen on the ethereal highway in approaching cosmic headlights... and then that's just nature's way of letting us know how cowardly and stupid we were... right? So, cheer up!
No, say what you want about Humanity, but it is life, after all, and life finds a way, as we have learned! No, we were BORN to capture these things like they were wooly mammoths! We were MADE to steer these things around the sky like beasts of heavy burden!
Consider, all of that inconceivable wealth unfettered by having to usurp some hapless indigenous population to get at it... and, what is spent on war and preparation for war currently, our CURRENT expressed "will," again? It seems like all THAT was an astonishingly astounding astronomical number, boy howdy!
In that noble pursuit, we've nothing to lose and everything to gain for our boldness... besides, our boldness will likely bring mighty forces to our aid! What forces? Why, only those forces required of ourselves... come what may! Time to give a thought to getting REAL, friends, neighbors... and entities lurking!
This much-maligned cloud looks to the perspicacious observer to be virtually ALL silver lining... cloud, dealt with... if we want it to be. Will is all it takes. Read on!
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