You now face /a new world
//-- a world of change. //
The thrust into outer space /of
the satellite，spheres，and missiles //
mark the beginning of another epoch //in
the long /story of mankind. //
In the five /or more /billions of years /the
scientists tell us /it has taken to form the
earth，//
in the three or more billion years of development of the
human /race，//
there has never been //a
more abrupt /or staggering evolution. //
We deal now //not with
things of this world alone，//
but with the illimitable distances //
and as yet /unfathomed /mysteries of the universe. // We are reaching out //for
a new /and boundless frontier. //
We speak in strange terms: //
of harnessing /the cosmic
energy; //
of making winds and tides //work
for us; //
of creating /unheard //synthetic materials /to
supplement or even replace our old standard basics; //
to purify /sea water /for our drink; //
of mining ocean floors //for
new fields /of wealth and food; //
of disease preventatives //to
expand life into the hundreds of years; //
of controlling the weather //for
a more equitable distribution of heat and cold，/of
rain and shine; /
of space ships /to the
moon; //
of the primary target in war，//
no longer /limited to the
armed forces of an enemy，//
but instead to include /his
civil populations; //
of ultimate conflict //between
a united human race //
and the sinister forces //of
some other /planetary galaxy; //
of such /dreams and
fantasies /as to make life the most /exciting of all time. //
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