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RBF Definitions
Your Senate hearing gives me a short but welcome opportunity to talk thus about all that man has learned from his two million years aboard our spaceship Earth, wherefore I wish to point out vigorously to you that we are indeed aboard an 8,000-mile-diameter spherical space vehicle. We were excited during the Christmas days when we first looked at the Earth from the Moon. But I heard our President speaking ‘down to Earthedly’ to the astronauts about their going up to the Moon. 'there is no ‘up’ or ‘down’ in Universe. We find so-called practical men saying, ‘Never mind that space stuff, let’s get down to earth.’
"And we retort ‘Where is that? Where is ‘down’ and what and where is that non-space existing theory avoiding Earth?’
“Despite their ignorant urging of ‘Never mind that space stuff, let’s get down to earth,’ we find that our little 8,000-mile-diameter planet Earth, together with the Moon, is flying formation at 60,000-miles-per-hour around the Sun.” - Cite RBF at Senate Hearings, p. 9, 4 Mar’69
¶ Citations
- RBF at Senate Hearings, p. 9, 4 Mar’69
