No Distance Left to Run
A descent deep down into the red, red mist Staring now into that black, unknown abyss Presents left unopened, the champagne on ice First
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The Satellite
Shining, Speeding, Twinkling Flying, Manmade object, shining, speeding where? New horizons twinkling, flying, there!
A Lacks of Decency
Lost to us in nineteen hundred and fifty one A mother, a daughter, a human being Ethics overridden by a hurried income Lost to us
The Turing Point
Never have we owed so much to just one With humble gratitude so badly sung Did we treat you as man or as machine?
Ode to Marie
Oh! Marie to have known you would have been bliss To have walked with you in Paris divine Watching you tear down the intellectual parti
UAV or not to UAV
Gently humming in the autumnal breeze Gliding overhead like a wicked dream The black sheep of research, the UAV Not spitting out fire or
The Nose Knows
More than a bronze nose, His eyes helped shape the night sky. And in his own words, He lived like he was a sage Yet
An Ode to Old Pliny
Born to a Noble Family shortly after BC Gaius Plinius Secundus was he, Or Pliny to both his family and friends At 23 he fought
A Big Epigram
If science and religion cannot coexist, Then the Big Bang presents quite an ironic twist. Discovered not by an atheistic beast, But by Georges Lemaître,
The Rondeau Bloop
The thumping sound of a breaking heart, Heard across the ocean blue, By sensors continents apart; The thumping sound of a breaking heart: A sound