Houston We Have a Problem Here On Planet Earth

Stardate 19 Hundred and Something The Minutes taken At the last annual general meeting of NASA The Great and Good of Finance , Politics Must have sat down together at some point A gathering Of the Distinguished League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Or National Geographic and Scientific Society To discuss funding the Exploration of Space Travel To go where no man has gone before Place a human being on the moon Escape gravity and earths atmosphere Forward thinking outside the Box Calculating an infinite amount Of Mathematical equations and Scenarios The Greatest minds we could summons Took up the Mantle placed in front of them Could Man really step foot on the surface of the Moon And Yes we Can The Answer came back Affirmative Yes we can But Houston we have a problem here on planet earth Would these great minds of our time Not be better spent Coming together To solve the more pressing Problems we humans face here on planet earth First Escaping Starvation War Suffering And destruction of the earths natural resources Are to the average Joe like you and me more pressing things To cling onto Than Astronauts Dreams