Television's buzzing in the background
Schoolwork due tomorrow set aside
Crumpled balls of paper surrounding me like snow
Each of them afflictions to my twenty-something pride
Physics and logistics and statistics
Fill our bubbling brains up to the brims
And the powers that be refuse to do their jobs
We all must aim beyond the length of our young limbs
I’ve bitten off much more than we can handle
To ferry every human to a planet we still have to find
And all of the schematics that we have drawn so far
Would end up in too many people being left behind
Physics and logistics and statistics
Fill our bubbling brains up to the brim
And the powers that be refuse to do their jobs
We all must aim beyond the length of our young limbs
We could just construct a swarm of carbon copy ship
And once in space, they’d interlock like plastic LEGO bricks
Redundancies a’ plenty so damage they could take
They’d even outpace photons if we just (...)
I think that is one helluva foundation
There’s just a couple complications: a few things left to solve
But there’s a little time for memetic mutation
And I don’t doubt humanity’s resolve.
Physics and logistics and statistics and characteristics
Fill our bubbling brains until they’re bulging at the brim
And the powers that be refuse to do their jobs
We all must aim beyond the length of our young limbs
Note:
This was the song Sergei Korolev was the most interested in. He had the translator comb over every symbol repeatedly until she developed 15 distinct translations, each more accurate than the last. He was especially interested in what the gap around 03:01 as he was convinced those lyrics could unlock the secrets to faster than light travel. In one letter he said, "The information hidden behind that infernal static could tell us not just how to travel to the moon but to stars and galaxies as well."
One of the notebooks was filled with different acronyms for D.E.R. The handwriting implies that many different people contributed possibilities. At some point, the variety peters out leaving half the page to be filled out by apparently the same person. the writing became more and more frantic until the last page is dominated one definition in big, bold, red letters; DEPARTMENT of EVACUATION RESEARCH.
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