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Thursday, January 15, 2004  

Space Race for the Gold

I wrote the lyrics below many years ago to encourage people to ennact another Gold Rush into Space. Today The Corner makes remarks about offering billion dollar prizes for people to reach certain goals in Space. It's an old tool that often works to encourage invention, innovation, and investment.

Song

There's gold on Mercury and Mars
Olympica has diamonds
The Moon is built with silver bars
and amethyst set by the tons.

On Venus there are emeralds
and stones of steely blue sapphire
The moons of Jupiter have pools
of rubies red as molten fire.

Gold and gold in virgin veins
Await the miner with a pick
So find the lodes 'til none remains
And pocket opals by the brick.

These worlds await to make you rich
The ores and minerals are free!
For those who get there first and pitch
their stakes in vast geology.

There's gold on Mercury and Mars
Olympica has diamonds
The Moon is made of silver bars
And amethyst in blocks of tons.

posted by Mark Butterworth | 10:19 AM |

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