The West Wing is one of my favorite shows of all time. I was watching it on Bravo the other day and part of the episode really caught my ear. In it, the character Josh Lyman (Bradley Whitford), the Deputy Chief of Staff, is doing research to get some more funding for NASA and he's trying to come up with some sort of heartwarming story to drum up public support. Then he starts reading about Voyager 1...
"Voyager, in case it's ever encountered by extra-terrestrials is carrying photos of life on Earth, greetings in 55 languages and a collection of music from Gregorian chants to Chuck Berry. Including "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground" by '20s bluesman Blind Willie Johnson, whose stepmother blinded him when he was seven by throwing lye in is his eyes after his father had beat her for being with another man. He died, penniless, of pneumonia after sleeping bundled in wet newspapers in the ruins of his house that burned down. But his music just left the solar system."
This was just one of those "wow" moments that make you stop and think for a few minutes. I don't know why, but this concept seems to epitomize the reason I want to be an aerospace engineer. I just really liked this part of the show I guess, thus I'm sharing it with you.
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