Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibit was cancer, and its motto "Conquest of Fear." At first glance it might have been expected to cause more fear than it conquered, for on display in the Marine Corps Armory in Rome, Ga. last week were 60 anatomically accurate, full-colored models of all the human organs commonly invaded by cancer, showing them in the grip of its malignant growth. There were, besides, all the stainless-steel instruments with which doctors probe for cancer, or cut it out when they find it. Nothing was taboo: the cervix of the womb was shown lifesize. There was even...
Having defied gravity and undertaken such theological speculation before (via his fictional trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength), Explorer Lewis quickly comes to the heart of space theology: If man is not unique, what of Christ's human incarnation and man's redemption through him? Suggests Lewis: redemption may be possible through other means than "birth at Bethlehem, the cross on Calvary and the empty tomb . . . To different diseases, or different patients sick with the same disease, the great Physician may have applied different remedies.'' Or else outer-world species might...
...grand time jeering at, duping and exploiting its innocence; but I doubt if our half-animal cunning would long be a match for godlike wisdom, selfless valor and perfect unanimity." Still, "against them we shall, if we can, commit all the crimes we have already committed against creatures certainly human but differing from us in features and pigmentation; and the starry heavens will become an object . . . of intolerable guilt." Earth missionaries might try to force on "creatures that did not need to be saved that plan of Salvation which God has appointed for Man.'' Pleads Lewis...
...Worth It? About satellites that carry human beings Dr. DuBridge is dubious. "For most scientific explorations in space," he said, "the presence of man involves quite unwarranted complications and expense not justified by what he can contribute to the success of the venture . . . . Instruments are content to coast around in space unused and unattended for years, and to come back to earth, if at all, in a fiery cataclysm. But not a man. He wants to get back to earth not only unburnt but essentially unjarred. Now I assure you this is not easy, and we are a long...
Easy or not, "human beings are going to insist, some day, on taking journeys out into space. The spirit of human adventure cannot be suppressed, no matter what it costs . . . But when we talk about landing a man on the moon or Mars or some other planet and then getting him off again and back home safely, we are talking about a new order of magnitude of difficulty and cost . . . Nothing impossible about it, you understand. It will just take a lot of money and a long time. Whether it is worth it or not depends on our concept...