Dr. Peter Beter Audio Letter 68: Reagan; Space Shuttle; Reagan Corruption- September 30, 1981
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Date: 2014-10-17

Dr. Peter David Beter - Audio Letter 68 - September 30, 1981
Text: http://www.peterdavidbeter.com/docs/all/dbal68.html
MP3: http://archive.org/download/DrPeterBeter_AudioVideoLetters/drpeterbetter_audioletter_68.mp3
(1) The Reagan-Begin Axis and expanding world crises
(2) Deliberate delays in the Space Shuttle launch
(3) The Reagan Budget and corrupt economic plans

" Hello, my friends, this is Dr. Beter. Today is September 30,
1981, and this is my AUDIO LETTER(R) No. 68.

One day last month an awkward-looking machine in deep space
listened patiently for radio signals from Earth. The machine had
left the earth some four years earlier, and it will never return.
But the machine, a space robot, felt no loneliness. It was doing
the job it had been built to do. After plunging along through
the vast reaches of deep space, it was heading for a dramatic
rendezvous. Finally, the space robot detected the radio signals
it had been waiting for. As the signals came crackling through
space from earth, they were very faint. They had taken nearly an
hour and a half to arrive due to the astronomical distance
involved. Even so, the space robot recognized the radio commands
and obeyed them. It awakened, flexed its mechanical arms and
opened its television eyes, and it radioed back to Earth that it
was ready for its awesome rendezvous in space.

In Pasadena, California, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
announced to reporters that all was well. VOYAGER II was
operating perfectly as it approached that spectacular planet of
rings, Saturn. And equally important, VOYAGER II was right on
course. It had been racing through space for four years, and was
nearly a billion miles away. That's over ten times the distance
from Earth to the Sun, and yet VOYAGER II was only three seconds
off schedule after its four-year journey.

As the VOYAGER II space robot approached Saturn, it started
speeding up. On August 25 VOYAGER II came within 63,000 miles of
Saturn itself. That's only about one-fourth the distance from
the earth to the Moon. As it did so, it was traveling three
times as fast as the alleged Space Shuttle in orbit. Then
VOYAGER II raced outward again, passing through the mysterious
rings as it went.

For days as VOYAGER II approached Saturn, flew past it, and
then left Saturn behind, we got to see full-color pictures of
what it saw. Once again scientists and non-scientists alike
wanted to know: might there be other life out there? The
roiling, angry atmosphere of Saturn itself appeared to say, "No
life here." At least no life that you and I can imagine.

Then we saw pictures of the moons of Saturn. Scientists were
puzzled and amazed by the surprises they saw. Each moon is
different from the others, and yet as far as the question of
"life" is concerned, it seems that they are all the same--cold,
frozen worlds and fragments of worlds, worlds covered with
craters like the scars of a celestial smallpox; broken worlds
having one impossible giant crater on one side and covered with
shatter lines everywhere else.

As far as "life" is concerned, Saturn turned out to be another
Jupiter. Even if some of the building blocks of life are present
here and there, no independent life seems to have gotten started
there. Up to now, man's search of the Solar System seems to have
turned up the same answer everywhere concerning "life." Mars
looks as if it may have held life long ago; but if so, apparently
something destroyed it. Venus is a rich planet in many ways; but
due to its heat and other factors, the richness of Venus
apparently does not include native life. As for Mercury, the
innermost planet, the prospects look even more dim. Mercury is
so close to the sun that it is believed there could be rivers of
lead on the sunward side.

As I say these words, VOYAGER II is once again plunging
through the trackless void of deep space. Next stop,
Uranus--five years from now. If VOYAGER II survives that
solitary journey, it may teach us still more.

But we don't need to wait that long to start drawing
conclusions about our own space ship, Earth. My friends, our
beautiful planet Earth is unique in our solar system. It's just
the right size to hold the atmosphere we need to breathe and to
retain the water we need to drink, and it's just the right
distance from the sun. Much farther away, and our planet would
become too cold; much closer, and it would become too hot. As it
is, everything we need for life is present in a God-given
balance. The other planets of our solar system are fascinating,
spectacular, and perhaps even useful to man some day; but there
is no other planet so useful, so beautiful, and so spectacular as
the blue planet, planet Earth.[...]"