Travel Through Space
from the “Questions in a World Without Answers” show
I thought about my love of travel, and outer space. I’ve had a star named after me, and my name is on a CD that was on the Deep Impact Spacecraft into Comet Tempel in 2005, and I talk about loving outer space so much, but I don’t think I’ll actually ever get there.
And then it occurred to me: I have.
What I mean is that all radio signals are shot out into space, and I’ve been on WEFT, WZRD, WLUW, WSUM, WLS, even Q101.
I wonder how far my voice has traveled into outer space by now.
And all television programs are shot into outer space, too - these signals get to the people on earth, but these signals continue to travel towards the ends of the universe. I’ve been on the news, I’ve had poetry videos published on television stations in Nashville and Chicago... I wonder what other stars have seen my poetry by now. I wonder if anything out there can decode our signals and understand what we’re trying to tell them.
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