Ingenuity (and the helicopter probe) (poem) by E D Phillips on AuthorsDen

Ingenuity (and the helicopter probe)
by E D Phillips → (All Poetry by E D Phillips)
Thursday, April 22, 2021 Rated "G" by the Author.

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This is just a little humor dedicated to Carl Sagan, the man who lit up the universe better than anyone since God said "Let there be light." [image: NASASpaceFlight]

Ingenuity (and the helicopter probe) If you wish to make an apple from scratch you must first invent the universe. --Carl Sagan It hovered near the surface It hovered in thin air It hovered till we wondered What was holding it up Up there. Let’s face it When it comes to astounding others We’ve got it all down cold With our stunning Ingenuity We own the smartsville mold. We know because... The Martians all hide from us Can’t find ‘em anywhere Still we know they’re undercover They haven’t got a prayer. Our TV cameras are scanning Across the wide terrain In every nook and cranny We could find ’em in the rain. Or the snow. Perhaps we’ll settle for water Or just a piece of ice There’s no apple pie up there Else we’d have ourselves a slice. Long go and far away A boy scanned the nighttime skies With an active imagination He cut it down to size. We owe him a debt of gratitude He blazed us all a trail He taught us that we should never freeze Out of fear that we might fail.
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Reviewed by Rebecca McKeehan

Reviewed on May 4, 2021

Curiosity saved the cat.

Rebecca

Reviewed by Diana Wiles

Reviewed on April 26, 2021

I love the scarlet Sagan quotation...
This was fun, with a serious undertone...
I enjoyed it!

Reviewed by Tom Leftwich

Reviewed on April 25, 2021

Great poem Ed. loved it. Lotta development and work there. Great choice of subject and wording.

Reviewed by Kalikiano Kalei

Reviewed on April 22, 2021

Yes, it is indeed quite a clever accomplishment, getting one of those infernal devices that 'fly' by beating the air to death (I'm a lifelong 'fixed-wing' person, myself) to sustain flight in an atmosphere that is about 95% C02 and averages only about 6-7 millibars of pressure (on its surface), year-round. And yes, Earth critters can be deucedly clever little primates at times, but the REAL joke here is that Mars has in all likelihood launched dozens of futile expeditions to Earth over the past several thousands of years and simply given up in their efforts to find truly 'intelligent' life on this planet! [I know I speak for all my fellow Tau Ceti-F fellows at least when I say this, as an undocumented space alien observer here...] :)

Reviewed by Ronald Hull

I love the humor you put in this poem. And most people will not understand the accomplishment made by making a helicopter fly where there is almost no atmosphere at all. Perhaps sound may actually travel between us when we arrive if we turn off our intercoms and yell real loud through our Mars suits.

But it might be better to have an experiment like that to find out if we can communicate through the Martian atmosphere the way we do on earth. Just thinking (I know that thinking is dangerous). ;-)

Ron

Reviewed by John Herlihy

We search for the Martians, but we will never find them. Very funny indeed, Ed.