And then guess what?
Jeez, all these requests?
So NASA gave me a call.
[CHUCKLE]
Come on, man.
So NASA gave me a call.
Is this Juan Felipe?
Yeah, this is Juan Felipe.
Well, this is Hal from NASA.
You know Hal Levison from NASA in Colorado?
Oh, hey, Hal.
How are you doing?
Well, we'd like you to write a poem.
Again?
This is real.
We'd like you to write a poem.
Yeah, OK.
Sure, Hal.
Go on.
Let's do it.
So what do you got cooking, Hal?
We're going to send a robotic uncrewed interplanetary
spacecraft to the sun, Juan.
Oh, that's really nice, Hal.
That's pretty good.
What we want to do is, Juan, we're going to get it ready,
and we're going to send it off.
And it's going to go towards the trojan asteroids.
There's three of them, Juan.
And it's going to pass by there, Juan.
It's going to scoop up some material,
and it's going to go all the way to the sun.
It's going to rotate around Jupiter
because it's going to get sucked in by the forces of Jupiter,
Juan.
OK, Hal.
And then it'll be captured a million years from now, Juan.
Oh, yeah, a million.
Oh, yeah, a million, a million years.
That sounds very, very cool, Hal.
That's very good.
So we'd like to put--
we'd like you to write a poem that we're
going to put into the capsule and with other writers too.
And then someone on Earth is going
to see it, see that interplanetary spacecraft
floating around.
And we're going to bring it back to Earth.
So we'd like you to write something so that we on Earth
can learn from.
OK, OK, OK, it's a little wobbly there, Hal.
So the question is, what are we going
to tell the generations a million years from now
about our experience on Earth so they can learn something
about our experience on Earth a million little tiny years
from now?
I said, wow.
I said, wow, imagine the way to think about that.
We have to throw ourselves out there a million years from now
and then think about being here and getting advice
from something we're going to write a million years past.
That's a cruncher, isn't it?
That's a cruncher.
So this is it right here.
It's called SunRiders, Jinetes del Sol in the Spanish version.
So I started with a little, kind of, a cheer.
And the interplanetary spacecraft is called Lucy.
It's named after the first Lucy which
was discovered by archaeologists many, many, many years back,
right?
So now this spacecraft is called Lucy too,
the first one to go out there.
It sounds really, kind of-- it's, kind of, cool, isn't it?
So I wanted to start with a cheer, like, oh, Lucy,
like that, OK?
So then here it is.
SunRiders.
"Go, Lucy.
Everyone back home cheered.
Miles, millions we circled.
Trojans, Jupiter's eye, el sol, 2 million years.
Sun riders made of hope, love.
Earth was divided.
There was hate.
There was sickness, arctic sliding.
We gathered.
We flourished.
Kindness healed us.
Lucy carried us tumbling through planetesimal trails.
Love saved us.
Who will we be?
Compassion, science, humanity, light."
And that's what I sent out there.
[APPLAUSE]
Yeah, so that was very nice of Hal Levison
from the Colorado office of NASA and his staff, all that work.
And Amanda Gorman's poetry is in there.
And Einstein had some of his writing put in there.
Hey, Albert.
And a nice group of writers, they
had their work in there too all going together.
So that's nice.
That was good.