It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God. And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy.

Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race perished in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground.Īlta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the mysteries of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space.

In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. The book is written in anapestic tetrameter, Seusss usual verse type, and illustrated in. United Planets Cruiser C57D, now more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of the great main-sequence star Altair. As Gerald imagines his dream zoo, he also imagines the admiration he will receive from the public who come to see his fantastical creatures. Read 632 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. If I Ran the Zoo is a childrens book written by Dr. And so, at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space. Almost at once there followed the discovery of hyperdrive through which the speed of light was first obtained and later greatly surpassed. By 2200 A.D., they had reached the other planets of our solar system. In the final decade of the 21st Century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon.

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