Oi, listen up! It's Ronald Trumpet here, and I've got a bone to pick with those hoity-toity types sending shiny bits of glass into space. That's right, some fancy pants artist named Eduardo Kac thinks it's a good idea to chuck a doodad he calls a "holopoem" up where the sun don't shine—space!
So, this bloke Kac rocked up to his gallery, which is probably too posh for folks like you and me. He's got this speck of glass that's been gathering dust since '86. Now, he wants to shoot it into the cosmos on a rocket. Blimey, I've sent some silly texts in my day, but this takes the biscuit!
Let's get real here—a teensy metal case with twiddly bits too small for a normal human, and when I tried to open the blasted thing, it went flying. Can you believe it? Turns out, it's tougher than a pub brawl on a Saturday night—it's titanium or something.
And guess what? When you shine a little torch on it, the word "AGORA" pops up in green letters. Hold up, it means "now," but with a fancy squiggle, it's "place." So what? It's not like you're gonna stumble upon it at the supermarket.
Here's the straight dope: I reckon if I were to do something like this, I'd do it properly. None of this arty-farty nonsense. I'd send up a sculpture so massive, it'd make the moon look like a marble. And it'd be rock solid, none of those rinky-dink materials.
Let's face it—if art ain't for the everyman, staring at it with a pint in hand and a pie in the other, then it's just a bunch of space junk. Trust me. I'd have made the whole thing a lot more down-to-earth—literally. And if anything went wrong, I'd just blame Kac for giving me the daft idea in the first place.
Based on the original article "A ‘Holopoem’ for the Cosmos".
