Deja Daedalus! from Dr. Bill [wwh] almost a year ago. [See what we're missing! We don't have to. :) ]

re Daedalus was the name of the first starship planned in 1973-77 by the British Interplanetary Society to travel to Barnard's Star.

Makes me think of the Starship Enterprise [and its noble mission]:

Good discussions with three or with four
Are twice as good if you double the score.
Please don't lurk
Be like Capt. James Kirk
Boldly go where you've n'er been before.

Excerpt
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
By Tony Horwitz

Prologue: The Distance Traveled

"Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far I think it possible for man to go."
—The Journal of Captain James Cook

"Just after dark on February 16, 1779, a kahuna, or holy man, rode a canoe to His Majesty's Sloop Resolution, anchored off the coast of Hawaii. The kahuna came aboard with a bundle under his arm. Charles Clerke, the ship's commander, unwrapped the parcel in the presence of his officers. He found "a large piece of Flesh which we soon saw to be Human," Clerke wrote in his journal. "It was clearly a part of the Thigh about 6 or 8 pounds without any bone at all."

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