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English → Portuguese transcript
A estratégia que Wernher von Braun me ensinou era que, primeiro, os russos seriam considerados o inimigo.
Na verdade, quando o conheci em 1974, eles eram o inimigo, o inimigo identificado.
Disseram-nos que eles tinham satélites assassinos.
Disseram-nos que vinham nos pegar e nos controlar — os comunistas sujos, toda essa história.
Primeiro, os russos eram o inimigo contra quem iríamos construir armas espaciais.
Depois, terroristas seriam identificados, e isso ocorreria logo em seguida.
Ouvimos muito sobre terrorismo.
Em seguida, íamos identificar os malucos de países do Terceiro Mundo.
Agora os chamamos de nações de preocupação.
Mas ele disse que esse seria o terceiro inimigo contra o qual precisaríamos construir armas espaciais.
E o próximo inimigo eram os asteroides.
Neste ponto, ele deu uma risadinha na primeira vez que disse isso.
Asteroides — contra asteroides vamos construir armas espaciais.
Então, na época, era engraçado.
E o mais engraçado de todos era contra aquilo que ele chamava de aliens, extraterrestres.
Essa seria a última carta.
E, repetidas vezes, durante os quatro anos em que o conheci e proferia seus discursos por ele,
ele sempre mencionava essa última carta.
E lembre-se, Carol: a última carta é a dos alienígenas.
Teremos de construir armas espaciais contra alienígenas.
E tudo isso, disse ele, é uma mentira.
Ele não mencionou um cronograma, mas disse que aquilo ia acelerar mais rápido do que qualquer um poderia imaginar.
Que o esforço para colocar armas no espaço não se baseava apenas em uma mentira,
mas aceleraria além do ponto em que as pessoas sequer o entendessem, até que já estivesse lá em cima e fosse tarde demais.
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Original transcript (English)
The strategy that Wernher von Braun taught me was that first the Russians are going to be considered to be the enemy. In fact, when I met him in 1974, they were the enemy, the identified enemy. We were told that they had killer satellites. We were told that they were coming to get us and control us, the dirty commies, that whole story. First the Russians were the enemy against whom we were going to build space-based weapons.
Then terrorists would be identified, and that was soon to follow. We heard a lot about terrorism. Then we were going to identify third-world country crazies. We now call them nations of concern. But he said that would be the third enemy against whom we would be needing to build space-based weapons.
And the next enemy was asteroids. Now at this point he kind of chuckled the first time he said it. Asteroids, against asteroids we're going to build space-based weapons. So it was funny then. And the funniest one of all was against what he called aliens, extraterrestrials.
That would be the final card. And over and over and over, during the four years that I knew him and was giving his speeches for him, he would bring up that last card. And remember, Carol, the last card is the alien card. We're going to have to build space-based weapons against aliens.
And all of it, he said, is a lie. He didn't mention a timeline, but he said that it was going to be speeding up faster than anybody could possibly imagine. That the effort to put weapons in space was not only based on a lie, but would accelerate past the point of people even understanding it until it was already up there and too late.
