Re: Fascinating stuff
I was there.
I watched it happen.
I ... had nothing to do with *making* it happen, that was 400,000 other people.
Including a janitor in the VAB who was sked by a TV team what he did there. His reply still brings tears to my eyes:
"I'm part of the team that put a man on the Moon."
I would give anyhting I have to be given the chance to fly.
The sad thing is, MrFake, that scunners like you, the priests and pork-barrellers in Congress have killed the Dream of Stars and Man will now die on this planet. We had a window when the treasure, the skills, the motivation, the sheer *need* was there and we could have become an immortal, ubiquitous species. We lost it. We lost it all because of small-minded, terrified little nonces like you and greedy politicians, religious and not, with no vision, no grasp of The Big Picture.
We could have had the *stars*. We could have made this a human galaxy. Instead, Man will become extinct, no other life will ever leave this world and the Dream of Stars is forever dead.
So, thank you. Thank you very much. Your pettiness has doomed us all.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
