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The Worst One Yet
#11
RE: The Worst One Yet
(December 8, 2016 at 7:04 pm)Bella Morte Wrote: I honestly had no idea who he was, but it's sad nonetheless.


Bella, are you the atheist version of a young earther?  You do realize that all cultural referents did not begin at your birth, right?
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#12
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(December 8, 2016 at 7:04 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Yeah, I thought - for some reason - he'd got away before.

People these days seem to play fast and loose with the word 'hero', but I think John Glenn qualified.

Boru

I reckon anyone who straps his ass to a big bomb in the hopes of helping expand human knowledge qualifies as a hero. And I know damned well that such a man has balls of cast-iron.

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#13
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(December 9, 2016 at 12:36 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:
(December 8, 2016 at 7:04 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Yeah, I thought - for some reason - he'd got away before.

People these days seem to play fast and loose with the word 'hero', but I think John Glenn qualified.

Boru

I reckon anyone who straps his ass to a big bomb in the hopes of helping expand human knowledge qualifies as a hero. And I know damned well that such a man has balls of cast-iron.

I just learned that his nickname as a fighter pilot was 'Magnet Ass' due to his freakish ability to attract flak - he once retuned from a sortie with something like 200 holes in his plane.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#14
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Yeah, I suppose anyone bold enough to attack AAA sites is gonna have that particular issue. They don't seem to appreciate calling-cards, those flak troops.

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#15
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At 95 you don't mourn a life like his.  You salute it.
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#16
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I don't recall anything special happening at school on manned launch days. This was years before schools had AV carts to wheel around to classrooms, and stopping class to listen to the radio would have been an invitation for my classmates to get bored and get into trouble.

And recall, those early launches rarely went off on schedule, launch holds were endless, and scrubs and try agains all too common.

At least on those early sub orbital and orbital flights there weren't too many concerns about launch windows other than having the anticipated splashdown time in daylight, they didn't need to worry about where the moon was and such until years later.


And LOL, it was also going to be a few more years till we started seeing footage on the news that had been transmitted from overseas "via satellite", and when such footage was shown, it was a BIG DEAL.

Photos could be sent via undersea cables around the world, but not video. That had to wait for satellites.
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#17
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Met the man when he did a Forrestal Lecture at USNA.

What an absolutely amazing person, and for sure, he has balls of straight cast iron.
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#18
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(December 9, 2016 at 3:06 pm)Minimalist Wrote: At 95 you don't mourn a life like his.  You salute it.

A fitting epitaph.

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#19
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(December 9, 2016 at 12:31 pm)Whateverist Wrote:
(December 8, 2016 at 7:04 pm)Bella Morte Wrote: I honestly had no idea who he was, but it's sad nonetheless.


Bella, are you the atheist version of a young earther?  You do realize that all cultural referents did not begin at your birth, right?

No? Yes? Maybe?

I just didn't know who he was.
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#20
RE: The Worst One Yet
Kirk Douglas is 100.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Edward Gibbon

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