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The Worst One Yet
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(apos if someone already posted this - I looked and didn't find it)
Astronaut John Glenn Dies At 95 Maxi-bummer. 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
At 95 you're allowed to give it a rest. I didn't even know he was still around.
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We've had a couple big offshore earthquakes. I thought this was notification of a third one! Closer to land to boot.
Yeah, I heard the news of his passing earlier.  As an aerospace buff, it's a sad day. But it was a good, and long, life.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
I honestly had no idea who he was, but it's sad nonetheless.
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
‘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
and then some
took some brass ones to sit on an Atlas booster in 1961 The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
RE: The Worst One Yet
December 8, 2016 at 7:28 pm
(This post was last modified: December 8, 2016 at 7:34 pm by vorlon13.)
I met Scott Carpenter back in the 70's, never got to meet Glenn.
There's a subdivision in SW Omaha and all the streets are named for astronauts, Glenn is honored there. And his shuttle flight was a shade more dangerous than was realized at the time . . . . . The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
(December 8, 2016 at 7:28 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: I met Scott Carpenter back in the 70's, never got to meet Glenn. I've met a lot of spacey people, but never one who had actually been to space... 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
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
According to a similar thread on another thread, dude was married 73 years! That's a thread in and of itself!
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
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