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Showing Original Post only (View all)America used to do big things. [View all]
Telling our teenager tonight about what it was like to grow up in the 1960s. Space geeks, even tiny ones like me, we knew all of the astronaut's names and thrilled as they went from the first 15-minute flight to the Moon in what... 8 years? Was it really just 8 years?
A real-life adventure. Starring nerds. Serious, serious nerds. Engineers with nerves of steel, riding huge controlled explosions into the stars. Absurd in all respects, but the job got done.
I get very excited reliving it, my son thinks I'm a little crazy. He's never known an America like that, how exciting it is to launch forward as a nation instead of civil warring over achingly stupid crap.
We'll do big things again! Good, big, things! Hopefully soon!
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Yeap. Too bad my ISP doesn't see it that way. They seem more interested in providing me with this.
madinmaryland
Mar 2014
#29
I remember that extremely well, I was part of the technology build up, the early days of
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#7
top leadership with no vision except for finding the corporate give away holy grail nt
msongs
Mar 2014
#22