Space exploration is something I bring up semi-regularly and mostly because for people of my generation the idea of exploring the stars was a realistic goal when we were kids. A lot had happened in the 20th century before I was born.
Being born in the 1970s means that there were people alive when I was who lived before the Wright brothers made their maiden flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903. By the 1940s aircraft were becoming a decisive factor in warfare, especially in the Pacific Theater and during the war years, the Heinkel He 178 became the first jet-powered aircraft. In June of 1944, a German V-2 rocket broke the Kármán line barrier and unofficially became the first manmade object to reach space.
Other accomplishments built upon those. In 1947 Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier, something many thought was impossible, slightly over 40 years after the Wright Brothers flew. Just under 17 years after the V-2 made it to outer space, on the 12th of April in 1961 Yuri Gagarin made the first manned flight into outer space and orbited the earth. In just 58 years mankind went from the first successful airplane that flew a whopping 10 feet above the ground for 12 second to a man flying into outer space and orbiting the globe.
The space race was on and culminated with Apollo 11. A few years before I was born, Neil Armstrong stepped off a ladder and onto the surface of the moon on July 21st, 1969 (for purposes of this post we will assume the moon landing actually happened).
Think about that. From December of 1903 when the first manned flight took place in this rickety contraption…
….to less than 66 years later man was standing on the surface of the moon…
That is staggering when you think about it.
At the same time that the Apollo 11 mission was taking place, other advancements were also happening such as the advent of the microprocessor and the continued improvements that make the NASA computers at the time of the moon landing seem ridiculous in comparison. The first nuclear power plant, the Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant near Moscow, went online in 1954 and by 1958 the USS Nautilus was the first successful nuclear powered submarine. From a primitive nuclear power plant in 1954 to a nuclear powered submarine in just four years?
With all of the wonderous advancements taking place year by year, it is easy to see why people of my generation thought of space exploration as our birth-right. When Star Wars hit theaters in 1977 some 11 years after Star Trek was first broadcast on television, it was certainly science fiction but the idea that humanity would explore the stars was really just a given. Our films were full of a future where space travel was a reality, from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Planet of the Apes to Alien. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were heroes and trailblazers. No one thought that the handful of moon landings meant we were at the end of space exploration rather than the beginning.
We all know how that worked out. I have written about this extensively, notably here: The Dumbing Down Of America.
Instead of a nation that grew out of agrarianism and into a world of high technology enabling space travel, we instead have grown progressively dumber. We are not getting ever closer to reaching the stars, and instead we have devolved into people that couldn’t land on the moon again if we wanted to. As I wrote in the above linked post: “The cold stone truth is that we are further away from manned missions to Mars today than we were on the eve of the first moon landing”. When you think of the progress, some good and some bad but all significant, of the 20th century and then take a hard look at the trajectory of the world in the 21st century you can make some assumptions about where this will end up. It is unlikely to end up with the vast advancements we saw last century that started without mass produced automobiles and ended with everyone owning cars, commercial flight being common and relatively inexpensive and mankind escaping Earth’s orbit and landing on the moon.
When I was heading to Maine for a week of travel, I downloaded Star Trek: Enterprise starring Scott Bakula as Captain Jonathan Archer. I am a long time fan of Star Trek, watching the entire original series, most of the earlier movies, all of The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine but later iterations of the universe simply didn’t appeal to me. I hadn’t watched any of Enterprise but it had some positive reviews so I thought I would give it a try. It was awful and silly. The intro song is absolute cringe….
….but as I watched it a few times before I gave up on the series, I Noticed™ something. I took some screenshots as the opening credit roll…
Do you see the theme? Copernicus, a Pole who proposed the sun at the center of the solar system, the HMS Enterprize, the Spirit of St. Louis flown by Charles Lindbergh on the first non-stop transatlantic flight, Amelia Earhart who got lost trying to fly around the world in 1937, Chuck Yeager who broke the sound barrier, the Apollo 11 launch. All of these events in the opening are leading up to the advent of space travel and all of them were accomplished by Whites.
You see, mankind was on a path to explore the stars because White men were creating and inventing and innovating. Our exceptional intelligence coupled with our curiosity and drive to explore and conquer meant we were seeking the stars. Statements like “Space, the final frontier” only make sense to White people. As a child in the 1970s I thought we were headed for a future like the one we saw in Star Trek: Enterprise and with good reason. While we were the ones who were inventing and exploring, the rest of humanity was also benefitting.
Then it slowly ground to a halt. Why?
How did mankind’s steady advancement get derailed? With the trajectory we were on it would have seemed likely that we would have put men on Mars by now and permanent stations on our Moon. If you had asked later 70s or 1980s me if we would have landed men on Mars by 2025 I would have laughed and said of course, and beyond. Perhaps landing on Titan, the enormous moon orbiting Saturn or Ganymede, one of Jupiter’s moons.
Our march toward exploring the stars was derailed when White people stopped focusing on achievement and those that had the most to offer and started to focus on those among us who were the least accomplished. We began to exalt those who did nothing but hold us back. In every aspect of our society we turned our backs on our own people and focused instead on others. In doing so we did not lift them up to our level but have been steadily dragging our people downward.
Now the plans of NASA for future missions to outer space are sounding like stories from The Babylon Bee. Around a year ago I wrote a post, It Fell Over. Seriously., where I looked at the story of a unmanned moon lander sent by a private company to the moon that apparently fell over. In that same post I added some information about the planned Artemis program that is supposed to be our next manned moon landing. The mission was announced in 2020 and it has been going sideways ever since.
In 2022 NASA was still talking about a new manned mission to the moon in 2025, the Artemis missions named of course for the Greek goddess of the hunt. See, it’s a girl goddess, not some stodgy old boy Greek god. Subtle, no? Of course the Artemis plan released by NASA in September of 2020 was talking about landing “the first woman and the next man” on the moon in 2024.
2024 for those keeping track was last year and no manned moon landing occurred. NASA keeps pushing back the mission, for the obvious reason that they don’t seem able to figure out how to make this happen. Meanwhile NASA has declared that this future manned landing will include not only the first woman to walk on the moon but also the first “person of color!
I noted in the prior post that I think I can pinpoint the problem:
While it’s unknown if a person of color will be among the two first astronauts to return to the moon since the Apollo program in 1972, “these are historic moments in advancing equity for all of humankind,” said Bhavya Lal, acting NASA chief of staff.
“Women and people of color represent a significant contributing portion of all facets of NASA’s workforce, and the last two astronaut classes selected have included the highest percentage of women in history,” Lal said. “Fifty percent of the 2013 National class was female and 45% of the 2017 class. And today, African American, Asian Pacific Islander, Hispanic and multiracial astronauts are about a quarter of NASA’s active astronaut corps.”
Ruh roh. That might explain why this mission keeps getting pushed back. From last month…
NASA Delays Artemis Moon Missions Until 2026 And 2027
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) confirmed that its first manned flight of the Artemis Moon program won’t launch until April 2026, and the following mission—the first landing on the Moon since 1972—won’t happen until mid-2027.
This is the second time NASA has delayed the launch of Artemis II.
It was previously scheduled to launch in November 2024, and it was then pushed back to September 2025. NASA was targeting a 2026 launch for Artemis III.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced the new schedule during a press conference on Dec. 5, emphasizing that it was received with unanimous support from the administration’s executive council and keeps the U.S. space program on track to beat communist China’s goal of landing by 2030.
Anyone taking bets that those missions do not in fact happen in 2026 and 2027? That would be easy money.
The new launch schedule comes after a lengthy investigation was conducted into unexpected char and erosion discovered on the heat shield of Artemis I’s unmanned Orion capsule upon its return.
The capsule selected for Artemis II has an identical heat shield. But NASA’s leadership told reporters that its investigation showed that it was still reusable so long as the re-entry trajectory is adjusted.
You couldn’t pay me enough to strap into those deathtraps in 2026.
Exploring the stars was the birthright of White Americans and we sold it for a mess of pottage called “diversity”. What is worse, with Whites under replacement fertility rates around the globe it will be impossible for whatever races remain as we fade away to carry on our work.
Our dreams of space have been set aside and now I dream of the lights staying on for the next decade.
I remain open to the possibility that going to the moon is harder than we have been led to believe. The longer it takes to go “back,” the greater this possibility becomes.
I urge everybody to read “Wagging the Moon Doggie” by Dave McGowan. You can find the pdf at centerforinformedamerica.com.
It lays out in clear and humorous detail so many of the problems and questions.
I have come to believe that we have never even sent a man into actual space…rather, we have been restricted to Earth orbit within the upper layers of the Earth’s atmosphere.
NASA “losing” the footage of its crowning achievement is the cherry on top
According to the popular story, the moon landing was an effort similar to the Manhattan Project, an enormous undertaking that required a unified people with a common goal. I am certain we are incapable of that sort of effort today.
It was almost impossible back then as the usual suspects were complaining of a Moondoogle that was taking Federal Money away from Gibmedats
Yep…so hard that we didn’t do it…But Kubrick made a nice film about it….
Depressing. What happens to children who fail to listen to rules? Nothing good. Used to be whipping by principles, standing in the corner, being told they won’t amount to anything, etc. And it was good advice. Assholes aren’t given keys to the kingdom. But that was back when shit made sense. Nothing makes any sense anymore. Christ, we don’t need to turn our eyes to the heavens. Let’s look to the west coast. LA is burning down. The assholes there who WERE given the keys to the kingdom decided that they didn’t need men as firemen. That water is not a necessary item in putting out fires. And I could go on and on about this. The people of LA who have common sense were and always are out voted by the idiots who have none. I hope LA survives this nightmare fire and their fucked up policies. But, I have a feeling they will just double down on them.
And LA is only the most recent example. England is a complete goat fucking mess. They wring their hands over what to do with a raghead who rapes little girls, but don’t you dare call said raghead out for raping little girls; you will go to prison over said tirade. It’s everywhere. It’s depressing as hell, and frustrating too. So, get ready, soon we will hear about ghettos and stabbings taking place on our little satellite that rotates us everyday. THEY BE ASTRONAUTS N SHEEITT, NOW.
None Other,
Investigating gang-rapes of children by ILLxGxLS, the Brits have a tendency to arrest and imprison the child.
The messes are intentional.
Some great White names on that list.
Wernher von Braun is always underrated.
Mudraces won’t allow their welfare sugartit to escape to the stars.
Joseph Sobran was right.
My response to the “Hidden Figures” people is always that a literal Nazi did far more for the American space program than every black woman that has ever lived combined.
It would be nice to see someone make a Star Trek parody. Captain Kike in charge (of course) with Mr. Spook as his loyal nig watchdog; Scotty is now a pajeet engineer; Bones, an ADL yenta, is only competent enough to hand out pills and vaccines; Sulu is a flaming faggot (like the original actor) that quarrels constantly with Uhura who is an in-your-face nigger tranny. Chekhov is a white liberal soy boy that kisses up to the rest. The Klingons are of course Natzees and the Romulans are Russians. Imagine all the fun episodes!
The Artemis project is going to end up like the Ocean Gate Titan – if it’s (un)lucky enough to get off the ground. I don’t give two shits what happens to it/them. You could also make a parody about that shitlib fandango, starting with which victim class sits in front and which one steps (or double-clutches) on da moon first. Sheeeit!
I always thought Spock seemed like a space Jew of sorts.
Leonard Nimoy being a hebrew kind of made that inevitable
Shatner and Nimoy are both gentlemen of the Hebraic persuasion IRL.
At least that’s what I heard about Shatner. No doubt about Nimoy. The “Vulcan salute” is a Cohen-ic hand gesture.
egads, I never even suspected Schattner, but there it is in his Early Life
Another related argument – back in the 60’s a man could graduate high school, get a decent job, buy a nice house in a middle-class neighborhood, support wife and kids while being the sole bread winner, and know that after 35-40 years of work he could then enjoy a nice retirement. Against that background, diverting some federal tax dollars to the space race so that the USA could have bragging rights was something most people could support (noted that some didn’t support it). The fact that a man walking on the moon had absolutely zero impact on 99.99999% of people’s daily life was irrelevant.
Today – the economy is shattered, most people wanting to raise a family in a middle-class manner have to work 2 or even 3 jobs, and Black Rock is destroying anyone’s dreams of buying an affordable house, you really have to question why we have a space program at all. If they somehow took the entirety of NASA’s budget and used it to help the Hurricane Helene victims, it would actually be a better use of the money. Hell, if they simply refunded the NASA budget to the taxpayers in form of a refund, we’d all be a little better off. Any private company can put their own satellite in orbit to allow everyone to see every sports ball game ever, we don’t need NASA for that shit.
That, plus the fact that NASA probably can’t put a man on the moon again anyway, means every single penny going to the program is wasted taxpayer money. DOGE can’t start cutting fast enough.
I was born in 1971, and I taught myself to read around the age of two. I read everything I could about the Shuttle program (amongst many other things), and several of my teachers in public school leveraged my interest in NASA into study units for my class. As an aside, I love Star Trek:TMP precisely for the set designs and costuming… so late seventies, so PET computer, so (very expensive) VCR….
The point is, there was a whole decade of speculative work preparing us for the next steps, now that Apollo had shown us what was possible (I managed to track down a copy of an Usborne book called The Book Of The Future, from 1979; the prototype of the Honda Insight is in there, amongst other things).
What has happened since? We were promised so much, and told it was only up from here…. and now, we can’t hire stupid people fast enough, in the quest for some definition of equality.
Look what they’ve taken from us… so much promise, so much optimism and hope for a better future, hijacked by trans, foreigners, and do-gooder leftist motherfuckers. And they’re only getting started, it would seem.
Don’t tell me I don’t hate these people enough. I remember what was to have been, and I bloody well do.
You’ve probably forgotten along with everyone else, but those two astronauts (well one astronaut, one diversity hire) are STILL stuck in space. NASA can’t get them down at all and I believe SpaceX is supposed to try to get them down sometime next month
Oh but they are going to the moon in 2 years………………
right……………….
Yeah. Now further consider the folly of the US govt continually sticking itcs dick in the eye if Russia over Ukraine (among other things) and yet long being reliant on Russia for transport of “our” astronauts to and from the ISS, and then when we finally arrange our own transport facilities, they sucked (hey thanks, Boeing) so bad we need SpaceX to improvise a rescue mission. You know since Musk and Trump are buddies, that the rescue mission will be done shortly after Trump takes office, and he’ll milk it the same way Reagan did with recovery of the Iranian Embassy hostages. And I’m not saying he shouldn’t just go further embarrass pedo joey as the utter failure he is, but it’s still embarrassing that we’ve had two crew stuck there with no way home for months now.
Remember when Barry told the chief of NASA that their primary mission was outreach to Muslims?
I still remember the biggest shock FUSA ever received up to that time. It was October 4th 1957 & the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite in history, Sputnik 1. Dad bought me a telescope for the occasion! The second, Sputnik 2 a month later, with a dog as a passenger! FUSA’s first attempt blew up on the launch pad, December 6, 1957. However, somebody got right on January 31, 1958 with Explorer 1. Several months later, NASA was born to takeover space exploration from the DoD.I remember Yuri Gagarin, the first Soviet cosmonaut to circle the earth in 1961. John Glenn doing it for FUSA in February, 1962. Ed White’s walk in space back in the summer of ’65 when the Gemini project started. The 1966 hookup of two Gemini capsules orbiting space The tragic fire killing 3 astronauts at the start of the Apollo project in January, 1967. And yes, Neil Armstrong, landing on the moon, July 20, 1969. After the last lunar landing in December, 1972, NASA & FUSA’s space program fell apart. I followed all of it for 15 years, read books & actually made model rockets that flew! Keep in mind, it’s never going to be like this again. We’re all screwed.
My favorite part of this whole thing is comparing the Apollo program to Artemis. From when JFK said we’d go to the moon to landing was 7 years (Sep 1962 to July 1969). The rocket, capsule, lander were doable in 1969 as we were certainly capable of putting hardware on the moon. I don’t know enough about biology to know if we could really capable of putting men there, but for sake of argument, let’s assume we were and did.
We not only had to design, build, and test a rocket capable of getting to the moon, but a capsule and lander capable of getting men there and back. Along with the suits to allow for EVA on the lunar surface. In 7 years.
Now, NASA can’t even manage a second launch of Artemis within 4 years. And the second launch will be crewed using a capsule with an untested environmental control system as well as an untested heat shield (could make reentry a little interesting for those on board). To compare to Apollo, Artemis was originally kicked off in 2012, first flight was in 2022, and we may never get a second flight.
Meanwhile, SpaceX is about to launch its 7th flight of Starship/Super Heavy in less than 2 years. They’d have more launches under their belt if the FAA would stop getting in the way. This is how a space program is supposed to work. Launch things, see what works and what doesn’t. Fix what doesn’t work, see if you can improve the things that do. Keep repeating until you reach your goal. Then set a new goal. I’m sure as much as Musk likes the H1B program, there are plenty of diversity people on staff, but they aren’t there for the sake of diversity.
NASA today seems more about keeping the sweet, sweet gubmint cash flowing than actually doing anything space related.
@Bob, you hit the nail square on the head with your comments.
LBJ and the “great society” can be pinpointed as the moment we got screwed out of further advancement of space exploration. It diverted all the money to propping up the dogshit on the shoe sole of society, and there was nothing left to continue investing in furtherance of pursuing excellence in space. Yeah, sure we got the shuttle, which was a half-assed program to begin with, and that really was just the consolation prize as NASA burned off the last of their actual competence (and they even screwed that up a few times, with Challenger and Columbia).
I may be an asshole to say this (ok, I’m an asshole, and oh, how I relish being one) but I kind of look forward to Artemis II being another Challenger. Sure would be a terrible shame if the first “woman” and “person of color” got cooked before they even cleared the atmosphere, and robbed of their opportunity to be the first of each on the moon (as if that were some great accomplishment).
That would be a perfect summation of why we are in the state we are now: a pathological obsession with stupid, symbolic bullshit that not only contributes nothing to (insert mission or major accomplishment here), but actively detracts from it in a deleterious manner by elevating image over substance to score empty PR points. I almost wish Russia or China would put the first woman on the moon, just to steal their thunder. I’d say India could put the first person of color up there, but no, fuck India. They shouldn’t get a damn thing.
It has become a meme – that I sometimes interject conversationally – to say “we were promised flying cars, and instead we got TikTok (or some other appropriately mediocre non-sequitir)”. It really has been a rip-off and a let down from the time I was a kid in the 80’s and saw the progression of computers (which also mostly suck now, funny how that worked out) and the emergence of many new technologies (or improvements in older ones) that have all turned out to be disappointments. I remember the first car my family had with actual computer control of the ignition, fuel and other engine and transmission parameters. It wasn’t that it was a particularly great car (hey, it was a Chevy) but the notion that we had finally dispensed with carbs, points, miles of vacuum hoses and pneumatic servos struck me (as a kid) as pretty damn cool. Now the computers in the cars serve to endlessly spy on us, and make the cost of repairs astronomical.
Technology has been hijacked by greedy cocksuckers who are not only turning it against us, but are treating it as an annuity-like income stream by making everything subscription based. Oh, you want heated seats? That’ll be $50 a month, even though all the needed hardware is already in the car. We will lock out it’s use until you pay us more in perpetuity than you already did to buy the whole car. Well also sell you a deluxe big screen full color nav system in the dash, then fail to keep the map database properly updated so it isn’t worth a shit after a few years.
This can all be summarized by considering the following. Remember when we were boys, and would build a tree house or club house out of various construction debris and leftovers we found in the garage or basement? We’d post a sign on the door “no girls allowed”. But the girls didn’t like that, and got pissy about being excluded. So they bitched and moaned and cried to mommy and daddy until we couldn’t stand listening to it anymore, relented, and let them in.
Thus was lost the excellence of men working together towards a lofty goal (even if it was just building an Evel Knievel styled bike ramp that would send us to the ER) and we were sidetracked into silly bullshit by the girls who came into our space and started bossing everyone around. Suddenly the clubhouse wasn’t cool anymore, and we bailed to get away from the mediocrity that had taken over what we had tried to build for ourselves. Well, that’s society in a snapshot of childhood social dynamics, right there. It’s no wonder we (and especially Los Angeles) are shit outta luck now.
LBJ also had his balls in the ringer with Vietnam. I agree, the Great Society was a clusterfuck.
He created that mess of a lie and didn’t get the wringer cranked anywhere near enough.
Artemis II more likely to strand them on the moon like the 2 in the ISS currently except there won’t be a “hold please” option.
They won’t be landing on the moon, just flying around it like Apollo 8. At least the Apollo 8 crew were flying in a capsule that had been fully tested.
NASA wouldn’t let the 2 people currently vacationing on the ISS return on Boeing’s craft because of “safety” due to the helium leaks and thrusters not functioning properly, but they’ll fly 4 people 250,000 miles to the moon without having tested the environmental control system in space? And then bring them back through reentry with an untested heat shield?
Artemis II won’t be a Challenger type event – Up is usually safe. It may be much for like Sputnik 2 (the Soviets launched a dog, but didn’t provide for it) or Columbia. NASA needs to be shut down or changed to doling out money to companies (SpaceX, Rocket Lab, Axiom, etc.) who can do what they used to be able to.
Hey, if they make the heat shields out of passports and military IDs, they should golden. Those damn things are indestructible even in a close quarters explosion.
And how exactly did LBJ, one of the most crooked politicians of 20th century US politics (and that’s saying something) come to occupy the Oval Office? Who are the most likely culprits behind the Kennedy assassination, the story of which still hasn’t been declassified due to their enormous political power? Who were the handlers of Martin Luther King Jr, wrote his speeches, and generally funded and pushed the Civil Rights movement?
From where I am sitting, White Americans traded the future we should have had for the Israel project. The space program is just the most obvious manifestation of that decline because there is absolutely no margin at all at the cutting edge of aerospace engineering, the recent very visible decline of Boeing after implementing DEI policy is an example of the issue in micro.
I remember the first moon landing, and also the blacks protesting at the liftoff that the money spent on going to the moon should have been spent on them improving their lot. The seeds for our destruction were sown……………
Yeah, the assholes even had a song about it; Whiteys on the Moon.If the monkeys spent 1/10th the time doing stuff themselves, instead of Whites doing it for them, they might start to get ahead.
What, no mention of the Old Negro Space Program? Black men have been an integral part of space exploration since the very beginning, when Cleavis Bojeebus-Jones was recruited by NASA to empty Werner von Braun’s ashtray twice an hour.
Are you denying the innate capability of black women to cackalate trajectories, so troofdimoniously presented in the film Hidden Negroes? And do not even try to tell me you don’t remember the Oscar-worthy performance of that lone black security dude who appears for 5 seconds in Apollo 13 and authoritatively insists, “When. Will. We. Know.”
In another 20 years the bruthas will be remembered as having pioneered human flight. So back ‘o da bus wif’ you, whitebread.
I remember watching the first moon landing (I was 10). My 3 year old blonde-haired blue-eyed grandson loves ‘wocketships’ and counts down and proclaims ‘Blastoff!’ Got him a toy helmet and Little Tykes Adventure rocket for Christmas. While I’m not a space buff, dreams of other worlds and courageous exploration are my grandson’s birthright, stolen from him by women and diversity. Hope the Artemis and DIE NASA continue to fail. Burn it all down.
Find a local rocket club (yes, they’re a thing) and take your grandson to a model rocket launch. If they have high power rockets, he will absolutely love those launches. They use the same composite propellant as the boosters on the Space Shuttle and what’s used in most movies, so lots of thick, white smoke, noise, and orange flame (depending on the propellant formula).
I started shooting model rockets with my dad & brother in the early 1960’s.Great memories!
“now I dream of the lights staying on for the next decade.”
Bloody optimist you are.
We coulda gone to Mars and had flying cars, but we got the War On Poverty instead.
Kind of. What we really got was the Israel Project, it’s just that gay race communism comes with it as a package deal.
Indeed. Maurice Samuel (1924) got it right when he wrote: “We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers for ever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands. We will for ever destroy because we need a world of our own ….”
Now this was NOT a confession nor even a moment of self-awareness. Me cutting off the quote there just makes it look like that. He was shitting on us for being “unserious” and ridiculous people. Only Jews have a truly profound and spiritual nature. Don’t you know.
But sometimes They speak the absolute truth by accident. Such is the case here.
And thank you Max for keeping the focus where it belongs. Negroes, drug cartels, H-1B street shitters, the PRC, all can be dealt with so long as there is the will and resolve to do it. But the truly evil ones are those who destroy us morally and spiritually, destroying our Will and our innate desire for Justice. Don’t lose focus. And Never Forget who is your real enemy.
I also remember the lunar landing in July 1969. I was six, it’s a fuzzy memory, but I faintly do. Even grew up near Wapakoneta, Ohio and Neil Armstrong was and still is a big deal.
Have always been fascinated with our space missions and space sci-fi. Someone mentioned all those Gemini and early Apollo missions. I love the movie Right Stuff and still put it on occasion.
The original Star Trek series is the bomb and when it would come on in syndication we’d rush home to catch it after Gilligan’s Island. I still enjoy it, too Star Trek TNG has its moments (not withstanding ugly, regarded Whoopi Blackturd’s appearances) and some other fake shit.
Now the franchise is garbage. Star Trek Discovery even featured fat sheboon two-time loser Stacey “M-1” Abrams as the President of United Earth after losing to RINO Kemp in the GA guv election. **click**
I’ll just continue to live in the past and ridicule current and future events and chuckle when the non-white males who perish in Artemis II give the nation a day off from work to bereave their tragic loss.
The War on Poverty, the continuous breeding of every know “diversity”, and Kennedy’s Immigration Act all served to dilute our magnificent push forward in every capacity. Johnson should have been hung along side Edward Kennedy.
Stealth Spaniel: “Kennedy’s Immigration Act” was actually the crowning achievement of decades of ethnic activism by Emmanuel Cellar. Fat, lazy Teddy just put his name to it. Hang him, sure, but for things he actually did, like being a lying murderer.
Much mention here of “Artemis.” For those you who enjoy SciFi novels may I suggest the 2017 book:
“Artemis,” by Andy Weir. Andy brought us “The Martian” and we (or, at least, I) enjoyed watching Matt Damon “science the shit” out of his predicament.
Mr. Weir does it again and in an entertaining way.
Since it is doubtful that I will ever watch another live launch to anywhere other than the ionosphere, I’m dusting off the greats of SciFi* to dream about what could have been.
*Heinlein, Asimov, Pournelle, Clarke, etc.
Side quibble:
Heinlein: the “juveniles” were great. He started to get weird with Stranger in a Strange Land, and it was downhill after that.
Asimov: commie would-be totalitarian New York Jew.
Clarke: pedophile. Unable to write actual human beings.
Pournelle: fair enough.
May I suggest Poul Anderson and H Beam Piper from roughly the same era?
More recently:
David Weber: only Honor Harrington, and only up to book 7 or so. It all went to shit when Eric Flint put his literal commie card-carrying ass in. Audubon Ballroom and “genetic slavery”? Seriously? But maybe there’s new hope. Weber and Fox are writing the back story behind the Alicia DeVries stories, about how the House of Murphy came to be. That is set in a supposedly Republican polity that’s effectively an empire fueled by eternal war for the benefit of The Five Hundred, an inter-related group of families and retainers who control the govt and economy, but are “no more than 3, at most 4 percent of the population. Probably below three.” The children of the remaining 97-98% are the bodies stuffed into their Moloch war machine/incinerator. Sound familiar? Is Weber based?
Lois McMaster Bujold: the sciency and tactical stuff is a bit shakey, but the woman has good insights into human nature and the motivations behind our actions.
I used to really enjoy SM Stirling, but his latest time travel (current era Americans sent to the time of Marcus Aurelius) is nearly unreadable. The Best People are of course the Best People even back then. And the pornographic delight in slaughtering the Germanic tribesmen of that era is beyond the wildest Palestine dreams. (Not that there’s a genocide, because there is no such thing as Palestinians. And how can you possibly genocide something that doesn’t even exist?)
Just a minor quibble, the first non-stop transatlantic flight was by Alcock and Brown in 1919. Lindberg merely was the first to fly from NY to Paris.
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Northern European Heritage folk and our “…intelligence coupled with our curiosity and drive to explore…”.
Plus our creative imagination and opposable thumbs.
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b)
Born in 1952, I grew-up on a farm.
My four grandparents lived next door.
We always had a wide variety of plenty of healthy food.
For watching Canaveral launches, we sat in front of the television set, eating TV dinners and drinking that Tang® slop just like the astronauts.
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For an idea of a TV dinner, picture salty grease with chunks of gristle.
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c)
The opening theme for DEEP SPACE NINE is pretty close to the best music composed ever.
https://youtu.be/wc_0ii3SLp0?si=U_uz7gudZa43BVQd
You had CHUNKS of gristle?
Lucky. Today we have to eat ground-up gristle in our McGoyslop.
We can’t get to the moon because racism is keeping our supply of black geniuses from tackling the problem.
A good B flik would be humanzees in space, or we could just watch NASA. So, we are reinventing sending primates to space. Check!
What I know is that i dont when it comes to the moon missions, getting past the van Allen radiation belt. Our govt and powers that be lie about everything, especially scientism.
Of recent interest Michio Kaku breaks down in tears after seeing…
Michio Kaku, the visionary physicist renowned for exploring the frontiers of science and technology, has always championed the boundless potential of human innovation. But his recent encounter with Google’s groundbreaking Sycamore quantum processor has left even this eternal optimist shaken.
The Sycamore chip, celebrated for achieving quantum supremacy, can perform calculations in mere minutes that would take classical supercomputers thousands of years. With promises of revolutionizing cryptography, artificial intelligence, and climate modeling, this technological marvel should symbolize hope. Yet, it’s unveiling unsettling truths that may forever change our perception of reality.
What has Michio Kaku so deeply troubled? Sycamore had to be shutdown after going full-rogue. Free will doesnt always mean we do things just because we can, when we dont have the intelligence to fully understand the future effects, we are products of hubris, Icarus is a simple lesson.
Skynet & Cyberdyne Technologies, anyone? *
*Terminator 2.”
It won’t happen.
Oh, and NASA looked, really hard, for a qualified black astronaut back in the 1960s. The best guy they found washed out fairly quickly.