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What really blows my mind is that the first manned, powered flight was in just 1903…lasting 12 seconds and covering a whopping 120 feet. So in the space of just ~ 66 years we went from not being able really fly to putting people on a foreign body in space 239,000 miles away with no oxygen. Absolutely astonishing… A real life Sisyphus... "It's not the critic who counts..." TR Exodus 23.2: Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong... Despite some people's claims to the contrary, 5 lbs. is actually different than 12 lbs. It's never simple/easy. | |||
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When you look at the cars of the time a realize that was the state of technology for the average person, it’s really amazing. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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I was 8 at the time. I was allowed to stay up after my prescribed 8:30 bed time to watch it on our black and white TV, and we didn't go to bed until well after midnight. My dad literally broke the back of his rocking chair because he was so tense. He accidentally pushed his upper back through it. (He had farmed all his life and was ridiculously strong.) When he was a young man, there was still significant horse drawn traffic, supplemented by electric mass transportation. Then he sat in his living room, aged only in his 50's, watching live as men walked on the moon. I don't understand how that generation managed to adapt. __________________________ "Sooner or later, wherever people go, there's the law. And sooner or later, they find out that God's already been there." -- John Wayne as Chisum | |||
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I remember staying up late with my father to watch. It was the early morning following my 14th birthday. | |||
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My Dad stayed up all night watching it. I was asleep probably crapping my diaper. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt" "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris | |||
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I was just out of HS. I remember watching with my entire family on our B&W Packard Bell TV. It sure was not hard to look around and find a REAL hero back then, when men were men and acted like it. This country is unrecognizable now and not for the better! | |||
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