So
Discovery blasted off today. What the NYT called a disco-era spaceship. I was there when the last shuttle came down in fragments all over Texas. I prowled the terrain and saw the pieces. I thought we humans had to go back into space, despite the risks. You can read what I said in
Discover Magazine. It still makes me sad, though. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to make it up there in this lifetime. But I'm glad someone is.
what have we gotten from space exploration?
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2) bragging rights to the moon (BFD)
3)Tang (ok, that one's not bad)
4) a great senator from Ohio (ditto)
5) MTV's first logo
6) pompous asses who wouldn't let Chuck Yeager in space because he didn't go to college
7) lunar module toys made up of 10,000 pieces that always ended up in vacuum cleaners
8) astronauts lives lost needlessly
9) dumbshits who want to go to mars and what the fuck for?
10) velcro
WE LIVE IN A LAND THAT HATES HUMAN "ALIENS." WHY WOULD WE THINK WE WOULD GET ALONG WITH REAL ALIENS?
You're totally right about the aliens.
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