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bjrogg:
I see so many similar divisions as I did when we lit that first candle. The beginning of the space exploration for Americans and the quest to reach the moon. I remember as a child watching us landing on the moon. The whole country, the whole world watching. I often wonder if we can manage to come together like that again.

As a young child this event had a very deep long lasting impression on me. I thought and still think we can do anything we truly set our minds to. I didn’t get to watch the space x rocket take off yesterday, but I’m so happy that we are going to space again with a beautiful rocket built on our soil and launched from our soil. I’m not meaning to put down any other countries, just happy for mine.

With everything that is tearing us apart, maybe we can find something to pull us together. Not sure anything can. Maybe the return to the moon can. I don’t know. I’m sure looking forward to seeing us bouncing around up there again. Hopefully doing much more this time.

What do you think? Any chance?  Nothing like looking at earth from the moon to realize. It’s a small world.

Bjrogg

PS hoping this thread stays positive. Hopefully that’s not to much to ask for

bjrogg:
I understand hedge.
 
I know we’ve done some absolutely amazing and unbelievable things. Truly unbelievable. I mean over 50 years later some still don’t believe we did it. We have probed the plants of our solar system. Sent unmanned rovers to explore Mars.  Voyager is exploring beyond ours. It’s all fantastic and amazing. Nothing like watching a man or woman bouncing around out there. Wacking a golf ball. Kicking up dust.
Taking one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.

Heck I don’t know how it would effect us as a world anymore. We might be disappointed. The si fi movies might be better

Bjrogg

Pat B:
BJ, I was around for Sputnik, the first satellite to circle the earth, and ever though it was the Russians that got there first it got us stimulated to go farther. I watched the first man(American) in space and until and including the first man on the moon I as did many, watched every maned flight to orbit the earth and into outer space. John Kennedy said we would put a man on the moon by the end of that decade and we all believed it would happen, and it did. We, as Americans and as citizens of this world can do anything when we put our collective heads together.
 Look how we geared up for WWII. Our factories were putting out a fighter plane every few minutes, a bomber every hour and a battle ship every week and by the way much of that work was done by the women of this country while the men were at war. We, as a country and we as a member of a global family can do amazing things when we work together.
 My wife's grandmother took her bicycle to the Write Brothers bicycle shop in Dayton Ohio in the early 1900s and got to see the first man on the moon in 1969 in her lifetime. Think of the progress that occurred during that relatively short time. The computer that was used to put the first man on the moon would fill a large room and now, 50 years later the cell phone that most folks carry with them everywhere and every day has way more capability than that first room full of electronics. And, incidentally, it was a few humans that made the final calculations with pencil and paper that made that historic event happen.
 I loved watching the liftoff yesterday. It stirred memories of the first man in space and everything since then. In the old days it was mostly government money, taxpayers dollars that made it all possible. Now we will rely on American industry and industries from all over the world to achieve the next step and other steps from now on.
 Look at the earth from the Hubble telescope, you can't see the earth, you can hardly see our solar system. We, here on earth are less than small. In the grand scheme of things, we are hardly anything at all, just another speck of dust in the VAST UNIVERSE.
 I know that we, collectively, can do anything we put our minds to. Nothing is impossible when we work together for it.

bjrogg:
That’s exactly how I feel Pat. Sometimes I wonder if you just had to live through it to really appreciate it for what it’s really all about.

I was surprised how many people said it was impossible when President Trump announced that we were going to send a man or woman to the moon in this decade. Gee should be a cakewalk compared to the first time. I really hope I get to watch it again. This time with my kids and grandkids. With all the sci fi movies now, it might be hard to explain to them. This is real, not a movie.

Bjrogg

PS as I’m riding along in my tractor. That’s steering itself by calculating where it is and where it’s supposed to be going from signals it triangulates from satellites. I heard space x successfully docked with ISS.

Del the cat:
Well said Pat B. :)
Good to have a post that is back on message :)
(...the other stuff is getting tiresome  :( ).
Del

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