Who cares about history?

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

But not long term, unlike the Shuttle. You want the Russians to own space, after all your country has done up there?

I want NASA of the 60s, not these asshats that managed to infest one of the most amazing things we have done as humans. To paraphrase Gene Krantz, we lost the human factor. All that technology we have available to us and we can't do shit with it, as opposed to what those guys did with barely anything.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Trip

I want NASA of the 60s, not these asshats that managed to infest one of the most amazing things we have done as humans. To paraphrase Gene Krantz, we lost the human factor. All that technology we have available to us and we can't do shit with it, as opposed to what those guys did with barely anything.

Good. I was starting to worry about you. That sort of thing takes money though. You guys should have a permanent base on The Moon, by now, not part ownership of a tin can timeshare, in orbit.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Good. I was starting to worry about you. That sort of thing takes money though. You guys should have a permanent base on The Moon, by now, not part ownership of a tin can timeshare, in orbit.

Yeah, Apollo was huge f'ing money and the lost support bad after the first moon landing. People weren't even paying attention to Apollo 13 until the explosion. That's just ludacris to think about that people got that uninterested in going to the moon that fast. I didn't agree with everything JFK did, but he really pushed us as far as stretching our goals as humans and Americans in the technological sense. We need another leader with that frame of mind to get NASA off their ass. I doubt anything like that will happen til we get some kind of recovery going though.

[Papa_Complex]

Hell, getting rid of him was the best thing that ever happened to us.

.... until we decided to send you Celine Dion too.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Hell, getting rid of him was the best thing that ever happened to us.

.... until we decided to send you Celine Dion too.

and fuckin Bryan Adams, you dirty son of a bitch...

At least we stole your hot women too.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Trip

and fuckin Bryan Adams, you dirty son of a bitch...

At least we stole your hot women too.

You stole a few of our hot women. We've got millions more. It was either have a yard sale, or let you have them.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

You stole a few of our hot women. We've got millions more. It was either have a yard sale, or let you have them.

the other million are still waiting for socialized dentistry to fix their teeth

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Dave

the other million are still waiting for socialized dentistry to fix their teeth

Funny thing about not having to dump $250.00 a month on health insurance; you can actually afford a dentist. You must be thinking of the English but, to them, it's a cultural thing

[OneSickPsycho]

We should return Michael J Fox for obvious defects.

[Papa_Complex]

After my visit to the Hamilton Warplane Heritage Museum, today, I'm convinced that 1950s pilots were jockeys. If I'm not comfortable in the cockpit of a Silver Star (I think that's what it was) at 5'9", then I doubt that anyone could be.