45 years ago tonight America put men on the Moon,now we have to hitch a ride from the Russians to get back and forth from the space station.
http://youtu.be/5QS3JSRGk3o?t=3m40s
The latest numbers available for fiscal year 2012 indicate we spent $74.6Billion on federal food stamps last year,but just $17.8Billion on Nasa.Given the results of both programs I would say we should have spent more on Space.
I really wish I hadn’t read this post.
It makes me feel very, very old to remember that I watched it on TV.
…and me, delayed milky coverage.
The amount of money over the years since 1969 that is wasted on food stamps, ebt cards and the lot could have gotten us back to the moon, built a base there and launched from the moon manned flights to mars. Plus started a mars base with population.
Maybe even had the first humans born on the moon and mars. But, Nooooo, can not have that, allah forbid that should ever happen.
Agreed.
In my living room I have a framed photo of Armstrong/Collins/Aldrin as well as scale models of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo capsules. I loved following the US space program (my first taste of it was as a 5 y.o watching the SKYLAB launch replayed on BCNZ TV news) but I fear it’s been damaged beyond salvation . . . fundamental transformation and all that.
Liberalism destroys everything.
North America was discovered by the Vikings around 1000 A.D.
The first colony in North America was founded at St. Augustine, Florida in 1565.
These colonies in far away places take time to appear after the first boots on the ground.
You do seem to have a very European oriented view of history.
The forerunners of the Native Americans arrived there about 15,000 years ago and they stayed. After all they were there to see they European settlers arrive, weren’t they?
I suppose you also consider that Abel Tasman “discovered” New Zealand?
“I suppose you also consider that Abel Tasman “discovered” New Zealand?”
Unlike a couple of boatloads of cannibals who drifted there a few hundred years before?
And there’s some evidence that American Indians weren’t the first settlers, Alwyn. Like maori, they actively work to suppress any evidence that they weren’t there first.
And the recent DNA evidence that Maori arrived in NZ via Taiwan and PNG has conveniently been disappeared down the Memory Hole.
No, it was discovered by the Chinese. The Maoris are the descendants of the slave workers brought down to work the jade and gold mines on the West Coast.
Bloody auto correct! ‘Space’ should read ‘slave’
Well, it does now.
Interesting, how PC people give themselves away by the terminology they use……ie the use of “Native Americans” instead of American Indians.
Exactly,there is evidence that someone was mining Copper in the Great lakes region in a big way as early as 3000 BC,possibly as early as 6000BC and it wasn’t the American Indians-
http://www.philipcoppens.com/copper.html
Also recent DNA evidence suggests that European DNA was here as early as 20,000 years ago,possibly even earlier.
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2012/03/new-evidence-supports-solutrean.html
All of this is nonsense squabbling about who was here first,it doesn’t matter.The Earth was here first and it will be here after humans are a faint memory.
“men come and go, but earth abides”.
Agree! I wager the Greenies would differ.
The Solutreans. A search of that turns up about a hundred years worth of reading. My understanding is this; North America is actually a white homeland dating back to pre-history so we’d better not say anything b/c it might upset the folks feeding the gravy-train~
http://youtu.be/tl98LyAXaqE
Graham Hancock Breaks the Set on TED Censorship, Lost Civilizations & War on Consciousness
“Given the results of both programs I would say we should have spent more on Space.”
Agreed. A helluva lot more on space and not a *cent* on overseas aid to Muslim savages like the Fakestinians.
when I read this; all I visualise is the scene from the “Meaning of Life” where another baby slips out the back of woman – “ohh could you pick that up, Deidre”[or whoever]…and our media screaming out “food for our Kiwi kids”….FFS ..”whose starving kids?”.
…….just as bad was seeing another TVNZ exploit on poverty where the panelists had to buy a weeks “poverty line” groceries for $85..all cringe and moan [plus wheel out the “expert” saying no,no ,no – $350 is the “requirement”] and what they had bought for $85 was almost identical to what we used to live on in the 60’s to the late 70’s [not a sacrifice as such, but my parents had a long view plan for us all]……ahhh spit!
“The forerunners of the Native Americans arrived there about 15,000…”
Since the Indians arrived in North America 15,000 years ago by walking across the land bridge from Asia that existed then, or paddling ye olde canoe from Asia in the icy North Pacific, the fact remains that the Indians are not more “Native American” than any anyone born on this continent.
Exactly!
This is the same for NZ. I am not sure who or what is native of Australia though.
Well, Cad, far as I can see who is and is not “native” is a purely arbitrary construct. A political choice rather than anything to do with truly defining who is and is not.
Yes. I recall you posting on an aboriginal academic once who was as white as the driven snow. I think the topic was land rights….
I don’t recall, Cad but I’m sure it was a sympathetic and well-mannered post…
As one expects!
I remember the moon landing. I was six years old and was brought into the TV room by my Grandfather. I remember being in my PJs and curious about what was going on. There was an air of excitement in the den as we watched Walter Cronkite call the moon landing. The moon, I had seen it in the sky lots of times. A bright orb hanging in the night sky with the other bodies of heaven. I didn’t know how far away it was, but it was far.
The LEM was dropping down on to the surface of the moon and it touched down to stunned silence in our den. My Grandfather and Grandmother were in a state of awe at the achievement of man. I guess that I was excited just because they were. At first, I didn’t really know the significance of that moment. What it truly meant for man to have achieved the moon. It would be many years later when I would realize why it was so very important and the special honor that it was to have been there to see it.
As a species, we had left our home and taken our first steps into a much larger world. In one fell stroke we were pioneers all over again. I still get chills when I recall that experience. Today, I find myself looking up into the heavens and wonder when we will return to the exploration of our solar neighborhood. Neil Armstrong took the first baby steps into space, how have we let those languish for so long without stepping past them? Why have we not taken the challenge to go to Mars?
John F. Kennedy tossed America’s cap over the wall of space, and we went in just a few short years to get it back. The human spirit demands that we keep going. If man has a true spirit, it is that of the pioneer. I am too old to go into space now, but I still dream of it. That was the true legacy of Apollo 11. It awoke a drive in man to reach for the stars. We have touched them once, let us now stride amongst them. Let us return to being pioneers.
“We have touched them once, let us now stride amongst them. Let us return to being pioneers.”
Mankind has always advanced by exploring,space will be no different.
Dr. James Van Allen
The Van Allen radiation belt
http://youtu.be/h24ZqDL-D0I
Good stuff! Thanks, Robert.
The leftists-greenies & white haters choose to live in a Judeo-Christian culture for their
own personal comfort built by white men and women with only the best intentions of
furthering humanity , but lately we are condemed as racist colonizers who need to pay for our unkind interaction with beautiful peaceful ‘natives’ centuries ago ?Is this a dream? , or just a sick joke? Nup ,it’s an anti white hatefest
.Anyway , i look at the moon and know in my heart American White Men made the impossible happen.
http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.co.nz/search?updated-max=2014-07-14T15:39:00-07:00&max-results=4&start=4&by-date=false
PS ,’ crazy interesting fact’: Earths moon is the largest satellite , relative to its home
planet’s size, in the solar system.(some racist white guy found that out) .