And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, November 15, 2015
1954 … Walt and Werner
What Walt Disney and Werner Von Braun were doing together, I don't know.
Walt was very interested in space flight - witness "Tomorrowland". He did the animation for Von Braun's project to send spacecraft to Mars. Von Braun wanted to send a fleet of ships to insure that they made it, reasoning that if one had problems, the others could help or transfer crew.
There is a rumor that Walt was frozen when he died to await revival when technology caught up. Then again there is also a rumor that he was cremated and his ashes rest at Forest Lawn Cemetery. I make no claims either way.
That shot was from the Disneyland television show "Man in Space." I've hardly ever watched television, so the shows I saw as a 9-year-old pretty much stick with me. I remember the kids at school doing Werner von Braun impressions in the week that followed.....
Walt was very interested in space flight - witness "Tomorrowland". He did the animation for Von Braun's project to send spacecraft to Mars. Von Braun wanted to send a fleet of ships to insure that they made it, reasoning that if one had problems, the others could help or transfer crew.
ReplyDeleteThere is a rumor that Walt was frozen when he died to await revival when technology caught up. Then again there is also a rumor that he was cremated and his ashes rest at Forest Lawn Cemetery. I make no claims either way.
That shot was from the Disneyland television show "Man in Space." I've hardly ever watched television, so the shows I saw as a 9-year-old pretty much stick with me. I remember the kids at school doing Werner von Braun impressions in the week that followed.....
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