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.
Saturday, January 26, 2019
Geologist-Astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt is photographed standing next to a huge, split boulder at Station 6 on the sloping base of North Massif during the third Apollo 17 extravehicular activity at the Taurus-Littrow landing site.
That was in December 1972... We just stopped. Just. Stopped.
We've been in Afghanistan longer and have spent more money & lives than was spent on the whole Moon endeavor. From when President Kennedy said we will do this to us abandoning the moon.
OTOH there is a guy on my Twitter feed who is a flat-earther; he'd say that this photo was cleverly faked, & he's serious. People like him are part of the reason we're no longer going to the Moon; our society is dumbed-down from what it was in the '60s.
Kubrick is driving the Rover.
ReplyDeleteThat was in December 1972... We just stopped. Just. Stopped.
ReplyDeleteWe've been in Afghanistan longer and have spent more money & lives than was spent on the whole Moon endeavor. From when President Kennedy said we will do this to us abandoning the moon.
It breaks my heart to see how much we've lost.
ReplyDeleteOTOH there is a guy on my Twitter feed who is a flat-earther; he'd say that this photo was cleverly faked, & he's serious. People like him are part of the reason we're no longer going to the Moon; our society is dumbed-down from what it was in the '60s.