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.
Point of order: the dark circle is the open hatch cover, swung over to the side. The actual portside hatch entry is at the end of the gantryway to the left of view, and it isn't that hard to get through, even suited up.
Getting to the oil dipstick under the hood is somewhat more difficult.
I never had the right stuff. I'm a button pusher, Spam in a can. I don't even fly the ship. It's all automatic. I only got this far on charm and my rugged good looks. - Planet 51
(voice of Dave Bowman) "It's made of little tiles"! VERY EXPENSIVE little tiles.
ReplyDeleteOnly expensive if one goes missing...
DeletePity the poor schmoe who’s gotta pull the plugs out of the thrusters and the civers off the windshields.
ReplyDeleteI've stood on that platform.
ReplyDeleteThe entry is difficult, but it's the re-entry that would be worrying me.
ReplyDeletePoint of order: the dark circle is the open hatch cover, swung over to the side.
ReplyDeleteThe actual portside hatch entry is at the end of the gantryway to the left of view, and it isn't that hard to get through, even suited up.
Getting to the oil dipstick under the hood is somewhat more difficult.
"Spam in a can" - Alan Shepard
ReplyDeleteI never had the right stuff.
I'm a button pusher, Spam in a can.
I don't even fly the ship. It's all automatic.
I only got this far on charm and my rugged good looks. - Planet 51
Hangs in the museum in Cape Canaveral go see it really cool.
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