Wimps

April 6, 2019 – 11:47 pm

It occurred to me just now that July 20th of this year will be the 50th anniversary of the first time that men walked on the Moon.

There should be Dunkin Donuts on the Moon by now. What the hell happened to us?

Posted by Malcolm on at 11:47 pm, filed under General. RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

5 Comments

  1. Doktor Jeep says

    everybody knows the reason

    Posted April 7, 2019 at 12:02 am | Permalink
  2. bomag says

    My memory of the time is of congressman coming on TV and intoning that space exploration is a worthy venture, but we need the money for something else right now.

    What that something else was, I don’t recall.

    One analogy is of adventurous men coming home, elated at their ascent of a highest peak, to be met by hectoring women and sullen stares from non-participants who ask what was in it for them. The men offered to do something on the domestic side, and were promptly saddled with a larger house and fifteen adopted African children. Kind of harshes the buzz.

    Posted April 7, 2019 at 4:35 pm | Permalink
  3. Whitewall says

    “What that something else was, I don’t recall.”

    The expanding Viet Nam war. And Lendum Billions Johnson’s Great Society welfare state.

    Posted April 7, 2019 at 5:02 pm | Permalink
  4. Schmendrick says

    Turns out space is dangerous, very difficult, and thus very expensive.

    Posted April 8, 2019 at 3:21 pm | Permalink
  5. Philip Ngai says

    The International Space Station has been occupied since Nov 2000. What has been accomplished there in that time?

    Posted April 9, 2019 at 12:58 am | Permalink

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