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Re: Far Drives The Thundering Jet

From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to tednolan on Sat Oct 26 11:36:16 2024

On 22 Nov 2023 18:36:44 GMT, [email protected] (Ted Nolan
<tednolan>) wrote:

Finally got around to watching the launch footage. Now *this* is
the 21st century I was promised..

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1726425687299358872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1726425687299358872%7Ctwgr%5E342bb81f0ea9919e7efa45ff02e13a34d57303e7%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Farticle%2Felon-musk-

starship-spacex-images

https://tinyurl.com/mrerwm5y

Exactly - though I was one of those who as a young teenager saw 2001:
A Space Odyssey and hoped it would be prophetic.

I hated Richard Nixon far more for the way he emasculated the US space
program than I ever did for his 18 1/2 minutes of blank tape

He pretty much set the program back 40 years.

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