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Originally Posted by Finnster
You know what flips my lid? The fact that we could use 60's technology to lift someone off the planet in a titanium chevy Nova strapped atop a million pound roman candle designed w/ pencils and slide rules, fly safely across the dead vacuum of space, land all the way on a moving object exactly where they wanted, land on the moon w/o crashing, joy ride around in a fraking golf cart, and turn around and come all the way home riding a flaming fireball thru the atmosphere and safely crash in the ocean. And no one sunk to the bottom nor died some horrible death they rightly temping 10,000 times a day.
That is some crazy ass shit, and we did it. Several times.
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I love this one, classic!
The great thing is that people back then couldn't obsess with why some computer model told us it couldn't be done.
I still find it interesting that the laws of physics states a bumble bee cannot fly, yet I see them flying around all the time without giving one thought to our laws of physics.
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