Interesting juxtaposition in the news... 42 years ago today, the first moon landing took place.
Tomorrow, the last American Space Shuttle mission into outer space lands and will not return.
We had a good run back then when we could invent big things like rocket boosters and small things like transistors and microchips to win our race into outer space. Now we can't be bothered with the cost. Oh no, too expensive.
No use "down here" on earth.
Just a waste of money.
We will now buy our flights to the ISS from the Russians who got the first satellite into space before we could get ours up and STILL seem to have an idea that this might be worth some investments on their part.
I guess that means the THEY "Won" the space race after all, no?
I am just saddened and waiting for something else "to do - not because it was easy, but because it was hard."
We can work with the Republicans and the Gang of 6 to remove Social Security and Medicare as well as all dispose of all union labor wage jobs... and then we can walk together with our Tea Party brethren into the sunny future of the benefits we will all reap when the wealth that is being systemically shoveled up to the top income earners finally begins to trickle down upon us.
Hopefully that trickle down will not be in the form of mercury from extra profitable coal fired plants running without any environmental considerations that also produce acid rain, or perhaps fallout from whichever aged but non regulated or maintained nuke power plant that melts down here.
America, we used to DO things. Now, we just watch it on the TeeVee.
I need a drink and it isn't even Rum 'n coke Friday yet. [sigh]