Just an Earth-Bound Misfit: The Rantings of an Aging, Armed, Pinko Chick

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Friday, May 11, 2018

This Shit Never Gets Old For Me

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Supposedly, that's the first flight of a booster stage that is designed for ten flights.

I remember Project Mercury. This shit never gets old.

7 comments:

Z@X said...: Same same; it never gets old!; 5/11/2018 6:07 PM
barney said...: What is the name of the airplanes on your page? They are really beautiful.; 5/11/2018 6:40 PM
Eck! said...: Same here... As a kid I watched Redstones and Atlas go boom on the pad.
Now I watch to see the finer successes like getting the booster back and
maybe even more of the costly parts. It is not magic, it is science and
careful study. And no, it can't get old.

Eck!; 5/11/2018 9:14 PM
Comrade Misfit said...: Barney, they're Stinson Reliants.; 5/11/2018 9:34 PM
dinthebeast said...: I watched this today also. I particularly enjoy how enthusiastic the staff is, like they all like it as much as we do.

-Doug in Oakland; 5/12/2018 12:14 AM
Anonymous said...: I was 9 in 62 (we also got to survive the Cuban Missile Crisis that year!).

I turned 16 when Apollo 11 landed on the moon.

Thankful I've seen all these cool space flights and probes like Voyager. Have a college friend that works at CalTech/JPL on the Spitzer Space Telescope.

And I got to see the First Flight of Space Shuttle Columbia.

I feel extremely lucky to have experienced these positive examples of human adventure...

Jack the Cold Warrior; 5/12/2018 4:40 AM
Mark Rossmore said...: That's the BLock 5 version too, the final iteration of the Falcon 9 (it has the large black markings). NASA requires a rocket's design to be locked down and flown for a certain number of flights before it can certified for human spaceflight. Hopefully, soon, folks will once again be riding to space off of American soil.

How do you get to Mars? One step at a time....; 5/13/2018 4:05 PM