Friends, our intrepid Space Force has taken a giant leap forward by releasing its first tv recruitment ad. Check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNsvgbpLMnQ
Best wishes to the Space Force, and may the U.S. return to the Moon and conquer Mars ASAP!
In other news, the coronavirus continues to fester in Brazil, and there are signs it may be worsening in Mexico as well. Personally, I've been mystified by the virulence of the disease in the developed world, and its near absence in the developing world. Maybe I spoke too soon?
https://www.foxnews.com/world/mexico-city-coronavirus-cases-spike
Lastly, there continue to be encouraging signs that the Western world has COVID-19 on the run...and that normal life can be resumed without a major resurgence of the disease. The Germans are showing us the way! Let's be bold enough to follow in their footsteps.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/germany-declares-first-phase-covid-155722069.html
The Germans are going to do what they want anyway, no matter what anyone says. This includes screwing up Europe by accepting huge numbers of Muslim "refugees" who don't seem to fit very well into "Teutonic Society" and then bullying the rest of Europe to do the same thing. Fortunately, Hungary has not been sucked into this. So, I am far more interested in how Hungary is reopening after this PANICDEMIC.
ReplyDeleteRay: A very perceptive point. Dr. Waddy: For a "junior astronomer" of the fifties, when all space travel was imaginary and of the '60's when we marveled at the astonishing things that were done, that ad is such a thrill. Those of my age, we are living in the future; its a marvel and it promises so very much more!
ReplyDeleteBut today there was a documentary on about the Voyagers and that subject absolutely entrances me and has for a very long time.When I was a kid, using a 3 inch reflector to look at the moon, the idea that we would have sent vehicles into interstellar space in my lifetime would have floored me. The retrospective photo of the Solar System one of them took is beyond wonder for me. It may well be that two machines manufactured and launched by our country will outlive all of mankind, all of Earth or our Sun. But I also delight in the notion that future starships may retrieve the Voyagers and esconse them in museums. Its a golden time for any fascinated by space.
Dr. Waddy: I've seen third world population density at its reputed worse and I trust you have too. Is this not a plausibly significant factor in the progress of this disease in Africa and Latin America? Couldn't get the Fox article.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: Yesterday we were regaled by the image of our redoubtable and increasingly putatively "Presidential" NY Governor emoting on his determination not to hazard a single life in NY to the virus as that would be unbearable for his delicate psyche and his vital ego. Completely unconsidered in this his dolorous lamentation is the certainty that economic disaster also takes lives, yes, certainly Andrew! You have never been one of the business world which sustains our economy and generates all the wealth your type so freely and presumptuously taxes. Failure in the down to earth population you so airily champion, in small business I say, often generates the most serious of familial disorders (the traditional family, oh yes, that institution you lefties so disdain), such as divorce, financial ruin and suicide. Do you harbor concern equal to that of your so very passionately enacted concern for those directly threatened by the virus, for those so hazarded? No, plainly, you do not and that defines you and all of your ilk. If you run for President, do not doubt we will sound the clarion call nationwide against your dismissiveness of all who doubt you and your insular NY presumption and arrogance.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy: Oh also; I always wondered how the Honeymooners got on with almost no furniture!?
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: Additionally: I think , beside modern medical engineering, the Voyagers to have been the supreme achievment of modern engineering and an undying tribute to all who austerely and anonymously brought them about. May they be celebrated forever!
ReplyDeleteRay: I share your admiration for the Hungarians! If it comforts you, though, consider that one silver lining of this pandemic is that Third World immigration to the West has almost completely ground to a halt. For how long. though?
ReplyDeleteGood point, Jack. The Voyagers may well prove to be our most important foray into space thus far, unless one counts radio waves... I suspect you've seen Star Trek: The Motion Picture?
Jack, the Left's complete indifference to all forms of threat EXCEPT the coronavirus at this stage merely demonstrates their remarkable capacity for hysteria and emotionalism. That they think themselves "rational" is just a sign that they lack even the most elementary form of self-understanding.
Dr. Waddy: Yeah , I saw the movie and I loved it both for its use of Vger and the remarkable tastefulness and restrain it employed in evoking the TV series.
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ReplyDeleteJack/Linda -- we Trekkies need to stick together!
ReplyDeleteThe original Star Trek movie was odd in a lot of ways. Certainly there's never been another Star Trek movie like it. It appeals to the imagination, and that's what sci fi really ought to be all about.
Dr. Waddy and Linda: I certainly agree; I most enjoy scifi which depicts plausibly imaginative situations, connections to reality as we know it, if you will and the first Star Trek movie did that beautifully. My personal favorite is Clarke's Childhood's End and I'd love to see a movie made of that with today's special effects. My favorite Trek episodes were Apollo and The Trouble with Tribbles plus the one in which, in popular TV's finest moment, Spock bade the computer compute PI and drove the alien therein to madness (they actually assumed the audience knew about PI).
ReplyDeleteChildhood's End, huh? Never heard of it, but based on your high recommendation it goes on my list!
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