edit to add---Hmm, did you edit your post, because it sure seems like you did, though there is no record of that. Perhaps I'm just losing my mind.
Nope, no edit. Although didn't "someone" accuse "someone else" about doing that?
I *think* that if someone is quoting a post, and the original post was edited before the reply was published, the quoted version gets updated when the "Reply" button is pressed/mashed/hit. I've never gone to the effort to verify that though. Maybe if someone is interested enough to do a Google search on the topic with regards to XenForo forums...
No bucks, no Buck Rodgers.
Do you believe that we went to the moon?I would say that if the technology today is way better than the 50's it will be way more economical than in the past. They couldn't even mantain the shuttles flying............
I read that thinking that it's really sad that we don't think like that anymore. I must have just been amazing to grow up during that era when everyone was excited about furthering human exploration. I posted a lot of the Mars rover stuff on my FB page and I think only TWO people commented or even liked it. I've asked other friends when talking on the phone and they didn't even know it happened. DUDE! We just put something the size of a VW Jetta on Mars using a sky crane!!!!!
Sad isn't it? I was amazed yesterday. I was in Ontario for the night and had BBC world news on. They were actually interviewing someone from the Curiosity team, and did about 15 of Q&A with him. Why hasn't our media focused on this at all? It's so pathetic that people now don't give a crap about the accomplishment that Curiosity is. I actually saw a news story the other day in the morning headlines about some celebrity that got into a car accident and "Severely injured her thumb". So that's news, but landing a vehicle on another celestial body and exploring it is not.
I like what Gus Grissom (presciently) said.
"If we die, we want people to accept it. We're in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life."
Wall Street doesn't sound so bad in that case.
I go on CNN.com right now, and see a whole section at the top about Curiosity. I think the "Americans don't care" thing might be in your head, bro!
It might just be sample size. My FB feed was flooded with people posting and commenting about the Mars Curiosity lander. I had friends who had parties to watch the landing (I didn't go, I'm not that nerdy). So hope is not lost!
That's been my experience, as well. What concerns me most is our fellow Americans who are so quick to lose faith!
Do you believe that we went to the moon?
Do you believe that the United States sent men to the moon on multiple occasions, specifically the Apollo missions, or do you believe that they were a hoax?I have never been there. What about you???
Do you believe that the United States sent men to the moon on multiple occasions, specifically the Apollo missions, or do you believe that they were a hoax?
edit to add: You can certainly equivocate the answer if that's how you believe as well. I'm not going to bash whatever answer you give (or even argue with you about it), I'm just curious if you actually feel strong enough to take a position publicly rather than just beat around the bush.