To the Moon!

[MikeD]

Things that have depressed me thus far:

• Watched TLI at hotel restaurant. Waitress had no idea there was a moon mission going and proceeded to ask me if I really thought we’d landed there before.
• Watched post-TLI press conference in my hotel room. The quantity and quality of reporters was…not great.
• (By far the worst) My 6-year-old reported no discussion of the mission at all in her kindergarten class.

Reminds me of this scene in the 1978 movie Capricorn One, where Hal Holbrook explains the public sentiment during Mercury space program compared to the late Apollo space program


View: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YqMYm2MKivE&pp=ygUUQ2Fwcmljb3JuIG9uZSBhb2VlY2g%3D

 

[knot4u]

Reminds me of this scene in the 1978 movie Capricorn One, where Hal Holbrook explains the public sentiment during Mercury space program compared to the late Apollo space program


View: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YqMYm2MKivE&pp=ygUUQ2Fwcmljb3JuIG9uZSBhb2VlY2g%3D

That's great Mike, just toss gas on the fire.


Just kidding, I wonder how many people here have ever seen that movie?

 

[MikeD]

That's great Mike, just toss gas on the fire.


Just kidding, I wonder how many people here have ever seen that movie?

Awesome movie. Great flight scenes too, with the classic CL Lear 24

 

[WacoFan]

That's great Mike, just toss gas on the fire.


Just kidding, I wonder how many people here have ever seen that movie?

I have.

Hal Holbrook is a vastly underrated actor and if I were looking for a particular kind of villain he is the top pick.

 

[BobDDuck]

Hal Holbrook is a vastly underrated actor and if I were looking for a particular kind of villain he is the top pick.

I saw him do his Mark Twain one man show about 20 years ago. It was phenomenal.

 

[killbilly]

There was time for reflection, wordsmithing, collaboration, and helpful input from the editor. Besides, regular people had jobs that held their attention longer than 15 seconds.

Fast, good or cheap. Modern journalism is fast and cheap, so do the math.

Very broad brush there.

 

[Richman]

Very broad brush there.

How so? Journalism currently ranks somewhere between Congress and the local taxing authority, so…I’m not sure of your point.

If you want to claim the investigative reporting of the East Woeville Examiner-Inquirer is top shelf, that may indeed be true… to their circulation of 125 in the Greater Woeville Statistical Micropolitan Census Area.