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  1. I've always had a problem with the name "Hugh".

     

    When I was 15 my dad took me deer hunting and when we stopped at a friend's cabin I was surprised when a woman told me I had been shot at that morning. I remember scratching my head going over all the scenarios with the "WTF" cloud hanging over my head for about 15 minutes, until I happened to hear her call her husband by his given name - Hugh. Apparently she had said "Hugh got shot at", and not "You got shot at." And no, I wasn't drinking. Too young.

  2. The fact is that you really can't afford not to have a space program. The US is in danger of terminal decline. How are you going to feel when the Chinese or the Indians have a permanent presence on the moon and are exploiting resources from the asteroid belt when you guys are still hitching rides on Ruskie rockets?

     

    Can't argue that. But in order to pay for it our politicians had better get their fiscal priorities straight and stop wasting money that they don't even have.

  3. Is their ambition to end up like us, a country of shopkeepers, call centres and corrupt politicians and newspapermen, whose own government doesn't trust to build its own railways? A sad day.

     

    You could easily be describing the US of A, Colin. The fact is, we can't afford a space program. Our short-sighted politicians have excavated a colossal pit of debt - $4 trillion since Obama took office - and we're headed for national default. The current debt-deiling negotiations are a harbinger of future events. Unless we elect fiscal conservatives and stop the bleeding soon, things are going to get very ugly.

  4. I remember reading about this tragedy in the newspapers back in the '80s, and especially a photo of one of the sailors that was published. It must have been tough, and there was no Shackleton to save them. No wonder there were so many mad Roman Emperors. Everything they ate and drank out of had lead in or on it.

     

    Good post, Ziggy.

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