30 Years Since Last Man on the Moon

Honeydipper Dan writes "December 14 marks the 30th anniversary of the last man on the Moon . I haven't noticed any hoopla about this. Perhaps this event raises the subtext of why we haven't been back a little more than the first Moon landing's 30th anniversary did over 3 years ago. The Apollo 17 mission was a great success, however, and deserves to be remembered. It marked the first (and last) time a geologist was on the surface of the Moon. Meanwhile, NASA is commemorating the Wright brothers' flight of December 17, 1903, getting ready for next year's Centennial of Flight."

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Something Happened to America

[Baldrson]

• The first Arab Oil Embargo subsequent to the Yom Kippur War.
• Zero Population Growth became a religion among the population most likely to pioneer space and most likely to stop breeding if bound to Earth.
• Birth control went big time.
• The largest influx of nubile females in the history of the west spawned the Summer of Love and Sexual Revolution.
• These soured into Disco and Women's Lib.
• The US lost its first war.
• Immigration laws were liberalized to a degree that seemed to demand the existing population move on to space (or somewhere).
• Young boomer males who dreamed of developing space as youth started getting infected by a deadly virus while squealing like sows -- not in the rural hills of "Deliverance" as they had been warned -- but in the urban bathhouses as they had not been so warned.
• We were very very worried by about former Nazis like Werner Von Braun leaving their hiding places in South American running the world with clones and hidden diamonds by exploiting dissatisfaction with poor economic conditions.
• Stagflation defied economist theories.
• Real estate prices inflated far faster than the wages of entry-level jobs for young couples.
• Interest rates were set to skyrocket to 19% fixed rate for mortgages.
• Divorce rates skyrocketed. ... and the last man on the moon stepped off.