"Father of the Space Shuttle" should be a title of shame, because of shuttles' wasteful irresponsible uselessness, and total failure to achieve almost all of intended goals. everything they did do could have been done more efficiently in other ways. they were good for empty boasts, even that only among the ignorant, but nothing else.
jefferson was a racist ideologist, a slave owner , a rapist, and a genocidal land/resource grabber. not much different from a typical modern "American politician". you are free to respect such people, and admire a history of nation led by such people, if you want. but if you do so you are a contemptible person imo.
that this person was farsighted/risk averse enough to turn down a scheme that failed in the end. giving as reasons unreliability of short term politicians, but is now accepting lame duck position.
We are now so used to manipulated or visualized eye candy of space and planets, that when the real images etc. are released (as with Titan) its very anticlimactic and boring.
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"Father of the Space Shuttle" should be a title of shame, because of shuttles' wasteful irresponsible uselessness, and total failure to achieve almost all of intended goals. everything they did do could have been done more efficiently in other ways. they were good for empty boasts, even that only among the ignorant, but nothing else.
i would be voted down for stating facts.
jefferson was a racist ideologist, a slave owner , a rapist, and a genocidal land/resource grabber. not much different from a typical modern "American politician". you are free to respect such people, and admire a history of nation led by such people, if you want. but if you do so you are a contemptible person imo.
this is what happens when bad science fiction is taken for science. entertaining, sells copy. does nothing else.
that this person was farsighted/risk averse enough to turn down a scheme that failed in the end. giving as reasons unreliability of short term politicians, but is now accepting lame duck position.
We are now so used to manipulated or visualized eye candy of space and planets, that when the real images etc. are released (as with Titan) its very anticlimactic and boring.
Chess program was named Deep Blue. Big Blue is IBM.