tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post8414788316558487567..comments2024-03-28T16:31:27.365+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: WOTSONTELLY. THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES. NASA, TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY, BBC 4call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-79374314098572745762013-05-15T19:03:15.089+01:002013-05-15T19:03:15.089+01:00All a bit neglectd now, mr ot, those 'fifties ...All a bit neglectd now, mr ot, those 'fifties chanteuses - Doris Day, Rosemary Clooney ( George's mum?) Dinah Shore, Peccy Lee and Little Miss Dynamite herself. Tere were loads of them here, too, Anne Shelton, Ruby Murray, Alma Cogan and so on. It would be some years, maybe not until Joni Mitchell, that female singers were treated as seriously as the men. Only not Cilla Black, obviously, the fourth luckiest person in showbusiness.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-84409554238350027352013-05-15T18:53:45.541+01:002013-05-15T18:53:45.541+01:00The geopolitical nuances of the time, the various ...The geopolitical nuances of the time, the various elites at which you hint, not to mention the skyjacking of NASA by GlobaCorp Arms plc, mr archie, none of these detract a fraction from the bald statement that Only the USA broke the bounds of gravity - it is of course true that Sputnik 1 was actually the first vessel in extra-atmospheric orbit but as far as the poetry goes the achievement was Uncle Sam's. call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-30104578606345619812013-05-15T16:57:25.407+01:002013-05-15T16:57:25.407+01:00Brenda Lee's "Fly me to the moon" ma...Brenda Lee's "Fly me to the moon" made No1 in the US and UK while all this was going on!Old timernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-71997434819911517162013-05-15T16:50:19.423+01:002013-05-15T16:50:19.423+01:00" Only the USA broke the bounds of gravity,&q..." Only the USA broke the bounds of gravity,"<br />It took a lot of European gravitas and Soviet threat to do it.Archienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-54019976760260003122013-05-15T13:00:56.172+01:002013-05-15T13:00:56.172+01:00Mr ARchie, if you looked in my back pages at Empir...Mr ARchie, if you looked in my back pages at Empire Burlesque or Empire Burlesque revivited or almost anything flagged Uncle Sam you would find much to agree with. But other nations have tyrannised, enslaved and mass murdered, Oly the USA broke the bounds of gravity<br /><br />It's tue, dr y, in another context Uncle Sam would've hung the Peenemunders. And maybe he should have.<br /><br />Sweetly put mr yardarm, the shitkicker redneck, LBJ, the only one to achieve anything, really.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-87054131205047052512013-05-15T11:30:37.690+01:002013-05-15T11:30:37.690+01:00" men will still say, this was it's fines..." men will still say, this was it's finest hour."<br /><br />I will grant you they have had some very worst hours, but they have never really had a finest minute, as far as I can remember.Archienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-17125198803436208542013-05-15T10:18:02.710+01:002013-05-15T10:18:02.710+01:00The Moon trippy trip was a result of collaboration...The Moon trippy trip was a result of collaboration between two distinct sets of players, ex-Nazis and Freemasons.The rest of them, mainly peripheral roles.Dr. Ylleknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-7850583392304242142013-05-15T09:22:58.411+01:002013-05-15T09:22:58.411+01:00Saw it too, Mr I. And all on transistor technology...Saw it too, Mr I. And all on transistor technology too. We had our own effort out in the Australian outback in the fifties and sixties. With sweat and brains our engineers built a successful spacegoing rocket and the clerks promptly closed them down.<br /><br />We don`t do this anymore: we craft insane financial practices that bankrupt us and laud the practitioners instead to the heavens and launch quantative easing to save them.<br /><br />LBJ, almost forgotten now, sandwiched between Kennedy and Nixon. Blowhard Texan machine politician who took the Space Race, Great Society and Vietnam and drove them on: a personal exemplification of what America can do for good and evil. If they were in a room together you wouldn`t notice Obama.yardarmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08700165830593026578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-80931001908675657782013-05-15T02:02:58.036+01:002013-05-15T02:02:58.036+01:00Yes, the Feynman Hollywood film and the Feynman d...Yes, the Feynman Hollywood film and the Feynman documentary are two different things, both, in their own ways engaging.<br /><br />The BBC teevee docs I mention skate over the O-ring scandal and leave the impression that the wives and families of Challenger must have all been of the Steptord variety, either that or killed.<br /><br />You would imagine, in this country, a dreadful, complaining clamour from the relatives of such betrayed public servants -- Iraq, Afghanistan, if Tommy hadn't got armour plated underpants it was all Gordon Brown's treachery to blame - but Statesside, as I said, all those relatives filmed, anyway, were the Right Stuff.<br /><br />I wonder, incidentally, what the current space/physics hero would say about such shit, Colonel Wotsisname, off twitter and youtube. Probably burst into song. Oh You Pretty Things, doncha know you're drivin' your Mommas and Poppas in-sane? Cunt.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-50391543663079694862013-05-15T00:34:22.876+01:002013-05-15T00:34:22.876+01:00Yes, I have seen a few of those, Mr I. It was inte...Yes, I have seen a few of those, Mr I. It was interesting to watch the Feynman thing again. ("The Challenger") I obviously hadn't paid attention the first time. I had thought that the genius had gone out there in his white cowboy hat and found the truth. In fact, a couple of brave folk had the cowboy appointed, and then led him gently to it. His bit was to be honest enough not to be cowed by those creeps. NASA and everyone had known all along what happened. It needed an old genius, near death, to tell the truth.<br /><br />What a bloody country.mongoosenoreply@blogger.com