bill cobbett wrote:Kikapu wrote:kimon07 wrote:At least 200 people were killed in the Mid. East on the same day.
What exactly makes his death such a "sad" event?
What was his contribution to mankind? Did he stop wars and injustices? Or reduced the daily deaths of infants in Africa due to lack of basics? How many children would have been saved with the money spent for his "expedition" to the moon?
In a nutshell, his courage and profession inspired mankind in general in many aspects. The amount of knowledge that is gathers by
"space people" has had tremendous benefit to all of us here on earth, from technology to medicine. Some have even given their lives in trying. No one man can do all the things you have listed above, or even a nation for that matter!
Thank you Theodosia... well said and put.
Absolutely Kiks, these were tremendously brave boys, as anyone who has got up close to a Saturn 5 or looked at the specs, the thin-ness of the enclosing metal, no thicker than a can of cola can testify.... and these brave astronauts were sitting on top of one of the most remarkably complicated and tremendously powerful machines ever built with the equivalent power of a nuclear bomb.
A reminder that three astronauts lost their lives during the ground tests of the Apollo programme which just goes to show the extent of the bravery of those that followed them to the Moon.
Bos and Girls...No price can be placed on Human Bravery leading to Exploration and Human Endeavour cos without these we'd still be sitting in Caves or in Kafenia or Pubs getting no further than contemplating doing things.
A reminder also that Apollo 8, the mission that got close to the Moon (without landing on Xmas Day 1968) had a unintended but Massive Effect on the Course of Human History, on each and every single one of us, with a value beyond pricing, but being weary of spoon-feeding you scabby lot will leave you to figure that one out.
Me, one small consolation, in some things we are all the same, if you have been with the poorest of this planet, then you too will see that that day gave us all the same joy, in one moment, and at the same moment, we knew, that we can do anything if we set our minds to it, in some things (Faith, Charity, Grace, and Hope) this is a victory.
...i can only think of the Taliban, the ones who blew up the statues built before them, who would say that their Love is not in giving infinitely, where an event like this is not important because it does not fit a dogma; whatever theirs' is is enough.
never the less, we cannot dismiss the plunder of the rest of Mankind which, to this day applies to our living intent. on the other hand, less is more; is this plunder too?
...yes bill, imagine.
that courage gave us the ability to realise it is the fear within ourselves which limits us. they reasoned.
