Spaceballs

I wasn ' t feeling well yesterday so I couch potatoed for much of the afternoon. Not being a huge golf fan,* I couldn ' t find much to look at but cable news. Lucky me, it turns out that the most momentous event of the century, and possibly in all of human history, happened yesterday, and I got to hear 157 people yammer on about it for hours.I don ' t know where to being deconstructing all the bullshit. This was, obviously, technologically inconsequential. Alan Shepard completed the first sub-orbital flight by an American 60 years ago. Unlike Richard Branson, Shepard actually did go into what is officially considered outer space. Branson only traveled to a height of about 60 miles, which is up there, but no, it isn ' t a flight into space. Since Shepard ' s flight, of course, people have been to the moon and back, and now they ' re living in low earth orbit and we ' re sending robots throughout the solar system. A system that gets you 60 miles up and then comes right back down is utterly useless for any purpose other than impressing idiots.CNN actually brought on a bozo who claimed that this was an important historical milestone because eventually, the sun will expand and the earth will become uninhabitable, so humanity will have to expand beyond the earth. This was the first step that we needed to take. Yes, that is a legitimate problem -- a billion years from now. I think we can wait a while before we start panicking. And again, flying up 60 miles and coming right back down...
Source: Stayin' Alive - Category: American Health Source Type: blogs