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I was born in 1969, so the moon landing was always a nice bit of vivid history to reflect upon the year Iwas born. I must say, when you look back at how basic the computer was then, it is amazing to think with all those odds that those men did actually land on the moon.
Indeed Bill Kaysing in the Daily Mirror today has stated that the chances of getting a man to the Moon and bringing him back again were something like 0.0017 per cent in other words, a virtual impossibility.
The biggest wonder for me is that we've never gone back or really learnt anything particulalrly in depth about the moon since that landing. I know there are plans afoot to go back there now - but it's not clear why and Buzz Aldridge has said that we'd be better off spending time now facing new frontiers, possibly landing on Mars.
What ever happens, it can't be denied space and the universe is full of wonder and is a big draw both upon our imagination and the theories of physics. Many a theological debate has been drawn from such matters. Me, when I saw James May's journey to the edge of space said it all when he said to the effect that; the earth is covered by just a thin paper (the atmosphere), above is a dark scary blackness, but below there is life, music and love. I know which side I want to be.
My respect to all the astronoughts old and new that are/have been willing to go there
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