Re:Chuck Yeager has died
by rswail on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @01:07AM
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and jetpacks! Aside from internet, smartphones, smart watches, self-driving cars, electric bikes, solar tech, advanced batteries, amazing mRNA vaccines, what has technology ever done for us? Nothing!
r/unexpectedmontypython
I was a "NASA" kid, was 5 when man landed on the moon, blew off a uni exam to watch the first shuttle landing, still amazed when a Falcon 9 lands on a ship, can hear "1201 alarm, kicking up some dust" and see the grey video and the shadow of the LEM...
But Chuck Yeager making that first "boom" is still the boundary between yesterday and today.
r/unexpectedmontypython
I was a "NASA" kid, was 5 when man landed on the moon, blew off a uni exam to watch the first shuttle landing, still amazed when a Falcon 9 lands on a ship, can hear "1201 alarm, kicking up some dust" and see the grey video and the shadow of the LEM...
But Chuck Yeager making that first "boom" is still the boundary between yesterday and today.