It was seconds to running out of fuel.
But, he had an outward calm about him.
Yes, the Eagle has landed.
No doubt, the Crafter Artisan, Chuck Yeager, another test pilot, the first to break sound barrier, might have been impressed, although Yeager being very competitive in nature, he might not have openly expressed it. Why give that “engineer,” any credit?
Continue reading No Hero, just an engineer.
…there is no other shelter hereabout:
misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
I will here shroud till the
dregs of the storm be past.
— Shakespeare
They couldn’t be stranger bedfellows.
They couldn’t be more different — in Temperament and upbringing.
But there they were. Bound together in tragedy and purpose, at this point in time.
They needed each other, and they wanted each other’s help.
One Pill makes you larger, One Pill makes you small, the Pills that your mother give you… ?
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I still remember it.
You bet your life, I do.
All though it might have been a rerun couple of years later, it was — that long ago, and I was definitely young at the time (sigh).
I remember it, even though, she didn’t have the crazy hair.
But you could see Groucho was impressed. He even said so at the time.
It takes talent to know talent. Natural talent, that is — it’s called Temperament
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
It worked. It served it’s function.
Actually, to be technical about it, it was a functional, not a function. Big distinction. Never mind why. It’s works.———— ?
But Why?
What did it imply? Well, something very profound. They didn’t want to believe it at first.
“Where is my Dirac?” — Albert Einstein
That is what it says. Simply, it’s a matter of fact.
It’s on a badge that he has attached to his coat — the coat he wears as he administers to his patients.
Yep. He stands and delivers. He doesn’t “stand idly by”. He works hard, all the while, standing.
“The teenagers started hugging me and saying they had heard that my life was in danger. They explained that they had come to defend me. I had tears in my eyes. These handicapped girls wanted to help me, a big burly man. This is what I feel all the time from those who come to the hospital – the desire to keep loving, to keep giving, even when someone has tried to strip you of all your dignity and values. You cannot abandon people like that.”
No, he takes the stand: do something useful, something tangible, do something helpful.
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She attempted to have the book censored or banned in the United States.
No, she wasn’t your socially conservative female.
Yes, in 1962 it was viewed as a scandalous book: Sex and the Single Girl advocated having sex before marriage, and gave advice on how to have an affair.
And she was married.
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With the eyes of a child
You must come out and see
That your world’s spinning ’round
— Moody Blues
She wrote it in plain and clear language, so, even a child understand.
However, I doubt many adults could understand it, even now: most adults are too stupid to understand.
No, not ignorant, just stupid. Adults: too naturally not interested, too busy, too lazy, too “know it all,” too impatient to really see — and to learn.
Danger lies not in what we don’t know,
but in what we think we know that just ain’t so
– Mark Twain
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Most of us struggle to find what we do best: natural talent and circumstance is not aligned.
But on this rare occasion, he could hear it, clearly — from the beginning.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings,
there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
Pythagoras
For he was a Natural.
A Composer that became a composer, from the start.
God bless the child,
who’s got his own.
Billy Holiday
“I am sorry, I am trying to take the youngest first, I want to save a nation.”
He failed to save a nation. But he did save thousands, ten thousands, maybe even up to one hundred thousand.
“He was the most tireless, persistent, stubborn person — he was single minded in his determination for his mission.”