Re: Happy Aniversaary

Frank J wrote:
On Aug 1, 2:48 pm, "Suzanne" <shil...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Ye Old One" <use...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:3oj6941060j1g1u1m7pnv4cm33in64bvdu@xxxxxxxxxx> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:43:31 -0500, "Suzanne" <shil...@xxxxxxxxx>
enriched this group when s/he wrote:
Dr. Werhner Von Braun who is now
noted as being the Father of the Space Program
No. People who know and understand the space programme will refer to
Sergei Korolyov by that title. However, he himself, looked to
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky as the father of the space programme.
The textbooks in the schools in America recognize
Von Braun as being the Father of *our* (America's)
space program. That doesn't mean that they don't
recognize other milestones and achievement by
others in the realm of space travel. We all know that
the Russians had Sputnik first. I remember when that
happened. I was walking home from school at college,
and I passed by a news stand and saw a headline that
read "Russians put up SPUTNIK." I thought "A
Whatnik?" and I read what the article said. I could
hardly believe it. It was an awesome realization.
People that were born after that time don't probably
realize how astounding these kinds of things were
to us and how they affected us. You know it was like
several days passed and it still was affecting me as
being quite astonishing.

Suzanne

Sputnik was my first memory of an event that made the news. I turned 3
a few days later, so it was about a year after when I found out that
the Earth was not flat. From the beginning of my memory I had a
fascination with the workings of God's creation. ~10 years later, when
I learned about evolution, I wasn't crazy about the fact that I was
related to other species, but as an explanation of the data, it just
seemed to make sense. And no other explanation did. It took another
~30 years before I learned that most major religions agree. By then I
also noticed that anti-evolutionists were retreating from their
mutually contradictory failed alternative "explanations" and
instituting a policy of "don't ask, don't tell."

Is that why you found it preferable to ignore my questions from the
last few months instead of welcoming the opportunity to discuss your
alternate version of how God did it?

You're 55 and you can remember being 2 years old? I don't know but I think that's some total bull***. Do you remember not being potty trained and shitting your diaper too?

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