Text 21258, 75 rader
Skriven 2011-07-24 15:06:50 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 21209 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: The Downfall
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24 Jul 11 01:44, Janis Kracht wrote to Roy Witt:

 >>> was such an ideal to me when I was a kid...  He didn't go to college
 >>> after high school because Grandmma's family was hit bad during the
 >>> depression.  So he went to night school, and got his doctorate as an
 >>> astrophysicist.

 >> Sounds like my uncle. He too went through the depression with his
 >> parents being hit hard. He home-schooled himself through
 >> correspondence coures and became an electrical engineer.

 JK> Yeah, think most people did, back then. I'd think it takes a bit of
 JK> strength to complete the things our uncles did.

My mom and dad were teenagers during the depression and they learned to
cope with life using what they had or going without when they lacked what
they needed. My dad, with an 11th grade education was a very successful
businessman.

 >>> I remember the funniest things too.. when I was maybe 10 or so, I
 >>> asked him exactly he did for a living (I think now that so funny that
 >>> I evem asked him that..).. and he said "I just play with numbers"

 >> No doubt, a simple explanation for someone who probably wouldn't
 >> understand the details.

 JK> Oh yeah.. I'm figure he thought I was the little pia in the bunch
 JK> (mom had 6 kids, I was #3). One time, I made him go outside to our
 JK> backyard in Warwick NY and look at a huge stone imbedded in some
 JK> dirt, that looked to me like it was a Dinosaur footprint.. I tell
 JK> you, I was first amazed that he went out with me <grin> and second
 JK> that he agreed with me,  that it had to be one :)

It was one, wasn't it! At least to a six year old. Amazing that he could
hold back his laughter.

 JK> [...]

 >>>> No, look to the future, when NASA will be able to afford to go on to
 >>>> bigger and better ideas. It's not over.

 >>> Mars is waiting for us <grin>

And the moon, again.

 >> Yeup.

 JK> Incredible stuff there, for sure..

Where there's water, there must be life...

 >>>> The plan is to build newly designed rockets to lift space capsules
 >>>> like we used in the beginning. They'll be much bigger of course and
 >>>> have the latest technology and capability to dock with the
 >>>> ISS...still, they'll splash down like they did in the beginning for
 >>>> ocean recovery.

 >>> Yes indeed... we won't quit this, I'm sure..

 >> That was sort of announced while Atlantis was touching down for the
 >> last time.

 JK> Glad you mentioned that.. I saw it, not sure how many people noticed
 JK> it.

It seemed like one of the positive things mentioned during that landing.

                R\%/itt


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