- Joined
- Dec 17, 2019
The biggest tragedy of the Summer of Floyd was the complete destruction of Uncle Hugo's in Minneapolis, a used bookstore primarily dealing in vintage sci-fi books. Who knows how many first editions and rare books were torched by a bunch of ignorant retards. They reopened eventually, but you can't replace those lost books. Any time I see him bring up the fucking Wendy's, I want to staple a picture of Uncle Hugo's burning down to his forehead.me too, cuz we know that at least one apartment-under-construction got burnt the fuck down, and several other buildings. Bob's autism causes him to claim that since "it was only a Wendy's, friendo!" ie, not the whole entire fucking city as if it was the Great Fire of London or some shit, that it wasn't a big deal at all and thus overblown and everybody should get over it, like the narcissist he is.
I mean, it's a little more complicated than that. Nixon was in office when the first moon landing happened, but he wanted to cut the last two Apollo missions short because he assumed that enough had been done after we won the Space Race. It took some persuading from the OMB deputy director to get him to change his mind.It's ironic, because although it was indeed Kennedy (D) that got them started on the way to the Moon, though he didn't live to see it, it was Nixon (a filthy (R)) who got them there ultimately. Obama screwed over the Space Shuttles so they were back to using
As for the Shuttle, it was less that Obama screwed over the Shuttles themselves and more that he screwed over their replacements. Bush outlined his Vision for Space Exploration about a year after the Columbia disaster, what would become the Constellation program, in which he set the goal to return to the Moon by 2020. To do this, NASA would develop a new crew launch vehicle, the Ares rockets, and have them ready by the time they retired the Shuttle fleet after finishing the ISS around 2010.
Then Obama came into office and said "nah, fuck Bush" and canceled Constellation. Granted, it was over budget and behind schedule like basically everything NASA does, but still. Some of the work would carry over to the SLS that followed, but much of the plans were scrapped and there was no real indication of any lunar manned missions anywhere on the schedule. It also meant that astronauts flying to the ISS were forced to use Soyuz rockets instead of the Shuttles after they were retired on schedule, or any other American-made rocket for that matter. It wasn't until Trump came into office that the Artemis program was officially greenlit, as well as SpaceX's successful crew transfer to the ISS removing the need for Russian rockets. I will say that at least Biden hasn't been stupid enough to shitcan lunar efforts again, though he did once again push NASA to focus more on climate change instead of space flight, so.
Assuming the election isn't stolen again, Trump will preside over the first manned lunar landing in over 50 years. Can't wait.