Tocky on 26/8/2022 at 16:28
Thanks Harvester. It has been a depressing kick in the gut all around.
Aged Raver on 26/8/2022 at 18:18
I’m truly sorry to read that. I know you mentioned your Mother-in-Law a few days ago. It sounds like you and your wife are a very good team. Artemis can look after itself. Strength and good luck to all the family for whatever is coming.
Tocky on 27/8/2022 at 01:39
Thanks Raver. I try to hide the fact that I'm screaming inside. It's a type of squamous carcinoma. What pisses me off most is it could have been caught years ago and fixed but now it is such a mass that I don't know if it can. Her doctor stuck with the COPD diagnosis without a thorough examination for so long. I'm angry and hurt and, despite how I should feel, I'm still so disappointed I can't see Artemis take off. I love my mother-in-law. Rena jokes that she takes my side instead of hers in our arguments and it's true. I don't mean to be petty. Her life is way more important than seeing a liftoff I've waited years for but I can't help but feel as if life has purposely kicked me square in the balls. The timing is too dead on to think otherwise.
Nevertheless I have done the adult thing while the child inside me kicks and screams. I've held her hand and told her we are not going and will be here for her.
I did think of this song all afternoon though.
[video=youtube_share;Jne9t8sHpUc]https://youtu.be/Jne9t8sHpUc[/video]
And naturally I'm dealing with it in my usual way, by copious self medication of alcohol. I hope I don't feel too bad on the drive to the hospital in the morning but I need this now. Nevermind the times I have no excuse.
So help me life better not do that to me. I have to go out saving that busload of school kids. It can't be in a hospital bed.
MriyaMachine on 27/8/2022 at 05:07
Tocky:
Ever seen the movie
The Right Stuff? It's my favorite movie (and I'm not all that into movies—this is a
GOOD movie) —about the American space program in the 1960s. Actually, it covers history from the 50s when Chuck Yeager for the first time in history broke the sound barrier in the experimental plane called the X-1, continues to cover the Mercury program with the Redstone rockets, then the Gemini program with the Atlas rockects. With the first American astronauts of the space program (a.k.a. "space race"): John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_(film)) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_(film)
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086197/) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086197/
If you've never seen that movie, then please, as an enthusiast of the space program and someone who wishes to explore the stars, you need to watch that movie. It's not only historical but it's actually what I would call historical comedy— the movie will make you laugh and piss yourself, I swear. Best movie ever made. Period.
And I wish you luck going to the stars to preserve humanity through this seemingly total self-annihilation that we humans have fostered here on Earth, destroying our planet without an apparent clue as to what we were doing (humans aren't long-term thinkers). I hope you will be one of the ones who survives the filter. I won't be. I work a low-paying job as a dishwasher and fantasies of exploring other planets are out of the question for me. But for you, good luck. I pray and believe in our species, by which I mean, I believe we humans will do what it takes to evolve and adapt beyond human to plant the necessity that we will continue as some consciousness, in whatever form, as we humans are only one chapter in the universe's progressive task to know itself. There will be no death or lost memory, everything will be known and manifest for eternity.
Pyrian on 27/8/2022 at 05:11
Aw man I'm so sorry. :( Every part of that sucks.
demagogue on 27/8/2022 at 15:48
Sorry to hear about the troubles your mother in law is facing, Tocky.
That's depressing that they didn't catch it earlier.
I really hope for the best.
You shouldn't beat yourself up about doing the right thing though.
I think if you follow the stream, you're still part of the action.
I remember following the streams for one of the Mars rover landings and when they first turned on the LHC and feeling like I was part of this global event with everyone else around the world. It's the spirit of the thing that's really at the heart of it, all things told. Anyway, taking it in that spirit may help you still feel good about it.
I also noticed that NASA put out a trailer for this mission.
It's probably good to post it here for the record.
[video=youtube;wKwoBudYIiI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKwoBudYIiI[/video]
mxleader on 27/8/2022 at 16:58
Going back to the moon seems like a colossal waste of resources. What will we gain from tromping around and leaving footprints in the moon dust? Going to the moon in the first place kind of pisses me off because we humans can't just leave anything alone without leaving behind trash. Between beach parties and moon landings humans are the worst.
Sulphur on 28/8/2022 at 07:05
Tocky, that's awful and I'm sorry. It's shit timing, but that's the story of life. Even if you're not physically able to be in close proximity to the launch, it doesn't matter. You're still part of it, wherever you are.
That might seem like a poor consolation prize, but I think it's far more important to do the right thing while you have the time to do it, and that's the only thing that counts in the end.
Mr.Duck on 28/8/2022 at 07:47
*Hugs Tocky*
demagogue on 29/8/2022 at 10:52
Okay folks, if you happen to be around, this launch is happening in about 1.5 hours from the time of this post.
Let's watch this thing!
To the Moon!! :D
[video=youtube;CMLD0Lp0JBg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMLD0Lp0JBg[/video]
