Motorcycle Chariots
An evening pause: A free people might do grand things, but they will also do silly things as well. This falls into the latter category.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Hah! before Wayne!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frE9rXnaHpE
Chris-
Har, excellent scene!
I was sorta thinking more towards this….
(so to speak)
Easy Rider (1969)
“It’s alright, Ma” ending scene
https://youtu.be/hjYAEtO-Ohk
5:23
“A question in your nerves is lit,
Yet you know there is no answer fit.
To satisfy, ensure you not to quit,
To keep it in your mind and not forget,
That it is not he, or she, or them, or it,
That you belong to….”
I’ve often thought that while necessity is the mother of invention, a couple of guys shooting the breeze and one of them saying, “Hey, what if…” is the father of invention. (Occasionally, of course, adult beverages might be involved.)
Cool!
Andrew R
One thing that sparks my creativity is when things are totally going to crap on a job. I do concrete and it is amazing how straining muscles and sweat in a time limited activity can bring out the AHA moments. If there was a bulldozer that moved concrete…….