Neil Amstrong has passed on.
Hello Mr. Bradley, nice to not see you posting here.
The development of atomic power, though it could confer unimaginable blessings on mankind, is something that is dreaded by the owners of coal mines and oil wells. (Hazlitt)
What I want to do is to look up C. . . . I call him the Forgotten Man. (Sumner)
What I want to do is to look up C. . . . I call him the Forgotten Man. (Sumner)
Yeah. I know. I covered that, though less formally:chrismb wrote:You speak as a gravity bound earthling.
If you have never been in low gravity then the easiest way to describe it is like feeling upside down. As if you are in a continuous free-fall. The blood will feel like it has rushed to your head, if compared with standing upright on Earth, because there is no gravity pulling it down to your Earthling feet.
zDarby wrote:And he's puffy because he's in space & his heart is used to pumping blood harder into his head. It's basic astro-physiology.
I must say I find this an intriguing hypothesis. (Note I give you the benefit of the doubt and don't call it "speculation".) In deed, I shall keep my perceptions open to finding this pattern in my random investigations....I am not being sarcastic. I find this thought fascinating.chrismb wrote:Neil Armstrong's step on the Moon was the end of a period, not the beginning of a new one. In fact, it was the end of Renaissance civilization which started 360 years earlier [and] brought that whole enterprise full circle (360 degrees, as well as 360 years!!) [...]
@DeltaV
Ah. My apologies. I took offence when none was meant.
