Posted on 03/24/2017 7:39:42 PM PDT by amorphous
HE was an astronaut on the second manned mission to the moon and the fourth man to walk on its surface.
Alan Bean, 85, is one of only 12 people to have taken one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind on the moon.
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They probably figured that out from watching C-Span.
This went down right after Michael Rennie and GORT swung by DC in 1951...........
Never thought of that - good catch.
Maybe it was just a pop-culture inspired mass hallucination...or many burps of swamp gas.
True!
I’m a fan of the alien series of movies. Those controls were in the first movie, and later in Prometheus.
Klatuu: I came here to give you the facts. It is no concern how you run your own planet. But if you threaten to extend your violence this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned out cinder!...... Your choice is simple...Join us and live in peace...or continue on your present course and face obliteration. We will be waiting for your answer. The decision rests with you.” (Greatest Sci-Fi movie ever!!!!)
I don’t think it was a hard decision.
Walt Disney gave sanitation to South America.
Don’t know if there were voyagers or what.
Some claim that the explorers “took” native women as they came to villages.
Think of the locals. Here are some rock stars wearing fancy dress with boom sticks speaking foreign tongue and with material goods. If you go with them, you just may get more candy and treated well.
Or stay in the village and watch Grock challenge Turok to a battle of strength for your hand.
http://www.ufoevidence.org/topics/vimanas.htm
Vimanas of Ancient India
In the Vedic literature of India, there are many descriptions of flying machines that are generally called vimanas. These fall into two cate- gories: (l) manmade craft that resemble airplanes and fly with the aid of birdlike wings, and (2) unstreamlined structures that fly in a mysterious manner and are generally not made by human beings. The machines in category (l) are described mainly in medieval, secular Sanskrit works dealing with architecture, automata, military siege engines, and other mechanical contrivances. Those in category (2) are described in ancient works such as the Rg Veda, the Maha-bha-rata, the Rama-yana, and the Pura-nas, and they have many features reminis- cent of UFOs.
Thanks for the info. I will check it out.
Alan Bean is a very cerebral man. He is still in awe of what he saw in/from space and on the surface of the moon.
I bought one of his paintings many years ago. It showed the Earth as seen from the Moon. I call it “Earthrise” though I think it has another proper name.
Gave the painting to my son as a permanent gift. It was signed by Bean, Pete Conrad (now deceased) and Dick Gordon. I had already bought a copy of his book of his space drawings/paintings, which he autographed, but he gave me another to go with the painting.
If you have seen the film about the moon walkers and their command pilots, you will know that Alan Bean is probably the gentlest man you’ll ever meet, here on Earth or on the Moon. And a brave one too.
It was an honor to meet and talk with him.
Nephilim craft, obviously! :)
In all seriousness, that drawing has long fascinated me!
I see aliens every day here in USSR-WA. They are also known as Democrats!
Bean is correct. Aliens have not visited Earth.
They were here first. :-)
The transition of man from cromagnun to modern man took about 150 thousand years give or take. What changed man and why is still up for conjecture. The book “Them + Us” gives one possible and compelling answer, Neanderthal Predation theory. I like this book.
Yeah. I've been pondering how much "Lizard" would show up in her Ancestry.com DNA test.
He does not believe in the “prime directive” the fictional Star Trek stories held as the “Federation’s” guide to dealing with more “primitive” civilizations - don’t intervene.
I am personally on the fence on that one.
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