Posted on 01/07/2007 6:16:52 PM PST by Rb ver. 2.0
Ground Control to Major Tom Commencing countdown, engines on Check ignition and may God’s love be with you
Spoken: Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Lift-off
This is Ground Control to Major Tom You’ve really made the grade And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear Now it’s time to leave the capsule if you dare
“This is Major Tom to Ground Control I’m stepping through the door And I’m floating in a most peculiar way And the stars look very different today
For here Am I sitting in a tin can Far above the world Planet Earth is blue And there’s nothing I can do
Though I’m past one hundred thousand miles I’m feeling very still And I think my spaceship knows which way to go Tell my wife I love her very much (she knows!) Ground Control to Major Tom Your circuit’s dead, there’s something wrong Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear....
“ am I floating round my tin can Far above the Moon Planet Earth is blue
God Speed, Stephen
Here's to a SpaceShip Two launch on time..
BumP
I'm afraid we'd be reading his obituary the next day.
If anybody deserves a free ride it's Hawking.
NASA sure as hell should have taken Chuck Yeager up in '98 instead of the enabler John Glenn.
Very apropos. Good call.
I hope Prof. Hawking gets all he desires from his flights. He certainly has earned it, by his service to mankind's search for understanding.
That was my thought too. I wonder how his body could handle the lunch G's.
Hell, I'm 43, and in normal? shape and the Gravitron knocks me for a loop.
Might not be able to. Perhaps he's decided that he'll take the chance, and if it kills him in his late 60's he's still had 40 more years than he was expected to.
And it's a quicker (and of course more interesting) way to go, than withering away in a hospital bed.
He should bring along a couple of friends.
(And he don't care.)
Yeager wouldn't have it! Chuck pilots his own craft, and wouldn't be a mere "passenger" as Glenn was .. thank you very much.
God bless him!! I paid folding cash to see him in Seattle about ten years ago.
He's a human like anyone else...multiple wives, etc.
God gave him a brain beyond the rest of us.
Time folds, doubles back....
I am posting before you even posted this item!!!!
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"He made a fortune in physics!" - Rodney Dangerfield line from Caddyshack...
Is he physically fit to withstand the g forces of the launch and re-entry (and the microgravity in space)?
"He made a fortune in physics!" - Rodney Dangerfield line from Caddyshack...
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