R.I.P. Jim Lovell, Astronaut by JEWELSTAITEFAN

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R.I.P. Jim Lovell, Astronaut

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UPDATED: Thursday, August 14, 2025 08:23
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Tuesday, August 12, 2025 1:04 AM

He passed a few days ago.

His 4th and final trip into space was as Commander of Apollo 13. He remained in relative obscurity until he was played by Tom Hanks in the film. Which made him one of the more well known Astronauts in history.

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Tuesday, August 12, 2025 5:55 PM

BRENDA

I remember a few of the Apollo missions and was fascinated by them.

The astronauts from those missions are slowly going and so is enthusiasm for space travel.

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Tuesday, August 12, 2025 6:11 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

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Originally posted by Brenda:
I remember a few of the Apollo missions and was fascinated by them.

The astronauts from those missions are slowly going and so is enthusiasm for space travel.

Are there First Peoples in space?

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Tuesday, August 12, 2025 7:29 PM

THG

Yes, and thanks for getting an education and showing the difference between what someone who has an education can do, compared to someone who doesn't. No way to achieve what you did without one. You made our country proud.

T

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Tuesday, August 12, 2025 9:19 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Yes, and thanks for getting an education and showing the difference between what someone who has an education can do, compared to someone who doesn't. No way to achieve what you did without one. You made our country proud.

T

It's nice to have at least one example out there of what could have been if you were one of the lotto winners who also happened to have a worthless college degree that actually became something, almost certainly due to who their parents were and what they were born into, huh Ted.

Shame on you for getting a college education and then doing nothing with it, I guess is the lesson to be learned here.

How's it feel knowing that best-case scenario for you is you will end your life just as well as I ultimately do despite your college education?

That expensive piece of paper you put up on your parent's refrigerator all these years doesn't make you better than one other single person. Not one.

What a blatantly gross and inappropriate humble brag this was.

I hope you took a shower after writing it.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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Tuesday, August 12, 2025 11:47 PM

BRENDA

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I remember a few of the Apollo missions and was fascinated by them.

The astronauts from those missions are slowly going and so is enthusiasm for space travel.
Are there First Peoples in space?

There have been 2 Native Americans. One was John Herrington who is from the Chickasaw Nation. He was on Endeavour's mission in 2002.

The other is Nicole Mann from the Wailachi of the Round Head Valley Nations of Northern California. She went to the International Space Station in 2022. She was part of the SpaceX Crew-5 Mission.

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Wednesday, August 13, 2025 5:33 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by THG:
Yes, and thanks for getting an education and showing the difference between what someone who has an education can do, compared to someone who doesn't. No way to achieve what you did without one. You made our country proud.

T
It's nice to have at least one example out there of what could have been if you were one of the lotto winners who also happened to have a worthless college degree that actually became something, almost certainly due to who their parents were and what they were born into, huh Ted.

geez, you guys.

He was able to achieve without excess education. He did the work first, to try to further his training. In those days, merit counted more. Chuck Yeager was another test pilot who never did college. People who could fly were more imoportant than desk jockeys. The military funding program for his engineering traing failed, so he went to Annapolis. Through his career his accomplishments were first, his "education" followed.

Sure, he won the lottery with parents. Father died when he was 5, in Ohio. Great lottery. Lived with mom's relatives in Indiana for 2 years. Then moved to Milwaukee. He didn't have any money for college, so got in a Navy program which paid for the training in engineering, before that collapsed. Real lucky, sure.

He kept being held back, but became successful despite his education.

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Thursday, August 14, 2025 4:01 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

I forgot to mention.

He went to University of Wisconsin for training as an engineer, never completing. But decades later U-W bestowed on him an Honorary Degree - one of several Honorary Degrees he accumulated.

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Thursday, August 14, 2025 8:23 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by THG:
Yes, and thanks for getting an education and showing the difference between what someone who has an education can do, compared to someone who doesn't. No way to achieve what you did without one. You made our country proud.

T
It's nice to have at least one example out there of what could have been if you were one of the lotto winners who also happened to have a worthless college degree that actually became something, almost certainly due to who their parents were and what they were born into, huh Ted.
geez, you guys.

He was able to achieve without excess education. He did the work first, to try to further his training. In those days, merit counted more. Chuck Yeager was another test pilot who never did college. People who could fly were more imoportant than desk jockeys. The military funding program for his engineering traing failed, so he went to Annapolis. Through his career his accomplishments were first, his "education" followed.

Sure, he won the lottery with parents. Father died when he was 5, in Ohio. Great lottery. Lived with mom's relatives in Indiana for 2 years. Then moved to Milwaukee. He didn't have any money for college, so got in a Navy program which paid for the training in engineering, before that collapsed. Real lucky, sure.

He kept being held back, but became successful despite his education.

Forgive me for being younger than you and not living in the world you grew up in and experiencing any of that for myself.

There is no merit based society in America, and there never has been one since I was an adult. The white women of your generation made sure of that.

Maybe we can bring that back now.

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