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Greatest photograph in the history of mankind

bmwdean

bmwdean

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<a href=http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/lm11.html>Earthrise photo</a> taken from Apollo 8 on Dec. 24, 1968, by Astronaut <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Anders>Bill Anders</a>.

Kinda puts us in our place, doesn't it?

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personally, i think this photo of a shar-pei enjoying some leisure activity is the best photo ever taken by the human race. he was just SO lazy he could only get his front shoes off and barely had time to sip his rum and coke before drifting off to sleep. the little red had just screams RELAXED and combined with the shoes he is a true patriot, on par with the above mentioned apollo astronauts.

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bmwdean said:
<a href=http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/lm11.html>Earthrise photo</a> taken from Apollo 8 on Dec. 24, 1968, by Astronaut <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Anders>Bill Anders</a>

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Al Gore uses this photo in his slideshow both in-person and in the movie "An Incovenient Truth", stating that the photo forced us (earthlings) to realize how minute our planet really is in the grand scheme of things, and gives the photo the credit for thus launching the environmental movement that continues to this day.
 
2004

I like the 2004 Version
 

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Launching the Environmental Movement

Teddy Roosevelt deserves a bit of credit. He did start the National Park System in his administration as President and in NY as Governor set aside the Catskills and the Adirondacks as large parks to reserve the environment.

This picture certainly affected mankind as much as the first.
 

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PAULBACH said:
Teddy Roosevelt deserves a bit of credit. He did start the National Park System in his administration as President and in NY as Governor set aside the Catskills and the Adirondacks as large parks to reserve the environment.
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Ah yes - the good old days when Republicans were also Conservatives, which included conserving the environment. Heck, it was Nixon who signed the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act and the Environmental Protection Agency into law! My how far they've fallen from their historical roots!
 
dvandkq said:
Ah yes - the good old days when Republicans were also Conservatives, which included conserving the environment. Heck, it was Nixon who signed the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act and the Environmental Protection Agency into law! My how far they've fallen from their historical roots!
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I voted for Nixon four times. when he ran as VP with Eisenhower, loss to Kennedy, victory over Stevenson, reelection. Now I am a Democrat and proud of it. :bolt
 
PAULBACH said:
Teddy Roosevelt deserves a bit of credit. He did start the National Park System in his administration as President and in NY as Governor set aside the Catskills and the Adirondacks as large parks to reserve the environment.

This picture certainly affected mankind as much as the first.
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Agreed about your pic, Paul, gotta walk before you run.
 
When I clicked on this, I thought it would have something to do with the female anatomy.

But, I do feel that this pic is among the greatest. Especially as I am hoping to use the USAF as a stepping stone towards NASA.. and hopefully by that time, we'll be ready to either go back to the moon, or... ? But, just imagine being there, actually looking up in the sky and seeing the earth rising above the horizon.. incredibly lonely, but pants-crappingly amazing. Awe inspiring.. Haha.

Just imagine how much further into space, how many more diseases would be cured, how much more advanced we all would be.... if men could go more than a few seconds without thinking about the female anatomy. I know from first hand experience..
 
What have we done since the 60's that is remarkable? That generation took what we would call low tech electronics and bold fearless ideas and put people on the moon.

Fritz says that he is a Democat. I think the place he worked required him to be a Democarat. It was a little like the Borg. You will be assimilated.


Wayne Koppa
Grayling, Michigan
 
crazydrummerdude said:
But, I do feel that this pic is among the greatest. Especially as I am hoping to use the USAF as a stepping stone towards NASA.. and hopefully by that time, we'll be ready to either go back to the moon, or... ?
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better add a phd in astro geophysics from a reputable university to that resume, the days of nasa putting airforce test pilots in space based on just that passed back sometime in the middle of the apollo program..........

after the Big Gig on saturday i was hanging out with someone who is working on the crew module for the shuttle replacement. much more apollo like than anything we've seen since the mid 70s
 
is this going to be the standard?

everything posted becomes a us vs them political thread?

if you thought the magazine discussion got old . . . . :deal

:hide
 
BubbaZanetti said:
better add a phd in astro geophysics from a reputable university to that resume, the days of nasa putting airforce test pilots in space based on just that passed back sometime in the middle of the apollo program..........

after the Big Gig on saturday i was hanging out with someone who is working on the crew module for the shuttle replacement. much more apollo like than anything we've seen since the mid 70s
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Yes, yes. U of Missouri - Rolla for my bachelors/masters/whatever, then.. we'll see where I end up. Lots of little steps towards the one big goal.
 
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