Posted on 05/30/2014 4:00:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
He had a dream the night before; and saw what Obama would one day do to his nation.
I know, It was just that.....never mind.\s
Helen Thomas?
There are two people in that image. One getting his shoes shined, one shining them. How did the other guy get missed, even if he isn’t as clear because of movement?
Washington and many of his associates didn’t long outlive the Revolution, of course even then there were people who lived freakishly long times. The last of the Pilgrims had arrived as a young girl, and long after everyone who could gainsay her had died, claimed that she was actually in the first boat, and sprang out before anyone else, including their leader, who was pissed about it. One of my 17th c pioneer ancestors exceeded a century in age when she passed.
“he looks pissed off.”
He’s thinking, “We should pick our own cotton.”
On the serious side he looks pretty good for 103 and crossing the Delaware with Gen. Washington is a much bigger deal than being the earliest born person to be photographed IMO.
One of the minor “might have beens” is the mid-century German rocket program. There’s an anecdote regarding a wartime bon mot by Von Braun — someone asked him if he still planned to go the Moon, and he replied, of course, we just haven’t told der fuhrer. Had Hitler been different, he might have been satisfied with demonstrations of technological superiority, in which case, the Germans would have orbited someone by 1950, been on the Moon in 1960, and been on Mars sometime in the 1970s.
Von Braun saw the Moon as a step (and as practice) toward getting to Mars, his real goal. Mars was seen as the only place possible for Earthlings to colonize, even then, quite a precocious view. The F-1 engine was built to deliver Ed Teller’s big-assed H-bomb design, but after a much smaller design was successfully tested, the DoD dumped the F-1. Von Braun took his baby with him, eventually wound up with NACA, which was shortly afterward renamed NASA, all this during the Eisenhower administration. When JFK got into office, the US already had available the 1.5 million pound thrust engine that was indispensible for the lunar trips.
Von Braun’s Mars missions were going to use the Saturn V booster. Twelve launches would have been needed to assemble the mission in Earth orbit (the main reason, btw, that I always laughed and still do about the “Mars Direct” scenario, which claims a Mars mission can be done with a single launch using a “Saturn V or better”), and gravity would have been simulated by spinning the crew, in order to avoid the speculated (turns out true) degradation of bone density etc from long term exposure to microgravity.
Thanks, I’ll look at that in a minute. Years ago there was a book published in France (and in English translation) consisting of photos of Napoleonic War veterans who were still around during the years of Napoleon III’s French republic.
The country, like a person, had its future ahead of it when it was young, and has its future behind it when it gets older.
My pleasure!
The country didn’t last long enough to get old.
FYI
I think there was a thread with a link to photos of revolutionary war vets, posted since I signed up.
I think the 120 that could be proved by the Census records is accurate, and the rest is error...and that’s still the oldest at some point.
ditto
Ask any well-informed adult you might know what their position is on "speculative history."
I just finished a book on all of the nuclear accidents that have occurred from it’s inception to Fukushima...very interesting.
http://www.audible.com/pd/History/Atomic-Accidents-Audiobook/B00I2U1NLA
If you’re looking for something...
Looks like he’s playing the “stomp on” game, more recently subsumed by the current “knockout” game.
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