GOTTA SEE THIS-WarEndur.Freedom 1/4/04-Gusev Crater,Kabul

NASA, Yahoo, AP, Reuters, and the usual suspects | 1/4/04 | The Armies of Good against the Axis of Evil

[eureka!]

Yes, bump for America...

[windchime]

Fantastic photos. Looking forward to the color pics Rover should be sending back soon.

[TexasTransplant]

Fire up the sand rail! I have the ice chest.

[Aquamarine]

This picture just takes my breath!

[Criminal Number 18F]

The "dancing man on right" in the blue shirt and jeans is Steve Sqyres, Principal Investigator (in other words, science lead on the mission). The applauding man on the left, with the white hair and moustache, is NASA Administrator Sean O'Keeffe.

These guys (and the other celebrating pros in the pictures) have worked hard, and O'Keefe in particular has deserved a good break for quite a while now.

Dio, I just gotta thank you for these excellent posts. I really appreciate it and occasionally I save one complete to disk and use it to show people who say, "why are we there when they hate us?"

I tell them the best thing to do if you want to be informed is deep-six your TV and start surfing the net.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Happy2BMe]

Was that taken with one of those new digital cameras?

[Happy2BMe]

I agree.

Land of the free - Home of the brave.

Very impressive - very American.

BUMP

[Darksheare]

He really does look like he's dancing.
What's with the dour look on that guy's face in the center background?

[VOA]

========= NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory =========

At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
---caption of AMERICAN (of Asian extraction) pumping his fist in the moment of triumph...
OK, after all the times, I've thrown brickbats at NASA...WAY TO GO GUYS AND GALS!
And you'd think that Saddam would have realized that a country that can do
"action at a distance" all the way to Mars wouldn't have any trouble with
precision "shock and awe" here on Earth...or cleaning out spider-holes!


In Kabul, Afghanis were conquered by the Americans to vanquish the Taliban
and then handed their own country back to them with a new Constitution
and with freedom for women.

Here's a thought to wrap our minds around:
Women in Afghanistan may end up with more respect and better treatment...
than women get in the inner-city hip-hop/gangsta' culture of the
major metropolitan areas of the USA...weird...

[lizma]

I had a chemistry prof who was involved in the Viking Lander back in the 70's. He spent a whole class describing this feeling. What a great thing to experience.

(I bet it was almost as good as I felt when Bush won the election ;->)

p.s. Thanks Dio for all your work. It's much appreciated.

[Criminal Number 18F]

What's with the dour look on that guy's face in the center background?

Look at him closely, he's grinning very, very widely, just without showing teeth, and he's applauding (not the moving hand blurred by the camera). Other pictures show him even showing teeth.

He is one of the mission control staff and while he's personally involved, he may not be as deeply invested emotionally as O'Keefe and Squyres are. Their names are on this mission in a way that all of the many thousands of people who make it possible are not. So they are even more happy (and even more relieved) at a success, than the rest of the NASA crowd.

And then, as everyone knows from watching TV, which is never wrong about anything, scientists and engineers are cold unfeeling automatons, except when they are megalomaniacs.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[ThomasMore]

 BIG FREEDOM BUMP!

Here's a link to all the rest.

Great job Diogenesis!

Updated!! 12-16-2003

GOTTA SEE THIS - WarEndur.Freedom

A History of the War as composed by Diogenesis

on FreeRepublic

God Bless America!

[ThomasMore]

Why We Fight!

View this Shock Wave Flash Presentation
...and see why we are still fighting Terrorism!

NEVER FORGET!

 

[Darksheare]

OKers.

[elfman2]

I twice tried through Freepermail to get you to address what the width of this photo’s doing to everyone’s message box, but you don’t seem to care enough to respond. Please delete me from your ping lists