The Off Topic Topic

[Liep]

Will we soon see a Frisian breakaway republic?

Also, go Budapest!

[celedhring]

I think languish might appreciate this sock fashion:

https://heeltread.com/products/bf109-socks?utm_content=lookalikes_add_to_cart_180_bestsellers_carousel

[The Brain]

No way! Zero socks!

I'LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK

[Duque de Bragança]

The German army as part of its withdrawal from Afghanistan will evacuate the remaining alcohol. The soldiers may no longer drink to safeguard the withdrawal and it is apparently not culturally appropriate to leave it there.

So they packed 29 pallets with 65000 cans of beer and 340 bottles of wine and will fly it out back to Germany.

No schnapps?

[Syt]

The BBC in 1964, rather skeptical fella about the prospects of the USA putting a man on the moon by 1970.

https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1401169435692515330?s=20

[grumbler]

The BBC in 1964, rather skeptical fella about the prospects of the USA putting a man on the moon by 1970.

https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1401169435692515330?s=20

His skepticism was well-founded.  What he almost certainly didn't anticipate was that the US would pour such a massive fortune into the endeavor.

[Josquius]

I like the understatement at the end

[celedhring]

I know it's cliched, but the Apollo program remains one of the most impressive feats in human history. From the drawing board to the surface of the moon in what, 8 years?

[grumbler]

I know it's cliched, but the Apollo program remains one of the most impressive feats in human history. From the drawing board to the surface of the moon in what, 8 years?

"We choose to go to the Moon" was in September 1962, "The eagle has landed" was July 1969, so roughly 6 years, ten months.  It cost roughly ten times as much as the Manhattan Project.

[grumbler]

Or roughly 6% of the total the US spent in WW2

[Syt]

[Eddie Teach]

What is the name of the show?

[celedhring]

What is the name of the show?

Sweet Tooth. Reviews are quite decent.

[Josquius]

I know it's cliched, but the Apollo program remains one of the most impressive feats in human history. From the drawing board to the surface of the moon in what, 8 years?

Yeah. And it's quite depressing considering what we could have accomplished if we weren't blowing so much effort on useless nonsense.

[grumbler]

I know it's cliched, but the Apollo program remains one of the most impressive feats in human history. From the drawing board to the surface of the moon in what, 8 years?

Yeah. And it's quite depressing considering what we could have accomplished if we weren't blowing so much effort on useless nonsense.

If you are depressed about blowing so much effort on useless nonsense, then maybe you should stop doing  it.  Become the future you want to see.