For the other Astronuts out there

CAC, I'm not following you. What species is desirable? Which ones do you like? I still have scars from when a dog attacked me when I was four. I remember riding around the yard in his mouth. I don't think all dogs are like that, but I am a cat person.

 

I agree wholeheartedly with ya CAC but with one caveat' ,
Education and Culture are another humanistic concept. If we really wanted to get back to purely living, and we're too ensconced in our convenient lifestyle such as it is to even consider such a thing, nothing outside our eyesight would hold any meaning. I wouldn't care what was around the bend. If I were hungry I'd rummage for food. Etc:
Everything built or conceived my Man was for Man's self interest. Shelter, preservation, aesthetics, War.
Then there's Woman. Once a female is added to the mix all deals are off and man becomes nothing more than the animal he proclaims to be a 'lesser' species.

 

So at best we'd have a day or so to kiss our arse goodbye.

 

I didn't claim this so I'll not try to defend it.

My blissfully ignorant hillbilly relatives die early from easily prevented conditions because they think medicine is evil.

Maybe they won't.

How?

See my first reply.

Much to be gained if it keeps you from dying. My father refused to attend to his diabetes and died very ugly.

Your opinion is noted.

 

What's the point of living stupid? I could have died any number of times from age 5. Didn't.

 

Not always. I've walked away when I thought it appropriate. I've never hurt anybody over a sexual relationship. If I were to be an animal I'd be a very dangerous one, so I don't.

 

You might not know what to do with it, but I have commendations on my wall for my part time work on military history, unpaid. I'm 73 and looking at maybe another 20+ according to my doctors. I'll still be having fun in 2043.

 

Well gee, there's a multitude of arguments but my own opinion is; Dogs And Cats! I've lost far more tears over my pets than family and friends. Ignorance is Bliss until it isn't. Knowledge doesn't necessarily coincide with Intelligence.

Have I mentioned lately I get to go on an airplane ride in June ?

 

I've found out it's lots of fun to discuss things over the internet. I've also learned a lot over the past few years.
Such as :
That large earth moving manufacturing company I retired from ? They've been paying me to stay home the past 16 years. In another 14 years I'll have been paid for doing nothing for 30 years. In contrast and compared to the first 30 years of them paying me for doing nothing other than show up. They could have saved me a lot of money on gas and other work related items if they had just sent me a check each week starting when was 18. My goal was to receive a pension equivalent to my years of servitude.

Oh, here's Kalli;

 

I tended to become the lesser species. And I'll leave it that.

 

It's your party, I don't judge unless I'm getting out of my own judgement.

 

To touch the the Sky !

 

With a 75-mm in the nose.

 

Hopefully with ME in the nose ! Actually they can strap my butt to a bomb shackle and hang me over the open bomb bay doors and I'll be happy. What I'm really hoping for is the view over the right shoulder of the Pilot. Two months and 15 days. But you know....... , Who's counting?"