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Old 10-01-2023, 01:37 PM #26
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They spent 8 years working on it only for that to happen

Really we are a million miles away from any meaningful foray into space
well if you take Science only being a thing in the last 500 years and already we have send a craft beyond our solar system imagine what we will be doing in a 1000 years hence, or 5000
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Really we are a million miles away from any meaningful foray into space

They will try again.


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That's quite a long time away
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If you were watching the Moon landings in the 60s I reckon you'd be a little bit disappointed to know that 60 years later we'd never achieved anything better than that in space
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If you were watching the Moon landings in the 60s I reckon you'd be a little bit disappointed to know that 60 years later we'd never achieved anything better than that in space
i got up at something like 4am to watch it, i think i was about 10 years old or something, and that experience will never be beaten in terms of pure human achievement, live on the box
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i got up at something like 4am to watch it, i think i was about 10 years old or something, and that experience will never be beaten in terms of pure human achievement, live on the box

I was forced to watch it but I wasn’t that impressed .. I just obsessed about football at the time ( still do oddly)




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After watching 7 council workers trying to fix a pothole in the road this fiasco is no surprise


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