Bored stiff with the current nonsense on the moon landing. It is less interesting now than it was when it happened, and that's saying something. Let's concentrate on problems on Earth.

When Binoy Kampmark of his family decided to leave whatever sheethole country they inhabited and decided to live in another country, they did not decide to live with the South Americans, or the wonderful Muslims, or the Indians, the Chinese, or the Pacific Islanders. No, Binoy or his family decided to live in the west, specifically Australia. Binoy went to uni and did well, where he discovered, (probably much to his astonishment) that despising western culture is some sort of fashion statement among western undergraduates.

Binoy went on to get himself a well paying and prestigious job with the government funded for human rights mob, who's whole reason for existence is to find ways to aid minority groups who hate the west but who want to live with us. One thing is certain, Binoy learned it was very profitable and socially advancing to slag off at the culture he or his family clamored to be a part of.

And here he is again. The Lunar Landings are the crowning achievement of the country which is the leader of the free world. They are an unwelcome reminder to every totalitarian state that even 50 years after the moon landings, they can not match the USA in science and technology. So Binoy feels the need to belittle this great achievement. This should get him invited to a few more A list parties where rich and well connected celebrities sneer at Trump and the working class Deplorables while knocking back their carafes of Chardonnay, posing for he society photographers, and digging into the caviar.

The lead that the USSR had over the USA came about because the USSR could not match the strategic reach of the USA and they invested in ballistic missiles instead of bombers and submarine launched ballistic missiles. Von Braun sat on the bench for years ignored by the US armed forces and he quipped that he should have defected to the Russians. It was only Sputnik that got the USA thinking about the prestigious ramifications of space explorations, and as was expected, they soon completely eclipsed the USSR.

In this world there are doers, & those who look on from the sidelines, & snipe at the doers. Those who snipe the loudest & longest are the ones who wish they could be like the doers, but can't raise the energy, ability or intestinal fortitude to actually do something.

They can come up with dozens of reasons not to do anything, from their comfortable safe seat on the sidelines of life. While they sit, unable to raise the courage to go & do, they will denigrate the doers, trying to make themselves less ashamed for their lack of imitative or courage.

With enough putting down the doers they can almost, but never quite eliminate their feeling of inferiority. Of course they have a thousand reasons for doing nothing, but deep inside they know why they only snipe.

Should we feel sorry for them, no way, but we must never admire them. They are the nothings of this world.

Well, it was fifty years ago and the spinoffs have contributed to the quality of life and business profits far more than the cost, in total, of all our, to date, space exploration.

I predict inside twenty years, we will have a warp drive and interstellar travel. And with it the easing of population pressure here on mother earth. In fact, see a mass migration to the farthermost reaches of our galaxy and the habitation of completely uninhabited planets in their millions. Inside this century

Always providing we can get the dolts and the hugely misinformed fearmongers to stop trying to arrest technical/industrial development and CARBON FREE nuclear energy.

Can't see solar-powered space flight, nor wind turbines driving a warp engine. Neither of those options will ever create, affordable bismuth 213, a miracle cancer cure that has been SUCCESSFULLY trialled MANY TIMES around the world and by conventional western medicine.

The lunar landing was the forerunner of a possible human colony on the moon. And so those that would involve the world in a planet-destroying nuclear holocaust, would have a bolt hole to escape to?

On a lighter note, the Chinese have put a rocket on the dark side of the moon and set it up as a restaurant. They say the food is outta this world and to die for. But, the joint has absolutely no atmosphere.
Alan B.

Lego. Riding the unbridled horse of racism into the West.

Binoy Kampmark being Indian, how do you fit all that into your tight narrative?

He could hardly be accused of running away from India to join the West do you think?

I feel sure he would know more about the West from first hand experience, than you would believe, obviously!

Dan.

And besides all that, I like this author. He obviously has a brain and knows how to use it.

Dan