"We choose to go to the moon this decade and do the other thing. Not because they...

[Lancer]

...are easy but because they are hard."-JFK

What other thing?

[Thorn]

spam...... lancer you should know better.......lol

[Lancer]

MM?

No really, what other thing?

[Thorn]

God I hate thursdays no one is ever around...... sooooooo boring.....

[Edan]

But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

link

[snoopy369]

http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/ricetalk.htm

Do the other things. He is referring to previous things done in the past that he is using to establish America's fervor and willpower to do the 'hard things'.

[Winston]

I've often thought about the irony of this passage having become so.. memorable, considering how badly composed and verbally messed up it actually is.

It's almost as if Neil Armstrong decided to mispronounce his first words as he stepped off the ladder in a tribute to Kennedy..

[RoboCon]

Hello there! I see you are discussing Kennedy. Perhaps I can be of assistance.

Do you remember when Chegitz was comparing Chappaquiddick with 9-11? Perhaps it was sound advice, but without tort reform, Bobby Kennedy wouldn't have lived to see 60 anyways. People always ask me who did the shooting. Anne Coulter is the answer. Never has a filthier liberal occupied that Senate seat.

[Lancer]

Great links!

"If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred. The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in the race for space. "

What an optimistic democrat. One who wanted to travel out into the void...

[Lancer]

Originally posted by RoboCon
Hello there! I see you are discussing Kennedy. Perhaps I can be of assistance.

Do you remember when Chegitz was comparing Chappaquiddick with 9-11? Perhaps it was sound advice, but without tort reform, Bobby Kennedy wouldn't have lived to see 60 anyways. People always ask me who did the shooting. Anne Coulter is the answer. Never has a filthier liberal occupied that Senate seat.

Translation anyone?

[Lancer]

Originally posted by Winston
I've often thought about the irony of this passage having become so.. memorable, considering how badly composed and verbally messed up it actually is.

It's almost as if Neil Armstrong decided to mispronounce his first words as he stepped off the ladder in a tribute to Kennedy..

I wonder if the politicos of the time felt more free to wander from the script.

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by RoboCon
Hello there! I see you are discussing Kennedy. Perhaps I can be of assistance.

Do you remember when Chegitz was comparing Chappaquiddick with 9-11? Perhaps it was sound advice, but without tort reform, Bobby Kennedy wouldn't have lived to see 60 anyways. People always ask me who did the shooting. Anne Coulter is the answer. Never has a filthier liberal occupied that Senate seat.

[Lancer]

Good translation.

[Spiffor]

This DL is amazing. It has both the markings of a bot and of a moronic conservative. Congrats to his owner

[Ecthy]

Thanks