Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
Imagine if in 1961 after Kennedy's speech about going to the moon, the U.S. had adopted your mentality. No one had ever gone to the moon before. Statistically, it had never been done. So using your logic, we would have been wasting our time even trying.
You have used this analogy twice now. I know you think you are making a point but maybe if you had even a rudimentary knowledge of how we got to the moon (in 1969 by the way 8 years after 1961) you would realize that you are making my point and blowing your view out of the water.
What happened after that speech? Did they put together a rocket, put Neil Armstrong et. al. in the capsule and then launch to the moon? Or maybe did they have a series of unmanned rocket launches, did they shoot dogs into space, did they have Mercury, then Gemini, then Apollo 1, Apollo 2, Apollo 3......up until Apollo 11? Did they learn how to get into the upper atmosphere, then orbit, then spacewalk, then orbital rendezvous, then launch of Saturn 5, then orbit the moon, then LEM extraction and rendezvous, and then they landed on the moon?
Along the way, was there thousands of engineers, mathematicians, astrophysicists, and many other "bean counters" who hammered down problem after problem after problem after problem until they could safely go to the moon.
Now who was more important to the success of Apollo 11, all these problem solvers or the guy sitting on the couch whining and complaining because they haven't gotten to the moon yet?
So yes, I would proudly claim to be some "bean counter" problem solver who moves the operation along in any way possible, rather than a perma-whiner complaint maven who doesn't do crap to help anyone ever and just complains about the efforts of others.
That's how they got to the moon my friend and people like you were nothing but boat anchors along the way.