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re: What took more nads, first mariners to cross the oceans or the first manned moon landing
Posted on 7/20/19 at 1:37 pm to WhuckFistle
Posted on 7/20/19 at 1:37 pm to WhuckFistle
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Omaha beach.
Not taking anything away from the first 2 choices, but charging forward while thousands of their buddies are being gunned down all around them? Omaha Beach... all day long.
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Posted on 7/20/19 at 1:38 pm to Bass Tiger
Neither.
It took more courage for Omar to stand up to Drumpf!!!
It took more courage for Omar to stand up to Drumpf!!!
Posted on 7/20/19 at 1:39 pm to Quidam65
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Both were equally dangerous.
Yeah, and nobody knows the names of the hundreds of explorers who left europe and never returned...
Posted on 7/20/19 at 1:40 pm to Bass Tiger
That's a tough question to answer since either response can be supported and is seemingly the correct one.
I'll go with the ancient mariners simply because they faced a larger unknown than the astronauts.
I'll go with the ancient mariners simply because they faced a larger unknown than the astronauts.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 1:42 pm to Bass Tiger
quote:that's ignorant bc the moon baws were more highly trained and prepared than any ancient mariners could have comprehended.
them moon baws only had some fake orange juice called Tang.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 1:43 pm to Bass Tiger
Well. We had been riding boats on the ocean for A VERY long time
Strapping your arse to a rocket was not exactly in the human daily experience
Strapping your arse to a rocket was not exactly in the human daily experience
This post was edited on 7/20/19 at 1:45 pm
Posted on 7/20/19 at 1:45 pm to Bass Tiger
I have to go with crossing the ocean personally. Those guys didn't haven't some of the finest minds in the world having their backs, and they certainly wouldn't have been considered heroes and martyrs if and when they failed.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 1:47 pm to Bass Tiger
Without a doubt, as the stories of mariners not returning from the seas where there were unimaginable monsters waiting to devour them lived, to say nothing of the flimsy boats, and lack of navigational instruments. Gotta go with the seafarers.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 1:50 pm to ShortyRob
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Well. We had been riding boats on the ocean for A VERY long time
Yeah, but most of it was hugging the coast line. When the Vikings went south to plunder France they rarely got more than 5 miles away from land.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 1:58 pm to WhuckFistle
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What about a third option? Omaha beach.
Well, I was using exploration as the comparative.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 2:01 pm to Zach
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Yeah, but most of it was hugging the coast line. When the Vikings went south to plunder France they rarely got more than 5 miles away from land.
This ^^^ is true. The sextant was invented until the 1700's so if you had the nads to sail off across the ocean like Vespucci, Columbus, or anyone else before modern navigational instruments existed .....well, you had some serious nads.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 2:04 pm to Bass Tiger
I consider them to be about equal.
The stakes were the same. If you got lost past a certain point, there was nobody coming to save you.
The stakes were the same. If you got lost past a certain point, there was nobody coming to save you.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 2:04 pm to Bass Tiger
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Posted on 7/20/19 at 2:06 pm to arcalades
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quote: them moon baws only had some fake orange juice called Tang.
that's ignorant bc the moon baws were more highly trained and prepared than any ancient mariners could have comprehended.
I guess my humor didn't translate well, uhhh, it was a joke.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 2:09 pm to WhuckFistle
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What about a third option? Omaha beach.
I’ll do you one better: going over the top of a trench at a place like Verdun or the Somme.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 2:09 pm to Bass Tiger
Both were ludicrously dangerous given the transportation devices. At least the moon landing we kinda sorta knew the science behind what was supposed to happen, though.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 2:10 pm to Bass Tiger
Moon.
Ships were proven craft.
Space ships and moon landers were not.
Ships were proven craft.
Space ships and moon landers were not.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 2:10 pm to Bass Tiger
First explorers. They had no lines of communication from whence they came and had literally no idea what, who or where they were going.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 2:11 pm to ShortyRob
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Well. We had been riding boats on the ocean for A VERY long time
Strapping your arse to a rocket was not exactly in the human daily experience
This is the part that I think a lot of people take for granted. Sure, we had sent rockets and humans into orbit, but only a handful
of times before. We take for granted the hindsight that we know it was all successful in the end, but they had no idea.
They were relying on something man-made to take them to literally another planet. They could physically train the astronauts on earth, but there was no training they could do for something like descending the lunar lander, having literal tons of rocket fuel at your back hurdling you towards nothingness at hundreds of miles an hour, or stepping that first foot on the lunar surface.
Look up at the moon tonight and REALLY think about trusting in a rocket that man made to carry you there. Think about standing on that surface and staring back at the blue marble that is the earth and how far away that must've felt. Then think about trusting in man-made technology and calculations to get you back that far safely.
Nobody had ever done anything even close. People had sailed and discovered new lands many times.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 2:11 pm to Quidam65
Both took brass ones
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