On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:36:17 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:02:22 -0400, Captain Yogi of Woodstock penned
the following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:05:06 -0400, H the K
|wrote:
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|Captain Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
| 1969 - Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.
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| 1976 America's Viking 1 robot spacecraft landed on Mars.
|
| 2003 - In India, elephants used for commercial work began wearing
| reflectors to avoid being hit by cars during night work.
|
| 1946 - The Pan-Galactic Super Genius Evil Overlord appeared in this
| mortal realm to monitor his subjects from within.
|
|Happy Birthday, Ugleeee. Hope you have at least 20 more before you
|forget your birthday.
|
|Gues what - I forgot until Mrs. Wave mentioned it this morning.
|
|Then the kids started calling.
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|Then I remembered.
|
|Sucks getting old. :)
|
|What?

Happy birthday, old guy.....! Getting old sucks, but it beats the
hell out of the alternatives....

That it does - any morning you wake up is a good one at this age. :)

Actually, I don't feel like I've been on this planet for 63 years -
more like 30.

1946 was a very interesting year.

Project Diana bounces radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact
distance between the earth and the moon, and proving that
communication is possible between Earth and outer space, effectively
opening the space age. Interesting in that my Dad, W1QGN, was
bouncing CW signals off the moon less than 6 years later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Diana

The Canadian schooner Bluenose foundered on a Haitian reef.

In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the surplus USS
Saratoga is sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, when the
United States detonates the Baker device during Operation Crossroads.
Which, oddly, led to the introduction of a new two piece bathing suit
named after Bikini Atoll.

The first Tupperware is sold in department and hardware stores.

USS Anderson, Carlisle, Gilliam, Lamson and Sakawa were sunk at Bikini
Atoll in Operation Crossroads as a test targets.

Percy Williams Bridgman won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his
work on the physics of high pressures. He also wrote extensively on
the scientific method and on other aspects of the philosophy of
science. One of the people who influenced my life tremendously.