In the late 60s there were no MMOs. Gary Gygax wouldn’t release his first version of Dungeons Dragons for another 5 years and Monopoly was probably more widely played than Tennis For Two. The first commercially available video game wasn’t available until 1971, two years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin exercised their first Extra-Vehicular Activity and planted the American flag on the surface of the moon.
Space exploration has always been a special interest of many since the birth of science fiction when people finally started to wonder what the first CosmoAstronauts would find in the vast reaches of space. Your IPhone would be more than capable of powering every Apollo mission, just 40 years later. That’s how far we’ve come. The words of President John F. Kennedy, as he pitched the people of the United States the importance of space exploration puts it into the proper context.
For him it wasn’t about what we might find out there. What he did know was that to achieve such a momentous feat (the US Space Program had spent a grand total of maybe 15 minutes sub-orbit when he first pitched the idea), that it would require a tremendous effort. To make it to the moon, people from many professions would have to collaborate.
JFK at Rice University, September 12th, 1962:
“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not only 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.”
By comparison, taking on something like Firefighter-25 or Alone in the Darkness seems akin to beating a 2 year old in an arena match. However, those words are as true then as they are now. Achieving lofty goals takes innovation and hard work. The discoveries and advances made to just get the Apollo 11’s Saturn V rocket off the ground are still felt today. We salute the people, those that made into space, and the thousands that helped get them there.
In WoW related news, we could use a couple quality melee members (Rogue and Feral Druid).
ession on the Trial of the Grand Crusader has been steady, but with the summer ending we’re looking to add more to our raid roster to bolster our forces and finish WotLK’s penultimate raid zone. Opportunity for full time raid slots are available in a few areas, in particular:
