Space, The Final Frontier.....
Before I tell my story, a quick Public Service Announcement. In about 14 hours, Mrs Legless will be giving birth to our first child.

A B3ta baby. We met through B3ta, QOTW to be specific, and have been together for more than ten years and married for almost 3.


I know we're not the first B3ta baby - I know of any least one who was conceived on a bash - but, if B3ta is still going in another 15 years I'll tell our daughter where her parents met and how we got together.



Anyways - on with the tale.


It's not my happiest childhood memory but it is one of the most profound. It was on July 21st 1969. At school, my class had been taken down to the TV room to witness the moment when Armstrong said those iconic words:

"One small step for a man - one giant leap for mankind"


My little brain almost 'sploded. We (meaning the Yanks) had put a fucking man on the moon!! It was beyond awesome. I was already a prolific reader but most of my adventure reading was earth based. Exploring the Amazon, Eygpt, Africa. I was into H. Rider Haggard, George McDonald Fraser (Flashman), Rudyard Kipling and early Tolkien - pretty much, The Hobbit.


But the moon landing changed everything. I discovered sci-fi. Asimov, E.E.Doc Smith. Hienlen. I read everything from the Golden Age of science fiction. Space was the next frontier. We'd reached the moon so Mars would be next. We'd build a lunar colony, humanity would start to reach for the stars...


But it all turned to shit. Then we had Nixon, the oil crisis of the 70s, and stagnation in really getting our arses off this rock.

But now we have new blood. Neil Dr Grasse Tyson - one of the most elequont speakers for science and space I've ever listened to. Elron Musk - a complete nutter who risks everything on his vision. The guy has huge balls. But he wants to get us into space, onto other planets and start mining asteroids and comets.


I'm rambling now but, the point is, when I was a child, I dreamed that I might get to space. Today, I'm on the cusp of being a dad for the first time and I really think that my daughter might have a fighting chance of doing what I dreamed about as a child.

But only if she wants to.


Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Wed 17 May 2017, 14:26, 19 replies)

No, m8.
Your daughter doesn't want to see this. Any of it.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 17 May 2017, 16:12, closed)

Congratulations!!!!!!!

( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 17 May 2017, 17:00, closed)

Cheers

( $$ ✅, Wed 17 May 2017, 17:02, closed)

Our arses of this rock.
(dozers You big spazzer!, Wed 17 May 2017, 17:53, closed)

Elequont.
(dozers You big spazzer!, Wed 17 May 2017, 17:53, closed)

Cheers

( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Wed 17 May 2017, 19:02, closed)

Sláinte

( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Thu 18 May 2017, 2:55, closed)

https://www.drinksupermarket.com/pogues-irish-whiskey-70cl?gclid=CNHXrJeT-dMCFZWp7QoddxALpA
(Tugnut I got them all..., Thu 18 May 2017, 10:41, closed)

Cheers

(Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Sr., Thu 18 May 2017, 8:17, closed)

Congats.

You will soon enter the world of being more concerned about the bowel movements of another human more than your own. Magical Times!
( caffeinefreak, Thu 18 May 2017, 14:14, closed)

Veronica Mosers?

( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Thu 18 May 2017, 17:08, closed)

Congratulations
You'll be dead before she does any of that.
( social hand grenade I was a lurker before you were a lurker, Thu 18 May 2017, 20:18, closed)

Grudging real-life non-comedy positive acknowledgement of life event.
Cheers
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Thu 18 May 2017, 22:10, closed)

Cheers
( Ken Oath, Fri 19 May 2017, 10:41, closed)

Cheers
It's too late to tell her to get an abortion now, you realise.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Mon 22 May 2017, 12:02, closed)

Congratulations...

And It's good to see you back.
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Sun 28 May 2017, 10:30, closed)