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In reply to the discussion: My wife and I saw Apollo 11 yesterday. [View all]Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)12. Hey, I'm asking the same thing
To be fair, plenty of the science-denying, PROUDLY ignorant dumbfucks were around in the Apollo era, they were usually just marginalized and usually weren't successful en masse at politics... But after the George Bush Jr. era where he normalized a lot of bible-humping nutbars, nobody knows where the bottom is
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Of course there's been a lot of great scientific endeavour the last 50 years.
Dave Starsky
Mar 2019
#44
Because Aldrin had a notorious reputation for being what some would consider a jerk
Docreed2003
Mar 2019
#33