Comments on: July 20, 1969 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/07/july-20-1969.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=july-20-1969 Thinking the unthinkable, pondering the imponderable, effing the ineffable and scruting the inscrutable Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bart Hanssens http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/07/july-20-1969.html#comment-2388 Bart Hanssens Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:34:22 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/07/july-20-1969.html#comment-2388 On a somewhat related note from Belgium: on July 20, 1969, Eddy Merckx won his first 'Tour de France'.<br /><br />Fast forward 40 years: Armstrong is 2nd in the Tour, and commander De Winne is <a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/19/2357222/Main-Toilet-On-ISS-Craps-Out" rel="nofollow">repairing the ISS toilet...</a><br /><br />Somewhere there's sad irony in it. On a somewhat related note from Belgium: on July 20, 1969, Eddy Merckx won his first 'Tour de France'.

Fast forward 40 years: Armstrong is 2nd in the Tour, and commander De Winne is repairing the ISS toilet…

Somewhere there's sad irony in it.

]]> By: Gary McGath http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/07/july-20-1969.html#comment-2387 Gary McGath Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:29:49 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/07/july-20-1969.html#comment-2387 <a href="http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/hope-eyrie.html" rel="nofollow">What do you mean we don't?</a> What do you mean we don't?

]]> By: webmaste http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/07/july-20-1969.html#comment-2386 webmaste Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:20:53 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/07/july-20-1969.html#comment-2386 David Bowie's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssnxo4lNp8w" rel="nofollow">Space Oddity</a> is from '69. And I'm a fan ;-) David Bowie's Space Oddity is from '69. And I'm a fan ;-)

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