The Daily Dose/March 8, 2025
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
USA! USA!: A private spacecraft called Athena landed on the moon Thursday, the second civilian spacecraft landing on the moon this week. Athena touched down near the lunar south pole after its Feb 27 launch.
Fly In The Ointment: No one is entirely sure how the spacecraft is oriented. It could be, as designed, standing straight up, or it would be on its side.
Ladies And Gentlemen Of The Jury: We have a couple of questions. 1) Why is it taking so long to get to the moon nowadays? Apollo made it in three days.Now it’s taking a week. 2) Who the hell cares?
Dry, Technical Matter: For our money, continued trips the moon are pointless. We put humans on it over 50 years ago and we have never seen the purpose of going back. Been there, done that, to use a catchphrase. It’s akin to a mountain climber rejoicing over returning to the base camp of a mountain he has already summited. Or going back to a small mountain when there is still Everest to climb
Boy, You’re Grouchy Today: We’re not even all that thrilled with returning humans to the moon, not that anyone should think Artemis is going to land there anytime soon. It is already six years behind schedule and those who believe the 2027 lunar landing date will be met are high, legally in more and more states.
The Bottom Line: This nation could’ve had men on Mars forty years ago if we’d wanted to. But we didn’t want to. America stopped dreaming within a generation or two of TV becoming the focal point of American life, and our country and our planet are the lesser for it. A pond that gains no new water eventually dies out, and friends, America is dying out. We haven’t done anything great since Apollo and we elected a president whose self-named university was a boiler room and who believes the moon is part of Mars. We could land on the moon a thousand more times and it wouldn’t do us any good.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow does battle with a vending machine. Today’s Diary.
The first sack got stuck on its own and we forked over for another sack, a desperate – and futile – attempt to liberate the first one…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1979 – The CD – a joint development of Philips and Sony – is demonstrated publicly for the first time in the Netherlands. The first CDs were released in Japan in 1982 and by 1991 were outselling LPs and cassettes, and by 2001 accounted for over 90% of all music sales. The first act to sell a million CDs was Dire Straits in 1985, and the first Beatles CDs were released in 1987. A CD is 1.2 millimeters thick and 4.7 inches in diameter.
In 1900 – The National League decides to contract from twelve teams to eight teams for the coming season. Baltimore, Cleveland, and Washington would return to the major leagues in 1901 as part of the American League, while Louisville returned to the minor leagues. The National League had been at twelve teams since the 1891 season and remain at eight teams until the 1961 season.
In 1969 – Sly & the Family Stone is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the fourth and final consecutive week with Everyday People. It was the second of nine Top 40 hits for the group, their second of five Top 10 songs, and their first of three #1s. The song also peaked at #36 in Great Britain, had earlier spent two weeks at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart, and was Billboard’s 5th-biggest song of the year.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
This species could have been so great, and now everybody just wants a new Salad Shooter or sneakers with lights in them. This is what we’ve settled for.
George Carlin
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
Ezzard Charles had a career professional boxing record of 95-25-1.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What was the last major league game played by a Louisville team? – Answer next time!
