From scarlet sky to starry sky

Keyon 2022-05-21 15:10:27

I found that in many places, people's attitude towards talents is that Ye Gong is good for dragons. I shouted how to look for talents, but when I really use people, I always like to find people who are easy to manipulate, some people who are inferior to my own ability, and the result is that the generation is not as good as the generation. The steel king Carnegie once wrote an epitaph for himself: "People who lie here know how to make people around them smarter than themselves." As everyone knows, the reason why Liu Bang is so powerful is that he is good at using Xiao He and Han Xin who are more powerful than himself. People. The book "Nixon and Mao" published by Random House gives an interesting example that Kissinger and Nixon do not have much personal relationships. In private, Kissinger also said that Nixon was a "lunatic" and "our drunk friend." But this does not prevent Nixon from using Kissinger to start the journey of establishing diplomatic relations between China and the United States.

I saw another film last night called "The Right Stuff", which talked about some interesting facts in the history of American aerospace. When choosing to send someone to the sky, NASA was hesitating to send someone or send a gorilla. One of the reasons for safety is of course, and more importantly, they fear that the pilots they select (all pilots recruited from all over the country) will be difficult to manage. In the end, the first one to go to heaven was indeed an orangutan. This move made the United States miss the first opportunity to give someone to heaven, and made Gagarin of the Soviet Union one step ahead.

Later facts proved that the pilots were indeed "sting their heads." For example, the pilot John Glenn's wife stuttered and feared facing the media. When Vice President Johnson asked for a meeting, he repeatedly let him shut the door. Johnson thumped his chest and his feet with anger and said why you don't want to think of a solution, why is it so difficult for me to see a housewife? The leadership of the Aerospace Administration was also furious, but everyone had no choice but to go with John Glenn. However, if it were not for these difficult and capable pilots (later astronauts), it would be difficult for the aerospace industry in the United States to surpass the speed of sound step by step. Go beyond the atmosphere and finally win the Cold War. While these astronauts continue to make breakthroughs in space, in fact, the space agency's ground personnel are also constantly making breakthroughs, step by step to create conditions so that these astronauts can perform their best. If there is no such breakthrough, what they have sent to the sky now is an orangutan, another orangutan, and another orangutan... Then what kind of apes will we look up to?

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The Right Stuff quotes

  • [Alan Shepard climbs into Freedom 7 to find a placard taped to the instrument panel reading "No Handball Playing In This Area". John Glenn looks in and smiles]

    Alan Shepard: [hands placard out to Glenn] Not very funny, John.

    John Glenn: Well, I thought it...

    Alan Shepard: I do appreciate, John. I surely do.

    John Glenn: [the two shake hands] Vaya con Dios, Jose.

  • John Glenn: I don't want anything to put this program in a bad light. I mean, we've got the opportunity of a lifetime and I'm sorry but I am not going to stand by and let other people compromise the whole darn thing. You know and I know this could lead to something very unfortunate.

    [Unsure which one says this: "What's ticking you off?"]

    John Glenn: I'm talking about the playing around that's going on. I'm talking about the young girls. I'm talking about the cookies. I'm talking about keeping our pants zipped and our wicks dry around here!

    Alan Shepard: Mr. Glenn, you are way out of line. I'd advise you not to try and foist your view of morality on anybody else in this group. Each man here has volunteered to do a job. Each man here is devoting long hours of training to prepare for it, and doing many things above and beyond the strict call of duty, such as morale tours of factories...

    John Glenn: - such as bringing girls up to your room in the middle of the night?

    Alan Shepard: - and foregoing any semblance of an orderly family life. And Mr. Glenn, as long as a man uses good sense, what he does with his zipper or his wick is his own business!

    Scott Carpenter: [Comes between Shepard and Glenn] Now hold it just a minute!