re: #188 Killgore Trout

It’s not the flight but the landing that counts…
French launch bid to rewrite history books with claim that Lindbergh was NOT first to fly across the Atlantic

Would anyone really claim it an achievement to land a corpse on the moon? Damn French revisionists.

Lindy is now a figure of popular mythology, no amount of adacemic research is going to displace him from the public consciousness.

Just like the Biblical Creation is part of popular mythology, and no amount of science is going to displace it….