Wow, it's hard to remember this is what human beings can be.

there has been so much more killing since then and as beautiful as this inspiration is, its hard to imagine there is enough love anywhere to stop the mass murder that is part of regular life now

Sure kid, just like a horse race.

Nasa is the best ambassador the US has, if they took 1/3 of the military budget and put into space travel the US would be back like Jordan.

Space travel for what? Branson is going to operate consumer flights, but how many times can billionaires fly to ISS before they get bored? Not many people can afford $150k for a short vacation.

tourism will always remain in the back seat. the commercialization of space has been about serving the planet as a whole with communications, its brought up the un-cabled world just like mobile phones have brought up the last mile. there is huge potential in energy production and distribution coming next.

space travel for discovery, learning and inspiration. the world could really use a moment of peaceful triumph.

Branson has sold tickets for twenty years without delivering a ride not sure how he is relevant to anything here.

Elon Musk estimates 5-10 years to get to Mars. At present the cost is $1 Billion per ton, so it'd need to be 1/1000th of the cost, apparently. The ship will also need to be reusable.

Traveling Mars is also not a point and shoot mission. You have to coordinate launches with the alignment of the planets' orbits to travel the shortest distance and not fly past the sun. This also requires a stay on Mars as you wait for safe realignment after landing. Current technology estimates a 21 month round-trip given a ~3 month stay on Mars. Money is not the biggest hurdle.

When I say 5-10 years, I mean to design and engineer the cost down, not journey time.

go open source, add new states, virtual citizenship and most of all healthy competition with other nations not war

Competition in what? Our largest industries are healthcare and pharma. Getting Americans to change is a huge hurdle.

competition for new citizens, with decreasing population the game is going to change and the usa at least remembers how to play

100%, this is always the u.s. advantage but politicians run on keeping people out not in

If its a 12 step program, seems like all this realisation right now is step 1.

outlaw political donations there's plenty of free coverage to get the pitches across anyway.

American free speech protects political donations, even from corporations.

No, this country is cursed, theres a lot of bad karma waiting.

k-rino has a nice rap-recap on this

You like this check out vinie paz on this

update

So who is the cool cowboy now?

This guy never existed it was all hollywood fiction,now they are more likely to show America defeating the universe and saving humanity as they struggle to try and persuade everybody they are still the good guys and not a bunch of screaming mad nazi thieves going about the planet threatening other nations and causing wars and misery where ever they go.

Peter Breggin. MD, former psychiatrist who took on the APA when profit motive became greater than the hypocratic oath doctors take to "first, do no harm", became the conscience of Psychiatry. Later in life he has runs a radio show exposing those persons involved in the Globalization Movement that is quickly eroding the common person's civil rights and creating barriers to those who choose to leave a work culture where your boss becomes your God and if you are lucky, you may receive paltry insurance and limited sick leave....the US is a nation of brainwashed drones who.probably have never had an original thought in their lifetime.

Dr Breggin advises us little people to organize and speak up....be a patriot....but look who we are up against....

Any lbs out there know of a better place to live where meager pensions are paid to elders who have to live on $2k a month and paid in Social Security taxes since they began work over 30 years agos. Thanks to Ronald Reagan and others like him repealed the formation of a self sustaining retirement system that President Clinton wanted.....

This is the tip of a gigantic iceburg to which any organized public outcry can be crushed by the Patriot Act.

Not to mention US top organizations, including the military, continue funding the weaponization of a once benign bat virus...

Population control has begun....freedom of speech has been compromised by media spin doctors, and a true Republic has turned communist......these globalists like Bill Gates, President Biden, George Soros, and anonymous billionaires are acting against law and liberty to defund any classes of us with little money, and spin doctor the media to brainwash us to believe we are having racial tension; what really is happening is class warfare.

Why do billionaires want just their money but the commoners money too? How much is enough to live on?

I get mad and feel compelled to stop the US from becoming part of the Communist Party of China.

Rather than dwell on frustration, I will smoke some kush mints so I can even sleep!

The population grew to large. The citizen / individual is now a defunct concept. Group politics prevail. Democracy is dead.

America needs a strong leader. The country is in a mess and it's going to get a lot worse till it gets better.

Hollywood. The American dreM. Clever marketing for a past its date super power.

The issues lies with the movies ;-)

The country is too big to properly manage. To many different rules per state. The poverty and opioid epidemic is absolutely shocking beyond belief. Equality issues. Mad presidents and to many super rich families. Now
Let’s all head on down to Walmart to keep that cycle continued 😁👍

americas greatness came from common values attracting immigration from around the planet. make that again and yall have a chance

Only problem I see is too many people

not enough young people, not enough people moving up economically.

hmm mine seem to catch all over the place

I started smoking weed in '70, and the main difference I can tell between late 70s and now is that back then sinsemilla was just a part of the market, with a lot of packages containing seeds and more leaf and stem (amount varied with price). Today it's all sinsemilla (so much so that the term isn't even used anymore). The quality is pretty much the same. We had thai sticks and Hawaiian that certainly equaled top shelf strains of today (as far as anyone could tell - there wasn't much precision on reporting THC levels). I'm happy with the situation, but I stopped smoking between about '83 and 2009 (job), and wasn't amazed by any changes in potency; just the fact that it's all sinsemilla. I did feel silly when I first got back in the market and asked a seller whether or not his product was sinsemilla and he didn't know wtf I was talking about. I quickly found out that was a stupid question... :>)

I remember references to what I thought was the "sense" now I get that was sinsimilla :) Thanks

Yep, that's what it was called. Just Spanish for "without seed". Speaking of Spanish, if we could find Oaxacan sinse we considered ourselves lucky, because it was just about as good as Thai but cheaper. Availability (in my part of Texas) wasn't reliable at all though. Now, it's like going to the weed supermarket. We're living in the future in that sense. Life is good and getting better...

Alternate title: The Current State of Irish Cannabis

LMAO

Started smoking back in the 80s red leb ,black.good shit joints or hot knives they rocked.

Yeah bro the stuff with the cloth attached to it, red leb think there was gold leb too it was lovenly stuff. Early 90s.

And green leb. Amazing days. Wasn’t the strongest, but tasted amazing.

We also used to get straws filled with green oil. Either spread some on a rizla or just chase the dragon with it. God knows what it’s done to my lungs.

I was there from 1972-ish, it was mostly pretty good in the Uk depending who you knew, or what grew ;) Avoiding the street ofc.

Most of the pictured weed was grown outdoors on a hillside without fertilisers, boosters and the other shit habitually used today.

I partook in the some of the countries of origin at the time too, thank you Magic Bus. I preferred hash at the time and still do, real Temple Balls were trippy, Leb was a knockout and the black in the Dam was unbelievable and so on. Impossible to get around here, so pleased to have found LB at last!

How did people live with that? With the way weed has gone it's a different world and are kids will think the same as are weed lol

Let's hope there's a little weed in their shunt/ brain interface

Vaguely remember smoking some stuff looking similar to that here in the UK circa late 90s.

Meh I’d still smoke it. I bet all of these would get you high as a motherfucker. Because you wouldn’t be used to them at all.

If i got any of that in the post I'd probably raise a dispute. Though I did buy thai stick and brick pack in the 90's. Wouldn't mind seeing a picture of the hash scene back then. All the hash bars look the same now. Just with a different picture under the cellophane. Picture looks like it came off someone's home printer. No finesse to hash bars these days.

1970s cannabis dispute settlement, there's a prompt

Cannabis has came a long way

In all honesty I’d be happier smoking this, I started in late 80s/90s and the hash was great , blonde leb, red leb , squidgy black and then Thai , African , Jamaican weed. Then skunk came it was hard to get and sought after. As I grew older and funds were better I smoked skunk, I spent 3 or 4 years travelling in india and Asia (basically a stoners tour) then I came home and settled down other things took preference and I barely smoked , then I came back and now everyone goes on about terps and all sorts of shit , I’d take this lot over most weed today

I saw a lot of weed in '77, but the only pics here that look like what I saw are the Thai sticks. Weed didn't look like the compact nuggets we see today, but it never looked that raggedy that I remember, and I started smoking it in '70.

first 'grass' I ever smoked looked like Acapulco Gold number 5, first proper weed I got fucked from was like the Thai in number 10

Proper Gold Seal hash. In Amsterdam. Back then. 1991, 2

When Orange Bud was ridiculous, and there was no hope, ever, of getting that shit at home.

Generic “skunk” for £40 on the eighth round my way.

Cheaper to go ‘Dam. Post shit back. And have a nice little holiday.

Nah. Hash. Pop up De Pijp. Buy 10 2 euro dvds.

You might want to watch them. But it’s mainly shite horror. Early Cronenberg if you were lucky. Nikita. That sort of thing.

Then pack them with as much hash as you can. Pop them in an envelope. And post them. Just go for a nice walk. 10 parcels. 10 different post boxes.

Oz of very nice hash, in the UK. Thankyou very much.

But we had Budmonkey back then. Shit like that. Hermes. 2005 ish. You know. That shit.

Can’t even remember how it was done.

Like people thinking this shit is new. 😄

No. Genuinely

😃

we used to get the ferry over from harwich, £35 for a 24 hour return. Sometimes we'd get a coach there and back because they never got searched, would stash hash around the coach and collect it once through customs.

There was a DVD shop we used to go to, open them up and plaster hash all over the inside and post them home. always landed

Colombian Gold for me, and Thai Sticks. Late 80’s goodness. 😂

Blimey! I’m glad to have been born in the 80s.

Beautiful bit of chaff

Hey biggaz
I used the minitel during years as a good french; but they never improved the technology and it remained fucking slow but wasfunny...
I still have one somewhere...

Hi Kokro

I had one at my dad's house too.

There was also a guy who was maintining his own BBS during the night shifts when I was a mainframe sysop.

Those were the days. Typical of French society back then: great inventions but lacking the entrepreneurial culture commonly found in Anglo=Sxon countries.

Carte a puces?

Cheers

so not so different from orange's service today?

So true ?

Haha thanks for that. Reminds me of my first foray into the web dialing into BBS in the US to play doom 1 against people around my area.

LB gives of a similar vibe as those early BBSs.

I'm what you end up with when racism and bigotry are allowed to run amuck. I'm the omini hater. I hate everybody. Young, old, white, black, yellow, male, female, beautiful, ugly, l don't give a shit. There's always room for everyone at my table of hatred. Come join your family and friends. I guarantee you will see someone you know, so you'll never be alone;-)

I love all races except Ascott

I hate the Indy 500 it's a greedy bag of shit

What do you mean hate on Chinese, this guy is just a reasonable businessman.

What about Arabs, no wait they've done that one

The English are depicted as incompetent