TotallyNotKen

Every time I hear about moon conspiracies, I remember this guy explaining that it was technologically impossible to fake the moon landing.

The best one of these I saw was on FB, in which the guy asked "Why fake it instead of do it?" We know they built and launched rockets, we know they built lunar landers and space capsules, and we know from submarines that it's possible to keep people live in a metal container for weeks at a time if you give them food and air. So why not build a metal container, put it on a rocket, and shoot it into space? What of that is impossible? This is just an engineering problem, and engineers solve problems like that all the time. So why bother faking it instead of actually doing it?

Nobody had an answer. Turned out one of the Moon Hoax loonies had actually served on a submarine in the military, and apparently never noticed any similarity between him in his container and astronauts in their containers.

Do gloves like this not fit right: http://www.amazon.com/Louis-Garneau-Shield-Lobster-Gloves/dp/B0099TIXOS

Communism and fascism are different in almost every way.

Except in their attraction of followers, which has less to do with the content of the ideology than the form. Quoting Eric Hoffer's The True Believer:

Hitler looked on the German Communists as potential National Socialists: "The petit bourgeois Social-Democrat and the trade-union boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communist always will. Captain Rohm boasted that he could turn the reddest Communist into a glowing nationalist in four weeks. On the other hand, Karl Radek looked on the Nazi Brown Shirts (S.A.) as a reserve for future Communist recruits.

The book is excellent in pretty much every way, and you should read it, but what I'm calling attention to here is that people join such movements and support such leaders because their current lives are not very good, and they have lost hope in getting anywhere in the direction they are going, and someone promising "a brighter future if only we'll struggle to achieve it" can get a whole bunch of followers. The particulars of the struggle in question (against Jews, or Capitalists, or whoever) and the ultimate goal (Communist utopia, Deutschland Uber Alles, whatever) don't actually matter very much: just the promise that instead of having to deal with your own hopeless and puny life, you can be part of something excellent that will transform the world.

My wife & I have done P90X several times, love it, love how our bodies responded to it. We're both 50ish, been married over 25 years, and are within a few pounds of what we weighed when we got married. So thanks for that.

But I've been thinking about the long term. I know you've got new programs, but how long can one keep that up? Suppose we do the current set of routines through our 50s. Would they still be suitable for when we get to our 60s? 70s? 80s? I'm just guessing, I've never been 80, but based on the 80-year-olds I've known, there's no way they're going to complete the Plyometrics disk.

What kind of long-term planning have you got in this regard? You're a businessman, you can look at demographics as well as anyone, and the population is aging. There are going to be a lot of old people, and if you can sell something suitable for them there will be money to be made. Is there a P90Geriatric in the future? Will it be ready by the time we're ready for it?