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[-] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago

Probably brought in some of the original guys for one last job.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 32 points 6 months ago

takes long drag off cigarette "I'm too old for this shit"

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 15 points 6 months ago

You sure? The smell off some of the corpses will have been terrible.

I'm not saying they're all dead, but an intern at the time of launch would now be 70. Anybody who actually designed anything is... Well... The odds of them still being around are low.

[-] Flummoxed@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I have a uncle who worked on Apollo writing machine code, and he is a spry, clear-headed 80-something-year-old.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

IIRC, they did pull in a guy who had just started his career on the project.

[-] whostosay@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Son of a bitch, I'm in.

[-] yetiftw@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

do I hear heist movie?

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