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Why is Bill so *$&%#! Angry about the Odysseus Landing?

Bill Whittle Network

Bill Whittle Network

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4.9720 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In this scrupulously and voluminously bleeped episode of Right Angle, we discover the reason that the normally completely calm and imperturbable Bill Whittle is just a tad discomforted by the semi-success of America’s first return to the lunar surface in almost 55 years. Hint: it’s not because it burned down, tipped over and fell into the swamp. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

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0:00.0

Well, God, the Fri-Odysi lander managed land on the

0:03.4

moon, and it was not a perfect landing, but it was a landing.

0:07.4

So, hooray.

0:08.3

We have the first commercial private enterprise lending on the

0:11.8

moon.

0:12.5

Hi, everybody.

0:13.1

I'm Bill Whittle here with Steve Green and Scott Ott, and I am more pissed off about

0:16.6

this than anything I have ever been through in my entire life.

0:19.6

Steve, the landing was a success.

0:21.7

It was not an unqualified success that basically managed to get down to the lunar surface,

0:26.7

and it apparently suffered a roll excursion on the way out just in the final phase,

0:32.5

so we know it's there, we know it's active, we just don't know what the bitch's actual status is.

0:43.4

As we record this on Friday morning, we don't have any pictures yet, but I have no doubt that those pictures will be on their way down here any minute, just to torment me some more. So what do you think about this idea of a private

0:50.0

moon landing and the idea that history was made yesterday and that the history is not the landing on the moon? It and the idea that history was made yesterday and and that the history is not

0:56.9

the landing on the moon.

0:57.8

It's the fact that we are finally dealing with spaces if it actually mattered to us.

1:04.7

Number one, it's the polar landing thing, which is tough And only one other country has done it before.

1:11.4

And we weren't it.

1:12.4

We weren't the first ones there was India.

1:15.2

That was a huge step for them.

1:16.8

And I think it was just last year of 2022 that they stuck that landing.

1:21.4

And now we've done it too.

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