I’ll stick to this one going forward and enjoy your Norway posts, the others just make you seem as an unhinged, America hating, Leftist lunatic. What did we do to make you so unhappy, Capt?
It’s hard to have a national superiority complex when your native country is second & third string on the world stage. The US has ruined it for many. Case and point. This is supposed to be another “beat up the USA” thread about going to the moon while Norway nor any other country on the planet has ever been to the moon. The only flag flying on the moon is our Stars & Stripes. I don’t know if you read the whole thread but a foreigner, USA hater even quotes Kennedy then calls us RACIST for going the first time! Poor them but who cares? So, to answer your question above, out of the mouth of babes (an American youngster of course) "We’re going back to the FUCKING moon, that’s why!”, why they hate the US.
Above can not even be called hiperbole but surely can be called blatant lie.
So may be u read again and if in doubt ask some questions so some can help u understand the meaning.
Regarding national superiority complex surely 3rd & 2nd string countries on the world stage can not match your God given exceptionality and need of mastering the whole world so it will dance according to your whims and tunes.
You and me seem to be abt the same age, so you should notice the number of your haters world wide is growing since 911 exponentially, what is unfortunate and a result of your behavior as schoolyard bully what many posts here confirm.
Sb said here in some post “ be nice to ppl on your way up as u may need them desperately on your way down”
Bigger and older empires then yours have fallen because of the forces from within then without .
It would be a tragedy and disaster for many if you follow them.
You call haters everybody who has a different opinion , what reminds me of the rhetorics and tactic of your biggest “ friend” .
Murdered POTUS Kennedy understood the meaning “ we ALL leave on the same , small planet , we breathe the same air “ .Well some here do not grasp that idea.
Meantime the spacecraft Artemis II crew successfully left Earth orbit, executing a “flawless” TIB (translunar injection burn) to head toward the Moon.
And I wish them Godspeed and successfully completed mission what usually all USA sworn in haters do.
Just add … to fill up the required number.
PS: If you have any… left over they can come in handy in other of your posts. 
Very well Viking Warrior w/o horns.
Here it is fm wiki:
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder, is a complex mental health condition where a person possesses two or more distinct identities or personality states (“alters”). It is largely caused by severe, repetitive childhood trauma, acting as a coping mechanism. Key symptoms include memory gaps, “switching” personalities, and loss of time.
Where the childhood trauma can develop? You surely know and have examined all available happiness indexes , hence you know for sure where the risk is highest .
You mean “Beaverboy” will be terminated and “Gizmont” will be with us, enjoying to see, read and learn more about Norway?
Glad to hear that. Yes Norway is a beautiful country, which I have seen too little of myself these last 5 decades.
Too late now for me, but you are welcome to explore it, from North Cape to Lindesnes:
“The journey from North Cape to Lindesnes is a famous longitudinal crossing of Norway, spanning over 2,500–3,000 km from the northernmost point (71°N) to the southern tip. Known as Norge på langs , this route is popular for hiking, cycling, and driving, typically taking months on foot (approx. 3,000 km), or several weeks by bike (approx. 2,600 km)”. Source: AI Overview
PS: Being a seafarer there is also a coastal route, mostly in sheltered waters. Some do it by sailing, rowing, or kayaking, but most prefer to go by the Coastal Express. (12-day roundtrip, from Bergen - Kirkenes v.v.)
As for the rest; No I’m not an unhinged America hater, unhappy, or a Leftist Lunatic.
I’m just a realist that has lived a while, travelled the world and learnt some things in the process. Among other thing; that the world is not as simple as some will have you believe. It is not true that all things are bad on one side and all good on the other, in politics or in life.
A wise man once said; “Believe, but Verify”.
I believe in fact, but still verify when possible, to be sure.
I will he damned!!!
I had no idea you are so ancient. You must remember Teutonic Knights and Magellan voyages 1519- 1522 or my math is wrong.
Now I am confused . You tell us all here you are a Viking from Norway.
Now it looks u are from “show me state”
Another contradiction from your many posts brings me to the following valid question : can American from Missouri be wise?
Impossible.!!!
But it can be true as I know one President who said exactly like u said. He was Great Ronald Reagan. RIP.
Sorry, first intended to say 50 years, but changed it to decades, forgot to remove the 0. 
Now corrected
Oh come on . I was joking .
No need for elaborate explanation. Little bit of humor will not hurt in such a tense environment where retaliatory tomahawk strikes are to be expected, large scale exclusions and incarceration by judge dreads .
One prison may not be enough , think they need a gulag or concentration camp.
Although humorists may be in danger too in totalitarian environment.
Back to the Artemis launch…
It was great. One sign of technological progress since 1969 is that the SLS rocket is much smaller than the Saturn V, even though the Artemis capsule weighs twice as much as the Apollo capsule.
As always, Bon Voyage!
I as one in my dotage belong to an organization called U3A that had its genisus in France. The U3A stands for University of the Third Age and it is World Wide. An internet search will probably reveal one near you. We utilize the combined knowledge of those of us who are retired and within our club we number an Emeritus Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering of a world rated university to name one.
I am the convenor of the Astronomy study group and we are watching this latest mission with awe and admiration being aware of the complexity of it all.
Me, I had never looked through a telescope at anything in the heavens before,only sextant and a theodolite, it has been a revelation. My somewhat redundant contribution is I can still do the sums. Today an app on your phone like Stellarium (free) and provide all the information a amateur astronomer needs. Using modern cheap equatorial mounts and camera equipment amateurs have made discoveries before the professionals. My contribution after some painful revision was navigation using Gaussian coordinates in deep space. Keeps what little grey matter I have after a life of general abuse functioning.
God speed to Artemis and her crew.
For genisus read Genesis
We have branch here in Norway too:
PS: I’m not a member as I didn’t know it existed. Looking into it.
Is it a observatory or some quality telescope that you used? I’ve got a very budget friendly hobby telescope. Good for the moon, the Rings of Saturn and the Moons of Jupiter. I’d like access to a real ‘scope.
I probably have a similar telescope to you but what is out there now is amazing. My pick if I was a bit younger would be this one. You can see Uranus with it 
Celestron NexStar Evolution 8" Telescope – Jacobs Digital .
It has a really smooth tracking and an ability to mount a DSLR camera for long exposure photos of distant nebula. Luckily I have a friend who has one.
We also have a public observatory and planetarium that has a Zeiss 30 inch reflector that we can book a time for at a very reasonable price. The mount and everything weighs about 2 ton so its out of my league but the views are amazing.
Yikes! That’s a commitment. Put that on your “to pick up in the U.S.” list.
I’m not owner of any kind of telescope, but I’m sure those here in Scandinavia who are where busy today:
“Easter Comet” heading towards the sun: Could provide spectacular views from Norway
APPROACHING THE SUN: The comet (bottom left) is not far from the sun. The picture is from 9 a.m. on Easter Eve. Photo: SOHO Observatory
– It’s very exciting. There’s nothing that can predict what’s going to happen from minute to minute. It’s a real trick, says astrophysicist Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard to NRK.
It happens at 4:23 p.m. on Easter Eve. That’s when the comet is closest to the sun – “only” 162,000 kilometers above the solar surface, and a speed of 2 million km/h.
This afternoon we will get the answer: Will the “Easter Comet” survive its close encounter with the sun?
Ødegaard has spent Easter closely monitoring the comet that is heading towards the sun.
He anxiously awaits one of two outcomes:
- Either hand it over, providing a spectacular view of the sky.
- Or the comet dies and nothing happens.
– If it survives, we will have a spectacular spectacle. In 2011, a similar type of comet survived and provided very unique images.
– How often does this happen?
– It is rare for us to have such phenomena. Solar eclipses are exciting to watch, but they happen several times a year and we know how they develop. Here it is completely open what is happening. The last time was, as mentioned, in 2011, before that we had a similar situation in the 60s.
– In 2011, the spectacular views were seen from the other side of the world – from countries like Australia. Now it’s Norway and the Nordic countries that could be the lucky ones.
The comet named “C/2026 A1”, which is a small part of a giant comet, comes extremely close to the sun, according to Ødegaard.
It was discovered on January 13 and belongs to the so-called Kreutz family. Over the past 2,000 years, it has produced several very bright comets.
– This is a piece of a giant comet. It is these larger pieces that have previously caused historical comet phenomena. That is why there is great interest in this right now.
This is something that doesn’t happen often, according to the astrophysicist. Photo: The International Space Station (ISS)
Source: «Påskekomet» på vei mot sola: Kan gi spektakulært syn fra Norge – NRK Nordland