The line quoted in the title of this blog
has become an infamous pop-culture misquote from the April 1970 flight of Apollo 13. Command Module leader John L. Swigert, actually said to Mission control, “we’ve had a problem”, but none the less, the “successful failure” mission (as NASA officials later called it during press conferences), could have been tragic without the talent, focus, and vision of the mission’s crew.
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In the mid 1960s, a very extreme/unique thing happened in primatological ethnography.
Jane Goodall radicalized the accepted views on objective anthropology, and began to study subjects, not by the accepted use of numbers and far-off observation, but by methods unthinkable… she walked into her subjects environment… then she lived among them [you can add your own gasp and ominous music here]!
This was a line from a very popular song created for a clut-classic movie in the 80s, Mad Maxx: Beyond Thunderdome. Now if you do not know who Mad Maxx is, take a lazy Saturday afternoon with your television and watch one. Definitely not kid friendly but very high entertainment and “cheese” value.
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I remember being a little boy and my parents taking me to the zoo. And when we got there, I would zoom past all the other animals and cages (yes even the snake house) to my favorite place in the zoo… the lions den. I loved looking at those big cats, and how they just seemed to not be afraid of anything. I was in awe about that. And once in a great while, if I was lucky (and the lions were hungry or just needing to show us on the other side of the cage who is “king”), I got to witness something special… a real lion roar!
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