Toughs

To most of us, toughs were those idiots who threatened good-hearted souls (such as myself) in high school, amounted to nothing, got an assembly line job right out of high school and then YOU had to manage them as their boss when you got back from college.

Toughs are an entirely different thing in Russia - they run the show. Why, in space exploration alone, they were the toughest of the tough. Here in the good ole U.S. of A., we sent monkeys and things up before we risked humans. Russia? Off you go - if you live, let us know what we could do better.

Russian cosmonauts were simply crazy tough. Landing back on earth? Don't mind that hard bump into actual earth. Us? A soft water splash, thank you very much.

Russians scare me.