sundevil777 102 #26 July 21, 2010 I was almost 8 years old. I gobbled up the coverage, every minute of it, including all the gemini and apollo missions that led up to that from when I was probably about 3 or 4. My artwork as a toddler centered completely around spaceships launching.People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wayneflorida 0 #27 July 21, 2010 Quote On a warm July night in 1969 I was sitting in front of a tv with millions of other humans watching 2 Americans landing on the moon. Moon Landing I am old enough now that I do not think I will see another human being walk on another planet, let alone the moon and that saddens me. ditto Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DiverMike 5 #28 July 21, 2010 Quote I am old enough now that I do not think I will see another human being walk on another planet, let alone the moon and that saddens me. +1 From 1900 to 1950 we went from horseback to jet airplanes. From 1950 to 1970 we went from airplanes to the moon. From 1970 until now we went from disco to rap. For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Southern_Man 0 #29 July 21, 2010 Quote we choose to do these things because they are hard" THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID I was in utero at the time of the moon landing."What if there were no hypothetical questions?" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airdvr 210 #30 July 21, 2010 It is a shame. It represented everything that was good and right about the country. There wasn't anything we weren't capable of doing. I was 10 and I believed.Please don't dent the planet. Destinations by Roxanne Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,150 #31 July 21, 2010 Quote On a warm July night in 1969 I was sitting in front of a tv with millions of other humans watching 2 Americans landing on the moon. Moon Landing I am old enough now that I do not think I will see another human being walk on another planet, let alone the moon and that saddens me. I watched it (very early in the morning) in Cambridge, UK. They kept the university center open all night since in those days most students didn't have TVs. Since Greenwich is the origin of time and space for all known intelligent life in the universe, it really happened on 21st.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,150 #32 July 21, 2010 QuoteHe is putting an end to Nasa Funding... NIXON killed the Apollo program.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #33 July 21, 2010 I was 15 years old and I recall thinking the first Moon landing was a very linear culmination of Alan Shepard's suborbital lob in in 1961. So it wasn't as amazing to me as it was to my parents. I grew up in a time when the Jetsons life seemed right around the corner and after a steady diet of classic 1950s sci-fi movies my watching Neil and Buzz walking on the moon seemed almost perfectly normal to me. Of course at the time I was ignorant of the politics of it all. I thought we went to the Moon simply because exploration was what we humans do. I didn't realize it was really all about kicking Russian ass. BTW, you can't have an intelligent chat about these things without including the politics. And I'd offer requiring us to limit our thoughts depending on what area of the board we're on is what makes this forum seem so antiquated. But I do disagree to some extent as I think NASA is doing amazing things right now that don't get much attention because they aren't as sexy as the early days of space flight. But we are doing all right. The international space station notwithstanding we've learned much more about the Universe since the termination of the moon missions with robotic probes, orbital telescopes, and ground based arrays. Voyager 1, launched in 1977, (under President Carter) to set to leave our solar system and enter interstellar space in the next five years or so, with Voyager 2 hot on its heels to enter interstellar space shortly after that. These two spacecraft are the very tip of our human foot print. But ask the average Joe on the street what Voyager is and unless they are Trekkies most will probably answer its a band or something. As for the overall number of boneheads walking the earth I don't believe there's much difference between the 1960s and today. I think it seems like we have more half-wits nowadays because we live in the info age which gives the morons among us a louder megaphone. I'm really afraid of one thing though. And that is the biggest lesson of space flight is lost on most of us. If you wrote a new book about it a good title would be, "How Astronauts Went to the Moon and Ended Up Discovering Planet Earth." That first human view of our beautiful blue planet magically hanging there in a black vastness of space should have taught us all a bit more about our place in the Universe. You don't see any borders or fences from space. You don't see any democrats or republicans from space. And you certainly don't see any human pettiness from space. I'm with the late Carl Sagen in thinking the Universe is teeming with life. It just doesn't make any sense it wouldn't be. And it's only our misplaced pride in ourselves that makes so many believe that space is simply there for us to gaze at during the night. The saving grace is going to be our first extraterrestrial contact. Be it living microbes or full blown walking and talking beings we might then get it through our thick skulls were not skydivers or whuffos, we're not whites, blacks, or latinos, we're not rednecks or hippies, we, all of us, are just Earthlings . . . NickD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MikeJD 0 #34 July 21, 2010 I was pretty young in '69, but I seem to recall being allowed to watch the landing live on TV. This would have been in the early hours of the morning in the UK, I think. That footage has been shown so often that it's hard to remember whether I really saw it live, or at some later time. However I do vividly remember saying a prayer during school assembly for the safe return of the Apollo 13 astronauts the following year. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumpwally 0 #35 July 21, 2010 Ok,,you've done it,,you mentioned religion,,someone else brought up politics, now all we need is a comment about a gun and we're done...... smile, be nice, enjoy life FB # - 1083 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MikeJD 0 #36 July 21, 2010 Quote Ok,,you've done it,,you mentioned religion,,someone else brought up politics, now all we need is a comment about a gun and we're done...... The worst thing is, it obviously worked which means there must be a God. Hard to believe if those guys hadn't got back safely there'd have been no Forrest Gump. Also hard to believe that Tom Hanks is 82 years old. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wmw999 2,589 #37 July 21, 2010 I was at a family friend's house in Montreal, on the way from Ohio to NH. We stayed up to watch it live, of course. People I know who worked at JSC during that time said that the esprit de corps was incredible -- even the gardeners KNEW they were helping man go to the moon. Goals are subtler and more complex now, and we don't have the added bonus of "beating the Russkies." The thing is that to reach any clear new glamorous goals is incredibly complex; the reason for it to take so long to get to Mars is because we actually wanted the people to get back as well as get there, and be reasonably healthy. The complexity increases exponentially. Wendy P.There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #38 July 21, 2010 Quote I was at a family friend's house in Montreal, on the way from Ohio to NH. We stayed up to watch it live, of course. People I know who worked at JSC during that time said that the esprit de corps was incredible -- even the gardeners KNEW they were helping man go to the moon. Goals are subtler and more complex now, and we don't have the added bonus of "beating the Russkies." The thing is that to reach any clear new glamorous goals is incredibly complex; the reason for it to take so long to get to Mars is because we actually wanted the people to get back as well as get there, and be reasonably healthy. The complexity increases exponentially. Wendy P. Hey I would take a one way trip given the existing technology. Mars could be a fun place to retire to.Less gravity to make all the old tired bones not hurt so much from doing too many things in life that have taken their toll. Given the food and a way of reclaiming water and breathable oxygen/air and a suitable shelter. I have some skillz in survival, geology, computers and electronics... I think I could manage just fine.Just think of all the people here who would be happy little peas in their very narrow little pods Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #39 July 21, 2010 I see you took a minute off sending nasty PM's! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #40 July 21, 2010 QuoteI see you took a minute off sending nasty PM's! And here you are again.. still very stalkerish Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #41 July 21, 2010 QuoteQuoteI see you took a minute off sending nasty PM's! And here you are again.. still very stalkerish No, a Stalker sends nasty Pm's...I am talking to you in public! What exactly is your problem? I don't even know you, and you send me a nasty PM? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #42 July 21, 2010 QuoteQuoteQuoteI see you took a minute off sending nasty PM's! And here you are again.. still very stalkerish No, a Stalker sends nasty Pm's...I am talking to you in public! What exactly is your problem? I don't even know you, and you send me a nasty PM? I was trying to have a nice moon landing 41st anniversary NON POLITICAL thread in the Bonfire. And then you arrived with the usual. You have been playing little games and calling me names for days now. Dude.... go play with your dog or something, teach him to watch out for "those" people and do try to leave me alone. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #43 July 22, 2010 Quote Quote Quote Quote I see you took a minute off sending nasty PM's! And here you are again.. still very stalkerish No, a Stalker sends nasty Pm's...I am talking to you in public! What exactly is your problem? I don't even know you, and you send me a nasty PM? I was trying to have a nice moon landing 41st anniversary NON POLITICAL thread in the Bonfire. And then you arrived with the usual. You have been playing little games and calling me names for days now. Dude.... go play with your dog or something, teach him to watch out for "those" people and do try to leave me alone. THAT is funny.I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
