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Well, let's be serious here... how many "likes" did the moon landing get?
ZERO!
No followers either.
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ZERO!
No followers either.
LdN
Wasn't even retweeted ... or tweeted come to think of it!
You have more computer power on your phone than they had for the entire mission. Amazing
They have no idea of what the world was like back in that ancient time. They do not know a world without the internets, smart phones, apps and more. They don't know that happened before people had even a little calculator, microwave, dishwashers, or even cordless phones with *gasp* push buttons! Most had B & W tvs instead of color! hey don't understand the huge standoff be between the Soviet Union and the western world. Or the turmoil in the US with war protests, race riots, campus sit-ins, a panoply of civil disorder.
It is amazing that we pulled that off with little technology, a world on the precipous, and complete disarray at home.
It is amazing that we pulled that off with little technology, a world on the precipous, and complete disarray at home.
I was four years old, and remember my father waking me up to watch it. Did not really get the issue about it then, but now, 48 years later, I am glad he did.
With regard to what the younger generation may or may not find fascinating, I wonder If the incredibly easy access to information (or misinformation), has dulled the senses of the youth.
With regard to what the younger generation may or may not find fascinating, I wonder If the incredibly easy access to information (or misinformation), has dulled the senses of the youth.
I remember the first time I saw a TI calculator, in my Physics class at Neshaminy. (Matt Bahr brought it in, is what I remember.) Man, I'll never forget the mad scramble we all made to see it, realizing that our slide rules were just at that moment obsolete.
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that wouldn't surprise me. I seem to recall that he got a degree in engineering (I forget which type) from PSU.
for some reason, I never held it against him that he was a Neshaminy grad.
He was in EE.that wouldn't surprise me. I seem to recall that he got a degree in engineering (I forget which type) from PSU.
for some reason, I never held it against him that he was a Neshaminy grad.
The reason you don't hold his NHS degree against him is because you keep telling yourself he went to State College High.
nice try, but that's not the case. I saw Matt play a few times in HS.
the first one I saw was an HP, that used reverse Polish notation. I always thought we (me and my other physics guys) made that term up ourselves, you know living in Pa and everything, and entering in the stack of numbers and after that pushing the button to add or subtract etc which seemed ass backwards. . It turns out, Polish notation is a real term!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation
I have several copies of the Philly Inquirer's "first step for man" issue (the paper from the day after). It has the classic photo of Neil Armstrong stepping onto the moon's surface (How did they get a photo of that or am I imagining it?) I thought that issue would be very valuable some day. It's not. My summer job was delivering 300 Inquirers from my little car. I also delivered about thirty of the local evening paper. I think I was 19. Not a bad gig.The picture quality of the moon walk and my dad shoots back "it's coming the whole way from the moon what do you want?" I was only 6.
To this day I am still fascinated by the Apollo program. My daughter and her generation could care less. As a matter of fact they can't believe that it was such a big deal.
For me, it was about the same time (I'm the same age/PSU class as Matt--but neighboring HS). Junior year in HS my math teacher brought in an early TI--cost him $200 and only had the basic functions (add, subtract, multiply, divide). He said to our class: "In 10 years--or less--these will be everywhere and will cost you $10 or less". He was right. I never forgot that. I'd just started to learn a slide rule that year--and didn't bother learning more about it (I still have my dad's (functional!) slide rule tie bar.. By my sophomore year at State, calculators were programmable with tons of functions.
I remember watching one of the earlier Apollo missions (probably Apollo 8) like this:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. For some reason that's what the PSU programs back then said, which is where this nefarious misinformation campaign began. No. He and I took classes together our senior year, '73-'74. He's in my yearbook, I just now checked. (It was nearby.)
It's true that his father was PSU coach while he was a senior at Neshaminy, but he graduated with me. I don't know how they worked that out.
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The picture quality of the moon walk and my dad shoots back "it's coming the whole way from the moon what do you want?" I was only 6.
To this day I am still fascinated by the Apollo program. My daughter and her generation could care less. As a matter of fact they can't believe that it was such a big deal.
I am not a great speller, never was. I remember in a college history class the prof got on my ass about my spelling, in not so nice a way. Calculators were out for maybe a year or two, not everybody had them, but everybody knew what they could do. So I am getting this lecture about my spelling from this dude, and finally I say, listen in a few years, I will have a device in my hand, just like a calculator, but instead of doing math, it will correct my spelling, so any word I don't know how to spell I can just put in this thing, and I will have the correct spelling. He replied, that will never happen they cant do that!! To which I said, if they can do it with numbers, they can do it with letters, really no different when you think about it, just give them time. Of course they did make those things, but now with spell check on everything, no need to carry that thing around either!!!
My family was in the tiny border town of Langholm, Scotland two years ago. This sign commemorating a 1972 visit to Langholm by Neil Armstrong was in a public parking lot. It was probably the biggest thing to happen in that town in 400 years.
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Remember back then how different the country and family life was compared to today. I was 12 yrs old and back then, we were in bed by 9pm or else. But I knew it was something special since my normal strict father told all of us, my sister being 9 and 5, that is was ok to stay up and watch the landing and the moon walk. It left a lasting impression on me that I don't think the current generations could understand. Not that it's their fault, but times were different with the Cold War and Vietnam. Though there's discord in the country today, it doesn't have the end of the world feeling to it a 12 yr old felt at that time.
How enamored were you about the Wright brothers flight? Seems that's about the same time span as your daughter's from the Apollo flights. To her, men have always been on the moon. To you, man has always flown in the sky. All a matter of perspective.
When I got married in 1976, my father-in-law worked for Hamilton watch in Lancaster. He was working on the first calculator wrist watch. He wore one of the few that were in existence at the time. He needed special permission to wear it to the wedding. You needed a stylus to input data, but the engineers were all fascinated with it.
OMG... I had the HP 11c and used that same terminology. Not until this very moment did I think it was anything other than a funny name
I totally understand that. I trust you are familiar with David McCullough's The Great Bridge?
Kids today are clueless.The picture quality of the moon walk and my dad shoots back "it's coming the whole way from the moon what do you want?" I was only 6.
To this day I am still fascinated by the Apollo program. My daughter and her generation could care less. As a matter of fact they can't believe that it was such a big deal.
Read "The Johnstown Flood." Fantastic! David McCullough is a national treasure.
I enjoy walking across the Roebling bridge in Cincy when I'm down there. It was a prototype for the Brooklyn Bridge.
There's another in Wheeling. You can see it from I70.
People in this thread made the observation that young persons generally find the moon landings uninspiring. As one pointed out, the easy access to information has no doubt dulled the mind and the curiosity of some. It is also likely, however, that young people today have no concept of the differences between science fiction and actual reality. They may not appreciate the danger and difficulty of what the moon landings involved at a time when technology was far more limited. Many may also think that we already have spaceships capable of taking people to other planets because they commonly see this in their entertainment choices.
I often think of my grandmother. She was born in 1907, 4 years after the Wright brothers and her lifetime included jumbo jet flight, the "space race" and the moon landings before she passed away in 1995.The picture quality of the moon walk and my dad shoots back "it's coming the whole way from the moon what do you want?" I was only 6.
To this day I am still fascinated by the Apollo program. My daughter and her generation could care less. As a matter of fact they can't believe that it was such a big deal.
Pretty simple. The people who pulled off the moon landing were really smart and worked their asses off. That's about all there was to it. They were single minded and oblivious to the disarray going on in the world around them.
Correct. I've driven across it a couple of times(70/470 gets boring)--goes to Wheeling Island, where the casino is. Though I've not stopped.
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Right - landed on the moon with Tang and a slide rule. No internet, jet powered air travel, or cable television but we could land someone on the moon in aluminum foil and a deep sea divers helmet. Suuuuuureeeeee......
Pretty sure they had exergenie to use to work out with. They were the rage back then
http://www.exergenie.com/
An original TI calculator could add, subtract, multiply, divide plus do square root and reciprocals. It was the hottest thing, at $120.00, back in the day. IIRC, the HP45 was $450 and the HP35 was $350, ie much more expensive.
A TI EE mentioned that with what they were working on at that time, calculators would be so cheap, they would be give-aways or that people would just throw them out and not fix them, if something happened. Everyone had a hard time believing that.
Even TI didn't comprehend what was ahead, while they were blazing the path forward.
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I remember when I was in junior high, a NASA representative coming to our school and doing a program on the lunar mission. It was an exciting time in the space program and a source of pride in the country. I think with the ISS orbiting and the almost routine trips to it, at this point has made it less exciting.
