| So where were YOU when man first walked on the moon?
Posted: 1/30/2008 4:32:56 PM | Ah yes...Tang....still a big seller from coast to coast. I still figure it as orange koolaid....it just doesn't take the place of real orange juice...but they had to have something to drink besides Budweiser on the way to the moon.
I'm glad to see this thread is still here....brings back a lot of memories. | |
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| So where were YOU when man first walked on the moon?
Posted: 1/30/2008 8:13:47 PM | I was 11 (and one-half - ha! - remember when we used to count our ages in halves?), and watched it on TV with my parents, my grandmother and sisters in Ottawa. I remember that NONE of us could make out Armstrong's words, and after getting the gist from the TV people, my father translating it into German for my grandmother.
Afterwards, my sisters and I sat outside on the front porch for hours - sometimes talking excitedly, sometimes silently staring up at the moon. I can still remember the smell of the freshly mowed grass.
Even later, I was out there alone, and my father came out. I told him I wanted to be an astronaut. He told me I could be, and we talked about what kind of studies I should concentrate on - he said maths and sciences, but even then I knew that wasn't in the cards for me. I asked him if he thought they'd ever let a reporter go to the moon (I was one of those kids who ALWAYS knew what I wanted to be), and he said maybe. But I'd better be a pilot or a scientist of some sort, as well. That didn't happen, but I love that he told me that.
I'd go up at the drop of a hat if anyone mysteriously decides that the next space mission NEEDS a middle-aged journalist with no technical know-how.
That was a wonderful night in my life. Because of the moon, and because of my dad. | |
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| So where were YOU when man first walked on the moon?
Posted: 1/31/2008 3:23:38 PM | | Watching it in my upper elementary classroom. The novelty for me at that time was more about watching TV in class. That never happened before. Now, television is ubiquitous in classrooms, so are movies. Another topic that should be explored in another thread. | |
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| So where were YOU when man first walked on the moon?
Posted: 1/31/2008 3:46:42 PM | interesting question.
how do you define YOU? physical body or soul?
most of atoms in your body change quickly. from just looking at your atoms, you aren't the same person as you were 1 year ago. scientists say statistically an average individual contains 2 atoms from the last breath of Julius Ceasar. 2 atoms built in your body on average, could be 0,1,2,3,4 or 5-6 maybe... depends on your random "luck".
you can have also 1-2 atoms from one of those astronauts that were on the Moon in '69.
maybe this atom there- over there on the surface in my little finger's nail - that one was on the Moon that time!
as for the soul, it depends who I was before reincarnation | |
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| So where were YOU when man first walked on the moon?
Posted: 5/25/2008 12:20:08 AM | Hmmm. In 69 I must have been going through my final phases of interstellar espionage training.
It wasn't until 75 that I was sent to spy on earth.
Now to pass my crypto-device over this post to disguise it as random silliness.
*smacking sound*
Damn, it's batteries are low. Would be a waste not to post this, since I spent so long on it. | |
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| So where were YOU when man first walked on the moon?
Posted: 5/25/2008 8:03:19 AM | | That is my very first memory. I was a little baby, plopped in front of the TV, fascinated by the imagery. I remember it so well--I was almost three when this happened. I remember nothing else of that time in my life. To this day I love anything related to space travel and space itself--and I am a Trekkie to boot | |
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| So where were YOU when man first walked on the moon?
Posted: 5/25/2008 12:53:57 PM | I was 18, sat up watching it on TV. I had just read about Nixon's cutting the space program budget, which cancelled the last 4 or 5 missions. Carter finished off hopes of reviving the Lunar mission, and nearly ended all manned missions, when he neglected the Skylab project to its destruction.
I can't wait until the Japanese claim the Moon as their property; they'll probably actually do something constructive with it, let's hope it isn't military. Half-dozen American flags on the high ground, and we just gave it up.
Thanks, Richard M. | |
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