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Many Moons Ago. Anybody remember?

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chamookman:
BJ - A Buddy & I were 17 yr old High School Jrs, pumping gas at a Local Gas Station that nite. My Parents brought down a sm portable TV so We could watch - will never forget it, what a thrill ! Bob

bjrogg:

--- Quote from: DC on July 18, 2019, 09:56:02 pm ---Me not being able to see the opportunities is probably why I'm not rich ;D ;D Took me a while to figure that out.

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I hear you DC. I'm still trying to figure out what a 3-d printer is though. From what little I know I'm thinking they want to mine materials and supplies for space exploration and colonization. I don't think they will make money bringing the materials back to Earth. I think I saw something about having self replicating droids that could mine and build space equipment. Kinda like R2D2 and Cp3o. Also 3-d printers to make parts. From water they think they've found frozen in craters they can make oxygen for breathing and hydrogen for fuel. And of course water for drinking. It's all above my pay grade. I think though the same thing that make these materials to expensive to mine is the thing that makes them so valuable for space exploration. They aren't on earth. They are on a low gravity moon that could become a space port to travel to different destinations. It is interesting stuff. Makes you wonder who thinks of it, but then who thought of tanning hides with brains? Using a Atlatl to through a spear? Understand that the world was round and circled the sun?
I'm sure when the time is right man will do these things. Oh and I say man but I mean woman to. Who knows maybe even pets.
Bjrogg

Pat B:
238,900 baby steps.  ;D

Eric Krewson:
I was in Germany at the time, I saved this Stars And Stripes with the headline. I wonder if any of the other GIs brought one back to the states.

 

1442:
I only remember some highlights from the black and white TV when it actually was happening. I was five years old and didn't realize the significance of it all but I remember the excitement over it and I was excited as a result of everyone else's excitement and it made a lasting impression on me, even to this day.
I am fortunate to live within a couple hours drive of NASA and the space museum. It is incredible to go there and see what is on display and marvel at what they did with what they had to work with at that time.
It was an extraordinarily extraordinary thing to accomplish. I hate to leave every time I've gone there because there are so many things, like standing beside a Saturn five type rocket, walking around it and looking at the engines and how big it is compared to how very small the space where the astronauts where and how small the landing module was and the capsule for reentry is so small. I can't imagine the courage it took to climb aboard and go to the moon like they did.
I can't imagine the dedication and intelligence of the people who worked together to figure it all out and make it happen either.  It's just so incredible, I have butterflies in my stomach now just thinking about it.
 

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