Monday, July 20, 2009
Discussion Question
In honor of the moon landing anniversary, i pose a discussion question. When you were younger and learning about (or witnessing, for our older viewers) the lunar landing what did you think life would be like in 2010? Has life lived up to your expectations or are you still pissed off about not having a flying car?
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I expected to be dead by now, so yes and no.
What is it with every guy i know thinking that they would be dead before 30. It's so silly, statistics tells you it's not terribly likely
I'm 48 and my knees, elbows, and right hip hurt like Hell. Being a child of the 60's, we all thought we'd never make 30. I guess it's just a Haight-Ashbury thing.
That being said, I'm feeling pretty good about being the Senior Advisor of our band of pirates. (I also cook so they tolerate me)
Hypertension, Hemochromatosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and a few Kidney Stones can't keep a good man down. My son is almost 19. He needs me around a few more years.
Sorry, I got caught up in the whole "dead by 30 thing" and I missed the George Jetson flying car stuff.
My Mother made me come into the living room and watch "Uncle Walter" Cronkite show us every Gemini launch and then all the Apollo launches and splashdowns.
Actually, I couldn't care less about flying cars. I can take off, fly, and land a Cessna 172.
Unfortunately my bad habits keep me from being able to pass an FAA Physical. At least I've taken off, flown, and landed so I've reached my goals.
I don't know that I ever thought about the technological advances of "the future" in terms more than "wouldn't it be neat."
I don't know that I've ever really believed
In my, albeit limited, experience one decade is much like the next, no matter what tech we have, at least on a personal level.
I don't want a flying car. More accurately, I don't want anybody else to have one, and I'm willing to sacrifice mine for that. A groundcar stops working, you can usually coast to the side of the road. An aircar stops working, it's a long way down. And what are the odds that the pedestrians below will be paying attention to their skies?
Add to that the fact that most humans have a hard time thinking in 3 dimensions, and you have a pretty good case against the flying car.
I've said it before: I'm the only person pissed off at Nixon for something other than Watergate.
He shut down Apollo. It's unexcusable.
The space program gave us more technological advancements than any peacetime endeavor, and arguably, equal to that of war.
I was born 40 days after we last touched luner soil. I was 8 when STS-1 launched. I was sure we were going to colonize the moon and probably Mars in my lifetime. I took SCUBA lessons as sort of amatuer astronaut training (hazerdous enviro, breathing systems, etc.), much more than keeping up w/ the sik's (sorry ted).
Humanity is best challenged and focused by the mission of exploration. We have lost our ability to marvel and wonder at our own insignificance. Terrestrial trivialities have become important to our mundane existance. Reality TV, I-Phones, Paris/Brittany/Lilo.
Thanks Tricky Dick. Screw you. You are a crook. You took away my ocean of space.
That's Oceanus, and yes, screw him in his little gerbil cheeks.
We would have found water on the moon thirty years ago.
What, no Med School blogging?
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