Neil Armstrong Will Not Be Down for Breakfast

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What is sad is that over half the people I work with will probably not know what he did. To them history is boring and not important. It was just a class to get through so they could go home and play video games. Why is it that this generation doesn't know what 2+2 is yet they had all that electronic crap (laptops and smart phones)to learn on while my generation had chalkboards with real chalk and paper and pencil with which to learn?

[felinefan]

You think that's bad, one of my nephews was absolutely amazed when I did a subtraction problem the old way on paper--"How did you do that?" Granted, my senior year in H.S. was the last time my school offered a class in the use of the slide rule, as the pocket calculator had come out a couple years before, and I never learned how to use a slide rule. I grew up using adding machines, there was a cheap tin toy that worked basically like a calculator, and for a bit I learned how to use my brother's abacus. I still have a calculator I got for Christmas in 1980, and it's still on the same battery. Still works, but it can be a bit slow at times.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

I still have my slide rule. (somewhere!)

kinda makes you wonder what will happen to all those e-kids when they have a power loss and their little gidgets slowly fail them.

[Big Wallaby]

I was going through some stuff, and found that some people had posted a speech several months ago, "In Case of Moon Disaster".

And the fear was very much that there may be one. There were so many things that had to go perfectly, so many things that had not yet been tested completely when they decided to go for broke and place Columbia into "Tranquility Base".

Here is the link.

A moving speech that Nixon had to be glad not to have to give.

[TdcOgre]

I thought giants were supposed to live forever?? Perhaps it's fitting his funeral is Friday

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/b ... -1.1148462

[WEDFan]

I was going through some stuff, and found that some people had posted a speech several months ago, "In Case of Moon Disaster".

And the fear was very much that there may be one. There were so many things that had to go perfectly, so many things that had not yet been tested completely when they decided to go for broke and place Columbia into "Tranquility Base".

Here is the link.

A moving speech that Nixon had to be glad not to have to give.

I was speaking with a person a number of years back who had been fairly highly placed at NASA prior to Challenger. According to what he was saying, the practice didn't end with Apollo. They had a plan complete with press releases (and speeches, no doubt) in case of a shuttle disaster. In his eyes, the Challenger disaster could have been handled a lot better if the newly acting Administrator had simply activated the plan.

[BRWombat]

A nice thought...

[darph nader]

What is sad is that over half the people I work with will probably not know what he did. To them history is boring and not important. It was just a class to get through so they could go home and play video games. Why is it that this generation doesn't know what 2+2 is yet they had all that electronic crap (laptops and smart phones)to learn on while my generation had chalkboards with real chalk and paper and pencil with which to learn?

Sadly,I was talkin to a friend of the family a few days ago,and asked her what she thought of Neil Armstrong passing away?
Her reply was,"Oh,what band did he play for ?" :mad:

Justifiable homicide.

[TiggerHappy]

Sadly,I was talkin to a friend of the family a few days ago,and asked her what she thought of Neil Armstrong passing away?
Her reply was,"Oh,what band did he play for ?" :mad:

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[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Sadly,I was talkin to a friend of the family a few days ago,and asked her what she thought of Neil Armstrong passing away?
Her reply was,"Oh,what band did he play for ?" :mad:

Justifiable homicide.

Considering that some dolt at (i think it was CNN) had a (brief) headline of "first man on the moon, Neil Young, Dies"

it dosn't surprise me at all. when peoples "heros" are someone that gets a reality show and has done nothing more than act badly in public, well, it shows what they hold valuable in personal conduct.