tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post7235440128984767852..comments2024-03-29T09:08:47.702-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: 50 Years Ago This Morning at 9:32 AM SiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-77014966106052925092019-07-17T23:15:49.472-04:002019-07-17T23:15:49.472-04:00brother [...] had turned 18 and had started workin...<i>brother [...] had turned 18 and had started working [...] developing relationship with his girlfriend whom he married within a couple of years</i><br /><br />The past is a foreign country. He's supposed to stay in school at hand-to-mouth wages until age 30, then have enough school debt to not be able to buy a house. Zoning will ban him from building a small house incrementally, or starting and owning a business. She's supposed to not pair bond with one particular man and make a family until after age 35, when most of her fertility and pair-bonding instinct has timed out.<br /><br />Government liberal feminism says you're supposed to fail at ordinary life, that's the goal. Government Christian conservatism says you're supposed to obey the powers that be, that's the goal. Instead of train stations, the Americans have universities, which are baited with a fun 'hunt the zipper' game lifestyle.<br /><br />Everyone except the extreme libertarians is a snitch for the government. Functionally, brain activity called good intentions has no effect on the physical universe outside their heads; what does alter the universe is action. Functionally, snitches are the enemy, and their good intentions are irrelevant to everyone other than them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-19915753853681075912019-07-17T06:14:25.151-04:002019-07-17T06:14:25.151-04:00I was the last week of summer school after 6th gra...I was the last week of summer school after 6th grade. A TV was wheeled into the class. That entire week of class was watching a televised tour of Kennedy and Johnson, the VLA, the arrival of the astrosnots, preparations for lift-off, the amazing lift-off, and all that followed. Occasional reports would 'interrupt' the class. Summer school was over when the moon landing came but most of us came into school to watch.<br /><br />Several years before some venture advertised on the back of comic books a complete scale model of Canaveral which you could build. Just tape a dime to the return postcard to get started. Let me tell you, that model was complicated what with all the piping and staging. It was a good challenge to the model maker, which just about every kid was. There were also scale models of the Command Module and Lunar Lander. For $1.50 you could buy a very accurate scale model of the entire Saturn V. IIRC, it stood about 36" when complete.<br /><br />I'm thinking that libraries and county fairs may have a presentation to commemorate the achievement. Check your nearby libraries and county fairs.<br /><br />RickAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14495862358340777039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-78348300025157855452019-07-16T23:36:54.587-04:002019-07-16T23:36:54.587-04:00I had just graduated High-School, and was in awe o...I had just graduated High-School, and was in awe of these men.<br /><br />And I still am.....drjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647484115197408897noreply@blogger.com