On Sun 26 Mar 2006 11:18:42p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Dyna
Soar?

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Dyna Soar?
>
>>> Tricia wrote:
>>>> Old Mother Ashby wrote:
>>>>> I can remember, in the 1960's, going with my brother in the
>>>>> billycart and a couple of saucepans to get Chinese. People in
>>>>> those days were still suspicious of Chinese restaurants, which
>>>>> were accused of substituting rabbit for chicken. A generation
>>>>> earlier they were accused of substituting cat!
>
>>>>> You people are all just youngsters! I can remember watching the
>>>>> first moon walk in 1969, so there...
>
>>>>> Christine
>
>>>> As do I..Grade 6
>
>>> You're all just babies:-))
>
>> LOL! As are you!
>
> If you were in 7th grade in 1957, I am a few years older than you,
> unless you repeated grades quite a few times:-)

I was born in January, 1945.

>>> I listened to the radio broadcast of the first moon landing sitting
>>> in my car outside our GP's surgery. My wife as in with the doctor
>>> who gave her the news that she was preggies with our number 4
>>> daughter (who was born on 15th March 1970). We then went home and
>>> watched the rest of the broadcast on TV.
>
>> I remember radio and TV coverage of the launching of Russian
>> sattelite, Sputnik, on October 4, 1957. I was in 7th grade.
>
> The TV coverage of the launching of the Sputnik? I don't think so, at
> least not live. At the launching of the original Sputnik, there would
> have been no way the Russians would have allowed live broadcasting of
> the event, either via radio or television even if it were feasible to
> carry the TV signals over great distances. Perhaps you saw delayed news
> reports. Anyway, in 1957 I was almost three years into my cadetship,
> having finished my schooling at the end of 1954. We were able for many
> months to watch with the naked eye the passage of the Sputnik across the
> sky, the times of each visible orbit being announced in the newspapers.

Perhaps I said that wrong. There were many news reports on both radio and
television, practically constantly. Certainly not a live feed. Over a
period of time there were many televised shots of sputnik from various
major telescope sites.

> I remember the day WW2 ended in the Pacific, I was six years old and
> living with my parents in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. All the
> residents were partying in the street. My mother tells me (I don't
> remember this bit <g>) I remarked that now the war was finished there
> would be no more news on the radio, evidently almost all the hourly news
> on the radio consisted of war reports (as would be expected, but not by
> a six year old).

Obviously I remember nothing of WWII. My dad was a US Army Captain and
stationed in the Aleutian Islands. What I remember are stories told by him
and my other relatives of what the 1940s were like over that span of time.

> Anyway, age is relative - it still takes me all night to do what I used
> to do all night :-)

Yes, it is relative. There are days that I feel 100 years old, but most
times I feel much younger than my age.

--
Wayne Boatwright @¿@¬
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