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As a 7 1/2 year old I was fascinated by it and by space travel in general.
I still am........I’d love to see us reach Mars before I die.
We have to find a way out of our solar system because eventually our dying sun will swallow up our Earth,that’s if we haven’t already destroyed the place.
From my bedroom window I get an incredible view of the full moon each month......I still find it an awesome sight.
Similar age to you. I remember the news reporting the landing on the morning I was getting ready for school. I was a keen observer of the night sky back in the day. I've seen some fabulous sights such as the best ever Perseid meteor shower in 2004. When I actually heard some of em 'fizzing' overhead.Quote:
Originally Posted by mickd1961
The total eclipse of the sun should have been the greatest highlight of all in 1999 but a massive disappointment. I was in Cornwall and it rained non stop all morning. They saw it on Eastenders though :)
The most unforgettable sight though was the comet Hale Bopp in 1997 which we will never see the likes of again. I still get a thrill when i see the odd iridium flare. Never saw any alien life though but having said that there are a heck of a lot of folks round here that, I swear, don't look human
I daresay Des will be along later to say the moon landing was a hoax XD
I doubt they could do it today Phil.Quote:
Originally Posted by phild
The farthest they go now is to the ISS a couple of hundred mils away, 50 years ago they are said to have gone 238,000 miles to unknown terrain, landed and come back without incident.
Now they are talking about taking people to Mars, a few million miles away. What will they build eat or drink the first ones there, it's a one way trip.
I watched the landings and have been to Kennedy and seen the rockets and the primitive computers.
I keep an open mind, but last year an unmanned probe to the moon met with disaster.
The Yanks never give up on anything once they have it, do you think they would allow other countries to take over and build stuff there?
There would be KFC's and MacDonalds up there by now.
1961, first man in space, 1968 last steam loco's, 1969 man on the moon. 2019 trips to the ISS.
I must have been the only person who did not bother watching the moon landing. I was totally disinterested in the whole space thing and I still am. My dad was really interested in it and despaired at my apathy towards it to the point we could have come to blows about it. Albion, music and girls were all I was interested in, now at my age its just Albion and music with the odd twitch now and again concerning the girls subject.
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Originally Posted by Joy_Division
Seen one space shot you have seen them all - John Lennon.
I love space and the universe myself, the vastness of it, the timelessness. It's like a distorted mirror you are seeing things that far away that they may not be there now. I can't see how we can go any faster than the speed of light andthat would take us generations to get anywhere, Hundreds, thousands or millions of years in most cases.
Mars would take months to get there, people have already volunteered to go. They know it would be a one way trip, so how would they survive long enough to build bases, produce food and water etc?
The logical explanation would be to do this on the Moon first, just a couple of weeks away. How many weeks have passed since 1969? We should be much farther down the road than messing about with a satelite a few hours travel away.
The Apollo mission was at some points travelling at 7 miles per second Des.Quote:
Originally Posted by WBA1955
Stourbridge to Tipton in less than a second,just think about that!
That’s already impossible to comprehend in my eyes so maybe speed of light may happen at some point.
I remember having the slides of it on my viewmaster, remember those?
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Speed of light is still too slow for travelling any further than our solar system Mick.Quote:
Originally Posted by mickd1961
Our Galaxy the Milky Way is not the largest galaxy, yet if you travelled across from one end to the other travelling at the speed of light it would take you 100,000 years.
The stars in the Milky Way if converted into grains of salt would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool. There are probably more galaxies than stars in our own galaxy. All the stars in the Universe if converted into grains of sand would fill every beach on earth.
Mind blowing stuff don't you think?
Einstein predicted the existence of wormholes. The theory is if an object is heavy enough ie a giant star, it would bend space time thus creating a 'short cut' between two points in space or even two universes. Imagine an object dropped between a large piece of paper then the two ends would be closer together. So sub light spreed would allow vast distances to be covered. However wormholes are yet to be discovered