Ahh, the around forty-somethings are reminiscing today about the moon landing in 1969.
For our generation, this was a huge thing. I can't remember another occasion during my childhood on which we were allowed out of bed in the middle of the night to watch TV. I remember it vividly because my dad impressed upon us that this was something that would change the world. And in many ways, I suppose it did: all the technological advances it took to put a man on the moon, have helped shape our society in so many ways (the onboard guidance computer that got him there had 74 kilobytes of memory that had been hard-wired, and all of 4 Kb of something that was sort of like RAM - the computer I'm using has a wee bit more than that). I'm only disappointed that in forty years human beings haven't travelled any further in space. We had hopes and dreams that by now we'd all be taking cruises around the solar system. Technology has changed so much, but it seems there might be a limit to our human ingenuity and resources that might make it very difficult for us to ever venture very far beyond our own own planet. That makes me a little sad, but it also reminds me of the limitations we face, and maybe that's a God thing?
GV Boy is over the moon, as he got a job today working in the government's swine flu call-centre. It's obviously a temporary post, and it all seems to be something of a rushed job, both for the government and for him. The job was advertised on Friday, we saw it on a website on Saturday and sent in his CV, he got a call at 1pm today to go to the recruitment agency and he begins work on Thursday. It's the first job he's applied for, and he got it. Result! I think he'll do it well. I am now calling him our "Swine Flu Guru".
And they had Communion on the moon! I find that really exciting, although I'm not sure why.
Congrats to GVboy!
Posted by: ryan | 21 July 2009 at 01:39 PM
good man gv boy oink oink
Posted by: rache | 21 July 2009 at 09:23 PM
Great news on the job front! Praise God for answered prayer. He'll be able to buy us all a pint with his first wage packet!
Posted by: Lorraine | 23 July 2009 at 11:18 AM
I remember watching the moon shot on TV when I was only 11 years old. And I'm amazed they told no one for so long that Communion was eaten there!
Astronauts weren't allowed to have faith?
Tom
California
Posted by: Tom | 23 July 2009 at 05:56 PM
"but it seems there might be a limit to our human ingenuity and resources that might make it very difficult for us to ever venture very far beyond our own own planet."
Maybe - particularly financial. However, we shouldn't listen to those who say we never will. People thought we would never fly (amongst other things)
Posted by: Billy | 26 July 2009 at 07:23 PM