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"...He became fascinated by flight when he watched crop duster pilots flying biplanes from an airfield near his home." Biplanes -> Looking at Earth from Moon i
by keithpeter 11y ago
"...He became fascinated by flight when he watched crop duster pilots flying biplanes from an airfield near his home."
Biplanes -> Looking at Earth from Moon in 40 years. This was my parents generation. I read Andrew Smith's Moondust and remembered how important the Apollo imagery on TV was to me as a child.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/apr/24/biography.features http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/apr/24/biography.featu...
- lisper 11y agoNixie tube calculators and punched cards -> Macbook Pro with Retina display. Encyclopedia Britannica taking up two meters of shelf space (and often requiring a trip to the library) -> Wikipedia over a 4G network. That's my generation :-)
- wtvanhest 11y agoI completely understand the desire to want to see physical changes in the real world, but the last 40 years have been extremely important in terms of building out learning infrastructure. I'm very confident that the next 40 years are going to be nothing short of breathtaking in terms of the acceleration of innovation.
- keithpeter 11y agoHoping to see first half or perhaps a bit more of that (I'm pushing 60) In my case: line noise on teletype -> tablets
- bootload 11y ago"Biplanes -> Looking at Earth from Moon in 40 years" A favourite Mitchell story is telling how is grandparents traveled across the US to Texas in horse drawn wagons with canvas roofs. Forget airplanes, try no electricity, no railways or big towns. From covered wagons to the moon in 100 years ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAyVSylJBuo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAyVSylJBuo
- keithpeter 11y agoYup: one of my grandfathers walked off the land, got a job as a dockside blacksmith and was a professional soldier in 1913 (bad news, Ypres, Passchendaele, Mons the whole lot).
- bootload 11y agoRough times. My Dads uncle, first Australian born on his side, quit his job, joined up in 1914, was in the 2nd wave, [0] marine assault of Gallipoli [1] and KIA on the same day. [2] How anyone got out of the European theater, I'll never know. Reference [0] http://seldomlogical.com/2015/APR/25/second-wave/ http://seldomlogical.com/2015/APR/25/second-wave/ [1] http://seldomlogical.com/2015/APR/25/maclagans-ridge/ http://seldomlogical.com/2015/APR/25/maclagans-ridge/ [2] http://seldomlogical.com/2015/APR/25/slight-rain-fell-during-the-night/ http://seldomlogical.com/2015/APR/25/slight-rain-fell-during...