CuriousB--that might have been Jack Hope.
Randall, we didn't have a TV at home, but we did have one in our dorm room. I was in Sawyer Hall on the University of Cincinnati campus that summer. During the moon walk, there was no traffic on Corey Street, which was right behind us.
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Unfortunately everyone was not glued to the TV that day. I was stationed in Ankara Turkey and we were not allowed to have Armed Forces Radio or TV so we were left out of that event and many other events.
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I was told growing up that a Hillsboro graduate helped with the Apollo program? Does anyone know of this? I vaguely remember him visiting us with his briefcase tucked to his side always!
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I was 13 that summer. Eveyone was glued to the TV that day. While most of us celebrated this great US accomplishment, some doubted it was real and was filmed in a remote studio. Others were critical of the cost of the space program and JFK's commitment to be the first country to land a man on the moon. (Oh, by the way, the word "man" is now politically incorrect, at least in Berzerkely, CA where manholes are now maintenance holes as they adopted gender neutral words this week. The City Council voted unanimously to replace more than two dozen terms often used in the city’s municipal code with gender-neutral words.). Critics said we had more important goals on planet earth. The space program created many new technologies. Super glue was one as I recall. For a read on the many other advancements, see this http://www.problem-solving-techniques.com/US-Space-Program.html The US Space program has usually been less than 1% of the US Budget. However it provides countless benefits in space exploration, improvement of life technologies, greening of the planet and changing of lives for better stewardship of the planet.
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Or maybe you meant a “War of the Worlds” type invasion. Either way, yes, something that extreme is what it will take.
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If you mean an actual, armed foreign invasion from somewhere like China, I am sure you are right.
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Matthew, thanks for making my point. Brad, a massive alien invasion ought to do the trick!
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I've grown potatoes, sweet corn, broccoli, strawberries, etc... in the past. It is so much easier and cheaper to buy produce at the grocery store. With the weeds and pests plus the cost of planting, I've found it more convenient to shop. Now retail shopping can be done online along with paying bills and banking.
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Our extraordinary wealth has left us with too much time on our hands, Brad. Personally, I have so many computers, for instance, that one has been lost, in the house, for at least two years. Our weight problem is because food is too cheap--it doesn't make any difference what its caloric value is, simply calories are too cheap for our own good. We have too much idle time. The striking thing I have noticed, when I spend time with my Mennonite friends in Highland County, whose only electric motor is the clock on the wall, time slows way down. For most of us, these things are getting worse, not better.
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Thinking today that this may have been the last time the entire country was united behind anything. We desperately need another sense of common purpose on something major if we are ever going to heal from the current division.
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