There was a favorite short story of mine titled “Crossroads of Destiny” Some guys traveling together on a train are discussing a concept for a TV show, based on alternate history ideas. The ending mentions Benedict Arnold in an intriguing way. Author was H. Beam Piper.
My gf and I are in a big 3 bedroom 3 bath home with a barn, woodshed, two story shed, etc. Wouldn’t want to move to anything smaller.
I don’t remember the moon landing, as it predates my birth by nearly 5 years. Unless I’m an immortal, and I’m living under false memories…
But that means I -still- don’t remember the moon landing.
My answer to the Moon landing poll is actually two of the choices. According to my parents, I did watch it on TV but I have no recollection of the event because I was not quite 5 months old.
Proper answer is “Nope” - you don’t remember.
I was 7 and I remember watching it landing, with Buzz’s voice saying “down 14, 30 seconds” etc.
I remember being confused by the verbal misstep, “man” instead of “a man”.
I was fourteen, and remember watching the landing. But one strange thing happened. I never took my eyes from the screen but I was so keyed up that my brain didn’t make sense of what I was watching. It was all blobs of black, white and gray. “Where it it?” I kept repeating. Later when they repeated it it was perfectly watchable.
Towards the end of 2023 I reached a day when I was older than my grandfather when he was watching with me. Grandpa was just short of 69 on the day of the landing.
I would have watched the Apollo 11 landing (we at long last did have a television) except that Dad decided that would be the ideal time to get a prime camping spot at Hoh, in Olympic National Park. So, I got to watch it on the radio (which somehow did get decent reception there). I remember stopping at a beach on the way home, one of those that you get to by a three-quarter mile trail, and we found a copy of Der Spiegel lying in the sand, which had an article discussing the confinement chamber for the returning astronauts – not that I could read German, but it did have good illustrations.
I did watch every other one, though, including that nail-biter that had to turn back.
I was 8, and I remember mainly being excited because my mom and my brother were so excited. Privately, I felt like they could have gotten through it faster.
Apollo 11 was nine months before I was born. My mother never liked it when I would point out how I arrived nine months after Mom and Dad quit Merritt Island for Chimney Rock for launch weekend.
It was a heady time to be young and in love!
I found it and read it…Very good.
I vaguely remember the moon landings. I was about 8.
I’m quite surprised that 65% of voters want their avatars to appear
under this option !
Piper is one of my three favorite sci-fi authors. He did a lot of parallel or alternate worlds story. Since you thought that one was good, you should try “He Walked Around the Horses” The story is told in the form of letters between British and German diplomatic officials. Amd the ending is a surprise again.
I always, always have tuna in the house. I used to also keep canned chicken, but after years of buying a couple of cans, letting them sit until they were almost expired, and donating them to a food drive, I stopped that. It’s a kind of “prepper-lite” mentality that I can’t shake - if I don’t have shelf-stable ingredients for at least a few nutrionally complete meals, I feel uneasy. When the pandemic hit and grocery store shelves emptied, we were able to supply toilet paper, tuna, and eggs to our friends.
As for streaming speeds on a laptop, I have no idea at all! Mr. Legend’s company works with high-resolution film, so for the last decade or so we’ve had the biggest, best televisions and the fastest streaming possible (because we have to. For business). I’m now too spoiled to watch shows on small screens, so you’ll find me in front of my 50-inch 5K tv, watching 70’s shows on broadcast TV. Yeah, I know.
I haven’t had canned tuna since my grandmother forced me to eat tuna fish sandwiches in the mid to late 1960s. I swear I’ll go to my grave without ever having another bite. I do, however, enjoy fresh Ahi or whatever they use in Sushi.
I remember watching the Apollo 11 moon landing on TV. I was 4, and already fascinated by the space program.
I’m male, but a slim majority of my good friends are female. It’s been that way for pretty much my entire life; I’ve always related better with females than with at least some males.
Lessee, I had an afternoon shift at the sandwich shop so I missed the live landing on TV – we had the radio on – but I was home in time to see the One small step for (a) man live.
Being 73 I’m definitely in geezer range so at least 90% of my friends are younger than me, the bulk of those who aren’t being fellow volunteers at the museum. Most of the rest are Burners which favors a younger, sturdier part of the population.
No tuna in the house. Desertroomie can’t abide the smell so when I get a hankering I buy a wrap at TJ’s and eat it on the way home. We have canned chicken but the poll didn’t trigger anything in me. Thinking about it now, though.
I stream Amazon on my TV only, not a PC. I’ve not had any hesitations or buffering but I have no idea what the speed is. Is the “Best” speed an extra-cost option I’ve been unaware of?
I remember watching Apollo 11. Thing is, I remember watching it in the daycare across the street, but Apollo 11 was on a Sunday, and I was six years old. So, definitely one of those false memories.
Seeing as how it occurred almost a decade before I was born, I was unfortunately unable to watch the moon landing.
Almost all of my friends are people I knew in high school, so we’re all within a year or two in age. We were basically just the people who never moved away. We’re more spread out around the area, and mostly have our own separate friends that are neighbors or spouses friends or whatnot, but we’re still all each other’s first call when we’re looking for something to do.