I submit THIS - which happened 42 years later...(but it's not a technical achievement, of course)
Posted on 07/17/2019 1:17:15 PM PDT by fugazi
I have the entire ST. Louis Post-Dispatch paper from the landing on the Moon. It’s fun to go through the TV Guide and the car ads.
The changes in the last 50 years or so have not seemed as big. In the early 70s (my earliest memories) I flew on a transatlantic flight, watched TV (including live events from overseas), drove in a car, went to the cinema, made phonecalls to people who were hundreds or thousands of miles away.
Now admittedly all those technologies are advanced today than they were then, but the basic principal is the same.
With the exception of computers at home and the internet there does not seem to be anything now that would have seemed mind blowing to someone from 1970.
“With the exception of computers at home and the internet there does not seem to be anything now that would have seemed mind blowing to someone from 1970.”
True indeed. And interesting how those advances were products of science created by old white guys who knew math (real math, not progressive cr*p math).
Nope, not claiming white superiority. Just claiming CULTURAL superiority. Sorry, but datz da twuth.
My family and I watched the Apollo moon missions at my great grandfather’s house next door as they had a color TV. And we only had black and white. I was around ten years old at the time. One of the things I remember most was thinking that this man sitting beside me was born in 1889 and was older than I was then when the Wright brothers first flew and here we were about to put men on the moon. What an amazing time was his lifespan
I was going through some old StL Post-Dispatch papers not long ago and there was an ad for a Negro League baseball game. Technology has come a long way, but society has too. Not always in a good direction, but at least we don’t segregate baseball any more. It is such a shame that we will never know how so many of those amazing athletes in the Negro Leagues would have done against Major League Baseball players.
I would think that finding out that Members of Congress were shot at while playing baseball and nothing was really done about it might shock a person from the 70's.
Someone else made the point - what progress has occurred since then?
The 747 was launched in 1969, same time as Apollo. It was able to carry 500 humans at 600 miles per hour.
Since those next 50 years, nothing has changed in air travel. We travel in the same planes, at the same speeds - and the food and all aspects of the service have all become worse.
Very nice!!
Has AM radio too?
Watch that first step after parking...(I guess ya have to shut the water off)
Not to mention a lot of very long hoses to drive anywhere.
Actually, there are plenty of examples of Negro League teams playing white major leaguers. The NLers did very well.
Certainly a majority of NLers could have played MLB, and NL stars would have been MLB stars. We just don’t know how good their stats would have been.
[We travel in the same planes, at the same speeds]
Well, the Concorde....gone.
I always wanted to see the American SST fly.
But that was just me as a kid.
And then there was the XB-70. Not for passengers.
Gone, too.
Bump
No it hasn’t changed much since the 70s but from 1920 to 1970 it is like a different world,
I was five years old when world war two started, at that time we went to town behind a team
of horses pulling a wagon, a lot of other people were doing the same thing so many people went
from farming with horses to the space age in just 25 years.
Although many people had more than what we did most things were done with manual labor so
every one came through the change.
The Bible tells us that in the last days that knowlege would increase and it did so fast it
is hard to believe.
Of course, Jackie Robinson, Ernie Banks, Hank Aaron, and others were young enough to make the switch. But I would have loved seeing how older Negro League legends like Josh Gibson would have stacked up, and who what Satchel Paige could have done if he spent his whole career in MLB.
Go back to about the early 1500’s and most native Americans were still walking. Some may have had a few in the Spanish held areas but very few, boy did it change the game once they started spreading.
Someone in our family has the interview a national news outlet did with my great granddad who had turned 100 that year, about all the changes He’d seen.
Well we have cellphones and the internet!
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