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Or like Portland Oregon with the frog protester at the ICE facility. "We will subject you to improv theater for weeks on end!"

Saturday Night Live used to do this with their studio audience in the 1970s.The captions were silly but could have been considered insulting sometimes.

That is most of how I learned how computers worked when I was a teenager. I had no other resources of this quality, not even access to a computer most of the time.

Strangely, I don't get much nostalgia from this. The situation kind of sucked.

They brought a gnomon, with a color chart, on the Apollo missions. They would set it up for many of the pictures of samples.

https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/gnomon-lunar-a...

There are several parking structures called "parkades" in Salem Oregon.

My school library ( 6th - 8th grades ) had this magazine, and they had a 9-week class on programming in BASIC using a 110 bps teletype connected to an HP2000C that was shared by several school districts. That was my start in all of this. I didn't get my own computer until the C64 price dropped to $200 in 1983.

The only thing I ever bought from Toys R Us is a ROM cartridge for the C64 with an assembler and debugger. This must have been it: https://www.cbmstuff.com/downloads/hesmon64.pdf

There are many local, and not-so-local, groups that do this volunteer trail maintenance, and they could definitely use some monetary donations. There is the PCTA, mentioned up-thread ( pcta.org ). I volunteer for Trailkeepers of Oregon, based in Portland, and is active in many parts of the state. trailkeepersoforegon.org . There is also the Washington trails Association, and many more.

The US TV show "All in the Family" in the early 70s included the character Archie Bunker, who was an outspoken bigot. This might have been the origin of using "the Oriental persuasion" as a joke. My parents thought it was hilarious, and explained the joke to me. Yes, since then, that usage has leaked from being humor to being used in the sense above.

And the one time I have ever been to Houston, they were constructing that building and I couldn't see the Saturn V :(

There are volunteer groups that do a large percentage of the trail maintenance in some areas. There is the Pacific Crest Trail Association with their local chapters. In Washington state, there is the Washington Trails association. In Oregon, there is Trailkeepers of Oregon, who I volunteer with almost every weekend. There are also numerous local groups across the western US.

The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, and the accompanying Apollo Flight Journal, are transcripts of the audio recordings, with accompanying audio/video, and annotations from post mission briefings, and interviews with the astronauts in the 1990s. There is an overwhelming amount of detail. Dave Scott of Apollo 15 was a particularly enthusiastic participant in this, but not the only one. It really is a tremendous resource for Apollo. https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/ https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/

Apollo used star sightings to check the accuracy of the gyros that measured which way the spacecraft was pointed. The stars could not be used to determine position like a ship at sea could do.

Besides inertial navigation, they had a transponder that would echo back a continuous pseudorandom bit stream, and the delay gave a precise measurement of distance.

Portland Oregon as well. There are a variety of apps that use the API to get arrival info from Tri Met, and all train stops, and many bus stops, have displays.

Portland Oregon has the "Benson Bubblers": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson_Bubbler

Jim Irwin, who walked ( and rode a car ) on the moon on Apollo 15, and had some heart problems while on the moon. He was obviously healthy before. He ended up having several heart attacks, and died at age 61. He is an outlier in this regard, and there will always be speculation as to whether the strain of walking on the moon damaged his heart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Irwin

The easiest satellite to see is the ISS. NASA provides times when it can be seen from any given place. I subscribe to the SpotTheStation mailing list.

In general, you can see a satellite when it is overhead and illuminated by the sun. In the evening, it will appear in the west, moving towards the east ( almost all satellites go this way, not just ISS ). As it goes farther east, heading towards darkness, it will fade away. The ISS is bright enough to see a reddish tinge as it passes through sunset light.

Shooting stars go much faster than satellites.

There would be thousands of perfectly circular holes drilled straight through many older layers of rock, with casings, from fossil fuel extraction. They would presumably be filled with sediment, but still obviously artificial.

I got the elderberries part because Elton John had done a song about elderberry wine. The hamster part, I learned just now.

Even Lewis and Clark seemed to not know the word "tornado". On the way west, they found a patch of woods that had been torn up: https://lewis-clark.org/the-trail/nebraska-iowa/willards-bad...

Thinking of those lyrics, and realizing Apollo 11 was just a few weeks before Woodstock, makes the "maybe it's the time of man" have a bit more punch.

There was a product in the 90s called "Internet in a Box". I remember seeing it at a store. It appears to be a way of selling Compuserve. https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/the-web/20/408/20...

Fortunately, we know much more about science than they did when the Monty Python movies were made.

They are, if they are made out of wood.

And long before Gen X.

This put my daughter off of programming. When she was 7, I showed her how to use python in immediate mode, and she got it without difficulty. She even understood variables. Then one day she wanted to add prices, and she got one of these errors, and she never wanted anything to do with it again.

In high school, circa 1980, there were a few of us who were into computers. In math class, one of us thought it would be cool to write zeros with slashes through them, because that is how our computers printed them. He got marked down on his homework because a zero with a slash through it meant the empty set. Context matters I suppose. I think there are enough clues in this comment that this was in the US, not the UK.

That is apparently the reason the USSR made the Buran space shuttle. They couldn't figure out what the US needed that capability for. Turns out, we didn't either, at least for military applications.

South of Eugene and north of Redding, the land is mountainous and would be extremely difficult to build a straight enough line to serve as HSR. The existing Amtrak Cascades service goes between Eugene and Vancouver BC.

One of the early accomplishments of "NASA", long before it became NASA, was the development of an improved cowling for airplanes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NACA_cowling