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Apollo 11 50th Anniversary
07-25-2019, 01:22 PM (This post was last modified: 07-25-2019 01:27 PM by burkhard.)
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(07-25-2019 02:07 AM)Dan Wrote:  
(07-24-2019 01:40 PM)Don Shepherd Wrote:  ok, here it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7hQKIKoVHc&t=94s

Wow, thanks. You can sense the excitement, even without sound. Beautiful day for it, and a huge turnout. Very bright, that Saturn V sure was powerful. The big wide American cars with V8 engines are great too, before the 1970's oil crisis reduced the demand for large cars.

Cars in the USA are bigger/heavier than ever. We just call them SUVs, Pickups, and Crossovers. When I was a suburban kid in the 1970s, I only knew one friend whose father had a truck of some sort. Now they are the norm in nearly every family, not the exception. Even the car models produced today are *huge* compared to their 1960s counterparts. Compare a 2019 Camaro or Corvette to their 1969 counterparts. Or even worse, a modern VW "Beetle" (pseudo-Beetle to me) with its earlier counterpart–it's 2× the mass! The ubiquitous station wagon of 50 years ago became a much larger minivan or (more likely today) an SUV. Sure large sedans and wagons are passé, but don't be fooled; they have been replaced by larger vehicles, not smaller.
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Apollo 11 50th Anniversary - Dan - 07-21-2019, 07:24 AM
RE: Apollo 11 50th Anniversary - smp - 07-21-2019, 01:32 PM
RE: Apollo 11 50th Anniversary - ijabbott - 07-21-2019, 08:26 PM
RE: Apollo 11 50th Anniversary - burkhard - 07-21-2019, 02:54 PM
RE: Apollo 11 50th Anniversary - JimP - 07-23-2019, 05:26 AM
RE: Apollo 11 50th Anniversary - Ken S - 07-24-2019, 12:04 AM
RE: Apollo 11 50th Anniversary - Paul Dale - 07-23-2019, 09:53 AM
RE: Apollo 11 50th Anniversary - Dan - 07-24-2019, 03:45 AM
RE: Apollo 11 50th Anniversary - burkhard - 07-24-2019, 03:38 PM
RE: Apollo 11 50th Anniversary - Dan - 07-25-2019, 02:07 AM
RE: Apollo 11 50th Anniversary - burkhard - 07-25-2019, 01:30 PM
RE: Apollo 11 50th Anniversary - burkhard - 07-25-2019 01:22 PM
RE: Apollo 11 50th Anniversary - Dan - 07-31-2019, 07:14 AM
RE: Apollo 11 50th Anniversary - mfleming - 07-26-2019, 01:48 AM
RE: Apollo 11 50th Anniversary - DavidM - 07-26-2019, 03:45 AM
RE: Apollo 11 50th Anniversary - burkhard - 07-26-2019, 05:04 PM
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RE: Apollo 11 50th Anniversary - burkhard - 08-01-2019, 12:41 PM
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