I rather loved Apollo 13. But I would not want to be an astronaut. The claustrophobia alone would kill me. Also I'm too big. I've seen those capsules at various Air and Space museums around the country - and I wouldn't fit. Astronauts are small people.
But yeah - the idea of space travel or being a NASA engineer - really cool!
Easy answer, two words-- high school. (Buffy fan, no further explanation required).
High school or school period has killed many a person's dreams. My father wanted to be a geologist - but ran into a wall on the science front in school. My brother an architect or film director - didn't get high enough grades in high school and like myself, tests horribly. We both don't, for the same reasons more or less. Imagine how many bright students dreams were killed by a poor educational system and standardized testing? I'm kind of hoping COVID-19 forces that to change. It might - it has already exposed the huge discrepancies in education across the board, and the problematic nature of certain educational methods.
And I'm watching my niece now - who was doing well, and had wanted to go into science, but high school (and she's going to a very good private school) - kind of didn't live up to expectations.
Sigh.
Note: IMO, one of the best edits in the history of cinema occurs when they cut from the rocket lifting off to the faces of the wives, shaking and crying in deep relief that the damn thing didn't simply blow up, the possibilities of which were far greater than the general public ever knew-- until the Challenger explosion.
They did that in film version of The Right Stuff as well - which I was impressed by. And you're right - the General public wasn't aware of how dangerous this was until The Challenger disaster - which shocked everyone and kind of changed the space program. It slowed it down considerably.
OK, this is not good. I don't have the time to re-watch all these cool movies, and this series is only just starting!
Evil, 'tis evil, I tell ye...
Yes, sometime in May, a critic opined that "soon we'd run out television content and movies" - and I thought, eh, somehow I'm not worried. Sorry, don't see that happening. And even if it were to happen? It would take us a very long time to notice.
There's so much content. You know there's too much content when people keep coming up with competing lists of 50 best shows or movies to watch or binge, and they aren't the same ones.
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Date: 2020-09-05 12:35 pm (UTC)But yeah - the idea of space travel or being a NASA engineer - really cool!
Easy answer, two words-- high school. (Buffy fan, no further explanation required).
High school or school period has killed many a person's dreams. My father wanted to be a geologist - but ran into a wall on the science front in school. My brother an architect or film director - didn't get high enough grades in high school and like myself, tests horribly. We both don't, for the same reasons more or less. Imagine how many bright students dreams were killed by a poor educational system and standardized testing? I'm kind of hoping COVID-19 forces that to change. It might - it has already exposed the huge discrepancies in education across the board, and the problematic nature of certain educational methods.
And I'm watching my niece now - who was doing well, and had wanted to go into science, but high school (and she's going to a very good private school) - kind of didn't live up to expectations.
Sigh.
Note: IMO, one of the best edits in the history of cinema occurs when they cut from the rocket lifting off to the faces of the wives, shaking and crying in deep relief that the damn thing didn't simply blow up, the possibilities of which were far greater than the general public ever knew-- until the Challenger explosion.
They did that in film version of The Right Stuff as well - which I was impressed by.
And you're right - the General public wasn't aware of how dangerous this was until The Challenger disaster - which shocked everyone and kind of changed the space program. It slowed it down considerably.
OK, this is not good. I don't have the time to re-watch all these cool movies, and this series is only just starting!
Evil, 'tis evil, I tell ye...
Yes, sometime in May, a critic opined that "soon we'd run out television content and movies" - and I thought, eh, somehow I'm not worried. Sorry, don't see that happening. And even if it were to happen? It would take us a very long time to notice.
There's so much content. You know there's too much content when people keep coming up with competing lists of 50 best shows or movies to watch or binge, and they aren't the same ones.