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black-n-white TV that weighed a couple-hundred pounds, with a 17" screen

17" screen - in my day that would have been undreamed of luxury!
I may be almost the youngest person on the planet who can remember watching the first moon landing (I was 3 and some months). And the TV was a huge bakelite monstrosity with a tiny circular screen like an oscilloscope. Mind you, I think it was far from new even then

BTW, those fresnel lens screen magnifiers never went away - they just evolved: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/150-DIY-HOME-CINEMA-TV-VIDEO-PROJECTOR-PROJECTION-KIT_W0QQitemZ5879404509

Now why does that strike me as slightly over-optimistic?

I was even alive when JFK was assassinated; I was less than a month old though, so i neither remember it unfolding nor was a suspect for long.

I definitely recall the Moon landing when I was five, however... we watched one of the greatest in the history of mankind



on a 17" black-n-white tv with bad vertical hold

but dammit (last time, I promise) we LIKED it!!

...make that 'greatest achievements in the history of mankind'...

I was 11 years old when the famous "giant leap for mankind" was made...

I was four when the first moon landing occurred. My dad's an aerospace engineer, so he was pretty excited about it.

My husband recalls calling in sick to work that day to watch it on TV. And I thought I was old!

I wonder if any of us will live to see another man on the moon? I can't believe it's been over 30 years since the last one

We have never been there to begin with!!!!


lol just playin.... its funny that people beleive that but with a modestly powerfull telescope you can spot the moon rovers on the surface

i didn't see the man on the moon,lol coz i wasn't born then :-)

Jazake, actually even the Hubble telescope isn't powerful enough (or fine enough resolution) to give us images of the Rovers on the Moon. Too small, too far... however, the Astronauts did leave a laser reflector on the Moon, and by bouncing a laser on Earth & timing the return we know how far away the Moon is from Earth. It takes about 2.5 seconds for the light to get to back to us, which using math tells us that Moon is, really, really far away.

btw, here's a couple links of relevance:

http://www.howstuffworks.com/question188.htm

(other links are on that page...)

But if I can see faces and ruins of alien civilizations on Mars why can't I see a rover on the moon?

Those were taken by an orbiting probe.