Old things youngins might like to know

[Cassi]

My neighbor said she was a teenager when they finally got electric put in their house.  Someone in her mothers family gave them a TV set. She said it barely worked and the picture was awful but neighbors all came to watch it and that it was a really big deal for country people , who for the most part didn't even have electricity. Then her mom won a vacuum cleaner in a raffle and their neighbors even came to look at that. Life was truly dull back then. Those poor people!

Julia, I truly get a kick out of your comments regarding things being boring for those people.  Before electricity we could see the stars.  Before cellphones we talk to each other, before the internet we socialized.

I don't know if you've seen that movie that Bruce Willis starred in.  It was about people who were so lazy they lived in their rooms and uploaded their minds into robotic avatars that did all their work for them.  Just think what people will say about us in 20-30 years.

And I come to realize that while those weren't the best of times, I think I was a lot happier in those days.

[Anne Blake]

OK, if we are talking neighbor stories; had a neighbor that moved into their place by wagon drawn by a mule. When they got there they had to build their cabin. They got through their first winter because the local Indians brought them food. No electricity, phone, cable or internet but they moved into their place in the mid 1890's. She never mentioned that life was boring for them.

[Laurie]

   Okay that's two things I got wrong Robby the robot was not the robot in Lost in Space And Nancy Sinatra did the boots song.. And yes I saw that risque Jane Fonda movie Barbarella and that other R movie Mrs Robinson.

  Crystal radios - I had a pre-made one called a satellite radio which had an alligator clip you clipped to a long wire antennae or just to your window screen ( which were made of woven wire back then).   No batteries. It had a screw sticking out of the top for tuning it to different stations. Your listened to the with an ear plug. Transistor radios came out a few years later.

[Cassi]

   Okay that's two things I got wrong Robby the robot was not the robot in Lost in Space And Nancy Sinatra did the boots song.. And yes I saw that risque Jane Fonda movie Barbarella and that other R movie Mrs Robinson.

  Crystal radios - I had a pre-made one called a satellite radio which had an alligator clip you clipped to a long wire antennae or just to your window screen ( which were made of woven wire back then).   No batteries. It had a screw sticking out of the top for tuning it to different stations. Your listened to the with an ear plug. Transistor radios came out a few years later.

No problem
Robby the Robot played in two movies; "The Invisible Boy" and "Forbidden Planet".  Fantastic Planet was the no words spoken film.

I've liked SyFy before it was SyFy

[Julia1996]

Julia, I truly get a kick out of your comments regarding things being boring for those people.  Before electricity we could see the stars.  Before cellphones we talk to each other, before the internet we socialized.

I don't know if you've seen that movie that Bruce Willis starred in.  It was about people who were so lazy they lived in their rooms and uploaded their minds into robotic avatars that did all their work for them.  Just think what people will say about us in 20-30 years.

And I come to realize that while those weren't the best of times, I think I was a lot happier in those days

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It was called surrogates.  That was a good movie. It would be really cool if we could upload into android bodies.

[Julia1996]

OK, if we are talking neighbor stories; had a neighbor that moved into their place by wagon drawn by a mule. When they got there they had to build their cabin. They got through their first winter because the local Indians brought them food. No electricity, phone, cable or internet but they moved into their place in the mid 1890's. She never mentioned that life was boring for them.

Not to be rude but how old are you?? Log cabins and mule wagons??

[Julia1996]

   Okay that's two things I got wrong Robby the robot was not the robot in Lost in Space And Nancy Sinatra did the boots song.. And yes I saw that risque Jane Fonda movie Barbarella and that other R movie Mrs Robinson.

  Crystal radios - I had a pre-made one called a satellite radio which had an alligator clip you clipped to a long wire antennae or just to your window screen ( which were made of woven wire back then).   No batteries. It had a screw sticking out of the top for tuning it to different stations. Your listened to the with an ear plug. Transistor radios came out a few years later.

How could you have satellite radio when they didn't have any satellites? ? I have Sirius in my car. It's awesome.

[Cassi]

How could you have satellite radio when they didn't have any satellites? ? I have Sirius in my car. It's awesome.

Telstar is the name of various communications satellites. The first two Telstar satellites were experimental and nearly identical. Telstar 1 launched on top of a Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962. It successfully relayed through space the first television pictures, telephone calls, and telegraph images, and provided the first live transatlantic television feed. Telstar 2 launched May 7, 1963. Telstar 1 and 2—though no longer functional—still orbit the Earth.[1]

[Cassi]

Please note that they are officially space junk and could return to earth like Skylab did.

[Laurie]

How could you have satellite radio when they didn't have any satellites? ? I have Sirius in my car. It's awesome.

Julia, there was a satellite. It was called Sputnik. Launched on October 4, 1957. Maybe a few more by the time I got that radio. It was the shape of the radio that gave it the name. It picked up local am radio stations. It was great for a 6th grader who was supposed to be sleeping. I could get old time radio programs on it.

[Anne Blake]

How old am I? Well I will be celebrating my third birthday next month.

[Julia1996]

Please note that they are officially space junk and could return to earth like Skylab did.

Oh great, I could be minding my own business and have some old satellite fall on me. I always wanted to be buried in an envelope.

[Cassi]

Oh great, I could be minding my own business and have some old satellite fall on me. I always wanted to be buried in an envelope.

I wouldn't worry about an old satellite falling on you because CHICKEN LITTLE HAD IT RIGHT! AND:

Space, a seemingly vast frontier, is actually pretty crowded with junk, and it's getting worse.

Just this week the communications satellite Galaxy 15 lost control and joined the growing ranks of debris crowding the space around Earth.

There are about 500,000 pieces of space junk ? down to items about 0.5 inches (1.27 centimeters) wide ? in orbit. Of those, about 21,000 objects are larger than 4 inches (10.1 cm) in diameter, and are being constantly tracked by the Department of Defense's U.S. Space Surveillance Network. These are items like spent rocket stages and broken satellites such as Galaxy 15.

Space junk ? even tiny pieces of it ? is dangerous because objects orbiting around Earth travel at speeds of about 17,500 mph (28,200 kph). At those velocities, any collision between two objects would cause serious damage.

However, this one new addition to the problem doesn't significantly increase the amount of space debris or the risk of a crash, said Nicholas Johnson, Chief Scientist for Orbital Debris at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

A major collision occurred last year, when the dead Russian Cosmos 2251 spacecraft accidentally slammed into the Iridium communications satellite over Siberia at an altitude of 490 miles (790 km). The collision broke up both craft into many tiny pieces.

Another major event occurred in 2007 when China intentionally destroyed a weather satellite about 528 miles (850 kilometers) above Earth, creating a massive cloud of flotsam in orbit.

"Those two events combined have increased the number of objects in low-Earth orbit that we track by over 60 percent," Johnson told Life's Little Mysteries, a SPACE.com partner. "And that's compared to everything which had accumulated over the past 50 years. These were dramatic, unprecedented increases."

Today, the highest concentrations of debris in space are at the respective altitudes of these two collisions, Johnson said.

Such crashes, and their ensuing additions to the swarm of junk in space, will only become more common as space gets even more crowded.

[tgirlamg]

Not to be rude but how old are you?? Log cabins and mule wagons??

Both my grandmothers were born in the 1890's... The past is never as far as we perceive it to be!!!

Tick Tock goes the clock!!!! ... Make every day count!!!

[Deborah]

I have a picture of my father when he was a kid sitting in the lap of my G-G-grandfather in the early 1930s.  My G-G-grandfather marched in the Army of Northern Virginia in 1862 (5th Florida Infantry Regiment).  The past isn't that far away.

When I was a kid we used to visit my G-G-aunt in north Florida.  She was born in 1880 and still lived on the old plantation.  She lived there until she was 93 and fell off the porch breaking her hip.


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[natalie.ashlyne]

In the medical field Wheel chairs were made of wood, Mercury was used as a cure for syphilis STD,  heroin was used to cure coughs, Trepanation (drilling holes in to a skull) was used to cure seizures,  hysterical paroxysm was a practice by doctors to massage a female sex organs to orgasm to treat these symptoms faintness, nervousness, sexual desire, insomnia, fluid retention, bloating , shortness of breath, irritability.

[Roll]

I have a picture of my father when he was a kid sitting in the lap of my G-G-grandfather in the early 1930s.  My G-G-grandfather marched in the Army of Northern Virginia in 1862 (5th Florida Infantry Regiment).  The past isn't that far away.

When I was a kid we used to visit my G-G-aunt in north Florida.  She was born in 1880 and still lived on the old plantation.  She lived there until she was 93 and fell off the porch breaking her hip.

John Tyler (10th US president for the less historically inclined or those not in the US) was born in 1790 and has two living grandchildren. (Not great- great- or great-, actually just plain grand.) My dad and sister met one of them while on vacation.

[Laurie]

My Dad was born on Sept 18, 1924 and my Mom was born on Sept 18, 1926.  I was born in Sept 1952. That past is closer than you think.

[natalie.ashlyne]

My Dad was born on Sept 18, 1924 and my Mom was born on Sept 18, 1926.  I was born in Sept 1952. That past is closer than you think.

That is cool

I was born may 27 my sister may 31 and my dad june 4 my mom was july 24

[KarynMcD]

Please note that they are officially space junk and could return to earth like Skylab did.

Most old satellites are usually moved into a parking orbit, but some just stop responding and can't be moved out of the way and will come back sooner rather than later.

Parents tend to be a little overprotective these days and in a way I think it prevents children from developing proper judgement. Consider I received my first pocket knife about age 9 and I didn't need to ask for it as it was given as a present.

I don't even trust my kids with a spoon.

I was trying to teach my 13yo niece to cook a steak. She complains, "but I'm only 13!"
What do you mean "only 13?" I was cooking on my own by the time I was 7.