One small step for a man... (Don't fancy doing it. Just do it.)

Kolya on 21/7/2009 at 06:48

Quote Posted by nicked

I'd have been a dickhead who deliberately didn't watch it and made out I didn't give a shit.

That seems to be a common reaction when some event manages to catch universal attention nowadays. And it's not the dumb people who react like that. I can only imagine that people back then lived in less connected times and therefor didn't feel it necessary to distinguish themselves as individuals in a situation like that.

Rogue Keeper on 21/7/2009 at 07:37

Times were different, yes, so was fashion and overall moods and zeitgeist.
My mom said before that not too many things have improved in the world during her life, but she likes that she was growing up in the dawn of the space age - first man-made satellite in the space, first man in the space, first dog in the space, then first man on the Moon... All that was very uplifting after a devastating world war and later during the Cold War tensions - people had something what gave them hope for a reasonable future of the mankind.
Nowadays people don't pay attention when a space shuttle goes up to the ISS. It's common. We are postmodern, confused, multimedial, paranoid, ignorant and lost in our technology which was supposed to make our lives easier in the first place and we have the most challenging century ahead, which probably teaches the humanity few harsh lessons.

gunsmoke on 21/7/2009 at 10:24

Wasn't it just faked? Didn't you guys play Area 51?

:joke:

june gloom on 21/7/2009 at 10:31

That was a shitty game.

Matthew on 21/7/2009 at 10:41

Quote Posted by gunsmoke

Wasn't it just faked? Didn't you guys play Area 51?

:joke:

Or the Battlezone remake.

gunsmoke on 21/7/2009 at 10:42

Yeah, did you see the part I am talking about though? When going up the elevator?

Matthew on 21/7/2009 at 10:42

Never actually played it, I'm afraid.

Koki on 21/7/2009 at 10:48

Quote Posted by Kolya

That seems to be a common reaction when some event manages to catch universal attention nowadays.

I'm sorry, was there anything remotely comparable to (http://www.members.shaw.ca/rlongpre01/moon_tiny.jpg) man walking on fucking moon? I must have missed it.

nicked on 21/7/2009 at 12:22

I'll be interested to see the general reaction when/if we land a man on Mars. I'm guessing it won't be anywhere near as big of a deal. As soon as it becomes clear they're probably just gonna take rock samples and do a few experiments, and not get zapped/eaten by aliens, everyone will most likely change the channel.

Kuuso on 21/7/2009 at 12:42

Apparently CIA has accidentally destroyed the original tapes of the moon-landing, which sounds extremely weird to me.

Anyways, you guys should check out the movie Moon, which is in theatres now I presume. It's apparently amazing, which is granted because the director is the son of David Bowie. :cheeky: