{"id":2156,"date":"2015-07-21T18:25:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T02:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2015-07-21T18:56:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T02:56:57","slug":"this-was-kind-of-a-big-deal-46-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/this-was-kind-of-a-big-deal-46-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"This was kind of a big deal 46 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/this-was-kind-of-a-big-deal-46-years-ago\/\" data-text=\"This was kind of a big deal 46 years ago\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>Back in those halcyon days when a man&#8217;s tax dollars actually bought him a piece of some magnificent hardware, we sent men to the moon. \u00a0This year marks the 46th anniversary of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apollo_11\" target=\"_blank\">Apollo 11<\/a> and, in fact, 46 years ago today\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_Armstrong\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Armstong<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buzz_Aldrin\" target=\"_blank\">Edwin &#8220;Buzz&#8221; Aldrin<\/a>\u00a0were the very first men to walk on the moon. \u00a0It was a moment in time when it felt like the aspirations of the entire human race were epitomized in the actions of two men. \u00a0The event was broadcast live and was watched all around the globe. \u00a0There were people who called the space program a waste of money, but I can tell you that in my lifetime there has never been another event like the moon landing that, if even for only a few hours, brought the whole globe together into one family. \u00a0And so for those moments alone it was worth whatever the cost.<\/p>\n<p>Spare 15 minutes of your time and watch this video &#8211; made for schoolkids, but suitable for all ages. \u00a0It sums up the whole Apollo 11 mission very succinctly.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/raN5VLEro1w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now take a few minutes and think about how this was accomplished in fewer than 10 years. \u00a0The technology used was primitve comared to what is commonplace today &#8211; our cellphones are more powerful computers than those employed in the LEM and Command Modules. \u00a0There was no such thing as the internet. \u00a0Yet the task was completed and resulted in at least a few hours of \u00a0international brotherhood. \u00a0Something that we couldn&#8217;t do today even if we tried.<\/p>\n<p>Cross posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cuanaenterprises.com\/blog.php\" target=\"_blank\">Men Out of Work Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Back in those halcyon days when a man&#8217;s tax dollars actually bought him a piece of some magnificent hardware, we sent men to the moon. \u00a0This year marks the 46th anniversary of Apollo 11 and, in fact, 46 years ago today\u00a0Neil Armstong and Edwin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-life","category-science","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions\/2159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}