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This post is a downer but not in a Heart Day related way.

Someone posted this comic book ad from 1985....




I remember when this was something that was full of hope and not full of fear. This is really one of the things that can make me genuinely angry. I remember watching shuttle launches in awe and not in fear. It seems a shame that we got scared and backed off and now we don't even seem to care.

Damn, I wanted to go to Space Camp when I was younger. When I lived in Japan I went to a space exposition thing... I still have the medal I got.

I don't really know what my point is here but the intensity of the reaction I had to seeing this meant that I had to share. It is, in a way, a commentary on everything right now. Maybe it is a part of getting older too but I miss feeling full of hope and awe. While I don't feel full of fear all the time, there is a lot more of it than there used to be.

Date: 2007-02-14 10:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] morgie.livejournal.com
That is one thing I was irrate about when I was down in FL for 6 months. I had no chances to watch any takeoffs....

Date: 2007-02-14 10:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] torquemada.livejournal.com
*hugs*

I know exactly how you feel.

Date: 2007-02-16 04:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jenny-sparks.livejournal.com
I remember when everything astronauts did was like some awesome sci-fi movie. I wanted to drink what they drank, eat their space ice-cream. I don't think the wonder of space is alive for kids now, like it was back then.

Hopefully it will change as we finally start doing more. Heck, maybe the Transformers movie will get kids curious again.

j~

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