Strange though isn't it? In lots of ways things work backwards. Slower planes, using ancient 60's technology to get guys into space.
If my daughter was around she would tell you you didn't watch men walk on the moon. She thinks it was all a hoax.
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If my daughter was around she would tell you you didn't watch men walk on the moon. She thinks it was all a hoax.
Check out the show mythbusters, they did a special about the moonwalk and the naysayers. They did a really indepth approach to discount the idea it was a hoax.
Ah, @Apple fanboy, to be honest, I doubt I would regard your daughter as an authority or credible source on almost anything, - apart from anime - least of all if it is anything to do with the hard sciences.
Yes, please let science claim victory over wild delusions any day.
I think the Moon buggy and footprints you can see through a telescope are pretty compelling evidence.
That must be one hell of a telescope because even the Hubble can't see an object that small on the moon.
That said, I have no problem saying that people who believe the moon landings were hoaxed are stupid. Their only hope is to outgrow it.
When I was young some crazy little girl tried to assassinate Ford! I also remember play pong & duck hunter. Then when a young teenager I pumped all my lawn mowing money intolerant Pacman cabinet and eating pizza and playing pool! I was always sad when those arcades went the way of the dodo!
I don't believe so, as the everything is based on tones, now and the rotary phones doesn't operate that way I believe.
I remember when it was illegal to add a phone in your house - you couldn't use multiple phones, only one, or if you wanted more then one, you had to pay Ma Bell $$$ to have that privilege.
The rotary phone might work on POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service), but it won't on a DSL or Digital Line (Cable).
Ah, those wonderful rotary phones. Loved them, and grew up with them.
Actually, several in my father's side of the family worked in telecommunications. My grandmother and aunt were postmistresses, - my aunt reluctantly retiring in her eighties, a decision taken by her, not the state, - and my father - and indeed, my grandfather - were both engineers with the state telephone company, although my father was subsequently promoted to the ranks of management.
Indeed, I remember he used to bring home new telephones with cutting edge technology for us to try out. At a time when everyone had boring black rotary phones, we had sophisticated cream ones. And several extensions, personally installed by my father. Ah. Those were the days.
You could probably answer an incoming call on an old rotary phone, but you wouldn't be able to dial out.
What I always recall about the old rotary phones was if you ever had an emergency how long it would take to dial 999!
We had a cream one and possibly a green one.
We had a cordless phone some years later. Reception was terrible. But the concept of a phone you could use in the garden, was mind blowing.
We had a cream one and possibly a green one.
We had a cordless phone some years later. Reception was terrible. But the concept of a phone you could use in the garden, was mind blowing.
My father first came across one of those while he was on holiday (a long holiday some of his relatives in the US who had invited him to visit them - had paid for - he took his entire annual leave) in Boston, in the US, in the mid 50s. He always said he was completely blown away by the idea of being able to walk around with a phone in your hand, (and the receiver up to your ear), being cool.
The holiday left him with a life long subscription to TIME magazine, a passion for US politics, (and a marked preference for the Democrat party), an admiration for well made and beautifully engineered US products such as watches - he bought my mother a beautiful US made gold watch as a gift, and a mild (occasionally severe) hankering to emigrate there (which my Mother - whom he was dating at the time - emphatically quashed).
It also left him - as a telephone engineer - working with the old Department of Posts & Telegraphs - utterly awestruck at how advanced US telecommunications at the time actually were.
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