Old farts (40 plus thread)

Oh my word... My first was an amstrad 464 (with the colour monitor - envy me!)

I guess I get to join this group too!

Yay? 

I can't watch the original BSG any more. Its so 70s.

The '80's. Good decade.

I've seen Def Leppard in concert a couple of times.

I've been to reunion concert with Black Sabbath. Been to the Ozzfest to see Ozzy many times. A friend and I drove up to Washington DC to see Iron Maiden. I've seen KISS, Ted Nugent, Rush and many others in concert. Even saw Jimmy Page in concert. He did a guitar solo using a beer bottle. Awesome.

I was born six days later, that's why my mother always said  to me "I'm in the moon" equal to "have one's head in the cloud" or "to be in the cloud", depends on US/UK expressions if I'm right.
The race to the moon, was an ego race, when the USA reached first the moon, it was over.
Since that time, I'm sure that if gouvenments had co-operated together we would certainly be more ahead than today.
But bankers prefer the taste of war...and intersideral debts
I'm convinced that today's advanced materials allow to go further now.

Spacial shuttle like Columbia still makes me dreams (I can't help thinking of ME, good gamer deformation...  )
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There were indeed others that watched the first moon landing as a child.

Cher did a concert with Cyndi Lauper out here back in...June?? maybe, my girls enjoyed it, but who wouldn't, Cher has an AMAZING voice. One of my all time favorite female singers.

And not wanting to be rude, but...screw you!  I would've LOVED  to see them perform Heaven's on Fire live!! UUGGGHHH...Envy...envy..envy... Metellica playing Nothing Else Matters & Enter Sandman and Twisted Sister playing I Wanna Rock & We're Not Gonna Take It would have been others I would 've loved to see, too....so sad...  

I liked Luke's hair in Star Wars...LOL    ...but I was 9-10...I still like longer hair on guys though.

Shaggy?

I was in school science class and we were watching the Challenger launch on live TV when it exploded. It was pretty terrible.

I loved the romance of the space shuttles, but it was time to let them go. I think they were still using 8 inch floppies. And the foam tiles kept breaking off. I was sorry they weren't replaced by other manned vehicles but it might be for the best. Space X had a rocket explode earlier this week, thank goodness it was an unmanned satellite launch.

The Columbia also disintegrated on reentry in 2003, so you might have been remembering that.

The Martian has rekindled interest in NASA and space exploration. They said their astronaut applications jumped after the movie came out.