Who likes Astronomy?

Contratrombone64

Admiral of Fugues
Lost in Space is hilarious ... but it's quite whacky. I grew up on it, Christ, I'm showing my age, I actually lived in a household that had a Black and White T.V. and I remember clearly the excitment when we got our first Colour T.V. (jaysus I'm old).
 

Krummhorn

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You think your old, CT64?

Got you beat ... :lol:
We had 11" B/W TV - Only watched the Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday nights, which was filmed in New York. Hollywood studios were the first ones to convert to color, so the entire Ed Sullivan show came to Hollywood for about 9 weeks while the network "tinted" the New York studios. We didn't have a color set until ... ut oh ... now this is really going to antiquate me here ... oh, what the heck ... we got a color set around 1960, a Magnavox - 13 inch screen - we were the envy of the neighborhood having the only color set :lol:.

So, CT, you're not old at all ... :rolleyes:
 

Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Hi CT64,

I also remember the Ed Sullivan Show, Red Skelton[Freddie the Freeloader and Clem Kadiddlehopper], Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, The Honeymooners...

Cheers,

CD :D:D:D
 

Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Advanced age? Moi? I'm only 46 springs young...
Perish the thought if thou thinkest I'm a senescent anglophile...:):):):D:D:D:grin::grin::grin::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
 

marval

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When I was very young, we didn't even have a television. I am not saying I am so old televisions hadn't been invented, in case you were wondering. But when we did get one it was black and white, and the picture quality was awful. Every now and then you had to get up and give it a thump, just to stop the dreadful lines whizzing up and down on the screen. But it was a novelty, we would watch it on a Saturday night.


Margaret
 

methodistgirl

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You think your old, CT64?

Got you beat ... :lol:
We had 11" B/W TV - Only watched the Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday nights, which was filmed in New York. Hollywood studios were the first ones to convert to color, so the entire Ed Sullivan show came to Hollywood for about 9 weeks while the network "tinted" the New York studios. We didn't have a color set until ... ut oh ... now this is really going to antiquate me here ... oh, what the heck ... we got a color set around 1960, a Magnavox - 13 inch screen - we were the envy of the neighborhood having the only color set :lol:.

So, CT, you're not old at all ... :rolleyes:
That was the year I was born!
The year 1960 not to tell my age.:rolleyes: I didn't watch a colored tv until I was
nine years old. My dad bought it so I could watch Neil Armstrong and
crew land on the moon. I was introduced to cable in 1978. Man how
time has changed everything in the last thirty years. Now I watch television
on my computer.
judy tooley
 

greatcyber

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There was only one family on our block that had a color television set. I remember going over to their house to watch the moon landing (@ Judy). Back then just having a TV was a luxury and to think nowadays most households have several. The technological age is truly magnificent.

And by the way, I love astronomy. As stated in another thread I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I was always in my back yard with my telescope.

Stephen
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GoneBaroque

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I recall that someone asked Theodore Sturgeon his opinion of Science Fiction movies and he replied "That would be a wonderful idea."

I do agree that Astronomy is a fascinating subject. One of the many I enjoy reading about.

Rob
 

teddy

Duckmeister
Just look at some of the science fiction writers and some of the things they have "invented". HG Wells, Arthur C Clarke, Jules Verne to name a few. Many of their predictions have come true.

teddy
 

Buchpteclare

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I even wanted to be an astronomer, but the math alone was way over my abilities. We are getting ready to move to a place where we will be able to see the stars - a place without city glare, shopping mall sodium lights, street and highway lights - and so on. Around here I'm lucky if I an see anything dimmer than a second magnitude star. In my teens I spent hours exploring the summer southern sky with a small home made telescope. Things might come full circle yet. (Big smile). ATB!
 

teddy

Duckmeister
It sound idyllic. I stayed in a small village in the South of France last year and it was wonderful to escape the light pollution we have become so used to

teddy
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
I have only just stumbled upon this thread and being a professor of Cosmology I will go back to the beginning to catch up.
 
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Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
I have only just stumbled upon this thread and being a professor of Cosmology I will go back to the beginning to catch up.

Dear Br. Colin,

It would be a real feat just to be physically involved in/with Planck Time, much less than at the moment of the Big Bang............

Cosmology you say? Dr. P.J. Peebles has written most authoritatively and exhaustively on the subject of Physical Cosmology.
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Dear Br. Colin,

It would be a real feat just to be physically involved in/with Planck Time, much less than at the moment of the Big Bang............

Cosmology you say? Dr. P.J. Peebles has written most authoritatively and exhaustively on the subject of Physical Cosmology.
Comrade CD, Glad you enjoyed my little BB thing ;) I must stress although a Professor I am purely a lay man, Mr Peebles you say that will indeed be of great interest, this is a catchy little ditty that is in keeping with the subject:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ND13TmXdmo&feature=related
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