Absolutely insanely cool. My dad just came downstaires with all these files and said he wanted to show me something. so i drag myself away from my addiction to facebook and had a look.
when he was younger he did a project and put together a scrap book of the infomation on the original man on the moon. the first one like ever. Yes I mean Neil Armstrong.
In this book there was bits from magazines and Newspapers about this amazing story. honestly I was so entranced in awe by the pictures im completely and utterly gob smacked. Its so interesting reading the original reports and infomation about the space shuttle and the moon. even the crew bio's are in there. WOW!!!!!!
He then got out another newpaper this one from 1912 costing one half penny. again WOW although it was not just any newspaper. Its the one on the titantic when it sunk!!! mouth on the ground!!! its the Daily Mail the whole paper (bar some sport bit at the back) is full of infomation about it. 900 crew members wifes still waiting for news. orginal pictures of captain and crew members. blue prints of the boat and infomation on what went wrong. I mean everything.
It got me thinking about the things I would keep the newspaper cuttings off and how the things in the world shape us whether we want them to or not and about time. Is it simply that we learn or is it that our ignorance and innocences move to something else.
Look at the World Wars we wouldn't let another Genocide like that happen . Now would we. oh but wait what about Rwanda and what happened there during the 1990's. (think it was 1994 but you may have to check) the Tutsis and the hutus are two seperate ethnic minoritys and yet the Hutus managed to kill 800,000 Tutsis's just because of there colour.
You might be thinking oh in england that wouldnt happen though bradford riots anyone (2003) or the racism there is towards Asian people here (Paki's) Maybe we aren't as different as we were back then.
We can look at the man on the moon as a step to discovery. what else have we yet to discover? we can look at titantic as a tragedy (although the engineering side of the vessel was outstanding for its time) or we can look at it as history. but is it does history seem to be repeating itself slightly? I dunno Im just rampling.
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