Oct
8th
2015
¡Teenagers Do Not Know About Project Apollo! · 1:45am Oct 8th, 2015
I went to see the movie "The Martian" today. I waited through the credits, hoping for an after-credit-scene —— ¡no after-credits-scene! When the credits were finished, a teenager was in the theater cleaning it. She asked whether she should make this her free-movie-of-the-week. I said yes. This went into a conversation about the movie and this ended up talking about the sad fact that we lack the political will to go to Mars, which brought up politics of Project Apollo and how we wanted to get to Luna before the Soviet Union for upstaging them. At this point, she was baffled and confused. ¡She never heard of Project Apollo!:
She never heard of Project Apollo and did not know that humans walked on the Luna. ¡We are doomed!
please please please tell me this did not happen in the United States. So frigging depressing.
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As a skeptic, you should accept the universe the way it is, instead of the way you want it to be. I shall tell you the truth whether you like it or not:
It happened in the United State of America. ⸘What do they teach in schools these days‽
3462533 or what dont they. more like. Did she seriously not know people have gone to the moon?
Like If I had to teach two and only two historical facts about the twentieth century they would be World War 2 and the Space Race.
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She did not know that humans ever walked on Luna. If you want, I could go back and interrogate her:
¡NewsFlash!:
"Creepy man arrested for harassing teenaged girl. He claims that he conducted research at the time and that all of this is a big misunderstanding. This man admits that he likes cartoons for little girls."
This reminds me of when I went to a museum of science in Colorado to see an exhibit on the space probes. And as I was looking at a large model of the Mars rover, a child passing by exclaimed to their parents "Look, Wall-E!" I suppose a child that young shouldn't be expected to know about the history of space exploration, but at the time I felt dissapointed for the coming generation.
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You do not give an age estimate for the child in the museum, but if the child was young enough, it is excusable. The teenager was in her late teens. She was far too old not to know that apes walked on Luna.
3497799 I'm terrible with age estimation. The bottom line either way is that more knowledge is needed in the current generations.
Show someone this:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Apollo16LM.jpg
You get this:
relatably.com/m/img/confused-memes/dbc97d3b537a3b38f323b2cd9e97228de9342018e72bb18e3b36ec235a8783f5.jpg