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28-03-2008, 22:19
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Moonshine
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This is frankly, quite scary...
My sister is 23...
She's done A levels and is at college. So, she's not immensely thick. Just found out from lending her Apollo 13 on DVD that she didn't know that man had walked on the moon. W...T...F... ?!?!?!!?! She even asked her friends about it for me - out of 6 people she asked, 4 didn't know! I'm just about speechless about this. Nice to see that 20th century history is being taught well. I've leant her a couple of DVD's on the Apollo missions for her to watch - I wish I could get the complete moon landing videos too. Shame NASA don't actually know where the master tapes are. All we have are the crap copies due to NASA broadcasting in a format the networks couldn't handle and having to bodge a solution. If I liked little bastards, I'd consider teaching 20th century history myself. WW1, WW2, Cold War, space race, first flight, Russian revolution, discovery of King Tut's tomb, Vietnam etc..... I'll just have to get back to going to Duxford and helping out there. Simon/~Flibster
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28-03-2008, 22:53
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The Last Airbender
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That is absolutely amazing. Do they not teach anything at schools these days? Mind you, is it something that you should really need to be taught at school to actually know it happened? I'm not sure if it is or not. Maybe we take some of our own school education for granted?
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28-03-2008, 23:06
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29-03-2008, 00:10
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Absinthe
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I thought I knew a reasonable amount about space travel till I went to the Kennedy Space Centre, learned more that day than I did over my life.
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29-03-2008, 00:54
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The Night Worker
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That doesn't surprise me. I am told by young people that i am Intelligent & know everything because i can tell them when & where WWII started & why or something equally simple/well known. You tell them that Apollo 13 had the power of a Calculator & they laugh at you. You tell them about the big bang & they reply "You're Kidding" Talk to them about chaos theory or Quantum mechanics/physics & they fall asleep.
What is bad about all this is i am just about as un educated as you can get & they think i am clever, God help the world & the future of this Planet.
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29-03-2008, 00:54
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They do teach it. It annoys me when people assume 'young people' know nothing about the past, a lot of us do but others make us look like idiots.
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29-03-2008, 01:07
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Moonshine
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29-03-2008, 03:04
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Then again, I'm sure there's a million things that she, as an educated type, would be shocked to find out I have no idea about. Like.. maths 
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29-03-2008, 03:07
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29-03-2008, 03:10
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Vodka Martini
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In fairness, it probably is the most important chunk to people alive these days. Not that it all isn't, of course... but to be honest I don't think I was ever even taught the moon landings... it's just something people know, surely?
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