NASA's ORION flight test

[seizuregirl]

I found myself glued to the tv to watch the lift-off this morning, my 4yr old nephew watched with me too, also counting down lol, I ended up recording it for my older nephew to watch after school and he thought it was great. He then started talking about how great it would be to go to the moon, or to mars and be able to see them first hand rather than video.

I told him that in his Grandfather's generation, my dad's obviously lol, they were sure that we would all be able to go the moon, be living there, and on mars too, by now. He laughed pretty hard with that!

 

[valeriedl]

My husband and I always laugh about the movies made in the past about the future. In '2001 A Space Odyssey' we were going to Jupiter. In 1984 'Big Brother' (a robot?) is watching you..... and ruling the world. We love looking at what they think cars, computers and so many other things that people back then assumed would look like now.

I'm sure people in the future will get a kick out of what we expect the future to look like in the tv shows and movies that we've made now.

We also thought it was pretty funny when the whole world thought it was going to shut down on January 1, 2000 because none of the computers were going to know what to do when the century rolled over. Everything went just fine if you didn't already know - lol

 

[SlimBlue]

What fools we were lol

If he wants to watch it again online, all 4 NASA TV channels are streamed/recorded via UStream:

[ame="http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/56137483"]Orion First Flight Test (Part 1 of 2)[/ame]
[ame="http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/56141152"]Orion First Flight Test (Part 2 of 2)[/ame]

I usually have the 'live' ISS stream (if it's not blank lol) as my desktop

[ame="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-iss-stream"]Live_ISS_Stream on USTREAM: Live video from the International Space Station includes internal views when the crew is on-duty and Earth views at other times...@@AMEPARAM@@cid=9408562@@AMEPARAM@@9408562[/ame]

OOOH! UStream embeds as well as youtu.be

 

[seizuregirl]

One silly t.v. show about the future was, of course, The Jetson's! I truly did hope that was what it would be like in the next century. Especially the flying cars!

I remember working new years eve 1999 and a couple of my co-worker's hoping that everything would shut down just so they wouldn't have to work new year's day!

 

[SlimBlue]

Hehehe +1 for The Jetsons

I was gonna mention flying cars, personal jetpacks, androids etc as the other things we thought we'd have

 

[valeriedl]

I remember working new years eve 1999 and a couple of my co-worker's hoping that everything would shut down just so they wouldn't have to work new year's day!

That pretty funny!!!! :roflmao:

 

[BIGMAN131307]

I really would have like the kitchen from The Jetson's

Remember the one button cooking automat.

We kinda already had that back in 1900's.

http://www.history.com/news/the-automat-birth-of-a-fast-food-nation

The food in those was better than anything you can get in any fast-food place now.