jimblah
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Before the Internet
I was born in '70. I remember voyager (I'm not referring to Janeway's Voyager) and space flight was a big thing to me as a young boy. I used to go to the public library and they had these rows of file cabinets next to the card catalog. In these file cabinets were folders filled with newspaper clippings, and magazine articles about everything you could "possibly imagine." I remember holding those clippings regarding spaceflight in my boyish little hands. By the age of twelve I was sending requests for pictures and information from each of the aerospace contractors working on the shuttle like Rockwell International; including places like jpl, aames; any address I could get my hands on within NASA who might send a screen print of the rings of saturn, or the eye of jupiter, etc. I used to have quite a collection. I caught my self wondering the other day if a young person did something like that today; what would happen? Especially given the current economic situation and the wealth of information on the internet; could they, would they be able to reply?
I was born in '70. I remember voyager (I'm not referring to Janeway's Voyager) and space flight was a big thing to me as a young boy. I used to go to the public library and they had these rows of file cabinets next to the card catalog. In these file cabinets were folders filled with newspaper clippings, and magazine articles about everything you could "possibly imagine." I remember holding those clippings regarding spaceflight in my boyish little hands. By the age of twelve I was sending requests for pictures and information from each of the aerospace contractors working on the shuttle like Rockwell International; including places like jpl, aames; any address I could get my hands on within NASA who might send a screen print of the rings of saturn, or the eye of jupiter, etc. I used to have quite a collection. I caught my self wondering the other day if a young person did something like that today; what would happen? Especially given the current economic situation and the wealth of information on the internet; could they, would they be able to reply?