(Ohhh look, a format where I don't have to stick to 280 characters!)
I had ENORMOUS amounts of fun following your lego journeys - when I first subscribed I was worried that I'd miss everything because I know anything that happens during USA day is generally overnight here, and so I left a tab on my browser open just to your twitter feed so I could reload it and then read everything in the right order after I woke up :) It was pretty much the first thing I checked when I got up every morning.
I was born 6 years after the moon landing, so although it was kind of a fact of life it was also recent enough that I never learned about it in school or really learned anything about it at ALL until I was well into adulthood. I was thinking recently about how people born in 2007 would have experienced 9/11 might be a bit similar - at that point all the adults around you already know it because they saw it, but it's not long enough ago to be "history" yet, so it's a kind of odd situation when you're born afterwards like that and miss out from both directions.
So it's been truly joyous that now I'm 44 and the whole world filled up with stuff like you and the 13 Minutes To The Moon podcasts and lots of written articles and miscellaneous videos and suddenly I feel like I've filled in all these knowledge gaps at last, and in the most entertaining way possible! Thanks so much <3
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I had ENORMOUS amounts of fun following your lego journeys - when I first subscribed I was worried that I'd miss everything because I know anything that happens during USA day is generally overnight here, and so I left a tab on my browser open just to your twitter feed so I could reload it and then read everything in the right order after I woke up :) It was pretty much the first thing I checked when I got up every morning.
I was born 6 years after the moon landing, so although it was kind of a fact of life it was also recent enough that I never learned about it in school or really learned anything about it at ALL until I was well into adulthood. I was thinking recently about how people born in 2007 would have experienced 9/11 might be a bit similar - at that point all the adults around you already know it because they saw it, but it's not long enough ago to be "history" yet, so it's a kind of odd situation when you're born afterwards like that and miss out from both directions.
So it's been truly joyous that now I'm 44 and the whole world filled up with stuff like you and the 13 Minutes To The Moon podcasts and lots of written articles and miscellaneous videos and suddenly I feel like I've filled in all these knowledge gaps at last, and in the most entertaining way possible! Thanks so much <3