History 491 Blogs

This blog will somewhat, help to explain my view point on the Question we have for our Test assignment. First off, I find it hard to argue one way or another at this question, because regardless of what is said, most of it is just speculation. It's hard to compare something that happened and is now a part of our history with something that never happened, and was just some alternate idea out there. I feel that Kennedy's decision to go the moon, and the methods involved in getting there were basically inevitable in a sense. I feel at some point in time, human beings would have reached the moon. I feel that many of the same technologies which were used to get the to moon would have been discovered and used to get to the moon regardless of the approach which was used. Perhaps some of them were discovered sooner, or more costly, but without regard, they were discovered, and used. From this view point, I find it very hard to actually draw a conclusion about whether it helped or hurt the program in general.

NG

Tonight we watched '2001: A space Odyssey.' I must say I was kinda surprised by it. The movie was much different than I was expecting, and honestly, I don't really think it was the most appropriate movie for our class to watch. I feel that our class would have gotten a much better experience through watching 'Apollo 13.' It is kinda funny however to watch what people of '68 thought space flight would turn out to be like in the future. One thing I was rather surprised about was the use of the computer 'Hal' and how they our computer technology would be. I also feel a computer of that intelligence and computing ability isn't too far off from our possible technology. Besides that, I found the movie to be kinda boring, and the screeching noise was very annoying. But atleast we don't have class Friday before spring break, when I go to Panama City.

NG

Recently while I was surfing the net, I found this webpage, and thought it was quite interesting. The Lunar Republic, is a site which will sell acres of land on the moon. I'm not sure how much use this land will be, but you can apparently buy and sell it. This site includes many things, from a place to register your land, to buying maps, and possible flights to your lunar property. Just thought some of you would find this interesting.

NG