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Or like Portland Oregon with the frog protester at the ICE facility. "We will subject you to improv theater for weeks on end!"

Saturday Night Live used to do this with their studio audience in the 1970s.The captions were silly but could have been considered insulting sometimes.

That is most of how I learned how computers worked when I was a teenager. I had no other resources of this quality, not even access to a computer most of the time. Strangely, I don…

They brought a gnomon, with a color chart, on the Apollo missions. They would set it up for many of the pictures of samples. https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/gnomon-lu…

There are several parking structures called "parkades" in Salem Oregon.

My school library ( 6th - 8th grades ) had this magazine, and they had a 9-week class on programming in BASIC using a 110 bps teletype connected to an HP2000C that was shared by se…

The only thing I ever bought from Toys R Us is a ROM cartridge for the C64 with an assembler and debugger. This must have been it: https://www.cbmstuff.com/downloads/hesmon64.pdf

There are many local, and not-so-local, groups that do this volunteer trail maintenance, and they could definitely use some monetary donations. There is the PCTA, mentioned up-thre…

The US TV show "All in the Family" in the early 70s included the character Archie Bunker, who was an outspoken bigot. This might have been the origin of using "the Oriental persuas…

And the one time I have ever been to Houston, they were constructing that building and I couldn't see the Saturn V :(

There are volunteer groups that do a large percentage of the trail maintenance in some areas. There is the Pacific Crest Trail Association with their local chapters. In Washington …

The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, and the accompanying Apollo Flight Journal, are transcripts of the audio recordings, with accompanying audio/video, and annotations from post miss…

Apollo used star sightings to check the accuracy of the gyros that measured which way the spacecraft was pointed. The stars could not be used to determine position like a ship at s…

Portland Oregon as well. There are a variety of apps that use the API to get arrival info from Tri Met, and all train stops, and many bus stops, have displays.

Portland Oregon has the "Benson Bubblers": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson_Bubbler

Jim Irwin, who walked ( and rode a car ) on the moon on Apollo 15, and had some heart problems while on the moon. He was obviously healthy before. He ended up having several heart …

The easiest satellite to see is the ISS. NASA provides times when it can be seen from any given place. I subscribe to the SpotTheStation mailing list. In general, you can see a sat…

There would be thousands of perfectly circular holes drilled straight through many older layers of rock, with casings, from fossil fuel extraction. They would presumably be filled …

I got the elderberries part because Elton John had done a song about elderberry wine. The hamster part, I learned just now.

Even Lewis and Clark seemed to not know the word "tornado". On the way west, they found a patch of woods that had been torn up: https://lewis-clark.org/the-trail/nebraska-iowa/will…

Thinking of those lyrics, and realizing Apollo 11 was just a few weeks before Woodstock, makes the "maybe it's the time of man" have a bit more punch.

There was a product in the 90s called "Internet in a Box". I remember seeing it at a store. It appears to be a way of selling Compuserve. https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution…

Fortunately, we know much more about science than they did when the Monty Python movies were made.

They are, if they are made out of wood.

And long before Gen X.