(12-10-2020, 08:29 PM)Jagsfan4life9/28/82 Wrote:

(12-08-2020, 08:13 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: I remember his old DieHard battery commercial: "I've been shot at, shot up, and shot down..."

Just think how much the world has changed in the lifetime of a person this age. More than at any time in the history of civilization. Yeager was born 20 years after the first powered flight of an airplane at Kitty Hawk. When he joined the Army Air Corps, the U.S. military was still flying biplanes for some uses. He died while landers roam the surface of Mars.

I often think about how it's such an interesting time to be alive. How technology has changed life for each generation for the last century and a half. Think about people who lived during times where nothing much changed. Was life really different in 1100 AD compared to 1000 AD? Compare that to now. Can an iGen even relate to how life was for a Gen Xer? 

And on the subject, RIP, Chuck. Thanks for your contribution to society.

I tell my grown children that technology has advanced more in their lifetimes than in any other, and they get it. They still remember CRT televisions, when cell phones weren't ubiquitous, our first computer with dial up internet and VCRs.  I remind them that their children will be laughing at what they take for granted now.

---