When I was a kid, my heroes were mostly astronauts, explorers & the like. Then I grew up, in the bloody 80s & they were increasingly replaced by journalists. I suspect many kids growing up today will have a similar trajectory.
Heh, it's not that I completely forgot about the explorers, I just gravitated towards witnessing history, and wanting to find out more than what the headlines exposed. The 80s was a pretty wild era to grow up into ;)
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*nods* We grow up and get a bit more realistic. I was physically dragged from school when I was 5. Neil Armstrong film. When I saw that, I realised I didn't know how to tell difference between *real* people and eg soap operas.
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I *needed* to know if that film was real cos if it was real, then that meant he'd gone to the moon and I *WAS* going too. "Show it to me again!" "No, you need to go home now. It's 4pm. There's your mum. Bye" "MUM, tell her to show me that again!"
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Yeah, that increasing gulf between what humans could achieve, and what they kept doing to each other was pretty much what made me end up doing what I do. Plus, Challenger dashed all our dreams pretty hard.
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*nods* It was like a wave of childhood dreams replaced with a wall of "No, you can't. Sit down. Shut up while we break stuff" for all but bankers
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You're going to love this graphic novel (esp. the preface), it captured that exact feeling https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43737.Orbiter … thankfully, we always had excellent scifi & actual scientific progress to tide us over, and now we're nearing the next golden age in space exploration
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We might not live long enough to witness it, and it may start w colonialism & exploitation, but wondrous possibilities are tantalizingly close & we can imagine so much more now :)
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