[ih] ARPANET and Apollo 11

[John Day]

Those two events are quite related.  Ferdinand and Isabella had just come to power because the Moors were thrown out, and Columbus had failed with everyone else because they knew what they were doing.  (They hadn’t fudged the size of the earth and knew they didn’t have the range to get that far.  Of course what they couldn’t know was that there was a continent in the way and he didn’t have to go that far.)  Isabella was taken in and didn’t know her science and Columbus lucked out.


> On Jun 1, 2015, at 14:49, Guy Almes <galmes at tamu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Noel,
>   Sort of reminds me of my European history class, where the professor 
> pointed out that, for a long long time, if you'd asked what happened in 
> 1492, the expulsion of the Moors from Spain would have been the big 
> deal.  Only much later did Columbus's discovery of America come to be 
> seen as more important.
>   Maybe something similar will play out in mid-20th century technology 
> history.
> 	-- Guy
> p.s.: also, although it's *really* off topic, I do appreciate that the 
> vocabulary I used for the 1492 example (commonly used when I was in 
> college) is also dated, which shows how history keeps changing
> 
> On 6/1/15 12:47 PM, Joe Touch wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 3/12/2015 7:35 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>>> Odd how two such major things, long-term-historically speaking, happened in
>>> the same year!
>>> 
>>>     Noel
>> 
>> Woodstock too, to give further context ;-)
>> 
>> Joe
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