As I sit here watching an old movie about time travel, where the fellow from 1899 builds a time travel machine and he travels into the future. In this movie, one of his stops is in the 1960s. When he gets out of the time machine, everyone is running to air raid shelters. One of the characters tries to get him to go into the shelter saying, “The nuclear powered satellites are coming”!
I have seen the old movie several times in the past, and although it was probably somewhat interesting in its time, it isn’t very exciting in today’s world.
The old movie kick started my brain. (Old motorcycles use to be kick started so I was trying to use that analogy, and now I see it didn’t work, why do I even try?)
Back in 1957 when I was just a little children, the Russians sent up the first man made satellite to orbit the earth, “Sputnik 1”. That was something that had everyone’s interest, and the TV news, (TV news was actually news back in the olden days) was broadcasting the times that one could see the satellite go over after dark.
One should understand that there were very few reasons why I would ever be allowed to miss church, one reason was if I was on my death bed, or if both of my legs fell off, other than that I had to go.
For some reason, I was allowed to stay at my nephew’s house on a church night, and at the appropriate time, we, along with many neighbors were outside looking up in the night’s sky. What would we see in the night’s sky?
There it was, a tiny spot of light, looking somewhat like a small star moving through the night sky. We were seeing history in the making in October, 1957.
If you must know, I was 10 years old.
Something odd; as I finished writing the above, I came back into a reality state. I truly felt as if I had been back in Missouri, on the May Green School grounds, looking up at the night’s sky. I guess I do get deep into my silly writing rants.
Could I have gone so deeply into my memory bank, that it seemed as if I were back in 1957, or, did I just travel in time using only my mind? I was totally unaware of being in my computer room, it was dark with the only lights coming from houses along the street as there were no street lights in that part of town. We were on a paved portion of the playground where the basketball goals were, I could see many stars in the dark night sky! There it was, “Sputnik 1”, moving through the darkness! Consider that statement for a moment. Is it possible to time travel using only our mental abilities?
There will be a test tomorrow, after you have had time to consider the possibilities, of time travel verses memories!
Make your own history, be nice to someone!
Don Ford
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