BBBC #6

This post is part of the blogger challenge titled BBBC. Today's topic is:

6. Your age.

Photo from https://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/Mercury-Atlas_6

One day when I was in Kindergarten, there was a visitor who had a special message for our class. He told us about the flight of Friendship 7 that had just launched and landed successfully that afternoon. I think much of the content was lost on his audience of 5 year olds but what did stick with me was his excitement of space exploration. I also liked his globe with the motorized capsule orbiting around the equator as I had never even considered the possibility of living away from the land. For me, this was the beginning of my fascination with science, engineering, astronomy and space flight which continues to this day.

I mention the flight of Friendship 7 was not only something very memorable to me but most people I run into these days weren't even born yet and is just some story from their history books.

Sunrise from our back deck

Since we are talking about age, specifically my age,  I've heard a number of reasons over the years explaining why school is much more difficult now than when I was their age. That would be way back in the ancient times. When I was in school:

• There was no history, only current events
• Numbers were only known up to 2
• No written language yet
• All knowledge could be covered in a week

I'm sure you can come up with a few more.

So, yes, I'm older than many other moto bloggers and my age is the 17th prime number.