Yes. I’m older and remember this as a kid. Very young kid.

Us kids probably keyed into this more, taking to the heart, as they say. The older generation I imagine rolled their eyes. Their attitude toward litter was “trashy” to be sure. I can recall opening the package of some toy in the backseat of a car on family trip. I asked what should do w the packaging. “Oh just toss it out the window,” was the reply. So I did. Can’t remember the toy but remember the cardboard fling out the window.
And cigarettes.
To people who smoked, the whole world was an ash tray.

Also as kids, we were closer the litter. Literally. Walking home from school we could see it all at our feet. So the subject of litter was relevant.

I’ve had some really good experiences seeing meteors. To me they’re like “Lady Luck”. If I went out expecting a meteor, nada. Standing around w friends? Suddenly, “Wowdidyouseethat?”

Saw one in the 80s that lit the sky blue. Pine trees were green. That was reported on the Radio news. Someone called in thinking the Soviets nuked the Southwest.

Buddies and I saw one that left a smoking trail in the sky. HS Astronomy club. A lot of “Aw Man! No Way!” Then there was a fight over binoculars.

Craziest experience was w my wacky cousin canoeing a river in Northern Minnesota at night. We were supposed to leave at noon but he wasn’t good at planning. So in the dark AuGust night we paddled. So dark the stars shown w colors. Looking down I could see shooting stars in the reflection on the water.

So serene. So special.

Until we canoed right into a drifting muskrat. Then we all freaked out.

Talk on the street is that there was a level of management that just kept Elon happy and distracted. He was the “Money Guy.” They even made a “Matrix” like wall display to show “science” on his floor keep him impressed.

SoCal here. The mountains will look awesome next week when all this clears. Brace yourself for photos of downtown LA a front wide panoramas of snowy mountains.

In the meantime, here’s the live feed from an eagle’s nest (yes real bald Eagle) in Big Bear. https://www.youtube.com/live/B4-L2nfGcuE?feature=share

I’m a big exoplanet fan so my thoughts go there. Not bio or techn signals though. An astronomer on YT explained why JWST is actually not that strong in that part. Plus I like to pull back my hopes.

But parsing out more information on any exoplanet is exciting. I grew up in the “Pluto is planet and nothing exists beyond the except next star” era.

Today. Sizes and atmosphere information. Planetary systems. Wow. I never imagined we’d be talking about this

Only the catalogs.

53 seconds to close the valve. That’s what I must be remembering. From an other incident.

https://sma.nasa.gov/docs/default-source/safety-messages/safetymessage-2010-09-09-soyuz11depressurization-vits.pdf?sfvrsn=1fae1ef8_6

IIRC There was a valve they could have closed to stop the depressurization. Catch was, it needed to be turned a large number of times to close. Perhaps they attempted it. Took long time to shut. More time than they had.

Edit: Crap. I was wrong and it was worse than I thought.

"Based on examination of the hatch and valves, officials determined that air leaked from one of the two ventilation/equalization valves, located behind the control panel.•Although the crew would have been immediately aware of the leak, they had to determine its source, so they switched off radio transmitters to isolate the leak’s noise. Crew commander Dobrovolskiy’s body was found apparently attempting to cover the control panel with a checklist.•The crew could not close the valve because it lacked a manual closure mechanism and was inaccessible.•Within 40 seconds of depressurization during descent, the crew suffocated."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Amendment

“The Wolf Amendment is a law passed by the United States Congress in 2011 that prohibits the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from using government funds to engage in direct, bilateral cooperation with the Chinese government and China-affiliated organizations from its activities without explicit authorization from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Congress.[1][2][3][4][5] It has been inserted annually into appropriations bills since then.“

Retail worker at DIY home improvement store in the early 80s. Super Bowl was a time when the store cleared out. Just us floor guys walking around in a near empty store floor. Same w Christmas Eve hours before closing. Except for grumpy old guys who come in asking, “You got any pots and pans?” That was their effort of Christmas shopping for their wives.

“Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.
He looked about at the dark forest in which they were bivouacked. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West