Day to Day happenings in my life

Distant Planets. Rated E. 122 words

* Which do you think is more important to explore and why: outer space (objects in the universe) or under water (life and objects in the water environment)? Which would you choose to explore if you could?

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I know it may sound strange but outer space just doesn’t grab my interest, although was amazed in 1969 when man first landed on the moon. I think that was the last time space news really grabbed my attention. It just seemed incredible to me that the moon we see each night, no matter where we all are in the world, could be reached and walked upon. We watched, holding our collective breaths, when Armstrong placed his foot down on the moon’s surface. I imagined he may simply sink, that the surface was made of stuff we couldn’t possibly know anything about.
I think the reason I was so in awe was the reaction of my father. He was born in 1910 so was almost sixty years old in ‘69. He simply could get his head around the moon landing.
These days I often have the same reaction to all the technology we have access to. What a century from my dad’s birth to today! What a leap! And yet we still haven’t explored our own planet. Under the oceans is life we haven’t even seen yet. Creatures beyond imagination living lives in complete darkness. Until we fully understand everything about our own home then the race for distant galaxies, which we’ll never see or live on, doesn’t mean that much to me.