Trivia and other useless but interesting items

**3toes** · 15th December 2022, 09:23 PM

Planners often talk about the ‘good old days’ before cars when people lived where they worked and how the world would be a better place if we returned to those days.

They tend to overlook/ignore that today most working families have two incomes and they are not necessarily generated in the same place. The more specialised the job market becomes the bigger this is as an issue as skills are not transferable

Then there are the health issues. There were/are plenty of industries where you would not want/be allowed to live near them. Even today we have seen in the recent health problems that the current urban design standards for high density housing are not fit for purpose

Where is the housing to go? Previously people voted with their feet and moved away. If it was actually the worker utopian paradise the planners remember why did the people leave?

**Tins** · 15th December 2022, 09:31 PM

Just a simple addition to that. Some jobs simply cannot be undertaken at home. One glaring example of this is one I used to do. V8Ian has a sig that says "If you don't like trucks stop buying stuff". I drove trucks. They are of course mobile, but I'm not sure I'd enhance my already dubious reputation with my neighbours if I took to parking a B-Double in my street. Never mind the difficulties involved in turning the thing round.

**3toes** · 16th December 2022, 08:48 AM

Depends on how you read it. If you are to live where you work as the experts think is best for you the sleeper cab would be an interesting size and fit out.

**p38arover** · 16th December 2022, 09:03 AM

Originally Posted by jonesfam

I remember watching the "Original" Moon landing as a kid at school.
On a very small black & white TV with bad reception in a very crowded, hot room.
Still thought it was just amazing, even though we could barely see anything.
Jonesfam

I think I've posted this pic before. An envelope signed by all of us on duty on the day of the launch of Apollo 11. We provided comms back to the USA from Honeysuckle and Parkes. My signature has hardly changed.

(The envelope popped up on eBay some years ago. Date differs owing to Oz being ahead of the USA.)

apollo11.jpg

Moree_earth_station_sm.jpg

**Tins** · 16th December 2022, 09:08 AM

Originally Posted by p38arover

I think I've posted this pic before. An envelope signed by all of us on duty on the day of the launch of Apollo 11. We provided comms back to the USA from Honeysuckle and Parkes. My signature has hardly changed.

(The envelope popped up on eBay some years ago. Date differs owing to Oz being ahead of the USA.)

apollo11.jpg

Attachment 182539

What's Sam Neill like to work with?

Levity aside, that's got to be a nice memory, Ron.

**p38arover** · 16th December 2022, 09:15 AM

I was 21, my second year as a radio technician based at Moree Satellite Earth Station.

A slim me at the door to the antenna:

A young Ron Beckett in LNR room access doorway_.jpg

**Tins** · 16th December 2022, 09:19 AM

Originally Posted by p38arover

A slim me at the door to the antenna:

You haven't changed a bit.

**p38arover** · 16th December 2022, 02:19 PM

I wish!

Actually, I had my eyes lasered about 25+ years ago so I only need glasses for computing and reading.

**4bee** · 16th December 2022, 04:13 PM

Originally Posted by p38arover

I was 21, my second year as a radio technician based at Moree Satellite Earth Station.

A slim me at the door to the antenna:

A young Ron Beckett in LNR room access doorway_.jpg

It appears as though you may have been ****ed at that angle, before you fell out.

**4bee** · 16th December 2022, 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by p38arover

I wish!

Actually, I had my eyes lasered about 25+ years ago so I only need glasses for computing and reading.

I understand they would handy for those functions.

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