A Brief Pause From The Ordinary..., Demographics time--please just humor me Options

[nasaman58]

I just joined this community last night, and I'm just curious about some of the people here. I'm only 19 years old, but I'm more interested in all things space than anyone I've ever met. Just out of curiosity, what are people's ages in this forum?

[ElkGroveDan]

...and I hope most of us who have children are continuing this tradition. One thing I like to do at the end of a busy day on a clear evening is to lie outside on a lounge chair and watch the skies for shooting stars and satellites. My oldest daughter (now 14) began joining me when she was about five and I took the opportunity to tell her about the cosmos and show her how to identify various stellar objects. She was on a week-long school trip to the mountains a few months ago and as they sat around the campfire she was showing them satellites and giving her own lesson on shooting stars and meteorites. One of the teachers refused to believe she knew all that and accused her of making up the bit about the tiny manmade objects creeping overhead. sighhhhh

But keep it up everyone, we owe it to our future generations to teach as we were taught. There aren't enough "Stu" types to go around so we need to pitch in and begin with our own.

[climber]

...and I hope most of us who have children are continuing this tradition. One thing I like to do at the end of a busy day on a clear evening is to lie outside on a lounge chair and watch the skies for shooting stars and satellites. My oldest daughter (now 14) began joining me

Hi Dan! The same here! My youngest son will be 14 in another week and he loves sleeping outside looking for satelittes and shooting star.
Last night we had a bright pass of the ISS (-2.5 mag) and we were outside watching. Less than 15 minutes later, we watched the ingress inside Kibo and it was a lot of fun seen the very wild time they had. My son was very impressed by Reismann trick of been let without motion and far from Kibo's walls and then trying to get a hand on something : it took him about 1 minute. I do not believe my son will do a space job but nevertheless he told me : I want to do that!

BTW : I'm as old as the Other Doug