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[SeaMaiden]

 Growing up  we had no phones... no internet... especially no phones IN SCHOOL... 

And  yet, we got a man to walk on the moon...... without phones or internet... and barely any computers to speak of. Just using our brains.

Why do kids need phones in school. I think it should not be allowed.  Just do the school work NO PHONES. 

[LuvmyLab]

I totally agree!  Technology can be good however it can also be our downfall.  I do not understand people that live on their phones.  I never use a cell phone. I keep a flip phone for emergencies only but never use it.  Hubs has an iphone but doesn't live on it.

[4kitties]

My daughters always had a cell phone in their bag when they were in school. If they abused this privilege they would face consequences.   Sadly, there are incidents of violence in schools now, shootings and drugs and other things that never occurred, even in our wildest dreams, back when I was in school.

I wanted  them to be able to summon help and let me know they were okay if something horrible should happen.

[Marp]

Excerpt from:   space.com/26630-apollo-11-vintage-tech-innovations.html

Computers

While the Apollo missions are best remembered for the computers the astronauts operated, there were several other important computers used for the mission. One example is the Saturn V computer that was used to guide the rocket into Earth orbit, automatically. NASA also had large computers on the ground that it could use for things like navigation corrections.

On lunar missions, however, the bulk of the attention was focused on the command module computer and the lunar module computers. The CM was in charge of navigating the crew between the Earth and the moon, while the LM did landings, ascents and rendezvous, according to NASA.

The CM and the LM each had a computer (with different software, but the same design) called the Primary Guidance, Navigation, and Control System (PGNCS, pronounced "pings"). The LM also had a computer which was a part of the Abort Guidance System, to give a backup if the PGNCS failed during the landing.

"Ground systems backed up the CM computer and its associated guidance system so that if the CM system failed, the spacecraft could be guided manually based on data transmitted from the ground," NASA stated. "If contact with the ground were lost, the CM system had autonomous return capability."

[SeaMaiden]

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@LuvmyLab wrote:

I totally agree!  Technology can be good however it can also be our downfall.  I do not understand people that live on their phones.  I never use a cell phone. I keep a flip phone for emergencies only but never use it.  Hubs has an iphone but doesn't live on it.

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@LuvmyLab   I have a flip phone too.... I never use it and only put it in my purse if I go shopping and the car breaks down or something. My Hubby has a smart phone and he LIVES on it.. tells me I need one... I tell him WHY?

[SeaMaiden]

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@4kitties wrote:

My daughters always had a cell phone in their bag when they were in school. If they abused this privilege they would face consequences.   Sadly, there are incidents of violence in schools now, shootings and drugs and other things that never occurred, even in our wildest dreams, back when I was in school.

I wanted  them to be able to summon help and let me know they were okay if something horrible should happen.

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@4kitties     I know that phones are now so much a part of the world now that it would be impossible to not let kids have them in school. And they do have their place.. but, I think they also become a distraction from learning and communicating during the school years. I do not know if there is a happy medium.... it is like the pandora's box has been opened and  it is just too late now. 

[SeaMaiden]

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@Marp wrote:

Excerpt from:   space.com/26630-apollo-11-vintage-tech-innovations.html

Computers

While the Apollo missions are best remembered for the computers the astronauts operated, there were several other important computers used for the mission. One example is the Saturn V computer that was used to guide the rocket into Earth orbit, automatically. NASA also had large computers on the ground that it could use for things like navigation corrections.

On lunar missions, however, the bulk of the attention was focused on the command module computer and the lunar module computers. The CM was in charge of navigating the crew between the Earth and the moon, while the LM did landings, ascents and rendezvous, according to NASA.

The CM and the LM each had a computer (with different software, but the same design) called the Primary Guidance, Navigation, and Control System (PGNCS, pronounced "pings"). The LM also had a computer which was a part of the Abort Guidance System, to give a backup if the PGNCS failed during the landing.

"Ground systems backed up the CM computer and its associated guidance system so that if the CM system failed, the spacecraft could be guided manually based on data transmitted from the ground," NASA stated. "If contact with the ground were lost, the CM system had autonomous return capability."

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@Marp  I believe most of the earlier calculations were done by hand ...and then IBM came out with their mammoth sized computers. 

[SilleeMee]

I believe there will be a day, in the distant future, where education will be a matter of downloading info into our brains...no schooling needed. 

[on the bay]

I remember after 9/11, and then in 2012 Sandy Hook, parents esp wanted school children to have cell phones and in most they were allowed.

My youngest finally got one when in highschool so she could call me when time to pick her up from sports.

I was the last to get one-a flip phone after a road rage driver.

Then just a few years ago I finally got an iphone. It was a traumatic experience-going to the cell phone store several times almost in tears asking them how to work it.

But it is a whole new world and many good things come of all this technology but I do not like it when people cannot put them down and rely on them for entertainment distraction etc when with others or outside enjoying nature.

And people holding up cell phones at concerts-how can they really enjoy the concert or whatever!

It can definitely become an addiction-playing games, checking their facebook, instagram, tick toc etc every minute. That is sad.

And I know many like zoom, google duo etc but I am only willing to go so far. I don't really enjoy those-it is overwhelming to the senses. Factime is not so bad because you are usually seeing only a few and it enables grandparents and others to see the little ones when they might not be able to in person.

I guess everything can be misused.

But I don't discount it all.

And once we have something we would miss it maybe if we didn't have it. When we don't have it, like when we were young, I know we were perfectly happy without all this and probably wouldn't have wanted it if someone asked!

I used to not want a microwave or dishwasher, but now that I have them, I would miss them if I didn't.

And I would definitely miss my iphone esp for communicating with family by texts, facetime, email🥰 

[QVCkitty1]

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@SilleeMee wrote:

I believe there will be a day, in the distant future, where education will be a matter of downloading info into our brains...no schooling needed. 

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Darn it, I could have used that in math class !