Good stuff achieved by baby-boomer's.

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More as a bit of light-hearted banter and a counter to those boomer bashing threads.

Developed space travel.
Developed the entertainment industry'

Other 'boomer's' may wish to add to the list.

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rohrl said:

The baby boomers didn't develop space travel, that was their parents. Werner Von Braun was born in 1912.

Wondered how long it would take a PH'er to spot that.;)

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Saddle bum said:

The schooling system for the post-war baby-boomers was pure Darwinism, ie. Survival of the fittest. If you did not make it you had a hard time trying to make it up. It was the result of this ruthless pursuit of excellence that produced the great techno achievements of the last 50 odd years. I am content ot have been part of it all and feel quite sorry for the bottle fed generation of today.

Well said and accurate too.

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V88Dicky said:

deckster said:

V88Dicky said:

rohrl said:

The baby boomers didn't develop space travel, that was their parents. Werner Von Braun was born in 1912.

He was indeed, but an awful lot of the thousands of engineers who worked on Apollo were born post WWII

Really? The baby boom is defined to have started in 1946; the last Apollo mission was in 1972. Not many 26 year-old qualified, experienced space-flight engineers around, even then.

[b] Harrison "Jack" Schmidt, Apollo astronaut and former U.S. senator, summarized Apollo broadly by listing its keys to success.
The most critical component of Apollo's success, he said, was "the reservoir of young engineers and skilled workers" that was available.
"The average age of the vast majority of the employees in NASA was between 20 and 30 years old," he said. "And you've got to remember that. It is just absolutely critical to have the stamina, imagination, motivation that comes with young people. And if your agency has an average age as NASA does today of about 50 years, you probably are starting out with a problem and you need to figure out how to fix that."[/b]

I stand by what I said.

Braun helped the Nazi by developing the rocket missiles.
Space travel was developing long past the Appolo missions, shuttle any one.
I can only conclude that most posters in PH, responding on this thread,(with a few exceptions)are young people born just prior to the Thatcher era. Educated, motivated and embittered.