@SandyofCthulhu Yeah, we had smoking “courts” in the 80s where anyone could go to smoke between classes and at lunch. Teachers and students together, which is crazier than the smoking aspect.
@tm44duke@NBC10 It’s a song you’ve heard 100 times. And that fact literally has zero bearing on this situation, so why would you waste our time commenting on it?
@joy@LeighGiangreco This is the answer. Ice skating was on TV on weekend afternoons. It had massive exposure compared to now. This is also the reason why boxing declined. The big matches were on regular TV, instead of PPV.
@alphafox Yep! I had that exact one, with the LED, the IC and the solar cell. I learned soooo much! The manual was an amazing electronic reference I wish I still had today.
41 years ago today, February 16, 1985, UK/US supergroup The Power Station hit the Saturday Night Live stage. It marked the only time Robert Palmer ever performed live with the band’s original lineup, which featured members of Duran Duran and Chic.
Their cover of “Get It On (Bang a Gong)” later climbed to #9 on Billboard’s Hot 💯, one spot higher than T. Rex’s 1971 original.
It was a cold January morning in 1986. Too cold, worried engineer Bob Ebeling, whose company built the rocket boosters for the Space Shuttle Challenger. He knew the shuttle's rubber O-rings, used to seal booster joints at ignition, could become brittle in frigid weather. Tragically, he was right.
The stunned reaction of astronaut Richard O. Covey in the NASA Control Room when he saw Challenger had suffered something catastrophic. When you hear "Space Shuttle Challenger, go at throttle up," it was from his voice.