Tonight I caught a few minutes of "Destination: Moon". This is a movie from 1950 about men trying to fly to the moon. I wish I had less things to do tomorrow cause I would have liked to have stayed up and watched the rest of it. It's fascinating to see what people see being accomplished in the not too distant future and contrasting it with what actually happened. I only saw a bit of the movie so it's hard to know how accurate this particular imagining was. There was a public fear of an atomic explosion as a result of the launch (I guess there were some radioactive elements to the rocket, though I didn't see that part but the scientists knew that it was a groundless fear with no basis in fact) that was on the silly side. There other stuff seemed quasi-plausible but I saw little of the actual 'science' during the 10-15 minutes of the movie I watched. Ah well.

Banned Word of the Day: bored