Profpointy
Legendary Member
I have the same memory. As a little boy I loved all space stuff; apollo rockets and amazing photos from the big mount palomar telescopes. Loved that opening music which I too associate much more with Apollo than Kubrick. Somehow thougth it was The Planets rather than Strauss so was duly bought the record as a 6 year old. Planets is good too, and so began a lifetime of classical music listening. Never actually managed to hear Zarathustra live - though there was a concert where it was billed and ignorant plebs in the audience applauded after the first bit, which the comductor graciously acknowledged, then there was a long pause which went on longer and longer. Apparently my face was remenicant of Andre Previn's expression on the Morcambe & Wise episode as I realised they weren't actually going to play the rest of it.
. BTW, the moon is moving away from us at about the same rate as your fingernails grow. I'm not sure about the rest of the solar system, but we do know that planets weren't always in the same orbits they are now. One thing for sure, like my career development, it's all happening at a very slow speed!.
