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How many people alive today remember the first moon landing in 1969?
Or... what percentage of people alive today remember the first moon landing?
I've been searching the web for this info for over an hour. Any ideas? I've been to CIA's fact book, Census. Help!
I'm writing a story about NASA's Orion project. I want to say that __% of people today were not yet born or too young to remember the first landing on the moon.
Ideas anyone?
First you would have to narrow down the term "people." All people in the entire world? OK. Then you'd need to figure out how many people alive today were old enough to have seen it or heard about it--say, maybe the cutoff age could be five or something, so how many people alive today were born in 1964 or earlier? Then you'd need to figure out how many of those people had any access to any kind of technology--pygmies would not recall it because they never saw or heard of it. Then you'd have to figure out a way to account for all the people who meet all of those qualifications but who have an impairment, such as Alzheimer's, that might prevent them from remembering. Whew. Then you could take the total number of people left and divide it by the total of people in the world today, and...are you still with me? and then maybe you'd have a very rough approximation of the percentage of people alive today in the world who remember that event.
I sure remember it--they preempted Dark Shadows to show it on TV, and boy was I upset about it.
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