Skylab Part Deux - The Sky is Falling!

   I vividly recall being scared to go to sleep in the late 70s as I was convinced that Skylab was going to fall on to our house and kill my entire family!

   Those memories of terror came rushing back to me when I first heard this week about the disabled U.S. spy satellite that is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere in the next month.

   Granted, technology was MUCH different back then and I was just a kid so I didn't realize that there was no way Skylab or any of its fragments were going to land in California, so I certainly do not associate any fear with the current situation but it is funny when I think back to that how real my fear was.

   And though my kids are still to young to even be aware of this, I am sure there are plenty of 5 and 6 year olds that are now feeling the same way I did back in 1979!