I've been enjoying listening to "Apollo 11 in Real Time": the actual audio from all the NASA Mission Control stations, sequenced as it happened -- 11,000 hours of it.
https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/
I was watching when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the Moon. I remember calling my mom to come watch, because I knew something amazing was happening. But she preferred to sit in her sewing room, possibly because she was about 8.5 months pregnant at the time and wasn't feeling all that nimble.
It's a very odd feeling to realize it's been 50 years since I was that kid. But I still get excited by new discoveries.
May the next 50 years see us recover the Apollo spirit of exploration.
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Wed Jul 17, 2019 12:29 am
#332
50 years on from then sees us move from room sized computers, to wristwatches with more power, from a megabyte the size of a car, to a terabyte that fits in your pocket watch pocket.
The first one was powered from the wish to get laid...
The second from the wish to watch people getting laid...
Re: Rocket Lunches
50 years from first powered flight, to landing on the moon.Flatfingers wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2019 11:51 pmMay the next 50 years see us recover the Apollo spirit of exploration.
50 years on from then sees us move from room sized computers, to wristwatches with more power, from a megabyte the size of a car, to a terabyte that fits in your pocket watch pocket.
The first one was powered from the wish to get laid...
The second from the wish to watch people getting laid...
<Cuisinart8> apparently without the demon driving him around Silver has the intelligence of a botched lobotomy patient ~ Mar 04 2020
console.log(`What's all ${this} ${Date.now()}`);
console.log(`What's all ${this} ${Date.now()}`);
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Wed Jul 17, 2019 5:13 am
#333
Re: Rocket Lunches
I watched the landing from a bar in Spain. That first message - "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." - was awesome!
If you'd told me then that fifty years on we still wouldn't have a manned base on Luna, I'd have laughed. Surely not?
If you'd told me then that fifty years on we still wouldn't have a manned base on Luna, I'd have laughed. Surely not?
Oolite Naval Attaché
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Sun Jul 21, 2019 3:24 am
#334
Re: Rocket Lunches
Another Soyuz launch, with a rather low image quality (as usual ), and being a night launch didn't help. There are some cool shots of interstage fairings separating, though.
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Survivor of the Josh Parnell Blackout of 2015.
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Thu Aug 22, 2019 8:44 am
#335
Re: Rocket Lunches
Qualification launch of Soyuz MS-type spacecraft on a Soyuz-2 launcher. Nothing unusual, except a humanoid-ish robot instead of the human crew.
Survivor of the Josh Parnell Blackout of 2015.
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Fri Sep 06, 2019 11:33 am
#336
Re: Rocket Lunches
Chandrayaan-2 landing on the moon in about two hours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqQe7Ws ... e=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqQe7Ws ... e=youtu.be
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Fri Sep 06, 2019 11:37 am
#337
Re: Rocket Lunches
Ah, thanks! Best of luck to India on nailing the landing.
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Fri Sep 06, 2019 5:47 pm
#338
Re: Rocket Lunches
Bangalore, we have a problem!
Oolite Naval Attaché
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Sat Sep 07, 2019 10:58 am
#339
Re: Rocket Lunches
So close! Must be a crushing blow. And, Pakistani trolls need to STFU and get their own assets into space.
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Sat Sep 07, 2019 12:57 pm
#340
Re: Rocket Lunches
India and Pakistan hate each other, so the trolling is no surprise. Imagine a world without the damn twattersphere!
It is kinda worrying that both nations possess nuclear weapons. Kashmir would be the flashpoint - again.
It is kinda worrying that both nations possess nuclear weapons. Kashmir would be the flashpoint - again.
Oolite Naval Attaché
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Sat Sep 07, 2019 1:04 pm
#341
Re: Rocket Lunches
They got pretty close to landing, at least. Only a couple kilometers up before they started having problems. That's really not that bad - especially as it stayed as close to the intended course as it did the rest of the way.
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Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:19 am
#342
Re: Rocket Lunches
Article here.Faced with spiralling costs for its Space Launch System (SLS) and pressure to put American boots on the Moon by 2024, NASA is to return the Saturn V to flight.
Oolite Naval Attaché
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Wed Apr 01, 2020 10:17 pm
#343
Space is no fucking Joke.
Re: Rocket Lunches
This is an April Fools joke, please do not spread this shit.
Space is no fucking Joke.
<Cuisinart8> apparently without the demon driving him around Silver has the intelligence of a botched lobotomy patient ~ Mar 04 2020
console.log(`What's all ${this} ${Date.now()}`);
console.log(`What's all ${this} ${Date.now()}`);