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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Holden McGroin on October 27, 2007, 03:22:59 AM
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(http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/194493main_sts120_eva1_small.jpg)
(http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/assembly/lores/s115e06723.jpg)
Where are the stars in the background?
Not only was Apollo a colossal hoax, but apparently ISS and the Shuttle too.
:cry
friggin bush
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How did they get the NASA logo up there?
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I'd post some Apollo pics with stars in the moon sky if my HDDs hadn't crashed last weekend.. Some other space nerd probably has them too.
They should be somewhere in the recently digitized haystack of Apollo archives..
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I knew a guy that used to work with a guy that heard a guy say he was related to a guy that had an ex-brother inlaw that worked on the moon landing set in Kansas.
Until I can find him, here's a pic of Gordo Cooper...
(http://www.daviddarling.info/images/Cooper.jpg)
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The Apollo stage was kid stuff to the stage and the Peter Pan flying wire rig they must have for the ISS / Shuttle set.
On the moon the didn't have to simulate zero g. Just slow mo the video and it looks like 1/6 g.
The flying wire rig must be tremendous.
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RPM has a man-crush ;) :p
But, as his quote says, the last 5 minutes of "The Right Stuff" is pretty sweet.
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At least I'm not building a life size replica.;)
(altho he was the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen)
It was the start of the greatest exploration man has ever achieved.
(http://fromtheearthtothemoon.flyingdreams.org/earthtomoon.gif)
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I've been reading Apollo 13 over the past 2 weeks. I've found that many books that were adapted to movies were either just as good or better in text. If you're into reading, the book is quite good, covering Apollo 8 in some detail, etc.
And frankly, if you're into space exploration as you seem to be, you'll like it.
As for R2...LOL...its just a fun project. Almost as big a money pit as the kitplane was.
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I've been hooked on space exploration since I was a kid. I grew up during Mercury/Gemini/Apollo. It's a shame we have wasted so much time and money on the NASA we have today. We should have a base on the Moon by now.
Proud to say I have donated books by Allan Sheppard and Jim Lovell to my local school library.
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I've got a picture of someone sitting in the lunar module looking dirty, beat up and dead tired.. Somewhat smiling. A few different shots with unsteady hands from the inside making it look real casual, some shots of a pile of EVA suit parts piled up in a corner..
The sun looking like it's shining hard as hell on the outside.
Here we go, each from the command module in orbit:
(http://img140.imageshack.us/my.php?image=moonas159813325solarcorax9.jpg)
Castor, Pollux & Venus from lunar orbit Apollo 15.
(http://img206.imageshack.us/my.php?image=moonas1611419885sunrisedi3.jpg)
Pleiades & Aries from lunar orbit Apollo 16.
(http://img205.imageshack.us/my.php?image=moonas1715423647solarcoul1.jpg)
Jupiter & Sagittarius from lunar orbit Apollo 17.
And oh yeah! Check this out (http://uplink.space.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=archive&Number=132567&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=0&fpart=all&vc=1):D
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2101/1773087064_5a3287ec79_o.jpg)
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How did the people in the Baywatch series manage to run so slow in the beginning scene?:huh
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Originally posted by LePaul
RPM has a man-crush
given he's a far leftist it comes as no surprised. higher than average estrogen levels are requisite if you are a registered democrat.
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I saw a pretty good disc ch show that pretty much debunked every myth from the "faked the moon landing club".
I think the lack of stars can be explained by the photography types. Something about central focus or something.
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Dunno about the moon landings and such but im telling you all the world is flat you can fall off the ends!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally posted by rpm
I've been hooked on space exploration since I was a kid. I grew up during Mercury/Gemini/Apollo. It's a shame we have wasted so much time and money on the NASA we have today. We should have a base on the Moon by now.
Proud to say I have donated books by Allan Sheppard and Jim Lovell to my local school library.
I remember having pictures on my bedroom wall when I was 11, Ed White and his space walk, a Saturn V lifting off, Armstrong on the moon...
I recall my grandfather having an old grain or feed container, when I was 12 or 13 shaped almost excatly like an Apollo capsule. My brother and I would pretend it was a space capsule and fly to different planets, it was a great summer...
Moon bases? hell i think if NASA had kept up the pace we should have been to Mars by now, In person, not little rc cars. I think they wasted way too much on all the shuttle stuff
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Originally posted by rpm
Until I can find him, here's a pic of Gordo Cooper...
(http://www.daviddarling.info/images/Cooper.jpg)
You mean Flash Gordon?
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We could definitely be on Mars by now. And be well on the way to medium-big permanent infrastructure on the Moon.
Space is at the initial tooling expenses period... Oil fields in the ME are nothing compared to what's up for grabs out there....
People on earth are sitting on their tulips when there's so much out there to profit from, financialy, technologicaly, environmentaly...
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Originally posted by moot
We could definitely be on Mars by now. And be well on the way to medium-big permanent infrastructure on the Moon.
Space is at the initial tooling expenses period... Oil fields in the ME are nothing compared to what's up for grabs out there....
People on earth are sitting on their tulips when there's so much out there to profit from, financialy, technologicaly, environmentaly...
Yup. Almost all of the high tech gadgets we have today were born out of the space race as well.
But hey, people are too shortsighted to care about space exploration. Pisses me off.
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You Earthlings are a hoot! :rofl
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We've got a lot to figure out before we get there.
And I think commercial spaceflight will help pave the way. I figure Space Flight, compared to aviation, has yet to really see its "Golden Era" yet. There's not enough competition in there yet but its coming. Everyone agrees we have the know how to do it, its just the enormous resources it takes.
There's a reason why only governents can afford this stuff.
But, commercial companies own and operate satellites. And as Rutan showed, flying up and down can be done. Now they are trying to do it, profitably and safely...maybe even making is routine.
So, folks, this is good stuff.
We also need to sort out the physiology. Our bodies come apart after long time zero g. 6 months to get to Mars at best course/trajectory. How can we simulate gravity to help our bodies adapt? The fine folks at the ISS are leading the charge on that.
And propulsion continues to evolve, with ion engines with more power having recently been launched (Dawn has two).
We live in interesting times. I view the 70s and 80s and great losses of space technoogy and exploration. But hopefully with the Shuttle Program and Orion's development...and the SpaceX stuff, things will march along swifter
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Originally posted by LePaul
We also need to sort out the physiology. Our bodies come apart after long time zero g. 6 months to get to Mars at best course/trajectory. How can we simulate gravity to help our bodies adapt?
Thats easy. Centrifugal force. Arthur C Clarke solved that problem 50 years ago.
The biggest problem is radiation in deep space. Apollo was only out of the Earth's magnetosphere (which sheilds us from a bunch of bad solar radiation) for a few days. Should a solar flare have hit the moon when Apollo was there, the crew would have been toast. The ISS / Shuttle in LOE are within the Earth's magnetic protection.*
Heavy sheilding against radiation and flight / launch are mutually exclusive.
* Or that's what they want you to believe
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Oh I just read about that, the Apollo astronauts wore tags to detect how much radiation they got hit with:
The members of the Apollo 8 crew were the first humans to pass through the Van Allen radiation belts, which extend up to 15,000 mi (25,000 km) from Earth. Although it was predicted that the passage through the belts would cause a radiation dosage of no more than a chest X-ray or 1 milligray (during the course of a year, the average human receives a dose of 2 to 3 mGy), there was still interest in the radiation dosages on the crew. So each crewmember wore a Personal Radiation Dosimeter that could be read back to the ground as well as three passive film dosimeters that show the cumulative radiation experienced by the crew. By the end of the mission, the average radiation dose of the crew was 1.6 mGy.
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Enjoy space flight while it lasts, because sooner or later it all will be androids. Silicon succeeds Carbon, hopefully kindly and gratefully.
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Someone said they thought the F-35 would be the last humanly-piloted fighter the military flies.