Apollo 11 50th!

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Edited Date/Time 7/25/2019 12:24pm
Tomorrow is the big launch day (50 years ago)! Here's 8 hours of day 1:

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If you’re in the mood for more space-related viewing, HBO just released a fully remastered version of the mini-series “From the Earth to the Moon” today. Covers much of the Apollo program as well as Mercury and Gemini.

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Ohhh yeah. I can't spend 8 hours right now, but I totally want to. Good stuff!
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XXVoid MainXX 7/15/2019 5:50pm
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I'm 6+ hours in now. Smile
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It's better to watch on a TV with stereo/surround sound as he does break the audio out to different locations.

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I was there for the landing. Saw them splashdown.
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Harry Backmon 7/15/2019 7:27pm
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BMSOBx2 wrote:
I was there for the landing. Saw them splashdown.
It was all smoke and mirrors. You were fooled by our totally competent government.
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Where does it rank in human achievements?
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BMSOBx2 wrote:
I was there for the landing. Saw them splashdown.
Harry Backmon wrote:
It was all smoke and mirrors. You were fooled by our totally competent government.
I should have known.

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TXDirt wrote:
Where does it rank in human achievements?
I would put it right up there with the building of the pyramids and the harnessing of the atom.
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TXDirt wrote:
Where does it rank in human achievements?
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I would put it right up there with the building of the pyramids and the harnessing of the atom.
I’d put it well above the pyramids. To think we could send humans to another rock and get them back again is pretty insane. We left earth. Walked on the moon. And then came back home.
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TXDirt wrote:
Where does it rank in human achievements?
XXVoid MainXX wrote:
I would put it right up there with the building of the pyramids and the harnessing of the atom.
TXDirt wrote:
I’d put it well above the pyramids. To think we could send humans to another rock and get them back again is pretty insane. We left...
I’d put it well above the pyramids. To think we could send humans to another rock and get them back again is pretty insane. We left earth. Walked on the moon. And then came back home.
Great point and the exact point of my thoughts are they have never been as 69 tech was not good enough to get the to land on the moon let alone get them of it again. Why have they never been back since appollo days? pyramids can’t even be replicated with today’s tech the great one would was supposedly built in 20 years that would been 1 multi ton block every 3 minutes for 20 years non stop..... that’s gotta outrank a trip to another rock as if we have been we can do it again...... not intended to start annargument or be disrespectful just my opinion Smile
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"69 tech was not good enough to get the to land on the moon let alone get them of it again"

Ah, but it was good enough, and we're going back to the moon within the next couple of years. We (the US and other countries) have been back to the moon several times since 1969 (and before 1969) with unmanned landers and satellites. We (the world) has also landed on other planets many times since 1969. Current goal is to create permanent bases on both the moon and Mars in the next 5 or 6 years. The "tech" is there. The problem is, it takes a huge pile of cash and national desire/dedication/committment to make it happen. That's what has been lacking since 1969. Now, with newer resuable tech, the cost of doing that could come down significantly to where private entities might be able to achieve this. See Elon Musk.
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TXDirt wrote:
Where does it rank in human achievements?
XXVoid MainXX wrote:
I would put it right up there with the building of the pyramids and the harnessing of the atom.
Considering the crude computers available at the time and how some of the math was done by hand in real time, the NASA team were nothing short of cerebral bad asses.

That Apollo-11 feat was like those Norsemen riding those wooden tubs across the Atlantic in their time. Total leap of faith.




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Tang was the Red Bull of the 70s. Smile
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I was gonna thank Stanley Kubrick, lol
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XXVoid MainXX wrote:
Tang was the Red Bull of the 70s. Smile
Tang actually had nutritional value, "energy" drinks are better used to clean a carburetor and are complete crap for the human body.
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I actually liked Tang
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GIwasB4 wrote:
I actually liked Tang
Mixed with poon?
sorry, I will let myself out...
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Harry Backmon 7/17/2019 6:43am
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BMSOBx2 wrote:
I was there for the landing. Saw them splashdown.
Harry Backmon wrote:
It was all smoke and mirrors. You were fooled by our totally competent government.
BMSOBx2 wrote:
I should have known.

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I know that you know I'm just joking. We went. The tech was there because they invented it for the moon landings. I honestly don't understand how rational humans can think this was all a hoax. A rough equivalent would be being on a jury in a murder trial and finding the defendant innocent after thousands of eye witness testimonials, film of the murder, the defendant admitting he committed the murder, and the bloody knife with his prints all over it right in front of you (equivalent to the rocks brought back).

It's exceedingly hard for me to understand why people always go for a conspiracy theory. I guess it's just human nature to think if something is really hard then it's impossible.
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Shawn142 7/17/2019 10:37am
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NASA is very different now than it was then. Apollo was the singular focus of all their resources. Over a dozen companies and over 500,000 people worked for 10 solid years to make that happen. Now tech has come far enough that private companies using their own designs will take the next step and land their employees on the surface in the next 10 years.
Harry Backmon 7/17/2019 3:58pm
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Hey Void, I watched that Moon hoax series. It was dumb to be honest. They had an astronaut and a former FBI agent on the non hoax side, and some dude that was involved in aeronautics and skepticism on the other. The skeptic, to me, was so phony - just an actor to be the devil's advocate. In the end, he agreed we went to the moon. It was pretty sappy, but I enjoy footage of the landing, rockets, etc., so in that sense it was worth it.

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