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Post by Kiwi on Aug 6, 2008 14:28:52 GMT -4
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Post by smlbstcbr on Aug 15, 2008 22:49:24 GMT -4
"The Apollo 11 astronauts have coined a new word in space terminology: "Honeybilla."" Never heard this one before. As far as Manned Flight and Apollo were concerned there was only one "station" -- "Honeysuckle" HSK. The DSN's Tidbinbilla facility -- DSS42 at that time --was a wing to HSK, known as HSKX. It had an 85ft HA/DEC antenna, and a dual Apollo-dedicated USB system (two transmitters and four receivers). The astronauts had absolutely no need to be aware of Tidbinbilla, and certainly no need to ever refer to it. So the story as written makes no sense at all. For those interested, the HSK 85ft XY antenna was dismantled when the station closed in 1983, and re-assembled at Tidbinbilla. It has been in daily use ever since, tracking near earth spacecraft. I understand JPL plan to de-commission it next year. I'm hoping that some way is found to keep it in some manner, for posterity. My last job was Director at Tidbinbilla. There are quite recent pics on Col Mackellars www.honeysucklecreek.net/other_stations/tidbinbilla/index.htmlincluding a pic of DSS46 (as it is today) at www.honeysucklecreek.net/images/other_stations/tidbinbilla_images/DSS_46_BillWood.jpgTidbinbilla is also impressive on Google Earth -- west of Canberra Mike Dinn Woa! I wish I had a time machine to get back to the 60s. It must have been an unforgettable experience. May you, please, tell us some anecdotes?
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Post by graham2001 on Aug 21, 2008 20:31:29 GMT -4
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Post by Ian Pearse on Aug 22, 2008 10:36:16 GMT -4
Just reminds me of a fantastic episode of The Outer Limits, where Robert Foxworth's President of the USA had to deal with a communication from an alien spaceship that had landed in the ocean. Not being able to understand what was being said, he finally ordered a missile strike to take it out, just after which his techs burst in to say that, once they had filtered out the effect of the signal coming from underwater, they were speaking English all along, had crashed on the planet and were asking for assistance. Probably intensely scientifically unsound, but brilliant. We now return you to your normal thread[/obligatory Star Trek mention] Sounds rather like the plot of Star Trek V The Voyage Home [/end obligatory Star trek mention]
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Post by PhantomWolf on Aug 22, 2008 20:17:57 GMT -4
I think you mean IV, there was no Star Trek V
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Post by Ginnie on Aug 22, 2008 20:36:59 GMT -4
I think you mean IV, there was no Star Trek V huh? You just mean you won't allow yourself to remember ST V. aah, the sixties. I went from being two to age twelve. My childhood. Batman. The Monkees. Of course the Beatles. Star Trek. And the Space Program. I especially remember Apollo 8. Christmas of 1968, and I got a plastic model rocket. Quite simple, but to me it represented the future - plus a neat toy I could throw up in the air. I didn't see live the Moon Landings because I was at altar boy camp and we only had radio there. Bummer.
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Post by laurel on Aug 22, 2008 21:49:47 GMT -4
But The Voyage Home was Star Trek IV, not V, wasn't it? Wasn't V the one with the Vulcan who claimed to be God or something?
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Post by dmundt on Aug 22, 2008 22:40:01 GMT -4
I think there are some of us who believe there is just a big empty hole between IV and VI. The Star Trek movies are better as a set if you think about it that way.
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Post by Jason on Aug 23, 2008 13:21:12 GMT -4
I: The Motion Picture II: The Wrath of Khan III: The Search for Spock IV: The Voyage Home V: The Final Frontier VI: The Undiscovered Country And then they dropped the number after that.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Aug 23, 2008 21:15:56 GMT -4
I have all of the Star Trek movies at home, there is no V in the. Anyone that claims that there was a V is a disinformationist.
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Post by Jason on Aug 23, 2008 21:31:08 GMT -4
Perhaps we're from alternate time lines.
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Post by Ian Pearse on Aug 24, 2008 9:52:39 GMT -4
Yup, sorry, my mistake, Star Trek IV it was.
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Post by Al Johnston on Aug 24, 2008 13:34:55 GMT -4
I believe that there was a steaming pile of dingo's kidneys circulated under the label Star Trek V: the Final Frontier, but PW is essentially correct ;D
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Post by Ginnie on Aug 24, 2008 14:51:19 GMT -4
Kirk: What does God need with a starship? McCoy: Jim, what are you doing? Kirk: I'm asking a question. "God": Who is this creature? Kirk: Who am I? Don't you know? Aren't you God? Sybok: He has his doubts. "God": You doubt me? Kirk: I seek proof. McCoy: Jim! You don't ask the Almighty for his ID! "God": Then here is the proof you seek.
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Post by Jason on Aug 24, 2008 14:58:47 GMT -4
The best moment in V is when Spock tries to understand "Row, row, row your boat". In the middle of the night, after the fire has died down and they're all in sleeping bags, he says "Jim? Life is not a dream."
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