raven
Jupiter
That ain't Earth, kiddies.
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Post by raven on Feb 7, 2009 15:20:56 GMT -4
I present to you the Apollo Nuttter! I think I will add some more detail and rework the hat band but otherwise I like it.
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Post by HeadLikeARock (was postbaguk) on Feb 7, 2009 20:49:34 GMT -4
Run it through a spell-checker perhaps?
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raven
Jupiter
That ain't Earth, kiddies.
Posts: 509
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Post by raven on Feb 7, 2009 23:11:50 GMT -4
Run it through a spell-checker perhaps? Doh! Never mind, here's a new and hopefully improved version.
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Post by Ginnie on Feb 7, 2009 23:19:32 GMT -4
Run it through a spell-checker perhaps? Doh! Never mind, here's a new and hopefully improved version. Well, don't leave it like that now - add some colour!
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Post by Kiwi on Feb 8, 2009 5:43:36 GMT -4
I very often come up against situations in which people's recollection is simply wrong... We rely on human memory when it's the best evidence we have. There are better (i.e., more reliable) forms of evidence; and they trump memory where available. I've heard a few older people -- New Zealanders -- say, "I watched the first moon-landing live on TV," and they mean the actual landing, not the EVA. I've often had an unfavourable reaction from pointing out that there was no live TV of the actual landing anywhere in the world, and that New Zealand didn't have coverage of live TV from overseas by satellite in July 1969, so a video tape of the EVA was flown over from Sydney to Wellington by RNZAF Canberra and shown on national TV that evening in the 7:30 pm news bulletin. All we saw on TV until the tape was broadcast were talking heads in our New Zealand studios, perhaps showing photos, diagrams, models, and film and video clips of prior events. These people have manufactured one single false memory from two or three things: 1. There were TV broadcasts that some New Zealanders saw that day, Monday 21 July 1969 (TV was fairly new here in 1969), but nothing was live from overseas. 2. They might have seen a copy of the video of the EVA that evening, or even later. 3. Possibly later still, they eventually saw a copy of the 16mm film of the landing. [Fixed typo]
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Post by Grand Lunar on Feb 8, 2009 23:40:28 GMT -4
How's this for weird memory;
There are times when I do something routine, put an object aside, and then go nuts trying to look where I put it. Also happens when doing odd jobs, like fixing up an engine.
There are times I think I did a task, but then it turns out I forgot to do it.
Then there are times I feel that I've done or seen something happen before. It gets freaky, such feelings of deja vu, but I dismiss it, attributing it to my brain acting weird again.
Wonder if AI of the future, something like HAL 9000 would be, could ever experience deja vu?
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Post by scooter on Feb 13, 2009 20:02:35 GMT -4
Been following paceflight since the beginning...watched Shepard's flight and a couple of others from the TV in the elementary school lunchroom as a kid, been hooked ever since.
I think it's the "extremes"...crossing the USA in 15 minutes...a launch pad that survives the incredible inferno of launch...the ability to delicately and accurately vector millions of pounds of thrust.
...and being able to look up at the Moon and say "I can't see it, but our guys left a bunch of stuff up there..."
It's just an amazing accomplishment everytime it's done, by whoever does it.
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Post by BertL on Feb 27, 2009 20:25:05 GMT -4
"Listen Shill, so you are into puppeting, huh?!! Well that figures."
Yay! I pointed out that if one rejects scientific evidence because scientists are paid proponents, one doesn't actually address the scientific evidence itself, and as such the evidence still stands. Of course, if someone says that it must mean he is a shill.
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