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Post by PhantomWolf on Oct 5, 2010 8:14:13 GMT -4
I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
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Al Johnston
"Cheer up!" they said, "It could be worse!" So I did, and it was.
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Post by Al Johnston on Oct 5, 2010 9:55:59 GMT -4
Fetchez la vache!
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Post by drewid on Oct 5, 2010 13:25:09 GMT -4
quoi?
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Post by Ginnie on Oct 5, 2010 17:09:43 GMT -4
[TROUBLEMAKER] I still don't like the two-column layout [/TROUBLEMAKER] Don't fret - I didn't like it either, but the content made up for it.
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Post by banjomd on Oct 6, 2010 11:16:59 GMT -4
Got it yesterday ;D Read until my eyelids blocked the view! So far, so good. Thanks Dwight. Good show
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Post by Obviousman on Oct 7, 2010 6:24:31 GMT -4
A small correction for the next printing. Page 181, first column, third paragraph. It describes the problems during landing for Apollo 14, and says that the MIT people were developing a workaround for the problem with the landing radar.
It's mixing up two problems.
The first occurred before the powered descent commenced, and it was a problem with the abort switch. It was closing without the button being pushed. Some tests were conducted and they believed that a small piece of solder was floating about inside the assembly, 'shorting' out the switch and falsely acting as though the button had been depressed. This would be a hazard during the descent to the lunar surface, possibly (likely) accidentally initiating the abort sequence.
The MIT computer programmers came up with a way to prevent an uncommanded abort whilst still giving the crew the capability to initiate one, if required.
The second problem was during the actual descent itself, and was - as the book says - a problem with the landing radar. That problem (it was actually set to low altitude mode rather than high) was fixed by pulling and resetting the landing radar circuit breaker. This reset the radar back to 'high scale' mode and the descent was able to continue.
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Post by dwight on Oct 7, 2010 6:51:12 GMT -4
Dang! You are right. That's two errors to have crept past the ever vigilant proof-reading guard. The other one is where I say the vidicon tube in the block 1 camera was a SIT tube. I used a spec sheet on the vidicon from later years for that - the SIT was not yet invented at the time of Apollo 1 thru 8.
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Post by trebor on Dec 25, 2010 10:13:06 GMT -4
Just received a copy of a mysterious book entitled "Live TV From the Moon" by some nutter called 'Dwight'. Looks damn good! And merry crimblemass to all you propagannis!
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Post by dwight on Dec 25, 2010 12:54:39 GMT -4
A merry christmas/holiday season to you all! Thanks for your support with my book project thingy. I hope to bring you more space tv history in the new year!
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Post by Kiwi on Dec 26, 2010 4:15:17 GMT -4
And a happy holiday season to you Dwight and everyone else.
I'd just like you northern hemisphere folk know that we have had an early start to summer down here with February temperatures in December.
Saw some sensible poms (that's UK people to those who don't know) here in New Zealand on the TV news tonight, basking in the sun, dressed in summer clothes, suntanned, and eating monstrous ice creams. And they didn't have knotted handkerchiefs on their heads, bless them!
Anyway, Dwight, are you filthy rich now? Able to hire good, professional proof-readers for the second edition instead of those rookies you used? I imagine someone has mentioned "plague" (deadly disease) in the heading on page 221 and "mantel" (the facing around a fireplace) on page 226 near the bottom of column 1.
(For those who don't get it, I was one of the rookies, but only got as far as chapter 2 before the lurgy took over.)
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Post by Obviousman on Dec 26, 2010 6:03:34 GMT -4
Happy to help proof future versions.
Xmas? Bah - humbug.
It's raining cats & dogs here right now. Where the dickens is summer?
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Post by dwight on Dec 26, 2010 10:49:20 GMT -4
Ppppfffftttt! I'm hiring a professional writer...
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Post by Ginnie on Dec 26, 2010 12:03:49 GMT -4
Maybe single columns next time?
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Post by dwight on Dec 26, 2010 13:30:06 GMT -4
Just for you 3 columns...
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Post by Ginnie on Dec 26, 2010 19:58:38 GMT -4
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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