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Post by banjomd on Apr 5, 2010 13:47:05 GMT -4
According to Merriam-Webster, both forms are acceptable with antennae the preferred one (listed first)! I'm with you, Bob; antennae it is. ;D (I also say fora as the plural of forum!)
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Post by banjomd on Apr 5, 2010 13:38:21 GMT -4
I wonder if, as early videocamera technology is forgotten, more HBers will see problems with the videos that were perfectly understandable to someone who grew up with '80s video cameras. Yep; the aberrations that we saw while watching The Honeymooners, for example, we accepted as the norm. Now, to the younger population it looks faked. Pretty soon we'll have to explain that cameras used film not chips! ;D
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Post by banjomd on Apr 4, 2010 16:43:24 GMT -4
I liked his use of the traditional Latin plural form antennae! (Hey, I studied Latin in Catholic high school! It's in my blood. ;D)
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Post by banjomd on Apr 2, 2010 10:36:07 GMT -4
Sorry, you're correct. I must've (incorrectly) thought that I had scrolled to the bottom of the page. Nevermind; I like it! ;D
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Post by banjomd on Apr 2, 2010 10:08:34 GMT -4
...As you can tell, it's not 100% technically accurate... One glaring mistake: the SII had 5 J2 engines! (I know, "Picky, Picky!) It is nicely drawn!
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Post by banjomd on Mar 30, 2010 19:16:33 GMT -4
Regarding Apollo 14 and the landing radar, Gene Kranz said in his book that, knowing Al Shepard, he had no doubt that Al would have tried to land without the radar, yet he was equally sure that Al would eventually been forced to abort. The fuel margins were just too tight to land without it. Yeah, I'd heard that; but still a great "The Right Stuff" story! ;D
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Post by banjomd on Mar 28, 2010 19:20:23 GMT -4
Good point, PhantomWolf!
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Post by banjomd on Mar 28, 2010 7:54:17 GMT -4
When you see "PTC" they're referring to passive thermal control which is the "barbecue roll". Correct me if I'm mistaken but it is only needed in the coast-phases due to the uninterrupted solar radiation for days.
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Post by banjomd on Mar 26, 2010 22:01:40 GMT -4
One of my favorite anecdotes: from Moonshot by Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton with Jay Barbree and Howard Benedict pp305 After the Apollo14 LM landing radar fiasco: Mitchell: "Come on, Al. The truth now. Just between you and me."..."Would you have really flown us down without the radar?"... Shepard: "You'll never know, Ed." He laughed. "You'll never know."
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Post by banjomd on Mar 26, 2010 21:48:47 GMT -4
A good one from the 60 Minutes piece: Bradley: "What did it (the moon) look like to you?" Armstrong: "...It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it!"
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Post by banjomd on Mar 26, 2010 18:16:12 GMT -4
I meant it admiringly when I said that they made a lot of understatements, this illustrates how cool under pressure they were. Like when Neil Armstrong was being interviewed on 60 Minutes and Ed Bradley mentioned how after his LLTV crash, Armstrong went back to his office to do some paperwork. Bradley said, "You were just almost killed!" Armstrong just smiled and said, "Well, but I wasn't." Great anecdote! ;D
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Post by banjomd on Mar 25, 2010 21:13:58 GMT -4
"Glenn said something similar in the first episode of When We Left Earth. "We're looking at this thing and we're looking at each other and deciding we want to go back and talk to the engineers a little more before we go further." Astronauts seem to make a lot of understatements sometimes, don't they?"
Don't forget, laurel, that the Mercury 7 (except Carpenter) and some that followed were test pilots and worked closely with engineers to find the causes of problems and fix them. I believe that helped form the understating attitude that they sometimes exhibited.
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Post by banjomd on Mar 25, 2010 21:05:22 GMT -4
capricorn1, I think you're posing questions to the right people (myself excluded)! I've only been here a short while but I've learned that there are many empassioned and knowledgeable scientists here who will help you. Keep it up.
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Post by banjomd on Mar 25, 2010 17:00:06 GMT -4
The dust follows a ballistic path.
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Post by banjomd on Mar 25, 2010 16:14:39 GMT -4
... The fact that Bean's legs themselves converged seemed to be completely lost on him.... Touche'
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