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Post by gillianren on Jul 19, 2009 4:53:25 GMT -4
I try not to call it that with people who don't get the joke, but I'm sure it's slipped out more than once. It's one of a handful of hoax jokes that are current in my circle of friends. One of my friends is fixated on the phrase "searing radiation hell," and when I mentioned to some of them that there are the new, stunning pictures, one of them made a joke about NASA's PhotoShop skills.
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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 Jul 19, 2009 5:31:07 GMT -4
So please lets ask them to tell us who held the camera to take the first supposed TV shots on the Moon.You gotta love people whose initial premise is that all cameras must have someone attentively operating them. I wouldn't like to be the poor sod hanging on to the back of the S-II to take the S-IC separation shots... ;D |
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jul 19, 2009 7:06:39 GMT -4
So please lets ask them to tell us who held the camera to take the first supposed TV shots on the Moon.You gotta love people whose initial premise is that all cameras must have someone attentively operating them. Well it's because they don't realise that the Illuminati switched to Imp operated cameras in the late 1950's. |
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Post by drewid on Jul 19, 2009 9:41:46 GMT -4
So please lets ask them to tell us who held the camera to take the first supposed TV shots on the Moon.You gotta love people whose initial premise is that all cameras must have someone attentively operating them. I wouldn't like to be the poor sod hanging on to the back of the S-II to take the S-IC separation shots... ;D Yeah, you'd need extra sunscreen for that job. |
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Post by laurel on Jul 19, 2009 13:08:49 GMT -4
I wonder if the OP will also ask who filmed the Apollo 17 LM liftoff from the Moon, since nobody was left behind on the surface to operate the camera.  |
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Post by dragonblaster on Jul 19, 2009 13:55:19 GMT -4
I wonder if the OP will also ask who filmed the Apollo 17 LM liftoff from the Moon, since nobody was left behind on the surface to operate the camera. Ah, yes, the golden oldies. I never get tired of hearing these classic, incisive slam-dunks from the true cognoscenti. |
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Post by drewid on Jul 19, 2009 14:28:29 GMT -4
So please lets ask them to tell us who held the camera to take the first supposed TV shots on the Moon.You gotta love people whose initial premise is that all cameras must have someone attentively operating them. Well it's because they don't realise that the Illuminati switched to Imp operated cameras in the late 1950's. The turtle moves... |
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Post by laurel on Jul 19, 2009 19:14:58 GMT -4
I thought the lethal 'Van Halen' belt was better. What about references to the "shuttle" flying to the Moon? I recently came across this one yet again on Yahoo Answers. I'm not great at technical stuff, but even I can tell the difference between the Apollo spacecraft and the shuttle. |
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jul 19, 2009 20:53:39 GMT -4
I thought the lethal 'Van Halen' belt was better. What about references to the "shuttle" flying to the Moon? I recently came across this one yet again on Yahoo Answers. I'm not great at technical stuff, but even I can tell the difference between the Apollo spacecraft and the shuttle. I recently answered one on Google Questions: Was Gagarin the first man to fly the space shuttle solo?  This is where I find the second quote in my sig rather apt. |
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Post by scooter on Jul 20, 2009 9:50:16 GMT -4
For so many of our younger visitors, the Shuttle is the only manned vehicle they have experienced (meanwhile, the Soyuz, less covered in the US, also soldiered on for decades).
Apollo is ancient history for them.
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Post by Kiwi on Jul 20, 2009 10:20:28 GMT -4
TV technology was in its infancy and we couldn’t transmit pictures any distance... Jockndor, I realise you may be a typical seagull poster and not see this, but are you denying the existence of the Telstar satellite that was responsible for the following, as reported in Chronicle of the 20th Century, page 881: I didn't see the transmissions, but remember hearing the news here in New Zealand. My first ever record was the 7-inch 45 rpm vinyl single "Telstar" by the Tornadoes, which my sister gave me for Christmas, 1962. How about the Syncom satellite relaying the opening of the Olympic games from Tokyo to North America on 10 October 1964? As that was the first public demonstration of the operation of a geostationary satellite, I'd suggest that that is transmitting pictures some distance. And wouldn't you think that the technology would have been improved further between 1964 and 1969? It was a period of rapid advancement. Have the replies so far satisfied your enquiry in post No. 1? To summarise, when Armstrong got out on the porch of the LM he pulled a D-ring on a lanyard which released the Mesa to swing down into position, pointing the upside-down TV camera toward the ladder. Aldrin turned the camera on by throwing a switch inside the LM. Simple. No other human required. You can read more about it at the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal -- link at the bottom of every page here. Start in "EVA Preparations" and continue in "One Small Step", and if you want to save time, search for "TV". |
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Post by gillianren on Jul 20, 2009 13:32:50 GMT -4
For so many of our younger visitors, the Shuttle is the only manned vehicle they have experienced (meanwhile, the Soyuz, less covered in the US, also soldiered on for decades). Apollo is ancient history for them. Shoot, I'm not as young as they are, and it's true for me. I remember the shuttle launch, and I don't remember any space travel earlier than that. (We may have watched it on TV, but I'm not sure.) And, of course, I was negative seven for Apollo. |
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Post by Czero 101 on Jul 20, 2009 14:00:25 GMT -4
I was all of 4 1/2 by the time Apollo wrapped up with 17 so I have no specific recollections of Apollo's lunar missions. I have vague recollections of Apollo / Soyuz, though. I can still remember seeing the coverage of the orbiter Enterprise on its approach and landings test as well as it flying piggy-back on the modified 747 and very clearly remember staying up all night watching Columbia with Young and Crippen on her maiden voyage.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jul 21, 2009 7:53:17 GMT -4
In my life two men have walked on the moon, but I was only 6 months old at the time. For me, other than the Soviets, and now Russian and Chinese, the Space Shuttle is all I have known too, but I also know enough about spaceflight through study and learning to know that the question was a total confusion of ideas.
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