Posted by
michael
on from the closeups-of-the-sound-stage dept.
GoneGaryT writes "Wow! NASA has pulled another set of photographs, this time of Apollo 11's trip, out of the freezer and digitized them. They are glorious. I'm just checking out the first ever 'Earthrise' sequence and they are beautiful." I'll cherry-pick a few for you: 1, 2, 3.
What JFK should have said was "I believe this nation should commit
itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on
the moon and returning him safely to the Earth with pictures that will scale
properly as wallpaper on computer monitors not yet invented."
-- Trolling is a art,
Attention Conspiracy Nuts!
by
aiabx
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· Score: 5, Informative
Please go to http://www.badastronomy.com/ before you waste our time and bandwidth with your moon-hoax crap.
-aiabx
-- Just this guy, you know?
What Moon-Hoax Crap?
by
goldspider
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· Score: 5, Funny
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, Byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors! The next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt.45 and a.38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
-- "Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
Re:What Moon-Hoax Crap?
by
southpolesammy
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· Score: 5, Funny
The scary part about Slashdot is that if you replace every instance of "liberal" with "conservative" in the parent post, it will get moderated as +5, Insightful despite no change in content.
-- Rule #1 -- Politics always trumps technology.
My Father and My Grandfather Were At NASA Then Too
by
ausoleil
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· Score: 5, Interesting
I have not digitized all that I can find as of yet, but my family and I are working on a project to put all of my Grandfather's and (after him) my Father's papers and photographs from Cape Kennedy through the Apollo effort as well as Mercury and Gemini.
http://www.ausoleil.org/exhibits/vlpinson
A little background:
My Grandfather, V.L. Pinson, was Chief Telemetry Officer as well as MIS Manager for Cape Kennedy in the 1960's, not to mention duties he performed in the 1950's at ABMA (Army Ballastic Missile Agency) in Huntsville, and White Sands prior to that. While it is very incomplete, mainly because he died in 1988, we're continue to work on this and those interested in some of the minutae of space history might enjoy reading through some of the peronal effects of someone who was there.
PS: I saw Apollo 11 launch in 1969. We lived in Titusville, and saw the launch from the Bennett Causeway. Dad had a better view: As Missile Commander in charge of astronaut safety, he was in a foreward blockhouse about one kilometer from the launch itself. He and his team were there to provide rescue services for the astronauts had something gone wrong and Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins had needed to escape the launch vehicle.
As it was, Apollo 11 broke windows in my house, which was 6.5 nautical miles from the launch pad. Most Saturn V launches did.
It was a great thing going to sleep at night by light of a floodlit missile that was pointed at the moon. Even better was going fishing as a young child with my Grandfather's buddies -- Debus, Armstrong, Grissom, Scott Carpenter, a few others.
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What JFK should have said was "I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth with pictures that will scale properly as wallpaper on computer monitors not yet invented."
Trolling is a art,
Please go to http://www.badastronomy.com/ before you waste our time and bandwidth with your moon-hoax crap.
-aiabx
Just this guy, you know?
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
.45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, Byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors! The next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
I have not digitized all that I can find as of yet, but my family and I are working on a project to put all of my Grandfather's and (after him) my Father's papers and photographs from Cape Kennedy through the Apollo effort as well as Mercury and Gemini.
http://www.ausoleil.org/exhibits/vlpinson
A little background:
My Grandfather, V.L. Pinson, was Chief Telemetry Officer as well as MIS Manager for Cape Kennedy in the 1960's, not to mention duties he performed in the 1950's at ABMA (Army Ballastic Missile Agency) in Huntsville, and White Sands prior to that. While it is very incomplete, mainly because he died in 1988, we're continue to work on this and those interested in some of the minutae of space history might enjoy reading through some of the peronal effects of someone who was there.
PS: I saw Apollo 11 launch in 1969. We lived in Titusville, and saw the launch from the Bennett Causeway. Dad had a better view: As Missile Commander in charge of astronaut safety, he was in a foreward blockhouse about one kilometer from the launch itself. He and his team were there to provide rescue services for the astronauts had something gone wrong and Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins had needed to escape the launch vehicle.
As it was, Apollo 11 broke windows in my house, which was 6.5 nautical miles from the launch pad. Most Saturn V launches did.
It was a great thing going to sleep at night by light of a floodlit missile that was pointed at the moon. Even better was going fishing as a young child with my Grandfather's buddies -- Debus, Armstrong, Grissom, Scott Carpenter, a few others.
You had to be there.