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Apollo 12 at 35

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the looking-back dept.

neutron_p writes "Thirty-five years ago this week, the sedentary, fine-grained powder began to rise, billow and race off toward the horizon. Soon after - at 1:54:35 a.m. EST on Nov. 19, 1969 - the lunar module Intrepid landed, bringing two more humans to the surface of another world. Apollo 12 commander Pete Conrad and lunar module pilot Alan Bean would be on the Moon for more than 31 hours, with crewmate Dick Gordon orbiting above in the command module Yankee Clipper."

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  1. And...? by nacturation · · Score: -1, Troll

    So what's the news about this? Are we going to have Slashdot "moments in history" now?

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  2. And people care because?... by KaiSeun · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sure it's a moon landing, but all I have ever cared (heck, even known) to be remotely important was Apollo 11 and Apollo 13. Is this yet another useless anniversery no one cares about???

    If you want useless, here's something. Owen Wilson is 36 today. Let's see you beat that.

  3. Re:Wow by Nice+Try+Asshole · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm sure someone out there thinks your opinion is important. Try giving your mom a call.

    Nice try, asshole!

  4. Re:amazing programing in 256k, and no serious bugs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Not as tight as your sister.

  5. I know how you can prove it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I want to sniff some ASS-PANTIES!!1

  6. Want to know why it was so damn easy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I want to sniff some ASS-PANTIES!!!!1

  7. wrong by HBI · · Score: 0, Troll

    Space exploration is one of the few things that many countries are working on together. This helps bring peace.

    Bullshit, you are mixing cause and effect. Peace enables cooperation. It only takes one party to make a war. Your choices then are to lie down and be exterminated or fight back.

    This naive cluelessness is something Communism exploits directly through its support of 'peace' organizations. This is the same tactic that spawned the famous Lenin quote about 'useful idiots'.

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