23 years ago, I was using a Commodore 64, and a Commodore PET before that. I think the "computers taking up rooms" statement is a wee bit of an exaggeration.
The system I used had 7K of memory, but occasionally only 2 KB would show up on boot-up, so I had to open the case and jiggle the wires to get the full 7KB to show. There was a racing game that I mastered fairly quickly, so I then started editing the BASIC code to speed it up and increase the challenge. I later modified the course as well. Mostly trial and error stuff, but it's what got me interested in computers.
Does the entire capsule have to land softly? If not, you could have only the astronaut seats land softly, inside a capsule that slams down hard.
I believe one of the objectives of the Orion program is to reuse the airframe (spaceframe?) up to 10 times. A 'capsule that slams down hard' would likely encounter forces that would prevent it from being reused.
An additional irony of the Liberty Bell 7 incident was that the original hatch design for the Apollo spacecraft was an inward-opening door. This hatch design made it impossible for Grissom, White and Chafee to escape the Apollo 1 fire.
The hatch was redesigned before the Apollo 7 flight (the first manned Apollo flight).
True, but there is one subtlety here: The Vostok 1 which carried Gagarin into space on April 12, 1961, had one very serious design flaw: a parachute-assisted landing of the reentry vehicle would be too violent for a cosmonaut to survive. Instead, Gagarin had to eject from the capsule at an altitude of 7 km and parachute to the ground. To make matters worse, his ejection system didn't kick in right away, and he spent some time in a wild spin before he was able to get clear. However, this harrowing parachute descent was kept secret for years, as the International Aeronautical Federation would not have considered his flight a world record unless he had stayed inside his vehicle until it had landed. (Source: http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040503/shadows.shtml)
The truth of the matter is that vinyl records are crap compared to CD's in every measurable way - distortion, dynamic range, frequency response, signal to noise ratio, you name it.
My memory of this is a little fuzzy, but it seems like my vinyl records produced superior Wow and Flutter to anything I've ever heard from a CD
There were more than just telescopes and fly-by missions to the moon.
As I recall, the Ranger missions came first -- taking close-up photos before impacting the moon. I don't recall whether or not they orbited.
The Surveyor missions came next. The Surveyor ships actually proved the feasibility of soft-landing on the moon. I believe it was Apollo 12 that landed close enough that the astronauts walked (hopped?) over and retrieved a portion of one of the Surveyors.
Apollo 8 orbited the moon something like 10 times. They weren't just there on a sightseeing mission, they were taking many, many pictures and movies of the surface of the moon.
Apollo 10 was called the "dry run", as they did everything but actually land on the moon. As I recall the Apollo 10 LM was called Snoopy because they were 'snooping' out a landing site for Apollo 11.
And even with all the available information, the Apollo 11 LM guidance computer was steering Neil and Buzz directly toward a field of boulders until Neil Armstrong took manual control and flew the LM to a safe landing space with less than a minute of fuel remaining.
I took one look at your website and immediately clicked away. No offense intended, but it didn't look like a site I would trust downloading anything from.
Yep. Sounds much more like the ansibles. However, if the buggers were only 89 miles away, I don't think the ansibles would have helped much.
Jane are you there? Jane?
And don't get me started on those so-called "color printer" things. I only see 3 colors of ink/toner going into those.
The first so-called color printer things I used were daisy-wheel devices that had both a black and red (or other color) ribbon to create text in another color.
Early inkjet type so-called color-printer things used CMY (Cyan Magenta Yellow) to recreate all colors. Black text was printed using a combination of CMY, and came out looking more brown than black.
Many so-called color-printer things today use CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow Black - yes, "K" is black in printing, just like K is potassium on a periodic table -- don't ask why). CMYK printers use a dedicated black cartridge for text and/or grayscale, and CMY for the other colors
An increasing number of so-called color-printer things today use more than the 4 CMYK colors. Some use Light Cyan and Light Magenta in a 6-color process (CMYK LC LM). I've also seen CMYKOV (Orange and Violet). Still others use Light Cyan, Light Magenta, Gray and who-knows-what-else in 8-color (or higher) printers.
If you only see 3 colors of ink/toner going into these, you must be using a 1992-era inkjet printer.
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23 years ago, I was using a Commodore 64, and a Commodore PET before that. I think the "computers taking up rooms" statement is a wee bit of an exaggeration.
The system I used had 7K of memory, but occasionally only 2 KB would show up on boot-up, so I had to open the case and jiggle the wires to get the full 7KB to show. There was a racing game that I mastered fairly quickly, so I then started editing the BASIC code to speed it up and increase the challenge. I later modified the course as well. Mostly trial and error stuff, but it's what got me interested in computers.
The hatch was redesigned before the Apollo 7 flight (the first manned Apollo flight).
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As I recall, the Ranger missions came first -- taking close-up photos before impacting the moon. I don't recall whether or not they orbited.
The Surveyor missions came next. The Surveyor ships actually proved the feasibility of soft-landing on the moon. I believe it was Apollo 12 that landed close enough that the astronauts walked (hopped?) over and retrieved a portion of one of the Surveyors.
Apollo 8 orbited the moon something like 10 times. They weren't just there on a sightseeing mission, they were taking many, many pictures and movies of the surface of the moon.
Apollo 10 was called the "dry run", as they did everything but actually land on the moon. As I recall the Apollo 10 LM was called Snoopy because they were 'snooping' out a landing site for Apollo 11.
And even with all the available information, the Apollo 11 LM guidance computer was steering Neil and Buzz directly toward a field of boulders until Neil Armstrong took manual control and flew the LM to a safe landing space with less than a minute of fuel remaining.
and I am quite certain that tomorrow will be September 25th.
You don't by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand, do you?
I took one look at your website and immediately clicked away. No offense intended, but it didn't look like a site I would trust downloading anything from.
Yep. Sounds much more like the ansibles. However, if the buggers were only 89 miles away, I don't think the ansibles would have helped much. Jane are you there? Jane?
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Early inkjet type so-called color-printer things used CMY (Cyan Magenta Yellow) to recreate all colors. Black text was printed using a combination of CMY, and came out looking more brown than black.
Many so-called color-printer things today use CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow Black - yes, "K" is black in printing, just like K is potassium on a periodic table -- don't ask why). CMYK printers use a dedicated black cartridge for text and/or grayscale, and CMY for the other colors
An increasing number of so-called color-printer things today use more than the 4 CMYK colors. Some use Light Cyan and Light Magenta in a 6-color process (CMYK LC LM). I've also seen CMYKOV (Orange and Violet). Still others use Light Cyan, Light Magenta, Gray and who-knows-what-else in 8-color (or higher) printers.
If you only see 3 colors of ink/toner going into these, you must be using a 1992-era inkjet printer.
Firewire is a failure?
Some people THINK Don Imus is funny. Does that mean that he actually IS funny? Only to those few people, I suppose...
I'm sure you were trying to be funny, and some mods will mod you as such, but that doesn't mean your post was actually funny.
Not to be confused with the LER -- Light Emitting Reisitor. Also a bad thing...
I'm guessing one of the mods is a Bose engineer. I can almost hear the sound of my post zooming over his head...