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Awe and Wonderment.....
« on: 18 July 2009, 18:26:55 »
Yes, I know it`s an old image: but well worth clicking the 'larger' link and magnifying with + to look at detail.

It`s Buzz Aldrin next to the LM (Apollo 11)......I watched; slack-jawed then.....and `still in awed-wonder now.

I showed this and many new images of the lunar landing sites taken recently by the LRO http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html to my nephews, their response: "yeh, and....?!?!"

There is clearly not much 'wonder' left! :'(



Click for larger pic.:http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/369227main_aldrinLM_full.jpg
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Re: Awe and Wonderment.....
« Reply #1 on: 18 July 2009, 18:34:38 »
I read somewhere that a modern mobile phone has more computer memory than the computer that took them to the moon! an incredible achievement to get to there !    
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« Reply #2 on: 18 July 2009, 18:38:40 »
Quite an achievement back in the day, 1969? 8-)
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Re: Awe and Wonderment.....
« Reply #3 on: 18 July 2009, 20:47:05 »
The question is If niel armstong was the first man on the moon Who held the Camera? :-/
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« Reply #4 on: 18 July 2009, 20:48:42 »
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The question is If niel armstong was the first man on the moon Who held the Camera? :-/


Well the alliens of course that the yanks had already made friends with!! ::) ::) ::)

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;) ;)
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« Reply #5 on: 18 July 2009, 20:55:13 »
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The question is If niel armstong was the first man on the moon Who held the Camera? :-/


Well the alliens of course that the yanks had already made friends with!! ::) ::) ::)

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;) ;)

I knew ET is real and everyone said I was mad [smiley=evil.gif]
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« Reply #6 on: 18 July 2009, 21:00:03 »
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The question is If niel armstong was the first man on the moon Who held the Camera? :-/


Well the alliens of course that the yanks had already made friends with!! ::) ::) ::)

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;) ;)

I knew ET is real and everyone said I was mad [smiley=evil.gif]

Yes, like you GD I know he is real.  I saw him at the cinema once, so I know its true and we are not both mad! 8-) 8-) 8-) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
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« Reply #7 on: 18 July 2009, 21:00:10 »
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The question is If niel armstong was the first man on the moon Who held the Camera? :-/


Well the alliens of course that the yanks had already made friends with!! ::) ::) ::)

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;) ;)


Don't telll anyone -- but it was the Russians who had already arrived first !!!
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« Reply #8 on: 18 July 2009, 21:04:08 »
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The question is If niel armstong was the first man on the moon Who held the Camera? :-/


Well the alliens of course that the yanks had already made friends with!! ::) ::) ::)

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;) ;)


Don't telll anyone -- but it was the Russians who had already arrived first !!!

 ;D ;D ;D ;D :y
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Re: Awe and Wonderment.....
« Reply #9 on: 18 July 2009, 21:11:14 »
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I read somewhere that a modern mobile phone has more computer memory than the computer that took them to the moon! an incredible achievement to get to there !    
Bloody hell, yes.  Even the old early 1980s home micros (Spectrums, BBCs, Commodores etc) were 100s of times more powerful.
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Re: Awe and Wonderment.....
« Reply #10 on: 18 July 2009, 21:11:38 »
It just shows how accurate the models made on Blue Peter are.  ::)

Going by that photo, a few sheets of tin foil in different colours, some dark grey canvass, several somewhat creased sections of thin sheet metal and a couple of funnels sprayed silver is all that is required for a lunar landing.
Methinks NASA should have let the 40 anniversary slide by as quietly as possible.
The credibility is wearing thinner and thinner.  
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« Reply #11 on: 18 July 2009, 21:12:07 »
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Something I wondered for years.  Apparently on the leg of the LEM - seems further away due to focal length
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« Reply #12 on: 18 July 2009, 22:15:58 »
They didnt land on the moon,it was a film set in LA,thought everyone knew that. ::)
 :D ;D
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They didnt land on the moon,it was a film set in LA,thought eveyone knew that. ::)
 :D ;D
WARNING!!!! can of debate worms about to be opened ::)
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Re: Awe and Wonderment.....
« Reply #14 on: 18 July 2009, 23:40:42 »
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They didnt land on the moon,it was a film set in LA,thought everyone knew that. ::)
 :D ;D

Caught part of a programme talking about that today, some interesting questions were being asked.... :-/
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