Posted on 12/12/2018 8:24:03 AM PST by BenLurkin
A funny thing happen on the way to the moon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrUSyJxN3RI
Two Thousand years ago the steam engine was invented.
The first commercial steam engine went to work in 1712
What I can’t fathom is how someone today could watch the 16mm color films - hours and hours of it, plus the (thousands?) Hassleblad 70mm color stills and not be absolutely floored by the landscapes. Or moonscapes, I guess.
At the time, we only watched blurry TV scans, due to the technology of the day, they weren’t very high definition. How could anybody imagine it would be remotely possible to convincingly fake the color film and stills? There is absolutely no way.
It is very frightening how easily people can be manipulated into believing (or not believing) in something. Like voting for “Democrats”, or “Republicans”. Yeesh.
Zooking around the moon in orbit aboard the cramped confines in LEM and SM has to rank as the most absolutely badass expeditions of human exploration, bar none. So far. Astronauts reached speeds of up to around 24,000 mph during the return.
We’re approaching the 50th anniversary of Apollo 8, a very bold move by NASA where humans first left the earth to visit another heavenly body. The crew took turns reading from Genesis on Christmas Eve, broadcast on the networks during prime time. I still today get a chill every time I hear that, one of the most profound moments of mankinds voyages of discovery. In the past, great explorers were cutoff from civilization and we had to wait years before we even heard or read about them. During Apollo they beamed the expedition right into our living rooms in real time. How cool is that?
It reminds me of the story of the Vietnamese boy saying that it was impossible to land on the moon because it is only the size of a penny.
The earth seen from the moon is fake. Every one knows the earth is flat.
So they could get through the Van Allen Belts 50 years ago, but not today? Ok
I’ve had that tour. My kid worked for NASA. There is no doubt.
Don’t forget that airliners run on compressed air not jet A.
Idiot’s will always be idiot’s, eh Curry....Idiot?
Roger that !
You'll have plenty of company here in FR, sadly :-\
Maybe I’ll become a flat mooner...
maybe a flat sunner.
I mean if the earth is flat why would every thing else
be round?
Perfect line, perfect delivery !
Me too, FRiend, every time.
I've no idea who/what made all this, but those few minutes of humility from 8 were better testimony to the Creator than any hymn I've ever heard or any 'sermon' ever endured.
They actually believe that the sky/universe is full of levitating frisbees .. no true communication is possible with such creatures.
Kipling wrote a story about them.
“The Town that voted the earth was flat”.
It’s a hoot.
Thanks, downloading it now.
I was at the Burbank studios where the moon landing was filmed. In one photo you can see my reflection in the astronauts visor.
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