Posted on 02/03/2012 11:36:46 AM PST by Ernie Kaputnik
Hmmm. I agree and disagree with you.
You are correct. They were not “taught” in school. Rather, they were indoctrinated like students in USSR, GDR, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia, Cuba, and all of the MUSLIM nations.
Communism, Unions, Socialism, Secularism, Islam, US public schools system, ad infinitum do not educate. They indocrinate.
No free thought. No free will. OBEY, SUBMIT, ACCEPT, GET IN LINE, or BE DESTROYED.
EK
"The corrected transcript, commentary, and other text incorporated in the Apollo Flight Journal is protected by copyright. No portion of the Journal may be reproduced or copied onto any medium (except as required by browsing software) without express permission from the authors."
Doesn't leave you with many choices...
For a while, I felt a measure of guilt about that issue. I worked on the TI LED watch program, and all my kids had digital watches. One day, I told one of them to turn something "clockwise" -- and they looked at me, looked at their watches, and back at me like, "WTF?"
We soon remedied that gap in their knowledge -- but I often wonder how other kids of their era fared...
Hey, I like that! May I borrow it? '-)
I contacted the web master for the site. They will release it for use in schools. Also, the unmodified NASA documents are in the public domain.
Of course you may.
Unfortunately, I have no idea as to what the hell it means. (Too much scotch while posting. Very bad combination.)
Knock yourself out, but don’t blame me if you get “flamed” for using it. ‘-)
EK
Good deal. I have grandkids who might want to use it as a source. Thanks for the link!
I expect my granddaughter's iPod has more computing power and memory than all the computers that flew on all the Apollo missions combined!
Born in 1960, so the space program was a HUGE thing of interest to me as all the boys back then. My kid’s view of that time is the same as my view of WW II - ancient history!
I asked my one daughter (8th grade) these questions first - she got them all right. Well - except when I said there was another country other than Mexico and Canada on our border. She thought about it and gave up but I wouldn’t say. She then said “South America??” Then my 16-year old son mentioned Cuba )nope, international waters as posted above.
Finally my son said “Oh - Russia!”.
As I said - with the homework my kids have, I really don’t understand how kids can be so stupid.
Oh - when my daughter said the Revolutionary War, and I added and “who was it against” , she said “England! - well the British.”
I said Yeah - England, British - whatever.
My son chimes in “No - it was the British, it wasn’t called England then.” Smart alec. And after looking just now on the web I’m just as confused. England is an island (and still a country or kingdom??). Great Britain is also an island and a kingdom (country??). And the whole thing together is called the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”. (Hey - what about England!!???)
Jeez, and some kids are confused between the difference between America and the United States of America!
between the difference between America and the United States of America!
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I have been known as somewhat of a S/A (intelligent donkey)
on occasion and one of my ‘favorites’ has been when someone says “Americans are upset about________” and I ‘hit’ them with “Well, I am sure the people in Chile or Peru really don’t give a hoot one way or the other”
Yes, I surely did. I went to work for Sperry Rand Astrionics in 1973 when I graduated. There were still Apollo artifacts and men from the Apollo program still all over the place in Huntsville. I worked for a short time in a gyro lab where I saw an Apollo computer and its inertial guidance platform still undergoing post-flight tests. The computer was a beast:
From the documentation:
Word size: 15 bits + 1 parity
Cycle time: 11.5 micro seconds (Really slow)
Fixed memory: 36,864 words (73,528 bytes)
Erasable memory: 2,048 words
Addition time: 23.4 micro seconds
Power consumption: 100 watts
Weight: 58 pounds
Volume: 1 cubic foot
It was pretty puny, really. The astronauts keyed in programs using a hexidecimal keypad prior to each mission phase.
I was able to play around with an Apollo landing simulator and explore the inside's of Skylab's sister ship, which never flew.
I wrote software to extract data from Skylab downlink data tapes for distribution to the science labs.
The data from that site is VERY detailed, and even includes wiring and plumbing diagrams for the entire Saturn V stack!
You can also get ALL of that documentation plus more on four DVDs from http://www.TheHistoricalAchive.com for something like $45. That documentation is overwhelming, but lovely.
I meant to include you in post 113.
I meant to include you in post #113.
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