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July 20th 1969

cerebus · 2004-07-20 00:14:22

I posted something similar over in the Astronomy forum but thought it might get more replies here. 35 years ago today the lunar module from Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, and Neil Armstrong took that famous small step for (a) man. NASA have some pretty cool commemorative stuff on their website at the moment. Anyone on…

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I posted something similar over in the Astronomy forum but thought it might get more replies here.

35 years ago today the lunar module from Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, and Neil Armstrong took that famous small step for (a) man. NASA have some pretty cool commemorative stuff on their website at the moment.

Anyone on boards old enough to remember it? Did anyone watch it live? Lets hear what it was like. Must have been magical...

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#2 20-07-2004 1:15am

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and they said by the year 2000 they would have a man on mars.......

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#3 20-07-2004 1:24am

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and they said by the year 2000 they would have a man on mars.......

so you think your better than nasa? eh, lets see you try to fly to mars huh, in your home made space ship eh, see how easy it is then, yea

great site, nice flash movie and pics

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#4 20-07-2004 1:25am

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deary dear, i wasnt criticising them....but yeah i could do better!!! i could if i was smart enough!!:p

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I'll provide the ship... all i need it three stout men to man the bellows

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#6 20-07-2004 1:30am

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munkeehaven, ready for blast off

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#7 20-07-2004 1:34am

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dont forget that it takes 4 light years (is that right??).....so you will have to get eiinstein into it too...to build a space-time warper...:p

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#8 20-07-2004 1:58am

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Only takes a few years to get to mars IRC, or something around that.

Now let the conspiracy theories begin
Incorrect shadows, fluttering flags etc... blah blah

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#9 20-07-2004 2:10am

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You can't go to Mars...

it's too dangerous...

the place is packed with tribes of Martian Mud Monkeys!

You'll just have to be happy eating the chocolate bars....

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#10 20-07-2004 2:50am

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wait aminute that flag was fluttering,

Oh my God it was FAKED!

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#11 20-07-2004 7:59am

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Did anyone ever think that maybe the astronauts shook the falg so that it would look nice and fluttery like?

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#12 20-07-2004 8:29am

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Originally posted by munkeehaven
dont forget that it takes 4 light years (is that right??).....so you will have to get eiinstein into it too...to build a space-time warper...:p

4.3 light years distance to Alpha Centauri, not Mars.

Mars is rather nearer (about 80 million km) and the messages from Pathfinder, which being radio waves travelled at the speed of light, took 11 minutes. Obviously no-one will be travelling in a straight line so you can probably multiply the inter-planetary didtsnce by four or five to get the travel distance.

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was only tiny little thing at the time but remember my dad and mam and me standing looking up at the sky and my dad saying look can you see them on the moon and me going" Yes, I see them" the innocence of youth
gonk

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#14 20-07-2004 10:18am

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Originally posted by cerebus

35 years ago today the lunar module from Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, and Neil Armstrong took that famous small step for (a) man.

No, they didnt.

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#15 20-07-2004 10:25am

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On average it takes 266 seconds for light to travel from mars to earth, but since the distance from mars to earth can vary from 55million K to 400 million k (Mars Fact Sheet - NASA ) that time can vary

But as said before, Mars is about 80 million K from earth.
Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I will move it closer...

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#16 20-07-2004 11:08am

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an interesting point about the moon landing is that neill armstrong f ucked up with the whole excitment of it ,when he said one small step for man one giant leap for mankind, he ment to say one step for "a man". it doesn't make a big difference in english but in a lot of other languages it translates to "one small step for mankind, one giant leap for mankind"

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#17 20-07-2004 11:19am

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Originally posted by Paladin:Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I will move it closer...

And an unmovable fulcrum.:ninja:

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#18 20-07-2004 2:28pm

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Originally posted by Deadwing
No, they didnt.

you have convinced me

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#19 20-07-2004 2:41pm

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Originally posted by Gurgle
And an unmovable fulcrum.:ninja:

I was going to use the lever to prod it towards earth...

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#20 20-07-2004 3:01pm

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Originally posted by Paladin:I was going to use the lever to prod it towards earth...

Em, if your just going to prod it, you don't need a particularly long lever. You need an infinite-ish force to prod it with.
And a place to stand.

Try to aim at the pacific.

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#21 21-07-2004 12:01am

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The Apollo 11 flight computer was an interesting piece of kit, and how they put together the operating system was even more fascinating; one thing out of sync in the os scheduler could have meant certain death for the astronauts, read about it here, and play with the computer here.

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#22 21-07-2004 12:31am

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This thread reminds me of the third GLA mission in Command & Conquer: Generals....

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