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On 11/26/2018 2:42 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
Live streaming Mars landing right now on the NASA website .... scheduled to land at 3pm EST. WOW! They successfully landed it on Mars. |
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On 11/26/18 2:54 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/26/2018 2:42 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Live streaming Mars landing right now on the NASA website .... scheduled to land at 3pm EST. WOW!Â* They successfully landed it on Mars. All I saw was a bunch of people in a control room wearing maroon shirts... |
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On 11/26/2018 2:56 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 11/26/18 2:54 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 11/26/2018 2:42 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Live streaming Mars landing right now on the NASA website .... scheduled to land at 3pm EST. WOW!Â* They successfully landed it on Mars. All I saw was a bunch of people in a control room wearing maroon shirts... You should have offered to hitch a ride on the spacecraft so you could watch it land in person. |
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On 11/26/18 2:58 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/26/2018 2:56 PM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/26/18 2:54 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 11/26/2018 2:42 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Live streaming Mars landing right now on the NASA website .... scheduled to land at 3pm EST. WOW!Â* They successfully landed it on Mars. All I saw was a bunch of people in a control room wearing maroon shirts... You should have offered to hitch a ride on the spacecraft so you could watch it land in person. I was going to, but I heard that the Orange Menace was onboard... |
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On 11/26/2018 3:02 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 11/26/18 2:58 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 11/26/2018 2:56 PM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/26/18 2:54 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 11/26/2018 2:42 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Live streaming Mars landing right now on the NASA website .... scheduled to land at 3pm EST. WOW!Â* They successfully landed it on Mars. All I saw was a bunch of people in a control room wearing maroon shirts... You should have offered to hitch a ride on the spacecraft so you could watch it land in person. I was going to, but I heard that the Orange Menace was onboard... It's really an amazing feat considering all the challenges. Long range communications have certainly improved since the earlier landings on Mars. They had an image within a few minutes after landing. |
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On 11/26/18 3:06 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/26/2018 3:02 PM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/26/18 2:58 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 11/26/2018 2:56 PM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/26/18 2:54 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 11/26/2018 2:42 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Live streaming Mars landing right now on the NASA website .... scheduled to land at 3pm EST. WOW!Â* They successfully landed it on Mars. All I saw was a bunch of people in a control room wearing maroon shirts... You should have offered to hitch a ride on the spacecraft so you could watch it land in person. I was going to, but I heard that the Orange Menace was onboard... It's really an amazing feat considering all the challenges. Long range communications have certainly improved since the earlier landings on Mars.Â* They had an image within a few minutes after landing. The science is way over my pay grade, but I do appreciate NASA and what it does. |
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:42:47 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
Live streaming Mars landing right now on the NASA website .... scheduled to land at 3pm EST. I should have looked before posting! |
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:56:53 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote: On 11/26/18 2:54 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 11/26/2018 2:42 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Live streaming Mars landing right now on the NASA website .... scheduled to land at 3pm EST. WOW!Â* They successfully landed it on Mars. All I saw was a bunch of people in a control room wearing maroon shirts... What, you long for the days when they all wore white shirts with a skinny tie and a cigarette in their mouth? |
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:06:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 11/26/2018 3:02 PM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/26/18 2:58 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 11/26/2018 2:56 PM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/26/18 2:54 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 11/26/2018 2:42 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Live streaming Mars landing right now on the NASA website .... scheduled to land at 3pm EST. WOW!Â* They successfully landed it on Mars. All I saw was a bunch of people in a control room wearing maroon shirts... You should have offered to hitch a ride on the spacecraft so you could watch it land in person. I was going to, but I heard that the Orange Menace was onboard... It's really an amazing feat considering all the challenges. Long range communications have certainly improved since the earlier landings on Mars. They had an image within a few minutes after landing. I really think this should be the science we do. These days the robot probes are giving much more information than we would get from guys on the ground there and at a much lower cost. Basically that means we can do a **** load more probes with much higher payloads because they don't need to carry life support and they don't need to come back. If a robot probe blows up, we just build another one and move on. If we kill a live crew the whole space program is paralyzed for years. Manned space flight is pretty much just a publicity stunt. |
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On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 5:01:52 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:56:53 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/26/18 2:54 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 11/26/2018 2:42 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Live streaming Mars landing right now on the NASA website .... scheduled to land at 3pm EST. WOW!Â* They successfully landed it on Mars. All I saw was a bunch of people in a control room wearing maroon shirts.... What, you long for the days when they all wore white shirts with a skinny tie and a cigarette in their mouth? The last time I was at Cape Canaveral, they had a recreation of the Apollo mission control room, complete with the ash trays and a couple packs of Lucky Strikes laying around. That was a proper rocket! Wish I could have seen the launch of one. Had to settle for a shuttle launch. Still pretty cool, but the ground doesn't shake. |
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On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 4:01:52 PM UTC-6, wrote:
On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:56:53 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/26/18 2:54 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 11/26/2018 2:42 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Live streaming Mars landing right now on the NASA website .... scheduled to land at 3pm EST. WOW!Â* They successfully landed it on Mars. All I saw was a bunch of people in a control room wearing maroon shirts.... What, you long for the days when they all wore white shirts with a skinny tie and a cigarette in their mouth? Plus crew cuts and a thousand Honeywell's in the back ground twisting away.... |
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:06:28 -0800 (PST), Its Me
wrote: On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 5:01:52 PM UTC-5, wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:56:53 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/26/18 2:54 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 11/26/2018 2:42 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Live streaming Mars landing right now on the NASA website .... scheduled to land at 3pm EST. WOW!Â* They successfully landed it on Mars. All I saw was a bunch of people in a control room wearing maroon shirts... What, you long for the days when they all wore white shirts with a skinny tie and a cigarette in their mouth? The last time I was at Cape Canaveral, they had a recreation of the Apollo mission control room, complete with the ash trays and a couple packs of Lucky Strikes laying around. That was a proper rocket! Wish I could have seen the launch of one. Had to settle for a shuttle launch. Still pretty cool, but the ground doesn't shake. I watched STS 6 (first flight of the Challenger) from that little campground on US1 near Cocoa Beach (not sure if it is even still there). It was pretty spectacular. I thought stuff was shaking enough for me when they fired the SRBs. I slept in my old van all night and it went off first thing in the morning. No chance of sleeping through it. When I got there the place was pretty empty. By sun up there was no parking and barely a place to stand. People were bumping into the truck milling around. I ended up climbing on the roof of my truck. I let a couple little kids sit up there with me. When it was out of sight and I could get out I drove to DC. We could see the shuttle from here in Ft Myers most of the time. I remember when the Challenger blew up. We weren't sure what happened but we knew it wasn't good. It was strange watching the first and last launch. It took a while for me to put that together. |
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Keyser Soze wrote:
All I saw was a bunch of people in a control room wearing maroon shirts... They went through a Hawaiian shirt phase a while back. But I think that's over now. -- Paul Hovnanian ------------------------------------------------------------------ Message returned to sender -- insufficient voltage. |
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On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 9:14:45 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:06:28 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote: On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 5:01:52 PM UTC-5, wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:56:53 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/26/18 2:54 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 11/26/2018 2:42 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Live streaming Mars landing right now on the NASA website .... scheduled to land at 3pm EST. WOW!Â* They successfully landed it on Mars. All I saw was a bunch of people in a control room wearing maroon shirts... What, you long for the days when they all wore white shirts with a skinny tie and a cigarette in their mouth? The last time I was at Cape Canaveral, they had a recreation of the Apollo mission control room, complete with the ash trays and a couple packs of Lucky Strikes laying around. That was a proper rocket! Wish I could have seen the launch of one. Had to settle for a shuttle launch. Still pretty cool, but the ground doesn't shake. I watched STS 6 (first flight of the Challenger) from that little campground on US1 near Cocoa Beach (not sure if it is even still there). It was pretty spectacular. I thought stuff was shaking enough for me when they fired the SRBs. I slept in my old van all night and it went off first thing in the morning. No chance of sleeping through it. When I got there the place was pretty empty. By sun up there was no parking and barely a place to stand. People were bumping into the truck milling around. I ended up climbing on the roof of my truck. I let a couple little kids sit up there with me. When it was out of sight and I could get out I drove to DC. We could see the shuttle from here in Ft Myers most of the time. I remember when the Challenger blew up. We weren't sure what happened but we knew it wasn't good. It was strange watching the first and last launch. It took a while for me to put that together. I had a conversation with a security guy when I was there. He had ridden the crawler a couple of times over the years, and was assigned to John Glen's security detail back in the day. He told me that Apollo launches could break windows on the mainland. :) |
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:06:28 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote:
On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 5:01:52 PM UTC-5, wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:56:53 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/26/18 2:54 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 11/26/2018 2:42 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Live streaming Mars landing right now on the NASA website .... scheduled to land at 3pm EST. WOW!* They successfully landed it on Mars. All I saw was a bunch of people in a control room wearing maroon shirts... What, you long for the days when they all wore white shirts with a skinny tie and a cigarette in their mouth? The last time I was at Cape Canaveral, they had a recreation of the Apollo mission control room, complete with the ash trays and a couple packs of Lucky Strikes laying around. That was a proper rocket! Wish I could have seen the launch of one. Had to settle for a shuttle launch. Still pretty cool, but the ground doesn't shake. I was working at Cape Canveral when two Saturns were launched in early 1965. We lay down on the roof of our office (US Coast and Geodetic Survey) and had a great view. Yes, the ground shook, but we were right there on the base. |
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On Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 3:07:57 PM UTC-5, John H wrote:
On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:06:28 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote: On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 5:01:52 PM UTC-5, wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:56:53 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/26/18 2:54 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 11/26/2018 2:42 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Live streaming Mars landing right now on the NASA website .... scheduled to land at 3pm EST. WOW!Â* They successfully landed it on Mars. All I saw was a bunch of people in a control room wearing maroon shirts... What, you long for the days when they all wore white shirts with a skinny tie and a cigarette in their mouth? The last time I was at Cape Canaveral, they had a recreation of the Apollo mission control room, complete with the ash trays and a couple packs of Lucky Strikes laying around. That was a proper rocket! Wish I could have seen the launch of one. Had to settle for a shuttle launch. Still pretty cool, but the ground doesn't shake. I was working at Cape Canveral when two Saturns were launched in early 1965. We lay down on the roof of our office (US Coast and Geodetic Survey) and had a great view. Yes, the ground shook, but we were right there on the base. Saturn V's had 7.5 million pounds of thrust. The space shuttle didn't beat up the astronauts nearly as bad as a Saturn did. The guy that started the company I work for was working at NASA in the early days. He says they announce a launch, then he and his coworkers would walk outside. A rocket would go up, blow up, and they would go back inside and get back to work. It took a while, even with the confiscated V-2's to learn from, for NASA to get it right. Rocket Science is real, and Germans make damned good engineers. :) |
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:30:20 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote:
On Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 3:07:57 PM UTC-5, John H wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:06:28 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote: On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 5:01:52 PM UTC-5, wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:56:53 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/26/18 2:54 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 11/26/2018 2:42 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Live streaming Mars landing right now on the NASA website .... scheduled to land at 3pm EST. WOW!* They successfully landed it on Mars. All I saw was a bunch of people in a control room wearing maroon shirts... What, you long for the days when they all wore white shirts with a skinny tie and a cigarette in their mouth? The last time I was at Cape Canaveral, they had a recreation of the Apollo mission control room, complete with the ash trays and a couple packs of Lucky Strikes laying around. That was a proper rocket! Wish I could have seen the launch of one. Had to settle for a shuttle launch. Still pretty cool, but the ground doesn't shake. I was working at Cape Canveral when two Saturns were launched in early 1965. We lay down on the roof of our office (US Coast and Geodetic Survey) and had a great view. Yes, the ground shook, but we were right there on the base. Saturn V's had 7.5 million pounds of thrust. The space shuttle didn't beat up the astronauts nearly as bad as a Saturn did. The guy that started the company I work for was working at NASA in the early days. He says they announce a launch, then he and his coworkers would walk outside. A rocket would go up, blow up, and they would go back inside and get back to work. It took a while, even with the confiscated V-2's to learn from, for NASA to get it right. Rocket Science is real, and Germans make damned good engineers. :) I worked there during late '64 and until June '65. Didn't see one rocket blow up. Did see a bunch go up though. |
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On Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 8:49:07 PM UTC-5, John H wrote:
On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:30:20 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote: On Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 3:07:57 PM UTC-5, John H wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:06:28 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote: On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 5:01:52 PM UTC-5, wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:56:53 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/26/18 2:54 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 11/26/2018 2:42 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Live streaming Mars landing right now on the NASA website .... scheduled to land at 3pm EST. WOW!Â* They successfully landed it on Mars. All I saw was a bunch of people in a control room wearing maroon shirts... What, you long for the days when they all wore white shirts with a skinny tie and a cigarette in their mouth? The last time I was at Cape Canaveral, they had a recreation of the Apollo mission control room, complete with the ash trays and a couple packs of Lucky Strikes laying around. That was a proper rocket! Wish I could have seen the launch of one. Had to settle for a shuttle launch. Still pretty cool, but the ground doesn't shake. I was working at Cape Canveral when two Saturns were launched in early 1965. We lay down on the roof of our office (US Coast and Geodetic Survey) and had a great view. Yes, the ground shook, but we were right there on the base. Saturn V's had 7.5 million pounds of thrust. The space shuttle didn't beat up the astronauts nearly as bad as a Saturn did. The guy that started the company I work for was working at NASA in the early days. He says they announce a launch, then he and his coworkers would walk outside. A rocket would go up, blow up, and they would go back inside and get back to work. It took a while, even with the confiscated V-2's to learn from, for NASA to get it right. Rocket Science is real, and Germans make damned good engineers. :) I worked there during late '64 and until June '65. Didn't see one rocket blow up. Did see a bunch go up though. Think earlier, like late 50's. |
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 20:49:07 -0500, John H.
wrote: On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:30:20 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote: On Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 3:07:57 PM UTC-5, John H wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:06:28 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote: On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 5:01:52 PM UTC-5, wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:56:53 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/26/18 2:54 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 11/26/2018 2:42 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Live streaming Mars landing right now on the NASA website .... scheduled to land at 3pm EST. WOW!Â* They successfully landed it on Mars. All I saw was a bunch of people in a control room wearing maroon shirts... What, you long for the days when they all wore white shirts with a skinny tie and a cigarette in their mouth? The last time I was at Cape Canaveral, they had a recreation of the Apollo mission control room, complete with the ash trays and a couple packs of Lucky Strikes laying around. That was a proper rocket! Wish I could have seen the launch of one. Had to settle for a shuttle launch. Still pretty cool, but the ground doesn't shake. I was working at Cape Canveral when two Saturns were launched in early 1965. We lay down on the roof of our office (US Coast and Geodetic Survey) and had a great view. Yes, the ground shook, but we were right there on the base. Saturn V's had 7.5 million pounds of thrust. The space shuttle didn't beat up the astronauts nearly as bad as a Saturn did. The guy that started the company I work for was working at NASA in the early days. He says they announce a launch, then he and his coworkers would walk outside. A rocket would go up, blow up, and they would go back inside and get back to work. It took a while, even with the confiscated V-2's to learn from, for NASA to get it right. Rocket Science is real, and Germans make damned good engineers. :) I worked there during late '64 and until June '65. Didn't see one rocket blow up. Did see a bunch go up though. Musta been a sweet spot in the space program. ;-) I grew up with Vanguard. (my dad was a navy guy then) I agree, the reason it took so long to get to the moon was safety concerns and they actually did pretty damned good considering. Even with a catastrophic failure the NASA system and the hardware brought them home. I might sound like Harry but I wouldn't mind more DoD money being spent in space. The space program has always piggy backed off DoD or CIA dollars. There are a few Hubble telescopes. Only one is pointed up, (Maybe why the original mirror was nearsighted). ;-) I do think robot probes are the way to go until we answer a whole lot more questions. We should really know more about where we are going before we actually put a man in a rocket. It really looks like Musk is working on keeping people alive. He is our best hope for that near earth orbit thing (that we buy from the Russians). NASA should keep looking from here and perfecting the trick to live there. We are way far away from that and a weekend on Mars is a waste of everything. |
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