One small step for a man... (Don't fancy doing it. Just do it.)

Volitions Advocate on 21/7/2009 at 13:14

Quote Posted by gunsmoke

Wasn't it just faked? Didn't you guys play Area 51?

:joke:

Or Duke Nukem 3D?

rachel on 21/7/2009 at 13:58

Quote Posted by nicked

I'll be interested to see the general reaction when/if we land a man on Mars. I'm guessing it won't be anywhere near as big of a deal.

I did the "ignoring dickhead" bit a couple of times (Y2K, the big eclipse of 1999 iirc) but you can be assured if someone lands on Mars in my lifetime I'm going to stay in front of the TV and watch that shit live.

I kinda regret missing the eclipse now, come to think of it. The next total one near me will be in 2026. :erg:

oudeis on 21/7/2009 at 15:07

This subject really deserved a better thread title. I understand that it was going with meme or whatever, but this was perhaps the greatest achievement in human history and should have gotten better than it did.

Not trying to be a dick, just sayin'.

Rogue Keeper on 21/7/2009 at 17:48

This better, outdeis? ;-)

demagogue on 21/7/2009 at 18:00

If When we land on Mars, I'll watch that too.

The other thing I'd take the day off for is the day we make unambiguous First Contact, even if by radio or satellite imaging or whatever. Hell, I'll even wear springy antennae balls for that.

Rogue Keeper on 21/7/2009 at 20:51

If the First Contact will look like the War of the Worlds, then we all gonna have a day off and possibly looong vacation afterwards.

jbairdjr on 22/7/2009 at 01:08

I was only 8 months old when this happened so my memories of the moon landing are a bit sketchy.

:confused:

Tocky on 22/7/2009 at 02:43

(http://s681.photobucket.com/albums/vv174/NGCalfee/?action=view&current=moontouch.jpg)

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If you enter from the west side of the Smithsonian you can touch a small square of the moon.

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You cannot touch Apollo 11 though as it is entirely encased in Lexan. You cannot even lay on the floor and reach any exposed portion of it. Yes I tried. I touched 16 at Huntsville Space and Rocketry Center and 15 at the Airforce museum in Dayton though. It is a compulsion. After most had stopped watching the moon landings in favor of whatever mindless soap was on I watched till the end and was sad when they did.

I have sat/lay in the mockup at Huntsville and flipped the primitive looking toggles on an 1/8 inch aluminum pannel and marveled at the "computer" which was a bundle of wires in a ring circling the module and it struck me how functional it was as if the sort of folks who built simple radios from kits had taken it to a crazy extreme. I suppose it was at that. Crazy wonderful bastards.

Mingan on 22/7/2009 at 03:19

Quote Posted by Kuuso

Apparently CIA has accidentally destroyed the original tapes of the moon-landing, which sounds extremely weird to me.

It's NASA that erased the original Apollo XI tapes in the 80s. They, apparently, were short on tape and erased a bunch of (possibly) mislabeled tapes. That's some kind of embarassing cock-up.

Kolya on 22/7/2009 at 07:07

Quote Posted by Tocky

If you enter from the [expletive deleted] you can touch [expletive deleted].

You cannot touch [expletive deleted] though as it is entirely encased in [expletive deleted]. You cannot even lay on the floor and reach any exposed portion of [expletive deleted]. Yes I tried. I touched [expletive deleted] at [expletive deleted] and [expletive deleted] and [expletive deleted] at the [expletive deleted] in Dayton though. It is a compulsion.

Someone's gotta stop him. :erm: