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Originally posted by PuterMan
reply to post by Frira
I am with you 100% on that. I remember the moon landings being on TV. I also remember IBM 360 computers and tray of punch cards. Unfortunately youngsters have absolutely no concept of what things were like then.
The IBM I worked on took up a complete floor of the building it was in, and yes it was programmed with punch cards. Try cracking that code when you have dropped the tray!! Graphics? - nope!
reply to post by patternfinder
Tell me. Were you even alive then?edit on 5/9/2011 by PuterMan because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Ex_CT2
I was an adult (19 years old), and in the Navy, when man first set foot on the moon. Having lived and breathed the heady atmosphere of American know-how of that time; the extreme exaltation and the heartbreaking tragedies of the astronauts; the excitement of the news coverage of every launch and recovery--back when the "MSM" meant "Uncle" Walter Cronkite--no one can tell me we didn't send men to the moon. And brought them all back alive.
Now I'm just an old guy wishing someone would *finally* get some high-def photos of the landing sites, so we can at last get some closure on this. And shut these annoying little ####s up!
Originally posted by godWhisperer
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today i wish i could again ask him some questions about this event. for one, how could anyone endure the amount of radiation in the van allen belt, especially considering the amount of time it would take to go through it (it's somewhere around 20,000 miles wide, right?). that seems odd to me.
Originally posted by Ex_CT2
Originally posted by godWhisperer
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today i wish i could again ask him some questions about this event. for one, how could anyone endure the amount of radiation in the van allen belt, especially considering the amount of time it would take to go through it (it's somewhere around 20,000 miles wide, right?). that seems odd to me.
You conveniently forget that you don't have to ask your old professor when you have the internet. I found as many valid and well-founded answers to this in a matter of seconds as I could read in a matter of days. (There are these things called search engines, see....)
Originally posted by OccamAssassin
Excellent thread. S&F
I love to read about actual accounts of the Apollo missions from those who were there.
To those who think the moon landings were faked, you should really try and get some "first hand" accounts from people who actually lived through the 60's. The scale of people involved in both the USA and Australia is far to large to be able to fake such events. Surely someone would have come forward in the last 40 years with solid evidence if it had actually been a hoax. Instead we only have crackpot theories with no basis beyond wild speculation coming from people seek to capitalise on gullibility.edit on 5/9/2011 by OccamAssassin because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by godWhisperer
Originally posted by Ex_CT2
Originally posted by godWhisperer
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today i wish i could again ask him some questions about this event. for one, how could anyone endure the amount of radiation in the van allen belt, especially considering the amount of time it would take to go through it (it's somewhere around 20,000 miles wide, right?). that seems odd to me.
You conveniently forget that you don't have to ask your old professor when you have the internet. I found as many valid and well-founded answers to this in a matter of seconds as I could read in a matter of days. (There are these things called search engines, see....)
right. i used the anecdote more to imply that i wasn't a moon landing hoaxer or anything. why would you flame me? do you honestly believe i don't know what a search engine is? why do people so quickly resort to ad hominem crap assaults when they hear something they don't like?
i did the searches and it made me more curious. the most common theory is that it was a short time that they were in the belt, yet modern astronauts 600 miles away from the belt have problems with radiation. the official account is weak in its explanation of the belt thing. why will no other country (no other mission other than the apollos) send manned missions farther out than 400 miles? i think these are genuine points of interest for the apollo lore, regardless of if it happened or it didn't.
i am curious, i enjoy information from all sides of the issue. thanks again.