Post #165,255
7/20/04 10:35:41 PM
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Walter C, astronauts receive moon rocks
[link|http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5431472/|http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5431472/]
That is so damn nice...
-drl
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Post #165,260
7/20/04 11:13:17 PM
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July 20, 1969 was some day!
Actually, it was some night! Once again, I had to stay up late to watch a NASA feat on TV. Talk about exhilaration!
Centuries from now, it will be the event that marked the 20th century.
Alex
"If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said." -- Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve chairman
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Post #165,262
7/20/04 11:26:40 PM
7/20/04 11:35:30 PM
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Re: July 20, 1969 was some day!
I was trying to write a poem about it, and all I got was:
O moon, o moon,
Send out your midnight beams.
Let me see your silver luster
Rendered on a Linux cluster.
In the parts I already tossed out, the world had ended and the Sun evaporated us both, Earth and Moon, merged at last, no more steps of any size, and I was thinking about the Earth writing the Moon a reverse sonnet, an apology for capturing it - and there were only six men up there, and not a single moonman down here, and it's just a rock for Christ's sake is it still a romantic object? it is to me i suppose the moonlight on the wabash etc. etc.
-drl
Edited by deSitter
July 20, 2004, 11:26:57 PM EDT
Edited by deSitter
July 20, 2004, 11:35:30 PM EDT
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Post #165,263
7/20/04 11:28:18 PM
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Beep Beep Beep
I will aways remember the "Beep" sound.
My parents woke me up to watch on TV.
I was listeing to NPR this morning as they interviewed someone in the control room. It seems they had at MOST 15 seconds of fuel left before they ran out and would have crashed. They had been heading for a pile of rocks and needed to shift to the side before they landed. Not anticipated at all.
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Post #165,264
7/20/04 11:29:15 PM
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That was your fisher-price cell-phone going off
-drl
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Post #165,381
7/21/04 1:07:01 PM
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Just realized what you're remembering..
[link|http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/quindar.html|http://history.nasa....alsj/quindar.html]
The beep is a 2525 Hz tone (somewhere between F# and G) with a duration of 1/4 second.
-drl
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Post #165,331
7/21/04 10:57:10 AM
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Makes me wish I'd been born 10 years earlier...
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Post #165,356
7/21/04 12:02:24 PM
7/21/04 12:02:54 PM
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Ha.
I was there by nearly 3 months...
Now, if only I could remember it... :-P
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Edited by admin
July 21, 2004, 12:02:54 PM EDT
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Post #165,357
7/21/04 12:07:51 PM
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Wow, you look younger than that
It was a great time to be a scientific kid. Real space travel!
-drl
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Post #165,380
7/21/04 1:05:31 PM
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Yep.
Put me in shorts and a Bart Simpson t-shirt, freshly shaven and with a good night's sleep, and I look 18.
Until I smile and you see the crow's feet. :-)
I got carded the other day, too...
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #165,393
7/21/04 1:41:02 PM
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People only mistake me for mid-20's
And I'm younger than you! :-(
(Admittedly by less than 6 months.)
Cheers,
Ben
To deny the indirect purchaser, who in this case is the ultimate purchaser, the right to seek relief from unlawful conduct, would essentially remove the word consumer from the Consumer Protection Act
- [link|http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1246&Page=1&pagePos=20|Nebraska Supreme Court]
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Post #165,417
7/21/04 3:10:47 PM
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I'm only good until I open my mouth.
I don't sound like a teenager. :-)
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #165,436
7/21/04 3:50:01 PM
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Same here.
But then, I didn't sound like a teenager when I was a teenager. I had to show an early girlfriend some ID to prove I wasn't 30. ;)
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Post #165,447
7/21/04 4:48:41 PM
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That is true for most of us I'd hope
To deny the indirect purchaser, who in this case is the ultimate purchaser, the right to seek relief from unlawful conduct, would essentially remove the word consumer from the Consumer Protection Act
- [link|http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1246&Page=1&pagePos=20|Nebraska Supreme Court]
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Post #165,360
7/21/04 12:14:56 PM
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It wasn't much to see.
Grainy black and white TV. :-(
What was amazing was the National Geographic articles that came out in that time period. The Apollo launches were always impressive because they were so slow. The shuttle leaps off the pad compared to the Saturn V, at least as I remember it. (Ron Howard sped it up in the CGI in his movie Apollo XIII. :-(
I still have a book that Gulf (the gasoline company) put out giving lots and lots of details about the Apollo project, etc., from back in the old days when service stations pumped gas and gave away glasses, dishes and books to get loyal customers...
"Let me tell ya sonny, when I was a boy, we went to the MOON and ..."
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #165,364
7/21/04 12:27:50 PM
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Re: It wasn't much to see.
Yes, the CGI in A13 was beyond stupid.
I didn't mind the grainy BW, I was just happy that the camera worked.
Oddly, it was the last TV from the Moon for years - A12's camera got pointed at the Sun and fried, A13 didn't make it, A14's camera was out of focus. It wasn't until 1971 and A15 that we got good video from the Moon, here:
[link|http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a15/a15v.1195542.ram|http://www.hq.nasa.g.../a15v.1195542.ram]
By then noone gave a damn, and we all became girly men.
-drl
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Post #165,368
7/21/04 12:39:39 PM
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Arnold? Is that you? What have you done with UnixMonster?
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Post #165,369
7/21/04 12:42:28 PM
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Re: Arnold? Is that you? What have you done with UM?
Well I ask you, which world do you prefer? That of 1969, or that of 2004?
I'll take the world with pioneers and self-respecting MEN over the preening sissies of this generation.
-drl
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Post #165,386
7/21/04 1:15:22 PM
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Would I prefer the world of 1969 or 2004? (new thread)
Created as new thread #165385 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=165385|Would I prefer the world of 1969 or 2004?]
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Post #165,419
7/21/04 3:20:42 PM
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Re: Arnold? Is that you? What have you done with UM?
Jesus, you're a whiny fucktard.
"Mommy, the libruls stole all the REAL men and now niggers and broads have got the vote!"
Peter
[link|http://www.debian.org|Shill For Hire]
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
[link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Blog]
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Post #165,428
7/21/04 3:33:44 PM
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Re: Arnold? Is that you? What have you done with UM?
That almost completely misses the point.
This has nothing to do with race or sex. It has to do with an unconscious and destructive readjustment of the psychic climate toward the Absolute Feminine, in which preening narcissism is the desired persona, and absolute risk-free government-imposed safety is mandated to guard these Precious Ones. The Great Devouring Mother has overwhelmed the western world.
Of course there is no way I can make you understand my point - you are a creature of the times, secure beneath the watchful eyes. You prefer instead to hang out labels that are themselves a symptom, not a cause.
-drl
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Post #165,430
7/21/04 3:37:20 PM
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Oh wow
To hear deS speaking about Physics consumed by Great Feminine. Comapare with [link|http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html|this] article about Dead White Men.
When you're done, go read [link|http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/lingua_franca_v4/lingua_franca_v4.html|here].
--
"...was poorly, lugubrious and intoxicated."
-- Patrick O'Brian, "Master and Commander"
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Post #165,432
7/21/04 3:43:30 PM
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:)
That's so yesterday. Look up L'affaire Bogdanoff...
-drl
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Post #165,433
7/21/04 3:44:01 PM
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Had me worried there... Thanks for the pointers.
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Post #165,434
7/21/04 3:44:02 PM
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That's really funny.
You're the second most preeny narcissist around here.
Peter
[link|http://www.debian.org|Shill For Hire]
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
[link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Blog]
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Post #165,435
7/21/04 3:44:31 PM
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OK
-drl
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Post #165,376
7/21/04 12:55:32 PM
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That's why I'm all for 10 years younger.
I would have been 8 at the time. :)
WANTED: Precognitive Telepath for adventuring Partnership. You know where to apply.
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Post #165,521
7/22/04 2:58:02 AM
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Me too.
There was a lot going on in the world of science and technology that someone born in 1971 basically got the arse end of. Apart from the Apollo missions et al, I would have loved to have been 10 years older during the home computer wars, for instance.
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #165,312
7/21/04 9:51:35 AM
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OT: msnbc totally blank in mozilla
===
Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
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Post #165,391
7/21/04 1:35:03 PM
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Mozilla 1.7 works for me.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040625
Alex
"If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said." -- Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve chairman
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Post #165,480
7/21/04 9:57:12 PM
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Memories of the moon
I was thirteen days away from my seventeenth birthday when Apollo 11 touched down. There was an interval—the better part of an hour, I believe—before the astronauts clambered onto gthe surface. With about five minutes lacking of that historic moment the family's elderly "Capeheart" television set experienced a catastrophic failure ("Houston, we have a problem") of its CRT, whereupon all present stampeded over to the neighbors' premises to watch the historic event. There is, or at least was at one time a piece of moonrock inset in a display at the Smithsonian, so that you could actually press your fingertip to an area of appropriated lunar surface, itself about the size of a fingertip. I was thirty when I did this for the first time and, imagining myself jaded, was thrilled to do so.
Incidentally, young "JvlivsCaesar" will be accompanying my chum Robert "Death March" Williams and me on a trek into California's "Desolation Wilderness" this weekend. Young Caesar cut his teeth in the old USSR, and still quite firmly believes what he was taught in the successor state's primary schools, to wit, that the entire Apollo program was undertaken on a series of elaborate Hollywood sound stages. I have been arguing this point with him on and off for a couple of years, and he greets my every refutation with expressions of condescending pity for my naïveté, attributing this, I suppose, to the steady diet of imperialist propaganda I've absorbed these five decades & change past...
cordially,
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
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Post #165,490
7/21/04 10:38:03 PM
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Re: Memories of the moon
Please work on Julie the C's orthography while he's underwing. :)
-drl
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Post #165,516
7/22/04 1:18:48 AM
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English lessons
His spelling is likely better than yours or mine was after five years exposure to the mother tongue, and his English is moreover far better than my or thy Russian will ever be. But to the extent it lies within my power on a camping trip, which is unlikely to involve a lot of written communication, I'll attempt to exert a salutary influence.
cordially,
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
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