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Post #165,263 by broomberg 7/20/04 11:28:18 PM Reply	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.
Post #165,264 by deSitter 7/20/04 11:29:15 PM Reply	That was your fisher-price cell-phone going off -drl
Post #165,381 by deSitter 7/21/04 1:07:01 PM Reply	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

Walter C, astronauts receive moon rocks - (deSitter) - (32) - July 20, 2004, 10:35:41 PM EDT

July 20, 1969 was some day! - (a6l6e6x) - (26) - July 20, 2004, 11:13:17 PM EDT

Re: July 20, 1969 was some day! - (deSitter) - July 20, 2004, 11:35:30 PM EDT

Beep Beep Beep - (broomberg) - (2) - July 20, 2004, 11:28:18 PM EDT

That was your fisher-price cell-phone going off -NT - (deSitter) - July 20, 2004, 11:29:15 PM EDT

Just realized what you're remembering.. - (deSitter) - July 21, 2004, 01:07:01 PM EDT

Makes me wish I'd been born 10 years earlier... -NT - (inthane-chan) - (21) - July 21, 2004, 10:57:10 AM EDT

Ha. - (admin) - (20) - July 21, 2004, 12:02:54 PM EDT

Wow, you look younger than that - (deSitter) - (5) - July 21, 2004, 12:07:51 PM EDT

Yep. - (admin) - (4) - July 21, 2004, 01:05:31 PM EDT

People only mistake me for mid-20's - (ben_tilly) - (3) - July 21, 2004, 01:41:02 PM EDT

I'm only good until I open my mouth. - (admin) - (2) - July 21, 2004, 03:10:47 PM EDT

Same here. - (FuManChu) - July 21, 2004, 03:50:01 PM EDT

That is true for most of us I'd hope -NT - (ben_tilly) - July 21, 2004, 04:48:41 PM EDT

It wasn't much to see. - (Another Scott) - (11) - July 21, 2004, 12:14:56 PM EDT

Re: It wasn't much to see. - (deSitter) - (10) - July 21, 2004, 12:27:50 PM EDT

Arnold? Is that you? What have you done with UnixMonster? -NT - (Another Scott) - (9) - July 21, 2004, 12:39:39 PM EDT

Re: Arnold? Is that you? What have you done with UM? - (deSitter) - (8) - July 21, 2004, 12:42:28 PM EDT

Would I prefer the world of 1969 or 2004? (new thread) - (Another Scott) - July 21, 2004, 01:15:22 PM EDT

Re: Arnold? Is that you? What have you done with UM? - (pwhysall) - (6) - July 21, 2004, 03:20:42 PM EDT

Re: Arnold? Is that you? What have you done with UM? - (deSitter) - (5) - July 21, 2004, 03:33:44 PM EDT

Oh wow - (Arkadiy) - (2) - July 21, 2004, 03:37:20 PM EDT

:) - (deSitter) - July 21, 2004, 03:43:30 PM EDT

Had me worried there... Thanks for the pointers. -NT - (Another Scott) - July 21, 2004, 03:44:01 PM EDT

That's really funny. - (pwhysall) - (1) - July 21, 2004, 03:44:02 PM EDT

OK -NT - (deSitter) - July 21, 2004, 03:44:31 PM EDT

That's why I'm all for 10 years younger. - (inthane-chan) - (1) - July 21, 2004, 12:55:32 PM EDT

Me too. - (static) - July 22, 2004, 02:58:02 AM EDT

OT: msnbc totally blank in mozilla -NT - (drewk) - (1) - July 21, 2004, 09:51:35 AM EDT

Mozilla 1.7 works for me. - (a6l6e6x) - July 21, 2004, 01:35:03 PM EDT

Memories of the moon - (rcareaga) - (2) - July 21, 2004, 09:57:12 PM EDT

Re: Memories of the moon - (deSitter) - (1) - July 21, 2004, 10:38:03 PM EDT

English lessons - (rcareaga) - July 22, 2004, 01:18:48 AM EDT

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