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re: 50 years ago today, Apollo 8 broadcasted live footage from lunar orbit
Posted on 12/24/18 at 11:12 am to willymeaux
Posted on 12/24/18 at 11:12 am to willymeaux
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Posted on 12/24/18 at 11:20 am to IT_Dawg
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The exposure time for the images (it’s actually three images: red, green and blue) was too short for any stars to be seen. Earth and the Moon were bright enough that a short-duration exposure was all that was needed. The brighter an object is, the shorter the exposure time required to capture an image of it. It’s similar to why you don’t really see them on landing videos or pictures - the subjects being photographed were so much brighter than the background stars that the exposures weren’t long enough to capture the stars.
LOL. so what you're telling me is we have the technology to get to the moon but not the technology to take pictures when we are there. LOL. That is some comical sh*t.
Posted on 12/24/18 at 11:31 am to Derrick From Texas
Its the same reason you cant see stars during the day, you dolt.
Posted on 12/24/18 at 11:57 am to SlapahoeTribe
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And our children will laugh at technology used on the ISS today
Some of the airlock systems and loading bay is already 40 years old... and they're basically rehashed skylab work from the apollo era. Mcdonnell douglas rebranded a lot of shite to be compliant in other missions.
Posted on 12/24/18 at 12:16 pm to TGFN57
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So, a shout out to the muslims in the 10th century that came up with algebra. NOT any contribution to NASA.
Get it right.
Trying too hard, just admit Barry was a complete fraud.
Posted on 12/24/18 at 12:17 pm to Derrick From Texas
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LOL. so what you're telling me is we have the technology to get to the moon but not the technology to take pictures when we are there. LOL. That is some comical sh*t.
The moon surface photos were taken with Hasselblad cameras that were probably designed in the early 1950s, not hat it matters, as others have said it is a matter of the short exposure time due to how bright the lunar surface is.
Posted on 12/24/18 at 12:23 pm to Derrick From Texas
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Derrick From Texas
Posted on 12/24/18 at 12:35 pm to willymeaux
It was a great time to be alive! I didn't see my dad live and in person from '63-'72 because he was busy putting men on the moon. I got to see him on TV when they would switch locations on the broadcast over to Mission Control in Houston. He was one of the dudes you'd see sitting in front of a monitor wearing a white shirt.
Posted on 12/24/18 at 12:43 pm to Lou Pai
From 10th-20th century. That's about a 93 mile wide hair.
Posted on 12/24/18 at 12:47 pm to 91TIGER
Just wanted to make note of the difference between claiming the president praising muslims contribution to NASA and what really happened, which was to acknowledge something from a few hundred years ago.
I was never a giant fan of Obama but let's not make complete false claims.
I was never a giant fan of Obama but let's not make complete false claims.
Posted on 12/24/18 at 12:54 pm to willymeaux
Posted on 12/24/18 at 1:09 pm to MSUDawg98
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remember in the 90s they made a big deal about scientific calculators being more powerful
Yeah but Apollo 13 would’ve been boring if all they had to do was change AA batteries
Posted on 12/24/18 at 2:58 pm to Darth_Vader
genuinely made me laf. i'm going to use this one. I've never seen it before. thx vader!!!
Posted on 12/24/18 at 4:43 pm to willymeaux
I still say this was our greatest human achievement ever. NASA did not even have the math to break away from earths gravity 6 months prior. NASA brass got pissed about the Russians winning, and said “ frick it, we will figure it out on the way there.”
The book “Apollo 8” is amazing.
The book “Apollo 8” is amazing.
This post was edited on 12/24/18 at 8:28 pm
Posted on 12/24/18 at 8:17 pm to MondayMorningMarch
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It was a great time to be alive! I didn't see my dad live and in person from '63-'72 because he was busy putting men on the moon.
Don't sound so despondent... my grandpa was literally chief engineer of the 3rd stage, putting baws into lunar orbit.
Posted on 12/24/18 at 8:29 pm to fishfighter
quote:I was sitting in the floor about 3 feet away from the TV, age 4. I remember it though. Had watched the smoke and the sun glimmer off the rocket when it launched from Cape Canaveral, clear blue skies with light thin clouds off to my right over the Gulf.
Remember watching this on TV. The world had came to a stand still when this went down.
That year I had a spaceman themed birthday complete with little astronaut uniform including helmet and fake walkie talkie. With my cotton top blonde hair in a near crew cut I looked like a mini 'naut.
Posted on 12/24/18 at 8:36 pm to MSUDawg98
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I think my iPad has more power than any of the original fleet of shuttles.
Your iPad wouldn't survive Earth orbit.
Space is filled with electromagnetic radiation that will easily fry most computers designed for ground use.
Posted on 12/24/18 at 8:48 pm to willymeaux
You can thank 3 sassy African American ladies for the Apollo program.
Posted on 12/24/18 at 9:03 pm to willymeaux
It was a tremendous accomplishment.
Whether they actually went to the moon or if they did it on an elaborate soundstage, it’s still an engineering marvel. I am impressed either way.
My only wish is that the issue could be settled. It’s like Atlantis. We may never know the truth.
Whether they actually went to the moon or if they did it on an elaborate soundstage, it’s still an engineering marvel. I am impressed either way.
My only wish is that the issue could be settled. It’s like Atlantis. We may never know the truth.
Posted on 12/24/18 at 10:27 pm to StarSaint
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no stars
No understanding of aperture nor f-stop, by StarSaint.
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