If you are an Apollo fan like I am, you must watch this film.
From back in the days when we could be proud of our country.
From back in the days when we could be proud of our country.
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Posts: 5403 (06/07/08 20:02:31) loves a good conspiracy |
"Hey you...don't help them
to bury the light.....
don't give in without a fight" - Pink Floyd
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Posts: 5384 (06/07/08 20:07:02) Large Cock |
Never heard of it. What? Is this a new feature film? Or what?
I am hepped up for the HD Space extravaganda starting tomorrow night.
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Posts: 5385 (06/07/08 20:08:27) Large Cock |
Also, what do you think of the new post-Shuttle space program? Looks like a step back to Apollo to me.
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Posts: 5404 (06/07/08 20:16:06) loves a good conspiracy |
The film is a Ron Howard produced homage to the incredible accomplishements of the Apollo program, circa 1968-1972.
IMO, with the exception of the very small budget alloted for robotic planetary exploration, via JPL, our space program has been completely un-inspiring since the last Apollo flight, so a step back is all good for moi.
"Hey you...don't help them
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don't give in without a fight" - Pink Floyd
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Posts: 5386 (06/07/08 20:25:17) Large Cock |
I dunno that I'd go that far. The Shuttle was a deeply flawed venture- and riddled with politics (politics played a big part in Apollo, too - but not so
much technologically). Still, the concept fo the Shuttle, I thought, was awe-inspiring. And so have it's accomplishments been. I think the shuttle's
main flaw, technologically, is the external fuel tank - the foam covered piece of shit. Second vote goes to the primitive solid-fueled boosters. Still, the
vision of a re-useable spaceship was a great one, I think. It was the politics of economy (which turned out to be nooooo economy) and the decline of tech in
favor of politics at NASA which I think were the problem.
Apollo had romance, a few men alone in a tin can. But it was definitely primitive.
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Posts: 5387 (06/07/08 20:27:26) Large Cock |
BTW, I blame Nixon. Fucking bastard.
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Posts: 5405 (06/07/08 20:41:30) loves a good conspiracy |
Well, I agree that the concept for the shuttle was good....for what it was...a reuseable earth orbit spacecraft.
I just had hoped that, after Apollo, we would have set our horizons higher than low earth orbit for the next 30+ years. We should have (and could have) achieved permanent moon bases...and maybe even mars bases, had we continued with the apollo momentum. The bang for my buck lies in the "smarter, faster, cheaper" route we've taken with robotic planetary exploration. We can send a decently outfitted probe to mars that returns data for 1000% of it's planned mission for the price of a crappy hollywood movie! Still, humans need to be there....because we can.
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Posts: 5388 (06/07/08 20:51:57) Large Cock |
Yes, and I still blame Nixon, he killed it.
Irritatingly enough, it's GW's administration who made noises about lunar returns. I'm sure he has no idea what he's talking about, however. Smarter, cheaper, faster...is just a way to try to sneak real advances and science past the mundane bean counters. I like the concept - and I agree, the whole program should be smarter, cheaper, faster. The aims are necessarily collapsed to make things cheaper, though. Like the current Phoenix Mars lander. It can only detect the POSSIBLITY of organic compounds, intimating the possibility of life. Why not bacterial incubators as well? Why not microscopic views of growing possible life? It's a lot of trouble to get landed at the poles just to find water and hydrocarbons. Personally, I'd like to see Space Shuttles that can go further...a Shuttle to the moon with a lander in the pod bay. That would be advancement. Not going back to a capsule program, as grand as it was in its day.
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Posts: 4277 (06/08/08 07:31:34) King of the |
Make sure you watch "When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions" tonight at 9 pm on the Discovery Channel. This looks like it will be a very cool show.
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Posts: 4917 (06/08/08 07:56:51) Internet Broadcaster |
The Right Stuff is one of my top 10 films ever, Apollo 13, which is a RH film, is pretty brilliant as well.
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Posts: 4278 (06/08/08 09:40:10) King of the |
Anyone born after the last moon landing will generally be underwhelmed by the incremental technologies that have been developed in their lifetimes. My son only
half believes that we've been to the moon. Instead, he's got his iPod and his cell phone, two awesome devices that have changed the way we listen to
music and communicate.
But I want more! Panick wrote the other day that we should have all had flying cars by now. I not only want a flying car, but I want to be able to use a transporter for long trips (or better yet, just stay home and play in my holodeck!). For some reason, innovation in the US has come in very incremental stages. It's time we ramped things up and begun a new wave of space exploration. We should also pump every available resource into coming up with a new form of renewable energy. I'm sick of everything always being "ten years away." I want it all and I want it now. |
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Posts: 17692 (06/08/08 09:45:58) All Adders Are Puffs |
Both Ron Howard and Tom Hanks (with Apollo 13, and Form the Earth to the Moon and now this) seem to ber hollywood's visionaries. Apollo 13 takes my breath
away every single time I watch it; seeing how they accomplished so much with so little. It was BIG brains and BIGGER balls. We seem to lack some of both of
those things now...
Cheers,
Phil Llarion's Lair My Little Bug! - A conscience does not prevent sin. It only prevents you from enjoying it. |
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