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Baclava (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 05:32 PM Original message |
40 years ago - Apollo 11 to the moon |
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stevebreeze (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
1. aside from the awesome pics, it is well worth remembering the economic help |
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Baclava (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 06:01 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. We are a society who put men on the moon 40 years ago...before we put wheels on luggage. |
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Baclava (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 06:11 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. And without microchips there would be no megapixel pics to look at on the internet |
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slutticus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 05:59 PM Response to Original message |
2. that earth-rise pic is one of the most profound photos ever taken... |
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Baclava (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 06:23 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Yeah - we are at the bottom of the puny scale after that view |
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ChimpersMcSmirkers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 06:27 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I can never see that pic enough. What a beauty. |
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Baclava (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 07:04 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. I love the smell of rocket fuel in the morning |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 09:20 PM Response to Reply #2 |
14. Pale Blue Dot |
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Baclava (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 10:00 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Voyagers are still flying |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 06:16 PM Response to Original message |
5. 40 years since the US did anything worthwhile. Everything seemed possible |
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Baclava (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 06:28 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Actually, the dream began in '61 - just proves anything is possible |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 06:43 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. I know it well. We watched every Mercury takeoff on a small black & white |
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Baclava (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 08:38 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Me too - on a B&W tee-vee (with tubes) |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 09:56 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. When I did my student teaching (1980), my supervising teacher's |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 06:28 PM Response to Original message |
8. Lest we forget, this was possible with warfare technology reapplied. |
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Baclava (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 06:43 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Of course.. the Saturn V was Wernher von Braun's baby |
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