NorthernLights Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 Great show on BBC2 tonight on the first Moon landing. Shows how complex the whole thing was and with now ancient technology. 8 days: To the Moon and back on BBC2 on iplayer. Bit depressing hearing them talking about being on Mars in 2000. Vague memory of being woken up in the middle of the night to watch it, pictures were crap. They cancelled it just when they got full colour and they had time to play golf. Should be hotels on it by now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dons_1988 Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 9 hours ago, welshbairn said: Great show on BBC2 tonight on the first Moon landing. Shows how complex the whole thing was and with now ancient technology. 8 days: To the Moon and back on BBC2 on iplayer. Bit depressing hearing them talking about being on Mars in 2000. Vague memory of being woken up in the middle of the night to watch it, pictures were crap. They cancelled it just when they got full colour and they had time to play golf. Should be hotels on it by now. Moon landings aren't real, mate. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 (edited) 15 hours ago, welshbairn said: Great show on BBC2 tonight on the first Moon landing. Shows how complex the whole thing was and with now ancient technology. 8 days: To the Moon and back on BBC2 on iplayer. Bit depressing hearing them talking about being on Mars in 2000. Vague memory of being woken up in the middle of the night to watch it, pictures were crap. They cancelled it just when they got full colour and they had time to play golf. Should be hotels on it by now. My recording cut out just as they were re-entering (oo-er), please no one spoil the story for me until I manage to catch it on iPlayer. Really enjoyed the show too, the mixture or dramatization combined with actual footage and voice recordings worked really well. Was it only 3% of the original rocket mass came back to earth, or something like that? Edited July 11, 2019 by Boghead ranter 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurkst Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 8 hours ago, Boghead ranter said: Was it only 3% of the original rocket mass came back to earth, or something like that? More like 0.3% I thought it was a great programme last night too. Loads of Apollo based stuff coming up on TV over the next week as well 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevieKTID Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 Just been to see this at the cinema, it's absolutely stunning, awe inspiring and filled with incredible footage, even though I know what happened I spent the duration of the documentary going between goosebumps and sweaty palms., go science! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 Watching a BBC4 series on the space race, Chasing the Moon. Not much in the way of technical stuff, but there's an interesting claim about why the Russians were first into space and the first to put a man in orbit. Both the US and the USSR were building ICBMs before they had developed nuclear weapons small enough to be carried on one. The Yanks thought they could get it down to 2 tons, the Russians 6 tons. So the Russians built massive rockets that were too expensive to use as a weapon and had to find some use for them. How would science progress if we weren't trying to kill each other, or break each other's codes? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorlomin Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 50 years ago today a human walked on the Moon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 1 hour ago, dorlomin said: 50 years ago today a human walked on the Moon. Not Michael Collins though, poor b*****d. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curmudgeon Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Not Michael Collins though, poor b*****d.He wasn't even allowed to sit down for photo, poor sod.Literally and metaphorically taking the Mickey out of the moon landing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 1 hour ago, Mark Connolly said: Not Michael Collins though, poor b*****d. I was listening to his interview the other day and he says he's repeatedly asked if it bothers him that he didn't step on the moon and he said it doesn't. I immediately thought of John Candy... Spoiler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 1 hour ago, Mark Connolly said: Not Michael Collins though, poor b*****d. First man to orbit the moon having a big w**k though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 He should've fucked off in the Lunar Module while they were outside and hidden in a crater or behind a big moon rock or something for the lolz. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Got the command vessel all tidy and nice for the way home and the other two messed it with fucking moon dust, and endless bragging about how beautiful the grey quarry looked. Pair of c***s. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Ferrino Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 14 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: First man to orbit the moon having a big w**k though. 16 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: First man to orbit the moon having a big w**k though. No other way to clean up than by catching it in your mouth though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 53 minutes ago, Tony Ferrino said: No other way to clean up than by catching it in your mouth though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurkst Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 On 19/07/2019 at 20:17, dorlomin said: 50 years ago today a human walked on the Moon. It was actually 50 years ago today, 21st July. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 On 19/07/2019 at 22:19, Mark Connolly said: Not Michael Collins though, poor b*****d. Not at all. Sort of person who is happy staying at home while his two friends go off to the pub and is happier still when they come back and say "that place had no life to it". Quietly satisfied - "I knew that already - that's why I didn't go." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 (edited) Israeli Water Bears on The Moon. Edited August 7, 2019 by Bully Wee Villa 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 47 minutes ago, Bully Wee Villa said: Israeli Water Bears on The Moon. Seen this earlier. Things wouldn't look out of place on Ceti Alpha V. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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