Why?? To bloody expensive:) Looks like its a bit warm in Yermo.. At the moment 1116 am here and only 24deg C but it is still winter here in Port Hedland. Avge temps of 40 plus in the summer

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Why?? To bloody expensive:) Looks like its a bit warm in Yermo.. At the moment 1116 am here and only 24deg C but it is still winter here in Port Hedland. Avg temps of 40 plus in the summer

I just found out that the Saturn V Rocket had 1,000,000 gallons of Rocket fuel on board that 363' Moon Rocket(It was the size of a 30 story building), It was also the Loudest too(The CBS Booth 4 miles away had ceiling tiles falling and the front window almost shattered from the intense noise of liftoff from 5 of the mightiest engines ever made, As to expense, The US Budget has always been big enough to do that, As NASA never had a really big budget, Defense always got a lot more money and still does today.

Oh and to the Hoaxers, NASA sure they practiced with Volcanic Dust to simulate Lunar conditions, But with a difference, The photos from the moon showed Astronauts getting Dirty from Moon Dust being to stuck to the Suits cause of Static Electricity, With an Atmosphere with any water vapor that doesn't happen, So the Landings weren't faked, Yer just uninformed and wrong, Look at the Boots in this photo below, That can't be faked.



Bean from Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3(NASA) Notice the Lunar Dust on the Suit.
(Conrad and Bean did not formally name their landing site, interestingly enough, though the intended touchdown point was nicknamed Pete's Parking Lot by Conrad).

It's a 3 Day Journey to the Moon and Apollo 11 only stayed for about 22 hours they headed home for Earth, These were the bravest Men around, As Apollo 13 almost proved, Space is a worse mistress than the Seas of Earth, As there is no air out there and one problem and Yer dead, The crew of 13 were lucky they had the LEM docked to the CSM and were on their way to the Moon instead of on the way back, They would have been been dead without the their lifeboat(the LEM[Lunar Excursion Module]) as the LEM had Its own Oxygen system and such, But It was only built with two in mind and It only had a limited number of CO2 filters to keep the CO2 levels down and so with some spare parts and yep Duct Tape they adapted a spare CSM CO2 filter for use in the LEM as otherwise they were physically incompatible which was a stupid idea(2 different CO2 filter designs almost killed them again), After that the 3 in the LEM had to combat the cold as the LEM just wasn't a very good lifeboat, But It did get them to Earth Orbit Injection and ultimately, Home to splashdown.

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As to expense, The US Budget has always been big enough to do that, As NASA never had a really big budget, ...

Isn't it just astounding what NASA can do with it's relatively limited budget.

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I think it's astounding that we-the-US don't question the cost of waging unnecessary wars or saving corporations that deserve to sink, but we walk away from the most important challenge facing humanity with barely a glance back. Anyone who doesn't think the space program and related sciences and technologies are critical should note what happened to Jupiter in the past few days. As a friend of mine likes to say, "The universe is a dangerous place. Let's not leave all our eggs on one planet."

Cheddar Armstrong melts into a mess

WAPAKONETA, Ohio, July 21 (UPI) -- Officials at an Ohio museum dedicated to Neil Armstrong said a cheddar cheese sculpture of the astronaut softened and fell from its base.

Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum officials in Wapakoneta said the facility's air conditioning unit turned off automatically overnight and resulting heat caused the sculpture to soften, resulting in the nearly one ton of cheese falling from its base, WHIO-TV, Dayton, Ohio, reported Tuesday.

The statue was carved during the course of 59 hours Friday, Saturday and Sunday by artist Sarah Kaufmann as part of festivities marking the 40th anniversary of Armstrong's walk on the moon.

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I think it's astounding that we-the-US don't question the cost of waging unnecessary wars or saving corporations that deserve to sink, but we walk away from the most important challenge facing humanity with barely a glance back. Anyone who doesn't think the space program and related sciences and technologies are critical should note what happened to Jupiter in the past few days. As a friend of mine likes to say, "The universe is a dangerous place. Let's not leave all our eggs on one planet."

Mars isn't rubber friendly, Seals on suits and spacecraft will have to be a type of silicon rubber instead, As CO2 on Mars can get into rubber(the type You roll around in Your car on), But at higher pressure It will not leave, So one gets useless and dangerous inflated rubber. The Moon has static problems from Dust acting like It's wet due to being without any moisture cause It's in a pure hard vacuum(almost as good as what's between the ears of some conspiracy/hoax nuts, Oh and It turns out Moon Rocks and Dust STINK like a Skunk! Limburger Cheese indeed, They didn't know they were right on the stink.). Recently It was discovered that Venus had Plate Tectonics and a liquid ocean at one time and that Venus had Granite Continents(The Russian landers landed in the valleys, So NASA is wanting to send some Teflon coated landers to the highlands that will resist the sulfuric acid rain that's there).

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Hey Folks, I had an 8" Refractor Telescope at the time. I not only glimpsed the things several times going out but on clear nights you could see it pass the face of the Moon!!! :-b...

I was incorrect about me scope at the time it was a Reflector...My Refractor was a toy, sortta. ;-]

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Hey Folks, I had an 8" Refractor Telescope at the time. I not only glimpsed the things several times going out but on clear nights you could see it pass the face of the Moon!!! :-b...

I was incorrect about me scope at the time it was a Reflector...My Refractor was a toy, sorta. ;-]

To Err is to be Human, Don't worry about It, I forgive You.

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I've got a 4 1/2" reflector scope. At 225X I can just about see Saturns rings and Jupiters moons on a very good night. A family friend has an 6" motorised one that is just awesome......

So they have "Mine's bigger than yours" competitions with scopes too?

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So they have "Mine's bigger than yours" competitions with scopes too?

Mine's not so big, a 70mm refractor, but it's computerized so that you can align the telescope to point you at whatever you want to see, and track it, compensating for the Earth's rotation.

I just love it when it slews to any star or planet etc. of my choice. It will even find the Milky Way on a good evening ;)

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Gee, where should I start, the 10 inch Maksutov-Newtownian or the 100mm (each lens) binoculars?

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So they have "Mine's bigger than yours" competitions with scopes too?

Mine's not so big, a 70mm refractor, but it's computerized so that you can align the telescope to point you at whatever you want to see, and track it, compensating for the Earth's rotation.

I just love it when it slews to any star or planet etc. of my choice. It will even find the Milky Way on a good evening ;)

Now You didn't have to lose the Milky Way did Ya? ;)

Oh and I don't have any Telescope to be envious of.

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So they have "Mine's bigger than yours" competitions with scopes too?

Mine's not so big, a 70mm refractor, but it's computerized so that you can align the telescope to point you at whatever you want to see, and track it, compensating for the Earth's rotation.

I just love it when it slews to any star or planet etc. of my choice. It will even find the Milky Way on a good evening ;)

Now You didn't have to lose the Milky Way did Ya? ;)

Oh and I don't have any Telescope to be envious of.

Never mind those 'scopes that show you the specs of light in the night sky. I have a 500mm zoom lens for my camera which will show the color of the eyes of a blue tit half a mile away :P

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So they have "Mine's bigger than yours" competitions with scopes too?

Mine's not so big, a 70mm refractor, but it's computerized so that you can align the telescope to point you at whatever you want to see, and track it, compensating for the Earth's rotation.

I just love it when it slews to any star or planet etc. of my choice. It will even find the Milky Way on a good evening ;)

Now You didn't have to lose the Milky Way did Ya? ;)

Oh and I don't have any Telescope to be envious of.

Never mind those 'scopes that show you the specs of light in the night sky. I have a 500mm zoom lens for my camera which will show the color of the eyes of a blue tit half a mile away :P

Well I do have a camera, A Canon A540 and sure I could put a different lens on It and mount the camera on a larger tripod, But Those are not part of My immediate or even long range goals right now, I have about 81 items on amazon, 2 on ebay and 1 pair of needed mods to have done to an Atari 1200XL and some will get done asap, Others will be delayed for a while, As I'm still slowly saving money up, I'm torn though between saving $881 or nearly $2000($2356) as either one isn't going to happen overnight for Me, Unless I get really lucky with the lottery or something. Plus soon I need to get three 27"x28" aspen pads and a better swamp cooler water pump in the 8500 to 9500 range(115-120v), As the current 7500 pump is only just adequate with one PC, Two PCs won't work here with the 7500 pump, not with temps north of 108F as 115F was able to make the PC go to a bsod recently.

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So they have "Mine's bigger than yours" competitions with scopes too?

Mine's not so big, a 70mm refractor, but it's computerized so that you can align the telescope to point you at whatever you want to see, and track it, compensating for the Earth's rotation.

I just love it when it slews to any star or planet etc. of my choice. It will even find the Milky Way on a good evening ;)

Now You didn't have to lose the Milky Way did Ya? ;)

Oh and I don't have any Telescope to be envious of.

Never mind those 'scopes that show you the specs of light in the night sky. I have a 500mm zoom lens for my camera which will show the color of the eyes of a blue tit half a mile away :P

My choices were limited to the toys of the day. ;-]

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Gosh. You lucky people who can actually see the stars at night. If I didn't live in London I would get a telescope.

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Gosh. You lucky people who can actually see the stars at night. If I didn't live in London I would get a telescope.

Yeah, Out here amongst the intense Heat and the Rattlesnakes, At Night when away from the lights, One can see a lot of stars and maybe some interstellar dust too(Someone hasn't been sweeping the place and some say Men are sloppy). :D ;)

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I`m happy to be able to see the stars so clearly as I do.. I dont really
need a scope.. but maybe one day I`ll have one.. ;-)

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I'm happy to be able to see the stars so clearly as I do.. I don't really
need a scope.. but maybe one day I`ll have one.. ;-)

I remember the first time I saw the stars(We were on a trip to Arizona before 1972), I mean really saw them, In all their glory, As We'd gotten away from all the "light pollution" that Man puts out with street lights and such where only the nearest and brightest of stars could be seen. Here It's not too bad, But still to see them like I did before I'd need to go a few miles further out and that's pretty easy from here. :D

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