An unknown man who influenced many young lives.
Gamer who put new spin on pinball dies at 100 | The Columbus Dispatch
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An unknown man who influenced many young lives.
Gamer who put new spin on pinball dies at 100 | The Columbus Dispatch
Space Mission was my first pinball, used to have a nice little gameroom once upon a time.
Sad addition to history. Thanks for posting OG, i wouldn't have made the connection otherwise.
Personally, I think the Who should dedicate a performance of "Pinball Wizard' to him.
With a cameo appearance by Elton John of course..............Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Guy
Really impressive that a guy who "had first been hired to perform soldering work" for a pinball manufacturer ended up revolutionizing the game.....
I know of a fella who began work at IBM as a janitor. He retired from the engineering department very highly revered and respected, and holding a number of patents. He continues to work part time as a master technician for a high end audio dealer where he is considered a "genius". There is a waiting line for his technical expertise.Quote:
Originally Posted by voice of the theater
These kinds of folks are rare, but there are surely some among us.
I suspect a lot of them were involved in the 60's space program. To get to the moon and back with 1960's tech is awesome in hindsight. Of course a lot of that 60's high tech is now today's tech. Anybody ever notice after giving up the space program our tech lead on the world slipped?
When I think about the technology we had back in 69 I have to wonder if we really did fake the apollo missions... Just sayin... I'm a firm believer in the lie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Guy
I can't disagree more. Nations around the world tracked them to the moon and back...and monitored communications. Anyone who doubts we went around the moon just has no idea. Did we land? How do you explain the recent flyover by satellite showing the equipment left behind is still there?Quote:
Originally Posted by cradeldorf
New Photos Reveal Apollo 11 at First Moon Landing Site | Space.com
If you think we faked those pics then explain this:
"The Indian and Japanese missions have also snapped images of the Apollo 11 site, but they don't have the high resolution of LRO's images"
We were there dude. Time to give it up.
I only have questions.
Why haven't we been back to the moon?
Why don't we use the moon as a platform for equipment to monitor near and outer space, and other scientific studies?
You can fly a whole buncha Saturn V's for the cost of building just one space shuttle, if they really make it to the moon.
Lockheed YF-12(SR-71) pilots wore essentially the same suits as the '69 astronauts, the difference being their supplies were external and not made for ambulatory movement of the wearer. Crews could only remain at their max operational altitude for limited periods of time due to the solar radiation exposure from operating at the edge of space. Where's the radiation protection on the Apollo craft that allowed the astronauts to be completely outside the earth's atmosphere(ionosphere) for multiple days at a time?
And why won't the "experts" answer the above question?
Anybody remember what a whopping success Skylab wasn't?
And i know Skylab really went up and orbited since i was actually able to view it thru a telescope on multiple occasions.
FWIW, i don't necessarily believe the '69 landing was an elaborate hoax, maybe. But, i have some doubts about the official story as it's been given to us.
Here are some images of the garbage we left on the moon: NASA - LRO Sees Apollo Landing Sites
They should have hired google to do the images since im able to pick out specific rocks in google earth images of my property.:D