An unknown man who influenced many young lives.
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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
ON TOPIC, what where pin ball games like before flippers?
OFF TOPIC, no reason to go back to the moon with humans, since robots can do the job better and cheaper, and we have no way of staying there long term; there was some experiment a while back of a self contained colony enclosure on Earth somewhere in the US desert where they tried to produce their own food, water, and air. I can’t find the article, but they had to abandon it because the air became toxic after a very short time. I agree that they need to figure out how to live in a hostile environment closer to Earth than jumping out to Mars unless the only reason to go to Mars is to say we did it and then abandon the project because it costs too much or is too hard to do long term. It will be hundreds of years if not a thousand before we can colonize Mars.
Especially if we can’t RAISE taxes, pay OFF our dept (not just not adding to it) AND fund NASA to the tune of 10 times it’s current budget. Never mind the education crisis, the infrastructure crisis, and the job outsourcing/ insourcing war on the middle class crisis.
Ok, I will get off of my soap box now, but you guys started it. :)
We went to the moon? How did I miss that?? :confused:
So what about the protection on the other capsules that stayed up for days? if you go there the whole program is a hoax. The Apollo suits were multiple layers, same principle as the old Israeli metal/plywood sandwich armor....the sum blocks much greater forces than individual components would.Quote:
Originally Posted by bowtie427ss
BTW the SR71 suit was way less complex- David Clark S1030 full pressure suits. They weren't 'true" space suits.
Again, i really only have questions. And, of course i have no doubt we were there, we left plenty of garbage behind for evidence, as man does pretty much everywhere he goes. To see one of the rovers, and it's tracks will be an interesting revelation when it comes.Quote:
So what about the protection on the other capsules that stayed up for days?
I was around some of this stuff as a kid, relatives were nasa employees. I was too young to have any appreciation or really concept even of some of the things i was able to physically put my hands on at different times.
One of my most vivid memories is of touching, and seeing the heat shield of a capsule after re-entry, kind of a rough cast iron like surface dotted with droplets of once molten glass, which today i assume is the remains of a fiberglass covering. Apparently things get warm coming back down.:D
When something comes down, it loses the kinetic energy that put it up. You are right, fiberglass mat was used to keep the ablative material together. It would vaporize, sacrificing itself while carrying heat away from the capsule. it is thought the Apollo astronauts had a high rate of cancer, but the quantitative sample total is too small to get real stats...we would certainly know if folks stayed there. Long term damage may prohibit it.
I'd like to know,who panned the camera vertically when the Apollo 11 Eagle took off from the Moon to return to Michael Collins in Columbia.
Apollo 11 ( From Moon to Columbia ) - YouTube
Apollo 11 ( From Moon to Columbia ) - YouTube
That's easy- 1940's technology could have done it mechanically. The rate of climb is known, it could have been turned on by the launch command.Quote:
Originally Posted by theophile
Indeed, and by the late 60's the technology that was available to nasa and the military would be equivalent to late 80's consumer technology or beyond in many aspects. Photography is certainly an area where they enjoyed the very latest and best stuff for a long time, to this day even.Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Guy
Of course, that would also give them the ability to "create" some pretty convincing images if that became a necessary step in any particular program, wouldn't it?:D
The video of the lauch is in color. Apollo 11 only had black and white camera. This is from a later Apollo flight (15,16 or 17) taken from the rover that had a remote controlled color fast scan camera (RCA I beleive). Looks like the video is taken from many Apollo flights edited together.
Much if not most of the computer technology for the Apollo missions was built at IBM Owego, where my dad worked on semiconductor technology in its earliest days. One of the old pieces of junk he brought home from work was a black box with a pencil like probe hard wired to the box. The box had little metal electrodes embedded in the front of it, and when you touched one of the electrodes, a little LED bar lit up in the display. I wish I still had this device today, since this was one of the earliest 8 segment displays made. I still do have a couple of things from those days. One is a complete collection of Apollo mission patches which has an honored place on the mancave wall. The Apollo 1 mission patch is especially interesting since it has a yellow rim around it, and every other example of it I have been able to find is rimmed in black. The other thing I have is a piece of laboratory glassware that was used to grow the first gallium arsenide single crystal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Guy
Back in the day Owego was a thriving vibrant little town. Today after IBM has pulled out and the Susquehanna produced a 500 yr flood, the town is a mere shadow of its former self, kinda like the space program....