One of the most impressive website I've seen.
Bravo <3
Apollo 11 in Real Time
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#72Thanks for the share. I'm the author of the site and am happy to answer any questions.
You, Sir, have impressed me like no single person doing work on the web has ever before.
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#73Thanks for the share. I'm the author of the site and am happy to answer any questions.
Sensational work. Really. I don't have much more of a constructive comment to add, but sometimes I feel it's just necessary to say "well done". Brilliant.
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#74This is one of the coolest things I saw on the internet! Really amazing!
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#75But where is the telemetry data? Oh it got all erased. Every single tape. Whoops.
According to NASA there was a magnetic tape shortage. What, you've never taped over a VHS before? xD https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/Apollo_11_TV_Tapes_Report.p...
I’m not 100% if you’re being ironic.
They supposedly made the trip seven times and they don’t have the telemetry data from any of the missions.
The most important missions ever performed and they delete priceless metrics.
They never returned after 50 years. Don Pettit claims that NASA destroyed all the technology to go there and is having a difficult time rebuilding it. None of this makes any sense. Never in the history of technology has a task increased in complexity while technological advancements also increased.
It’s all nonsense.
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#76Thanks for the share. I'm the author of the site and am happy to answer any questions.
I was convinced this was an official NASA exhibit made for the 50-year anniversary. Fantastic work and much appreciated. My dad will be psyched; he was 17 at the time of the launches, and this fits in great in the recent tradition of "slow entertainment" that happens in real time over multiple days :)
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Truly incredible work. The multitrack visualization is a really great UI, and it does wonders communicating just how much teamwork went into managing these missions. I had no idea all the mission control workstations were recorded, and how active they all were even when the crew was doing an unrelated task. Some small thoughts: when a desk is selected it would be great to deselect it by clicking it again to go back t…
Holy moly, thanks for the kudos and great suggestions, too. I'll work on the two-tone selected button tomorrow. I have almost all of the Apollo 13 mission control audio as well. That's the next project (but I want to take a breather for at least a day!)
Thank you for doing this; I hope you are able to take a couple of weeks of serious beach time and recharge yourself properly for the next one!
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#78But where is the telemetry data? Oh it got all erased. Every single tape. Whoops.
According to NASA there was a magnetic tape shortage. What, you've never taped over a VHS before? xD https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/Apollo_11_TV_Tapes_Report.p...
> What, you've never taped over a VHS before?
Well, actually…
I think I have only one or two VHS tapes, being the equivalent of /tmp. yes "have"; I still have all the tapes I recorded neatly organized and mothballed in boxes, and except for that two particular tapes I can not recall of overwriting any other.
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#79For some reason my dad can't get in. The cursor is just a (/) when you mouse over the join now button. Is the site overloaded? Is something wrong on his end?
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My dad even talks about that - he’s in his late sixties and has been pretty blue collar careered his whole life. How he simply couldn’t even begin to fathom something like the internet being a thing when he was in his 20s. Makes me wonder what I can’t imagine now that I might see in my lifetime.
Probably over a million JS frameworks. I could never fathom such a language in my youth, let alone so many solutions to the same problem.
The future is now, my friend.