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Apollo 11 in Real Time
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#82Thanks for the share. I'm the author of the site and am happy to answer any questions.
What exactly is the "sync to today's clock" thing doing - the same day of the month and time of day but in July 1969?
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I found it obvious and intuitive, despite the multiple ways of navigating, and the attention to detail is extraordinary. Now I want that three layer seek on other video sites! I love that each photo - most of which I've never seen or knew existed - appears at the precise moment it was taken and you can click through to a full size. You managed a work of art. I am deeply impressed. The web needs more sites like this.…
You'll probably enjoy https://apollo17.org then =)
No doubt, I plan to binge there later.
Apollo 11 is one of those early memories that is a lot of "I remember that I used to remember", and retain some fragments of. Later missions, and Apollo 17 especially I have a much more coherent picture of yet aren't quite fully separate from each other, and remember some of the programmes explaining all about the Lunar Rover etc. And the programmes about the space stations, and lunar bases... If only. :(
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#84Thanks 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 :)
It's the sort of thing I'd love to see NASA do for Skylab, Voyager, and other missions, where we used tune in for regular updates. It was all a huge free PR boost for the US - most of my generation were somewhat hooked on space going through school. Then there was all the associated programmes explaining how it all worked, the plan or the why, and the artist's impressions of space stations, manned Mars plans or Lunar bases. There's got to be a huge archive we've seen only snippets of - I never realised they kept every station's comms.
If it were official, I suspect I might be disappointed by the time it had got through multiple committees and large government contractors.
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#85Thanks for the share. I'm the author of the site and am happy to answer any questions.
Hey Ben! This is so neat! I worked with Dr. Hansen on the audio digitization over on http://exploreapollo.org. Thanks for the link in the footer! I’ve been out of the loop on that project since graduating. Regardless, if you want to collaborate shoot me an email austin@austinpray.com
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Even my mother's childhood chores included churning butter by hand. They were not a poor family. It's difficult to imagine seeing the same kind of change in lifestyle in my lifetime as the previous two generations did.
The daily life changed for most of the people by the scale of the modern technology, but the previous generations were already familiar with the concepts we consider recent. - In the time of Napoleon France already had an operational telegraph service. That was even before the electricity could be used for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_telegraph - The first transatlantic telegraph cable became operation…
You're talking about one specific aspect though. Yes, the concept of an email is pretty familiar to anyone with experience with telegraphs.
I'd argue the availability of information, and certainly information that isn't curated by a single source, is a pretty fundamental discontinuity.
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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.
I'm holding out for actually good VR Probably I'm wrong and it'll be something else
i'm holding out for post scarcity, no more 40 hour work week
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#88Amazing website.
I've been listening to the audio and a few seconds after the 171:04:22 mark, on the CAPCOM channel we can hear the voice of a woman that seems completely out of place. She seems to be saying "Howdy". Anybody knows where this voice comes from?
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
The daily life changed for most of the people by the scale of the modern technology, but the previous generations were already familiar with the concepts we consider recent. - In the time of Napoleon France already had an operational telegraph service. That was even before the electricity could be used for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_telegraph - The first transatlantic telegraph cable became operation…
You're talking about one specific aspect though. Yes, the concept of an email is pretty familiar to anyone with experience with telegraphs. I'd argue the availability of information, and certainly information that isn't curated by a single source, is a pretty fundamental discontinuity.
> information that isn't curated by a single source is a pretty fundamental discontinuity.
Even in Ben Franklin’s time his paper was only one of at least four in Philadelphia.
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#90My 16gb 3.2 GHz MacBook Pro is on fire reproducing this. 50 years ago they went to the moon and back with far less resources.