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The most famous carbon dioxide absorber
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#12Many of us knew the story from books, or even the Tom Hanks Apollo 13 film, but the detail here is fascinating.
The triumph of the movie, as described at the time, was making people care about a story they already knew the ending to. Opie sure turned out good.
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#13> On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder of his spacecraft and became the first human to walk on the Moon. The first words spoken by him on the Moon that day are still remembered. >[img that misquotes Neil Armstrong] is a hilarious way to start
I believe Neil Armstrong said that is the correct quote, it just dropped the "a" in the transmission.
There is a whole controversy and analysis about that particular syllable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong#First_Moon_walk
Also, the blog post in the submission omits a major detail: the on-orbit docking maneuvers for the CSM to mate with the LM. A minor detail is that the Saturn V's third stage performed TLI (trans-lunar injection) and it actually impacted the Moon. After this TLI, the LM and the CSM were flying free in space, with a bit of separation, and it was the CSM pilot who needed to turn 180° and nose-in to the LM in order to be in the proper configuration for the hypothetical Moon landing.
It was an unusual configuration for Apollo 13, to say the least, because of course they did not land on the Moon, but also because the "base/legs" part of the LM wouldn't be "left behind" on the lunar surface, so they sort of lugged it around awhile. I don't know the exact sequence of jettisoning that base, but they certainly relied on the LM "head" as a lifeboat and a source of additional life-support functions.
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#14> On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder of his spacecraft and became the first human to walk on the Moon. The first words spoken by him on the Moon that day are still remembered. >[img that misquotes Neil Armstrong] is a hilarious way to start
I believe Neil Armstrong said that is the correct quote, it just dropped the "a" in the transmission.
IIRC Armstrong said some years later that he had unintentionally left out the "a".
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe Neil Armstrong said that is the correct quote, it just dropped the "a" in the transmission.
Until recently I believed that too. However, I came across some discussion which made me realize I was mixing up the sequence. The transmission interruption, which can be clearly heard, didn't happen at that point in the quote; it happened a moment later, after the word "man". The critical part of the quote seems to come through clear. It's more of a linguistic question about how "for a" and "for" may sound almost in…
I have a similar accent and we would say it like "furrah-man". For me, the "ah" becomes a lot weaker going into the "m", so I can easily see it.
I'm also intrigued by the idea that it was a flub which he realized instantly (if you listen to the recording):
... step for man (dammit) ... one giant leap...
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#16Many of us knew the story from books, or even the Tom Hanks Apollo 13 film, but the detail here is fascinating.
The triumph of the movie, as described at the time, was making people care about a story they already knew the ending to. Opie sure turned out good.
> The triumph of the movie, as described at the time, was making people care about a story they already knew the ending to.
One could, I think, argue the same about any movie about a historical event. I think that it would seem strange, for example, to say that that was the main achievement of Sands of Iwo Jima.
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#17and I thought the most famous carbon dioxide absorber would be caustic potash solution
Myself, I was thinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Sherman_(tree) .
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#18Many of us knew the story from books, or even the Tom Hanks Apollo 13 film, but the detail here is fascinating.
The triumph of the movie, as described at the time, was making people care about a story they already knew the ending to. Opie sure turned out good.
I mean it was also way better than the first 12 prequels
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
The triumph of the movie, as described at the time, was making people care about a story they already knew the ending to. Opie sure turned out good.
> The triumph of the movie, as described at the time, was making people care about a story they already knew the ending to. One could, I think, argue the same about any movie about a historical event. I think that it would seem strange, for example, to say that that was the main achievement of Sands of Iwo Jima .
I think it’s different when you’re talking about an army versus three people in that army.
We don’t know if Private Ryan or any of the other characters make it. We can assume most of the actors make it off the beach at the beginning, but that’s about it.
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#20It's a fun read. It does seem to imply that the parachutes slowed them down from 25,000 mph, but the heat shield smashing through the atmosphere would have slowed them down first.
That would be one helluva parachute.