As someone not old enough to have seen this take place live, I did appreciate this presentation so much. Now one can only wonder when will our generation bare witness to us landing on Mars?
Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
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Re: Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
#12This is absolutely fantastic, but isn't it interesting that when submitted 159 days ago (in the interests of full disclosure - yes, by me) it got one comment and just 4 upvotes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4710201
Clearly this is an item of interest to the HN community, and equally clearly last time it was missed by so many people. So:
* Does this mean that HN is in some sense sub-optimal?
* Is this a problem?
* Is this a problem worth fixing?
Re: Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
#13This is absolutely fantastic, but isn't it interesting that when submitted 159 days ago (in the interests of full disclosure - yes, by me) it got one comment and just 4 upvotes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4710201 Clearly this is an item of interest to the HN community, and equally clearly last time it was missed by so many people. So: * Does this mean that HN is in some sense sub-optimal? * Is this a proble…
It'd be interesting to know what other articles appeared on that day, it might be the case it was just bad timing or it got shadowed by a device release/big announcement.
Re: Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
#14If you can't get enough of this, let me recommend:
A Man on the Moon - http://www.amazon.com/Man-Moon-Voyages-Apollo-Astronauts/dp/...
And the HBO series based on it:
From the Earth to the Moon - http://www.amazon.com/From-Earth-Moon-Collectors-Edition/dp/...
Re: Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
#15Oh, wow. That was stunning. Heart in my mouth the entire time, I cannot imagine what it was like to watch that in real time.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo.html
Always worth a read for more context and 'Moonshot' is pretty good for Apollo 11.
Re: Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
#16If you can't get enough of this, let me recommend: A Man on the Moon - http://www.amazon.com/Man-Moon-Voyages-Apollo-Astronauts/dp/... And the HBO series based on it: From the Earth to the Moon - http://www.amazon.com/From-Earth-Moon-Collectors-Edition/dp/...
And I'd recommend "Apollo - The Race To The Moon" by Murray & Cox. Unlike most books about the US space program, this deals with everything except the astronauts. I've read it so many times my copy is falling apart...
Re: Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
#17That was truly brilliantly presented. It's things like this that the Internet were invented for.
I agree! My girlfriend and I both found the experience incredibly emotional. It has been a long time since a website has gotten me misty eyed...
Re: Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
#18Apollo Guidance Computer programmer Don Eyles analyzes the program alarms that could have aborted the landing: http://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
The Don Eyles link above contains an interesting anecdote on communication/management in a consequential decisionmaking environment. We wrestle with similar trouble in the avalanche avoidance world; the wisdom of the group is more reliably accurate than the individual.
Interesting thoughtfood - thank you!
Re: Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
#19This is absolutely fantastic, but isn't it interesting that when submitted 159 days ago (in the interests of full disclosure - yes, by me) it got one comment and just 4 upvotes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4710201 Clearly this is an item of interest to the HN community, and equally clearly last time it was missed by so many people. So: * Does this mean that HN is in some sense sub-optimal? * Is this a proble…
* HN is sub-optimal. Most things are. HN's still interesting and useful.
* I'd argue that this is a problem, but I'm not certain how to solve it. I submitted a story a few days ago (search xylose) that continued to pull upvotes even at positions 100-150, but missed the key early votes needed for viability.
One way to give stories greater life might be to enable viewing HN with multiple time-constants https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5495264
or to make upvotes from deep in the pile count more/change the effective submission time slightly.
* Yes, it's worth fixing/addressing, but HN's pretty cool as it is. The merciless and democratic power of the exponential suppression of stories guarantees that, if a story makes it, it's immediately interesting to the group. It does not guarantee that all interesting stories will live.
Re: Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
#20OK. That website made it feel like I live in The Future. I grew up in The Space Age (Project Mercury onward) and I still get chills whenever I see TV programs or movies about it. Now this site too.