Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing • Hacker News Board

Re: Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing

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Post by verygoodyear » Sun, Apr 07, 2013, 4:02 PM UTC

morganwilde wrote: post #11

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?

I really, really hope I get to see this before I die. Space travel is something that has lost it's cultural significance (for some valid reasons, Columbia, Challenger etc) but to have something that the whole world can come together and be a part of would be incredible. Almost how the Eco movement started when images of the pale blue dot were circulated, would love to see something similar.

Re: Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing

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Post by Samuel_Michon » Sun, Apr 07, 2013, 10:27 PM UTC

lccarrasco wrote: post #13

ColinWright wrote: post #12

This 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.

Indeed, October 29 was an eventful day. Google announced the new Nexus lineup, Apple changed its management structure, and Microsoft introduced Windows Phone 8. Also: hurricane Sandy.

More news from that day: http://www.techmeme.com/121029/h1820

Re: Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing

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Post by echobase » Mon, Apr 08, 2013, 3:06 AM UTC

A lot of great links shared in these comments... I'd like to mention a very interesting article on the near-disaster of Apollo 13: "Apollo 13, We Have a Solution" - http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/apollo-13-we...

Re: Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing

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Post by ckvamme » Mon, Apr 08, 2013, 4:16 PM UTC

Awesome. And I think a lot of you will enjoy this Neil deGrasse Tyson keynote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLzKjxglNyE

Re: Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing

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Post by thenonsequitur » Sat, Apr 13, 2013, 6:08 AM UTC

rurounijones wrote: post #26

At first I thought this was going to be some sort of flash game, That was incredible. My main thought is the amount of stuff the astronauts had to deal with while the moon is looking mighty big in the windows. It appears to be the very definition of a high stress environment.

The fact that Neil Armstrong's heart rate went up to 150 confirms that.