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Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

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Post by dmoy »

sharkweek wrote: post #45
hirundo wrote: post #10

I was six years old during Apollo 11 and have just fragmentary memories of it. One is of my grandfather tearing up at the lunar landing and saying "when I grew up I used to carry flint and steel to start a fire" ... which would have been in the 1890s. If he grasped what he was seeing I think he'd be about as future shocked by the internet as exemplified by this link.

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

Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

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Post by sizzzzlerz »

hirundo wrote: post #10

I was six years old during Apollo 11 and have just fragmentary memories of it. One is of my grandfather tearing up at the lunar landing and saying "when I grew up I used to carry flint and steel to start a fire" ... which would have been in the 1890s. If he grasped what he was seeing I think he'd be about as future shocked by the internet as exemplified by this link.

I was 14 years old that day and I remember sitting on our couch absolutely transfixed. The entire Apollo 11 mission remains one of the most significant event in my entire life. For those too young to have witnessed the moon landings, for a recreation of what it was like, I suggest finding a copy of HBO’s “From the Earth to the Moon”.

Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

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Post by rebuilder »

hirundo wrote: post #10

I was six years old during Apollo 11 and have just fragmentary memories of it. One is of my grandfather tearing up at the lunar landing and saying "when I grew up I used to carry flint and steel to start a fire" ... which would have been in the 1890s. If he grasped what he was seeing I think he'd be about as future shocked by the internet as exemplified by this link.

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.

Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

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Post by copperx »

sharkweek wrote: post #45
hirundo wrote: post #10

I was six years old during Apollo 11 and have just fragmentary memories of it. One is of my grandfather tearing up at the lunar landing and saying "when I grew up I used to carry flint and steel to start a fire" ... which would have been in the 1890s. If he grasped what he was seeing I think he'd be about as future shocked by the internet as exemplified by this link.

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.

Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

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Post by copperx »

bfeist wrote: post #32
mgraczyk wrote: post #29

This is an impressive, immersive experience. Any plans to write about the software or share parts of it?

It's a bit of a messy bedroom. Ideally, I'd get some real software devs involved to rewrite it using a modern framework. This is just a pile of JS and some JQuery. One thing of note is that there's no server-side services in this architecture. The browser does all of the work itself. Kind of remarkable when you think about it.

Whoa. The fist thing I thought was "damn, if this is what React can do I want a piece of that action and need to start learning it ASAP."

Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

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Post by kzrdude »

Extraordinary, it's true.

Note to others: On mobile it's interesting but only has audio. I had to look at the desktop version to understand why everyone was so amazed about the site.

Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

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Post by ehsankia »

rkagerer wrote: post #34
btown wrote: post #27

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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…

Yeah I was a little confused about how to go back to Master, too. Agreed this site is mindblowing - thanks for all the hard work!

From my understanding, whenever you click on a track it switches to "Mission Control Audio" tab near the top. Clicking "Photography" takes you back to the master audio. Definitely a little confusing. The "photography" label should maybe be master track?

Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

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Post by dmje »

bfeist wrote: post #31
kouh wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who have you spoken to at SI? Don't let a pen pusher convince you that his view represents the organization

If you know the right people, please send them the URL

Stunning work, huge kudos to you, not just on concept but great execution/UI etc. My 14yo son is the most ridiculously keen space nut (the only teenager I know with a pdf of the Apollo manual on his phone) - he’s going to be very excited to see this.

I’m ex Head of Web at the Science Museum (London) and now run a company that works exclusively with museums. I’ll ping a few people: I know the curator of Space at SciM but also lots of museum web people. Just possible someone will know someone at the Smithsonian.

Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

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Post by GrumpyNl »

copperx wrote: post #56
bfeist wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a bit of a messy bedroom. Ideally, I'd get some real software devs involved to rewrite it using a modern framework. This is just a pile of JS and some JQuery. One thing of note is that there's no server-side services in this architecture. The browser does all of the work itself. Kind of remarkable when you think about it.

Whoa. The fist thing I thought was "damn, if this is what React can do I want a piece of that action and need to start learning it ASAP."

Isnt it great , you can accomplish all this, without react, just old J Query. Hats of to creator of the site.
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