Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Kurt Buffkurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Best news of the week: NASA has found the lost tapes of the landing and walk, and will be restoring them. Finally found an authoritative source on this. Unfortunately, no original recordings have been found yet. NASA has

RE: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-17 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Certainly bad taste on NASA's part to claim _THEY_ have the original moonwalk video so soon after Michael's death. -sc -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 9:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-17 Thread Peter van Houten
Heh ~ degaussed the tapes to save money. What was the end to end project cost just for the Saturn V vehicles in 1960-1970 dollars? Something in the $6.5 billion range... -- Peter van Houten On the 17/07/2009 15:26, Ben Scott wrote the following: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Kurt

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-17 Thread Jon Harris
My bet is NASA threw them out and an engineer saw them and picked them up to use at home or hoped to sell them later. If so then the retired engineer is now waiting or looking for a way to post them on Ebay to sell without getting the Fed's coming after him, or the engineer has died and the

[OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Ben Scott
This year is the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 -- the first time a human being set foot on another world. The JFK Presidential Library has a website which is providing a real-time simulation/recreation, complete with CGI models, recorded audio, video footage, and photos. It's still on the

RE: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Steven M. Caesare
stuff that bunch of uber-nerds accomplished. I say that with the greatest respect, obviously... -sc -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [OT] We Choose The Moon This year

RE: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Phillip Partipilo
[mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 11:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] We Choose The Moon Very cool. While we are OT'ing... if y'all ever get a chance, catch the 6-part series Moon Machines (Discovery, Science or NatGeo channel methinks). All about

RE: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Steven M. Caesare
[mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] We Choose The Moon What day/time? I'm getting rather disappointed with late night TV lately. I'm the type to be at the office till 10pm or later, and watch tv till 2 or 3am

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Rob Bonfiglio
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] We Choose The Moon Very cool. While we are OT'ing... if y'all ever get a chance, catch the 6-part series Moon Machines (Discovery, Science or NatGeo channel methinks). All about the engineers and processed behind the scenes, as opposed

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:14, Ben Scottmailvor...@gmail.com wrote:  This year is the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 -- the first time a human being set foot on another world.  The JFK Presidential Library has a website which is providing a real-time simulation/recreation, complete with CGI

RE: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Steven M. Caesare
That's the series, although that's only 2 of the 4 episodes. -sc From: Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:robbonfig...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon Looks like July 20th at 6 and 7pm, and again on July 21st at 2am

RE: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Of course it was faked... how else could they fake the footage that perpetuates the myth that the earth isn't flat? -sc -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 1:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT] We Choose

RE: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Phillip Partipilo
Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] We Choose The Moon It was a six part series I caught about 6

RE: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Steven M. Caesare
...@psnet.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 1:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] We Choose The Moon Could that be the When We Left Earth series? I loved that series. I bought them all on iTunes, and accidentially nuked my whole iTunes storage on my home PC and, while I

RE: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Phillip Partipilo
Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] We Choose The Moon No... different... this really focuses on the tech and the teams behind it... the 1000's of geeky unsung heroes, IMO. I have that series recorded too, but not watched all of it yet. That's the Tom Hanks produced series, right? -sc -Original

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Kurt Buffkurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: July 20th and July 4th are the two days I observe as truly worthy human events. What, no love for 12 April? ;-) Best news of the week: NASA has found the lost tapes of the landing and walk, and will be restoring them.

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:15, Ben Scottmailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Kurt Buffkurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: July 20th and July 4th are the two days I observe as truly worthy human events.  What, no love for 12 April?  ;-) Well, it was a good day in 1945, but

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Peter van Houten
Thanks for the link. Just clicked frantically in Firefox and it worked. Just listened to Endeavour lift off, so this is great. We didn't have telly in those days and today I still don't own one but we did have a wireless and as a 12 year old it was awesome to follow Apollo. Glad NASA found the

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Kurt Buffkurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:  What, no love for 12 April?  ;-) Well, it was a good day in 1945, but otherwise not so much. Heh. Well, Yuri G. was the first human in space, and the first manned orbit, even if the USSR lied about the landing. I believe

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 16:40, Ben Scottmailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Kurt Buffkurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:  What, no love for 12 April?  ;-) Well, it was a good day in 1945, but otherwise not so much. Heh.  Well, Yuri G. was the first human in space, and the

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Jonathan Link
Reprehensible. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Kurt Buffkurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, but the one in 1945 is the day FDR died - I just wish it had been about 12 years earlier. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
This is very cool. I'll be watching this site daily.. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: This year is the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 -- the first time a human being set foot on another world. The JFK Presidential Library has a website which is

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Ben Scott
+1 On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Jonathan Linkjonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: Reprehensible. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Kurt Buffkurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, but the one in 1945 is the day FDR died - I just wish it had been about 12 years earlier. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Kurt Buff
Why? Don't tell me you think he was actually a friend of the working man, or of freedom, for very clearly neither is the case. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 17:23, Jonathan Linkjonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: Reprehensible. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Kurt Buffkurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:

RE: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Ken Schaefer
July 2009 11:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon Why? Don't tell me you think he was actually a friend of the working man, or of freedom, for very clearly neither is the case. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 17:23, Jonathan Linkjonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: Reprehensible

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 17:23, Jonathan Linkjonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: Reprehensible. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Why? It's very clearly -- to use your phase -- deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure (how my dictionary defines reprehensible).

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Jonathan Link
I do try and live a life that values others, whether I agree or disagree with them. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Why? Don't tell me you think he was actually a friend of the working man, or of freedom, for very clearly neither is the case. On Wed,

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

2009-07-15 Thread Kurt Buff
Ditto, for all that they are worth, and all the good that they do. I'll discontinue this on the list, however. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 19:04, Jonathan Linkjonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: I do try and live a life that values others, whether I agree or disagree with them. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009