The flag is there. Prominently displayed. They just didn’t show much detail of the lunar activity. Everything they did on the moon was greatly abbreviated.
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 13, 2018, at 12:08 AM, Steve Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > Non lent response (please Ken don't go) > Appollo 13 and the Martian.... Science aside, well worth watching. > > I can deal with stuff. I don't care who watches football. I didn't before, so > the boycott is easy for me. > > This film though. May he the best thing ever, could be factually accurate to > the nth degree. > > I'll never watch it. Ill never show it to my kids. > > I'll take my kids to shooters on the day they show it in the school, which > they will. > > This wasn't a time of global kumbayah. That flag mattered, people died to put > it there > > I wish the paid help would have kept their mouths shut, and maybe I'd feel > different. But then again I'm old school, I always thought Bert and Ernie > were just puppets with manhands in their asses. > >> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 8:37 PM Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: >> First Man. >> >> Some spoilers here but I think everyone probably knows how the story ends. >> >> First impression was I did not like the style of photography. Too many >> shaky closeups. >> >> One sure fire way to make me choke up, my nose burn and cause my eyes to >> leak is to expose me to formaldehyde. For some reason and am super super >> duper hyper sensitive. Other wise I am pretty stoic. >> >> The other sure fire way to cause this reaction is if I am exposed to >> material covering Apollo 1, Challenger or Columbia. Odd emotional reaction >> every time. I guess because I was so into all of the Mercury, Gemini and >> Apollo missions when they were happening. I built models. Listened to the >> moon landing on the radio. Totally geeked out to all of this stuff back in >> the day. >> >> They did not do a very good job in communicating the horrible end to the >> lives of the Apollo 1 astronauts. Perhaps they did not want to traumatize >> the audience, but they made it seem like – boom – its all over. The reality >> was much much more gruesome. >> >> They overdramatized the uncommanded roll spin up of Gemini 8. It was a big >> time emergency but the graphics had it spinning like a dryer on spin cycle. >> I think max RPM was about 1 rev per second before Neil Armstrong finally >> isolated it to a reaction control rocket firing continually. He killed the >> circuit breakers and was able to manually halt the roll. I have spun >> airplanes at this rate. It is not going to cause you to pass out. If he >> was not able to stop the increase in roll rate it would have done so, but >> they guy knew the spacecraft and he knew there were only so many things that >> could cause this. He did some basic troubleshooting and saved the day. >> >> But the biggest thing that I disliked was them showing the inside of the >> space craft. Panels, annunciators and switches that were dirty, worn and >> smudged. Like some old bulldozer at a gravel pit instrument panel. Almost >> as if they built the props from stuff they got out of an aircraft bone yard. >> In reality, those things were brand spanking new and sparkling clean. The >> photos exist... Not sure why they chose the grunge. >> >> Even the headliner of the spacecraft and their ear muff thingies looked >> grungy and used. >> They also showed a Chicago connector on one of the hoses connected to the >> capsule. Pretty sure a generic jackhammer air connector was not used. >> >> They glossed over the 1202 alarm a bit too much. (The book Digital Apollo is >> a great read about this). They were more concerned about that than the >> movie lets on. They showed a scene where Neil flew over a super deep crater >> while running out of fuel. That never happened, he was just picking out a >> spot between the boulders. >> >> So, if you care about fine detail accuracy, you may not enjoy this too much. >> It is not nearly as good as a PBS special by any stretch of the imagination. >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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