Well it's about time! Now please tell us why after all that "sprinkling of dust", as Buzz put it on descent, like a sandblaster, there is not a speck on the Apollo 11 pods? Gremlins perhaps?
And didn't Arthur C. Clarke know about it!
A hard sci-fi novel from 1962 in which the Dust-Cruiser Selene encounters a moonquake and sinks 15 metres below the surface of the fine, powdery dust of the Sea of Thirst. Hidden from view with no means for heat to escape, and with no communications, can the ship be located and its passengers rescued before it overheats and the air becomes unbreathable? It's very much a story of technical problems and how they can be solved.
I learn, upon investigation of Galu's contribution, that Selene was the Ancient Greek personification of the Moon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selene
Luna is a Latin word. I'll pause there.
This is fun:
https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/blog/snoopy-charlie-brown-and-apollo-10
Apollo 10, of course. Snoopy and Charlie Brown.
By Apollo 11, po-faced mission directors had decided on much more serious names for the lander and the service module. Eagle and Columbia.
Leading to the hilarious phrase: "The Eagle has Landed!"
I am sure I have told the joke before, so won't repeat it. 😀
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selene
Luna is a Latin word. I'll pause there.
This is fun:
https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/blog/snoopy-charlie-brown-and-apollo-10
Apollo 10, of course. Snoopy and Charlie Brown.
By Apollo 11, po-faced mission directors had decided on much more serious names for the lander and the service module. Eagle and Columbia.
Leading to the hilarious phrase: "The Eagle has Landed!"
I am sure I have told the joke before, so won't repeat it. 😀
Our resident flat earther doesn't believe in the moon or, of course, lunar dust. It's all a big hoax!
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Should I bow out of this thread before it is deemed to have "run its course" and is closed?
I think we've got the message, if one were necessary, about flat earthers.
All that it is really necessary to do is to ignore them.
I think we've got the message, if one were necessary, about flat earthers.
All that it is really necessary to do is to ignore them.
Yes, the Orion spacecraft is now on the seventh day of its mission.
Orion's advanced guidance, navigation and control system controls the propulsion system to keep the spacecraft on the correct path.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/lasers-stars-and-sensors-will-guide-nasa-s-orion-spacecraft
On Saturday, November 26, Orion will pass the record set by Apollo 13 for the farthest distance traveled by a spacecraft designed for humans at 248,655 miles from Earth, and the spacecraft will reach its maximum distance from Earth of 268,552 miles on Monday, November 28.
Earth rises from behind the Moon on this video taken on flight day six:
There’s plenty of evidence for dust on the moon, just not on the lander’s pods.
Just for the record, landing on a flat moon would be equally bogus. Are there no so called “flat earthers” who believe men from Earth walked on the Moon? Surely there’s a couple, no?
Just for the record, landing on a flat moon would be equally bogus. Are there no so called “flat earthers” who believe men from Earth walked on the Moon? Surely there’s a couple, no?
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Less tongue in cheek than you may think - one of them referred to "having members of the society around the globe" --- oops!