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RT Guest
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:41 am Post subject: Re: Is the USA ready to admit that Neil Armstrong flubbed hi |
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Zapanaz wrote:
[quote]Thunder crashed, RT laughed madly, then wrote:
Zapanaz wrote:
Tim McGaughy hunched over a computer, typing feverishly;
Thunder crashed, Tim McGaughy laughed madly, then wrote:
Bill Anderson wrote:
IMBJR wrote:
Didn>t some audio analysis of that speech reveal he actually got it
right but some crackle popped all over his words?
Not yet, but apparently people keep trying:
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/onesmall.asp
Is it really that important?
A single syllable, single letter, single word. Goddamn, give the man a
break.
Really. I am trying to figure exactly what difference it makes to the
sentence, and I can>t see a lot of difference. The flubbed version
sounds slightly more natural to me.
The difference is tremendous.
"one small step for A man"
would refer to Armstrong himself, a single individual, whereas
"one small step for man" refers to a larger set, and is in fact another way
of stating "mankind". Thus, the omission renders the whole sentence a bit fuzzy
since both "man" and "mankind" are synonomous.
Well did you ever not know what he meant by it?
[/quote]
Which isn>t the point. The two versions are not equal in meaning. Since this is
posterity and history, calrity of meaning is important. |
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Zapanaz Guest
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:02 am Post subject: Re: Is the USA ready to admit that Neil Armstrong flubbed hi |
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RT hunched over a computer, typing feverishly;
Thunder crashed, RT laughed madly, then wrote:
[quote]calrity of meaning is important.
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lol.
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BradGuth Guest
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Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 7:05 pm Post subject: Re: NASA Nearly Bombs Australia With 1400lb Ammonia Tank [Sp |
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On Nov 5, 3:11 am, ad...@ng2000.com wrote:
[quote]http://www.ng2000.com/fw.php?tp=nasa
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Downunder doesn>t count. It>s why all the seriously bad boys and
nasty girls were sent there in the first place.
~ Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth BG / “Guth Usenet” |
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David Lesher Guest
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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:00 pm Post subject: Re: Apollo 8 crew plans to reminisce |
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C-upi@clari.net (United Press International) writes:
[quote]
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Nearly 40 years after the U.S.
space agency sent Apollo 8 astronauts to the moon, those adventurers
are planning a public reminiscence.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration says the
Apollo 8 crew members will take part in a special television program
produced in cooperation with the Newseum in Washington. The 1:30
p.m. EST Thursday program will feature Apollo 8 crew members Frank
Borman, James Lovell and William Anders. It will be broadcast live
from the Newseum on NASA Television and www.nasa.gov.
The event is part of the Newseum>s commemoration of NASA>s
50th anniversary and will be open to visitors on a first-come,
first-served basis.
[/quote]
It will be a long line!
[quote] During the 60-minute program, NASA said Borman, Lovell and
Anders will discuss their epic December 1968 lunar orbital mission
and how the success of Apollo 8 contributed to the overall
moon-landing effort that culminated just six months later with
Apollo 11. The crew also will discuss the years following Apollo and
the future of space exploration.
The program will be moderated by Nick Clooney, the Newseum>s
journalist in residence.
More information about how to stream NASA TV live video on
the Internet is available at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
--[/quote]
A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com
& no one will talk to a host that>s close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
Unless the host (that isn>t close).........................pob 1433
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Matt Wiser Guest
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Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:02 am Post subject: Re: CHANDRAYAAN = ? Photoshop + cut and paste ? |
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He gets picked on a lot because he>s a raving lunatic living in his
conspriacy-filled fantasyland. Killfile the refugee from a padded cell and
be done with him.
"Painius" <starswirlernosp@maol.com> wrote in message
news:6RuSk.24517$_Y1.11748@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
[quote]"Jim Newman" <jm@gmaill.com> wrote in message...
news:6nuk9nF10r36U1@mid.individual.net...
BradGuth wrote:
On Nov 11, 3:17 pm, Jim Newman <j...@gmaill.com> wrote:
BradGuth wrote:
On Nov 11, 1:24 pm, Jim Newman <j...@gmaill.com> wrote:
BradGuth wrote:
On Nov 11, 6:44 am, "harmony" <a...@hotmail.com> wrote:
http://www.isro.org/pslv-c11/photos/imagesfromchandrayaan/Moon_Enh.jpg
Interesting. Why exactly did they intentionally degrade their
image?
(it worked perfectly while imaging Earth, even with narrow bandpass
filtering)
Was there too much Van Allan or Magnetosphere radiation, too much
of
those UV secondary/recoil photons or perhaps too much of the sodium
saturated atmosphere to deal with?
What 'sodium saturated atmosphere' are you talking about?
Search for the words sodium and moon.
That Selene sodium, which isn>t of much density at 9r, or even the
average of 50/cm3 out to a million km as within a comet like trail of
sodium still isn>t all that bad, but otherwise it gets a bit more
populated or saturated at 1.1r or less. At 100 km they should be
right in the thick of it, especially near the surface of the solar
illuminated side should offer more abundance than above the cold
nighttime surface.
100km ? I think you>re about 311,100km out - but that>s still closer
than the rest of the rubbish you spout!
ISRO claims their planned orbit will be near 100 km. Now if you don>t
agree with that, take it up with ISRO.
And your original post was questioning the resolution quality of the
photograph "Why exactly did they intentionally degrade their image"
You then squeaked "perhaps too much of the sodium saturated atmosphere
to
deal with"
You don>t do yourself any favours do you!
:-)
At great risk of falling into a weird pigeon hole, i must
ask you, Jim, wouldn>t the presence of any resolution
degrading substance that is thickest up to 100km still
have an effect no matter if you>re 100km, 200km, or
300,000km away from the surface?
Sorry, but i see Brad get picked on a lot. And frankly,
he does bring much of it on himself. But in this case,
it appears to me that you>re barking up the wrong tree.
Rather than question the resolution degradation issue
from the angle of distance from the surface, maybe a
concentration upon the question as to whether such a
tenuous amount of sodium (even within the 100km
limit) would have much of an effect on resolution in
the first place?
After all, we can get a good bit of detail of the Moon>s
surface from Earth with a fair telescope. Does the
atmospheric sodium content have a significant effect
on image resolution? at *any* distance?
I doubt it.
happy days and...
starry starry nights!
--
Indelibly yours,
Paine Ellsworth
P.S.: "Personally I>m always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught."
Winston Churchill
P.P.S.: http://yummycake.secretsgolden.com
http://garden-of-ebooks.blogspot.com
http://painellsworth.net
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Matt Wiser Guest
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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:07 am Post subject: Re: CHANDRAYAAN = ? Photoshop + cut and paste ? |
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The Guthlessball is a refugee from a lunatic asylum; the guys in white coats
and bearing both a butterfly net and a straightjacket are still looking for
him. Until they catch up and ship him back to the funny farm, killfile the
misbegotten sod and forget he ever existed. Any response to his ranting and
raving is both a waste of time and bandwith. He only deserves an audience of
one: himself.
"Painius" <starswirlernosp@maol.com> wrote in message
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[quote]"OM" <om@up_yours_elfritz_you_nazi.com> wrote in message
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On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:02:25 GMT, simberg.interglobal@org.trash (Rand
Simberg) wrote:
When you reply to him, you are feeding a troll, and our only
recourse is to killfile you as well, if we don>t want to see his
verbal diarrhea.
...The sheer irony is that Rand replied with more than two sentences,
and it probably had about as much effect as my initial attempt to get
this guy to stop feeding Guthball his troll treats.
OM
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If you>d plonked me, then how would you know?
Tch-tch, guess i wasn>t much of a log, huh.
Fibber! <g
happy days and...
starry starry nights!
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Indelibly yours,
Paine Ellsworth
P.S.: "Be ashamed to die until you have won
some victory for humanity."
Horace Mann
P.P.S.: http://yummycake.secretsgolden.com
http://garden-of-ebooks.blogspot.com
http://painellsworth.net
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Joseph Nebus Guest
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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:56 pm Post subject: Re: CHANDRAYAAN = ? Photoshop + cut and paste ? |
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Jim Newman <jm@gmaill.com> writes:
[quote]Sigh
Get your digital camera.
Set focus to infinity.
Take a photo of the moon.
Crop to include just the Moon.
Resize the crop so the moon diameter is about 700 pixels.
Learn the difference between 'focus' and 'resolution'
[/quote]
But ... if he learned something then he wouldn>t be our
Brad Guth anymore.
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David Lesher Guest
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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:30 am Post subject: Re: Apollo 8 Crew Remembers Historic Mission Live On NASA TV |
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[quote]The program features Apollo 8 crew members Frank Borman, James Lovell
and William Anders. It will be broadcast live from the Newseum on
NASA Television and www.nasa.gov on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 1:30 p.m.
EST. The Newseum is located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
[/quote]
I attended and managed to get a seat by being in line at 1230.....
and paying $20 to get into the Newseum.
It was enjoyable. Lovell told the story of his personal FUBAR,
but they were having good time always. Bill Anders was a little
more droll, but still good on the give & take.
They strongly endorsed the basis the effort was a Cold War surrogate;
not a science/technology driven effort.
Someone asked a UFO question....
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A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com
& no one will talk to a host that>s close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
Unless the host (that isn>t close).........................pob 1433
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OM Guest
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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:10 am Post subject: Re: Apollo 8 Crew Remembers Historic Mission Live On NASA TV |
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On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:21:52 -0500, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
<mooregr_deleteth1s@greenms.com> wrote:
[quote]Dang , how did I miss that. It would have been worth the trip.
[/quote]
....Ben and Cariann at Space VidCast say they>ll have it up on YouTube
in a few days. I watched most of it before tonight>s streamcast, and
it was basically the usual story the crew has told before. They had
some hippie museum curator on as well with a hairstyle he stole off of
Tiny Tim>s corpse it looked like, but over all it was an enjoyable
event I too would have loved to have been present for. Anytime an
Astronaut gives a lecture, it>s an event that shouldn>t be missed.
Especially if you get a chance to ask a question and it turns out the
Astronaut gets something wrong when you didn>t....:-) :-)
OM
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Greg D. Moore (Strider) Guest
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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:10 am Post subject: Re: Apollo 8 Crew Remembers Historic Mission Live On NASA TV |
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Dang , how did I miss that. It would have been worth the trip.
--
Greg Moore
Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC.
"David Lesher" <wb8foz@panix.com> wrote in message
news:gfinso$af9$1@reader1.panix.com...
[quote]
The program features Apollo 8 crew members Frank Borman, James Lovell
and William Anders. It will be broadcast live from the Newseum on
NASA Television and www.nasa.gov on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 1:30 p.m.
EST. The Newseum is located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
I attended and managed to get a seat by being in line at 1230.....
and paying $20 to get into the Newseum.
It was enjoyable. Lovell told the story of his personal FUBAR,
but they were having good time always. Bill Anders was a little
more droll, but still good on the give & take.
They strongly endorsed the basis the effort was a Cold War surrogate;
not a science/technology driven effort.
Someone asked a UFO question....
--
A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com
& no one will talk to a host that>s close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
Unless the host (that isn>t close).........................pob 1433
is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433[/quote] |
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Ry Alford Guest
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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:10 am Post subject: Re: Apollo 8 Crew Remembers Historic Mission Live On NASA TV |
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:30:48 +0000 (UTC), David Lesher
<wb8foz@panix.com> wrote:
[quote]
The program features Apollo 8 crew members Frank Borman, James Lovell
and William Anders. It will be broadcast live from the Newseum on
NASA Television and www.nasa.gov on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 1:30 p.m.
EST. The Newseum is located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
I attended and managed to get a seat by being in line at 1230.....
and paying $20 to get into the Newseum.
It was enjoyable. Lovell told the story of his personal FUBAR,
but they were having good time always. Bill Anders was a little
more droll, but still good on the give & take.
They strongly endorsed the basis the effort was a Cold War surrogate;
not a science/technology driven effort.
Someone asked a UFO question....
[/quote]
Borman and Anders said they wished someone "would find a mission for
the station". Couldn>t make it there, but got to watch the stream
from NASA. |
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The Big DP Guest
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:44 am Post subject: Re: CHANDRAYAAN = ? Oh the pain....Oh the AGONY! |
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"OM" <om@up_yours_elfritz_you_nazi.com> wrote in message
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[quote]On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:24:05 -0600, Pat Flannery <flanner@daktel.com
wrote:
OM mentioned the Nazis several times, so it has indeed fulfilled
"Godwin>s Law" about it all getting around to Hitler and the Nazi>s
sooner or later.
...Mike Godwin>s an old friend of mine. He>d agree that back in the
days before AOHell ruined Usenet, and Google Groups castrated it, all
you had to do with idiots like Guthball and Pain-in-the-ass was to
file complaints with his ISP and/or whoever was providing the Usenet
feeds, and gone they were.
OM
Good God OM what was that....15, heck 20 years ago?[/quote]
Do you REALLY pine for the days of PSU freshman and when talk.bizarre WAS
really bizarre and when alt.flame was actually FUN to read? Yup, I remember
those days of the elite computer scientists and networking folks who lorded
over usenet back in the day. It was both fun and real strict about what went
on. I recall not a lot of vulgar language, but maybe I have rose colored
glasses, who knows.
I had been 'away' from usenet for about 12 years when I decided to come
back.....yeah some of the folks are a pain in the ass, but I have to say I
never used a killfile then and I sure as hell won>t now. I won>t say people
are cowards who do, because frankly every person>s tolerance is different
but geez you seem to not like a whole bagful of people. And....your language
would make a sailor blush...tsk tsk.Which is NOT to say that I don>t use the
same language....cuz I do, it always makes me wince when I read it on a
computer screen....which is really my problem not yours.
I had a damn point, but I lost track of what it was.....maybe it is to just
remember that this isn>t the days before AOL or Web TV (omg) and we>ll
probably never see those glorious spam free (mostly) days again.....or the
days of people who post stuff whether it is on topic or not (speaking of
which....blush). These are the days of complete and total chaos and
anarchy....and we all gots to deal, y>know? There>s no point to hating
EVERYONE>S guts all the time....it just makes your blood pressure and your
bile get all outta whack. Which makes for being an unhappy camper....and
there seems to be lots of those people these days all over usenet.
kinda sad if you ask me.
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Rand Simberg Guest
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:08 am Post subject: Re: CHANDRAYAAN = ? Oh the pain....Oh the AGONY! |
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:44:53 -0800, in a place far, far away, "The Big
DP" <bigdp@stanford.edu> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such
a way as to indicate that:
[quote]I had been 'away' from usenet for about 12 years when I decided to come
back.....yeah some of the folks are a pain in the ass, but I have to say I
never used a killfile then and I sure as hell won>t now. I won>t say people
are cowards who do...
[/quote]
That>s good, because the notion that people use killfiles because they
are cowards is idiotic. We use killfiles because life is too short to
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OM Guest
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:30 am Post subject: Re: CHANDRAYAAN = ? Oh the pain....Oh the AGONY! |
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:44:53 -0800, "The Big DP" <bigdp@stanford.edu>
wrote:
[quote]Do you REALLY pine for the days of PSU freshman and when talk.bizarre WAS
really bizarre and when alt.flame was actually FUN to read?
[/quote]
....Actually, I>d just settle for it being about 8-9 years ago, when
trash like the Maxons hadn>t heard of Usenet yet, and Brad Guth was
pumping gas and just snorting fumes instead of the crack he currently
uses.
[quote]Yup, I remember
those days of the elite computer scientists and networking folks who lorded
over usenet back in the day. It was both fun and real strict about what went
on. I recall not a lot of vulgar language, but maybe I have rose colored
glasses, who knows.
[/quote]
....I remember when those two catamites, Tom "Old Ego Trip" Galloway
and Chuq "Chuqi the Hutt" Rospach tried to get me kicked off of Usenet
because I wouldn>t kiss their ass. Too bad for them that one of my
usenet admins happend to be a roommate at the time, and made it clear
that they needed to take a hike.
....And to be honest, the last time we had anyone go wankerville over
language was Dwayne Day, who went off like a spoiled whiny brat
because people would use the word "f ck" in his presence. Other than
that, it>s been pretty open.
But yeah, I>d love to see usenet get under some control again. Even
if>s just to see trolls like Brad, Ian, Chumpko and his husband,
Freddie, all get tossed...
OM
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:02 am Post subject: Re: CHANDRAYAAN = ? Whine, moan, complain |
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"BradGuth" <bradguth@gmail.com> wrote in message
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[quote]Speaking about "kinda sad if you ask me" are those changing the topic/
subject and dropping the other newsgroups in order to suit their own
ulterior motives. Is that pathetic, or what?
"CHANDRAYAAN = ? Oh the pain....Oh the AGONY!"
from the original topic/subject of:
CHANDRAYAAN = ? Photoshop + cut and paste ?
~ BG
[/quote]
This will be the ONLY time I reply to you Brad....but so?
You do stuff that other people detest and you have the NERVE, the GALL to
complain about other people?
Now THAT>s kinda sad....if you ask me.
And yeah, it does suit my own motives.....so what?
Sheesh, the nerve of some people.
Pretty ironic.....thanks for proving my point Brad. |
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