Space and stuff

[-Rob-]

50 years ago we were getting ready to land on the moon

50 years ago today (11th Oct 1968) Apollo 7 launched which was the first manned Apollo flight that proved the system's ability to fly in space for the required duration and return safely to earth.

None of the astronauts involved ever went in to space again.

 

[MrPerfectNot]

50 years ago today (11th Oct 1968) Apollo 7 launched which was the first manned Apollo flight that proved the system's ability to fly in space for the required duration and return safely to earth.

None of the astronauts involved ever went in to space again.

It's a conspiracy. (I jest, I jest!)

 

[BNJ1878]

Just spent the last 2 days working through this brilliant thread.

One question, did that fella get the job in the balkan observatory? He was waiting for a call then no update

Anyway..... Space=Ace

 

[BNJ1878]

https://phys.org/news/2018-10-rowthe-planets-align-night-sky.amp

 

[Methuselah]

50 years ago today (11th Oct 1968) Apollo 7 launched which was the first manned Apollo flight that proved the system's ability to fly in space for the required duration and return safely to earth.

None of the astronauts involved ever went in to space again.

Read somewhere that today's smart phones have more computer power than the modules that went to the moon!

 

[roydo]

Read somewhere that today's smart phones have more computer power than the modules that went to the moon!

Way more. Chances are a microwave does as well.

 

[Methuselah]

Way more. Chances are a microwave does as well.

roydo, in 1970 when, as Data Processing Manager, I put in the first computer at the company I worked for, (IBM 360/30) we had a 'massive' 32k core store! Tapes, Disks and thousands of punched cards. Of the 32k core store, 8k was taken up by the Supervisor, so we only had 24k for programs. The Stock Control program was so big that the only way we could run it was by overlaying it. The weekly run took 12 hours in two seperate sections. I remember one occasion when the run 'dumped' after 5 hours. Sort it out and start again, at 2.00am! Those were the days.

 

[wikofootball]

Amaxing what you can do with silver foil

 

[summerisle]

Piece on the news earlier that 40% of small satellites are made in the UK. Consequently, proposing to launch them from Scotland.

 

[summerisle]

It's a psychedelic nightmare.

 

[-Rob-]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46030852

I've just been reading this about the Parker space probe. It blows my mind that the surface of the sun is 'only' about 6,000ºC yet the corona around the sun is potentially between 2m and 3m ºC and that's the area the probing will be going in to.

It seems staggering that something from earth can actually survive temperatures of up to 3m ºC. Have those kind of temperatures ever been recreated on earth to do some testing?

 

[Chewbacca]

Just spent the last 2 days working through this brilliant thread.

One question, did that fella get the job in the balkan observatory? He was waiting for a call then no update

Anyway..... Space=Ace

You called?

 

[Papa Shango]

50 years ago today (11th Oct 1968) Apollo 7 launched which was the first manned Apollo flight that proved the system's ability to fly in space for the required duration and return safely to earth.

None of the astronauts involved ever went in to space again.

Well once you have seen it once you have seen it all...

 

[Eggs]

..nah, I reckon that’s Riyad Mahrez’s penalty at Anfield passing in front of the moon.

 

[PITA]

50 years ago we were getting ready to land on the moon. The world watched, the media lapped it up and generations were inspired into science, myself included.

Today tv is filled with unknown 'celebrities', tv about tv and they watch the likes of "made in Chelsea."

I'm told we've progressed.

There are plenty of excellent channels with plenty of excellent programmes. There are just so many channels that there is bound to be a lot of dross as well.