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a flawless six for six using 1960's tech: https://www.history.com/news/us-moon-landings-apollo https://www.history.com/news/us-moon-landings-apollo the past is
by recursivedoubts 3y ago
a flawless six for six using 1960's tech: https://www.history.com/news/us-moon-landings-apollo https://www.history.com/news/us-moon-landings-apollo
the past is a foreign country
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoAnd humans at the controls. Having a program at the controls is rather a different problem...
- lupire 3y agoI thought Elon Musk's robots are better drivers than humans.
- luxuryballs 3y agostill bummed they never performed any impressive feats of agility made possible by the gravity
- saalweachter 3y agoWhat gravity giveth, space suits taketh away. The jumps (4 feet) and bounds (15 feet) are pretty good by everyday standards, but like half of the Earth-bound records.
- luxuryballs 3y agothey could have tossed something at least, somehow they managed to do all that footage without anything I can use to combat the conspiracy theorists who just say the footage is slowed down
- bagels 3y agoPretty risky to get injured or to get a puncture goofing off on the moon.
- gyrovagueGeist 3y agoAll the more reason to build a proper moon base with an indoor court
- mlsu 3y agoI would give just about anything to watch an NBA game played on the moon. Make the court 4x bigger, the hoops 3x taller. The revenue for this would pay for several Starships.
- lupyro 3y agoIn this vein I've always thought it would be cool to see what kind of sports we could have in a zero gravity stadium in orbit. Something like the training facilities in Ender's game. Maybe a sport like Quidditch could become a reality
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- knodi123 3y ago> the past is a foreign country It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
- thsksbd 3y agoYou wouldn't want to live in, say 1960s Portland Maine? Say as a professor of English literature? Seems pretty sweet to me.
- josefresco 3y agoStating the obvious but it probably depends on your gender, sexual orientation, and skin color (to a name just a few).
- believecty 3y ago[dead]
- knodi123 3y agoYeah, I can't remember the show, but it was some time travel thing, and one of the tech guys isn't as excited as everyone else at the prospect of visiting great moments in history. They ask him why, and he says, "well, I'm black, so...."
- thsksbd 3y agoOf course. 1960s Maine college campuses were one of the darkest, most depraved, periods of human history.
- thsksbd 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_programme https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_programme The Soviet Union is even more foreign with 50's tech and no human to aid primitive computers. Better failure rate than the last 12 months of international moon landings.
- stevage 3y agoAnd cold war budgets...
- hackeraccount 3y agoWhen I was a kid I used my bike to flawlessly get around everywhere I wanted to go. At some point I wanted to go to places or in an amount of time or with cargo that a bike wouldn't allow. The Artemis program is doing something similar but not the same as Apollo. It's different so it requires a change in the architecture which in turn means a series of problems because change is hard. Which truthfully is the exact same thing Apollo went through. Apollo was only six for six if you ignore everything that went before it. If you look the events before Apollo 11 it's easy to see that there were difficulties.