Psh. Everyone knows Earth is flat. This was doctored up in a basement at “NASA”.
Photo is flat
Means nothing to me. I’ve seen photos of ant hills that tell me more than than that.
The misconception is that the Earth is flat AND square. The Earth may indeed be flat but it’s round. Kinda like a CD if you want a visual.
Ping.
He could have placed himself back in the rotation and snagged a seat on a later mission but it would have been a center seat, i.e., CM pilot. Anders had trained for the LM and he was a LM pilot, and didn't want a CM pilot consolation prize. So 8 was his first and last mission.
Jim Lovell was in line for the CDR of 14 but got bumped to 13 because NASA management thought Al Shepard needed more training after his long hiatus from flight status. Frank Borman had already decided that 8 would be his last flight in space. So of all the crew of Apollo 8 it sure looks like Bill Anders drew the short straw in terms of later assignments.
NASA management had tossed around the idea of assigning the crew of 8 to the first landing attempt mission, since they had experience flying in lunar orbit. But as the flights counted down to the landing mission and it looked like 11 was going to be it, the men of Apollo 8 realized that Armstrong's crew had been training hard for that mission and it would not have been fair to yank them in favor of the 8 crew. With the die cast, they made alternate plans.
Curry says it’s flat. Curry is a professional. And he hates Trump, so he’s smart. At least that’s the Lefts logic.
I remember that photo and that it looked nothing like the earth as seen in countless Sci fi flicks.
That photo emphasized for me of how important I am.
Merry Christmas!
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
-- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
Apollo 8 had no LEM. No need for the lem pilot.
"Man plans and God laughs!" He's nearly ready to re-cycle that beautiful, but sin scarred blue ball to make it a new place for once again immortalized mankind to live sin free, forever!!!
Happy Christmas to all and to all a great Christmas Eve...
I saw better watching Star Trek episodes. : )
Obvious photoshop.
Everyone knows the earth is a flat disc riding on the back of a giant turtle.