Posted on 07/16/2019 7:00:31 AM PDT by Sparky1776
The liftoff of Apollo 11's Saturn V carrying Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins into space exploration history on July 16, 1969. Look for the shockwave as the Saturn V punches through the clouds at 1:14!
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My imagination launched with them that day. I had just turned 14, and was so thrilled.
Four hours, you do know I have to go work sometime today dfwgator, don’t you ?
LOL, I knew I wasn’t going to be very productive over the next couple of days.
I was nine, Steely Tom, same.
Haha, I know what I’ll be watching tonight, thank you for the link.
I'd love to see the launch and the lunar landing with aplit screen and on the other half all the Dem socialists saying "America was never that Great".
Gil Scott-Heron started the ball rolling with his Whitey On The Moon, which came out in 1970. In it he blames Whitey's moon program for his sister getting bitten by rats, and other problems.
“CBS Live Stream (complete with old commercials)”
Nice! Video has improved a lot in the last 50 years, huh?
If this happened today the narration would be charged with excitement that could only be expressed properly by using the f-word.
I know this isn’t a political thread, but can’t help but notice and point out that this gargantuan feat was carried out in an era without any of the “social justice” mandates that the left lectures us are so crucial to a functioning society. How did we ever make it without “gay rights” and such?
Compare and contrast with the coverage of the JFK assassination just 6 years before, and you can see the tremendous strides TV News made in those years.
And they totally ignored the Old Negro Space Program.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xJzAYYrX8
“It was a different time, you understand!”
“you can see the tremendous strides TV News made in those years.”
Look at today. Videos are so lifelike you might think you could walk into them. A 4k television has about 9 million pixels (about 4000 across and 2100 vertical). Each has many colors and brightnesses. All 9 million get refreshed at least 30 times per second. How do they do that in a receiver costing less than $1000. This is a tiny part of the whole story.
*ping*
What used to be done with a vacuum tube weighing an ounce is now done with a few hundred atoms of silicon.
What used to consume five or ten watts of power to accomplish, now takes a few nanowatts.
The power of a computer that once cost tens of millions of dollars now can fit in a wristwatch, or a hearing aid.
Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
“... that once cost tens of millions of dollars ...”
To me the most amazing product cost-wise is a large 4K television monitor. The 9 million pixels on the monitor are so uniform in their behavior that the colors and intensities over the entire screen have no perceptible flaws. A uniformly white screen is exactly the same ‘white’ over the whole surface. The manufacturing cost of such a 65” screen I’d guess is less than $200.
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