Posted on 08/24/2023 10:57:51 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Stanley Kubrick is considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Of his 13 movies a few are considered classics in their respective genres. Including the black comedy Dr. Strangelove, the highly-quoteable anti-war commentary of Full Metal Jacket, and one of the most disturbing horror films of all time, The Shining.
But in 1968, Kubrick released "2001 - A Space Odyssey". This is more than a classic. It's a masterpiece. And widely regarded as one of the best science-fiction films of all time, and probably the most influential.
This collaboration with science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke tells the story of an alien intelligence that visited Earth in the distant past, and left behind artifacts in the solar system.
The movie (2001 - A Space Odyssey) features ground breaking special effects, which still hold up today.
In fact, the effects looked so good that the movie gave the American Government an idea.
Billions of tax dollars were invested in the space program but the Soviets were still years ahead of the United States.
NASA desperately needed to get to the moon before Russia, but they knew it was impossible. So they turned to one of the World's Best Filmmakers for help. Because when it came to the moon: if they couldn't make it, they'd fake it!
https://youtu.be/yDyJe1nmSOM?feature=shared
(Excerpt) Read more at youtu.be ...
Artemis is a joint project. So the answer on that is probably “”it’s complicated”.
NASA’s biggest problem these days is we no longer believe in big ideas. NASA has a miniscule budget, and not much of a mission anymore. And I think that’s true for a lot of the western world, which is why the biggest thing going right now is a joint project of half a dozen countries. Space is a big idea, just because of the nature of how hard it is. And if you’re country isn’t into big ideas, and the money and support those take, space is out of reach.
I can’t believe they allow this moronic , ignorant crap here on FR. This place is surely going downhill.
I’ve read a few. There was a lot of wild stuff. They were right at the edge of technical possibility. They were making the technology to get that edge. Kinda crazy. And awe inspiring. Which is why I despise all landing deniers. They’re scum.
I know it. I just posted my layman’s explanation to another on this same thread. Look for it or google it. I’m not trying to agitate. It’s just what I believe. You’re the one hurling insults, but that’s normally how it goes with these conversations. That’s why I keep it to myself, but you brought it up.
Perhaps I misunderstood or misremembered what was written... It’s been a couple of years since I read the book. I did know that the on-board computers were getting inputs from Mission Control’s mainframes.
You keep talking about that ...
What monkey, what spacecraft, what launch vehicle. Name and date of the mission.
Be specific.
I would imagine you think they did not...
A meme and insult education, thanks. If you only knew.
That is the dumbest thing I’ve heard; it would be the Romulans. They have cloak technology. 😉
Your teenage grandson hopefully knows why the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Calling someone an idiot isnt an insult if it true.
Agree. Totally. And it's not just NASA.
We've forgotten how to "Think Big"; we're ruled by people incapable of thinking big. We're ruled by a bunch of whinging "safety-first" < expletives deleted > ...
You are correct that Mission Control mainframes sent data to the command and lunar modules.
The problem (imho a fatal flaw) is that the computers on board the modules had no on-board real time navigation computation capability—which would have been needed to safely land the craft and then return the lunar module to the command module at a later point. The real time would have been necessary because of the communications time lag between NASA and the capsules when they got near the Moon.
The computers shown in official NASA documentation were “Potemkins”—fakes.
That is what the links show—and is one reason many of us believe the missions never happened—despite all the name calling and insults we get around here.
Lat week it was explained to you, and you ignored it, and now you're repeating your idiocy yet again.
What you don't have, is common sense, it seems.
I'm an engineer. I deal in facts. Show me facts and I'll believe you. You've shown nothing but bullshit innuendo and half truths and proclaim your “opinions” are above reproach.
I have an idea. The retard who claimed the Earth was flat and built himself a rocket and killed himself in it seems to be a personage right up your alley. Why don't you go build yourself a rocket and have a nice trip just like that dipshit?
And again, my apologies for my choice of expletives. Please have this deleted if inappropriate.
The experiment was going to show the movement of the earth through physics, but it didn’t. Einstein had to invent e=mc2 to say that we can’t tell if we’re moving.
Worse. We’re ruled by people who just want to win the next election. And doing things, anything really, doesn’t win elections.
Here’s the problem and it’s been that way for more then a decade!
LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) photos of the Apollo landing sites:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-sites.html
Balderdash.
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