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Offline rum

Re: Moon Landings - No Hard Science Knowledge
« Reply #120 on: May 29, 2018, 05:48:44 PM »
Apollo astronaut Alan Bean died a few days ago. I was watching a talk he gave at the Smithsonian Institute and thinking that if the moon landings didn't happen these Apollo guys are the greatest actors of all time. They make the Brando's and Streep's of the world look like rank amateurs.

Or course I've seen the video of the Apollo 11 press conference, where Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin do look like deer caught in headlights. But the explanation for that could be a number of things.

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Offline klasG4e

Re: Moon Landings - No Hard Science Knowledge
« Reply #121 on: May 29, 2018, 07:32:19 PM »
Quote from: rum on May 29, 2018, 05:48:44 PM


Or course I've seen the video of the Apollo 11 press conference, where Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin do look like deer caught in headlights. But the explanation for that could be a number of things.

Such as?
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Offline AlligatorDicax

VTR/Re: Moon Landings - No Hard Science Knowledge
« Reply #122 on: May 29, 2018, 08:00:44 PM »
Quote from: Ladislaus on May 19, 2018, 07:34:56 PM

Back then?  [....]  Maybe they broadcast TV signals and then recorded them on the other end with a VCR.  Oh, wait. [Hadn't been invented yet.][†]

A Video Tape Recorder was first used commercially and quite publicly, on Nov. 30, 1956 by CBS News, to time-shift their regularly scheduled program Douglas Edwards and the News.  Recorded during the original CBS Eastern Time broadcast, it was replayed 3 hours later as the CBS Pacific-Time broadcast.  Invented by AMPEX in Redwood City (San Mateo Co., Calif.), work had begun on the project in 1952.  Its storage medium was mag-tape (of course), almost certainly of the reel-to-reel persuasion.

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Note †: I trust that I accurately restored the sense of the text that Ladislaus omitted at the end of his posting.
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Offline klasG4e

Re: Moon Landings - No Hard Science Knowledge
« Reply #123 on: May 29, 2018, 08:15:23 PM »
Some comic relief. 

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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: VTR/Re: Moon Landings - No Hard Science Knowledge
« Reply #124 on: May 29, 2018, 08:19:21 PM »
Quote from: AlligatorDicax on May 29, 2018, 08:00:44 PM
A Video Tape Recorder was first used commercially and quite publicly, on Nov. 30, 1956 by CBS News, to time-shift their regularly scheduled program Douglas Edwards and the News.  Recorded during the original CBS Eastern Time broadcast, it was replayed 3 hours later as the CBS Pacific-Time broadcast.  Invented by AMPEX in Redwood City (San Mateo Co., Calif.), work had begun on the project in 1952.  Its storage medium was mag-tape (of course), almost certainly of the reel-to-reel persuasion.

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Note †: I trust that I accurately restored the sense of the text that Ladislaus omitted at the end of his posting.

I'm talking about something small enough to take on a mission, not the behemoth that was undoubtedly used in 56.  That's why I said VCR.
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