<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The moon launch was never primarily about science.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">There was only one scientist who ever went to the moon </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">spike</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">so the astronauts were the pretty boys? Great on camera? But the pretty boys did do some scientific experiments, did they not? Besides picking up rocks, that is. bill</font></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 9:26 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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Hey spike, were you there for this one?<br>
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<a href="https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191109.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191109.html</a><br>
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Those were good days, spike. Seems like there was a lot more enthusiasm,<br>
excitment, and hope then.<br>
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I have a friend living down that way and she can see, from her front porch,<br>
various rockets going up. She's never tired of it. :)<br>
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Regards,<br>
MB<br>
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Hi MB, I sure as heck was there for that one. That was the first full<br>
Saturn 5 launch, and it was at dawn and the moon was full. These are some<br>
of my earliest memories, for I had just turned 7. My father worked at the<br>
cape so he had a pass to get in and knew a place. After the fact I realized<br>
it must have been due south of the launch site because the glow of dawn was<br>
on my right and the moon was setting on my left as we faced the rocket.<br>
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There were some things I didn't understand. It was hard to get scale on<br>
something like that. I heard the rocket stood as high as a tall building.<br>
But the tallest building I had ever seen was 5 floors, the tallest building<br>
Titusville had in those days. What is that, about 50 ft? The Saturn 5 was<br>
360 ft. Seeing it from about 4 miles away one couldn't really scale it.<br>
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That launch started an industry in Titusville. Yankees would come down in<br>
their Winnebagos and camp along the Indian River. There weren't many<br>
stores; we didn't even have a shopping mall in town. So a kid could sell<br>
souvenir trinkets and newspapers, young women could sell souvenir... eh...<br>
could sell... ummm... a kid could sell trinkets and newspapers, make a pile<br>
of money. That's how I bought all my first camping gear, profit from a<br>
single day of selling special edition newspapers.<br>
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If I could find one of those vintage editions of the Star Advocate Special,<br>
I would be tempted to offer a deal for it. From what I recall, the editions<br>
that sold like hotcakes were the ones that were mostly about the astronauts<br>
and their wives (?) and had little to do with rocketry. <br>
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This Nov 1967 launch had no astronauts aboard, but they didn't tell me that.<br>
I was told an ape was flying it. My 7 yr old self didn't know any better.<br>
When the politicians commented "No Buck Rogers, no bucks" we understood<br>
exactly what they meant. The moon launch was never primarily about science.<br>
There was only one scientist who ever went to the moon.<br>
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spike<br>
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