Apollo 12 Lands On The Moon +50yrs

#Now November 19, 1969, #Apollo12 makes the second human landing on the Moon.

While the preliminary landing site was anticipated to be 1000 feet from the 1967 Surveyor III lander, Pete Conrad and Al Bean landed just over 500 feet away.

Follow along on this video. pic.twitter.com/PBU3upmbUM
— NASA History Office (@NASAhistory) November 19, 2019

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Friday July 18th, 1969 14:46 - Apollo 11 mission day 3 of 9 - 302,400 Kilometers from Earth, 3,807 km/h, Command Module docked with Lunar Module. Apollo 11 Photograph AS11-36-5378 I'm 67 years old. Every day, the future looks a little bit darker. But the past... even the grimy parts of it... keep on getting brighter. -- Sally Jupiter src Sally Jupiter is a character in the comic Watchmen, which should be required reading... echo "Depression is a bitch." | sha512sum | fold -w 40 fe2f6b788e2a59bde4123f1deee9ef0305824069 63ab80cf74252a629c22fa1fa82a6faa6f77f1cd 3e0cd69b1487212aa070c769f098d8281b676f54 69a4eccc - There will be a show tonight. I hope you will join us. Cheers, Illya

What will you use to listen to BSR?

So, in about seven days BSR will be back on the air. For some folks, connecting to BSR will be old hat. The server is in the same location it was during our last million broadcasts, and they already have a streaming application they are familiar with. For others, this may be a new experience (and if so, welcome aboard!) or they need a refresher. Rather than try a one size fits all tutorial just yet, I figured I would start with some basic questions. What listening tool would you like to use? (e.g. iTunes) What operating system are you on? (e.g. Windows) This will help us develop a few tutorials to get folks started. Please let us know in the comments. And now, your moment of zen… https://twitter.com/VirginAustralia/status/1118760531618172928 Cheers, Illya PS: In theory this should post automatically to the slack channel as well. It is interesting to see the difference between a tool that encourages collaboration (slack), and one that is a closed system (faces

If we can't blow the hurricane up...

REMINDER: TAD AND CRAIG'S EXCELLENT PARTY IS THIS WEEKEND IN STERLING, VIRGINIA. DETAILS AT https://barkingmad.org/ Last week during BSR we discussed reports that administration officials had inquired whether we could destroy a hurricane by dropping an H-Bomb on it. Here is a bit of background on that ridiculous concept: Can a nuclear bomb stop a hurricane? No, it’s a myth that has persisted for decades - from Politifact Florida https://www.politifact.com/florida/article/2019/aug/26/can-nuclear-bomb-stop-hurricane-no-its-myth-has-pe/ How the U.S. Military Could Stop a Hurricane: Destroy it with a Nuclear Weapon? - National Interest https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/how-the-us-military-could-stop-hurricane-destroy-it-nuclear-22624 And an old favorite... Why don't we try to destroy tropical cyclones by nuking them ? - NOAA https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html After an intensive investigation, Bomb Shelter Radio is now aware of a new plan to spar

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