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50 years ago, 'Earthrise' inspired the environmental movement.
The 1968 Apollo 8 mission was crucial in the race to get a man on the moon. It was the first manned launch of the colossal Saturn V rocket, which had only flown twice before in unmanned test missions. It was also the first manned spacecraft to escape Earth's gravity, reach another celestial body, and orbit it. It took nearly three days for the crew to reach the moon, and after a tense four minute engine burn -- which could have flung them into space or crashed them onto the Moon's surface --they successfully entered orbit.
The astronauts were equipped with a highly modified Hasselblad 500 EL with the reflex viewfinder replaced by a mechanical sighting ring. They were fully trained in its use and in photography principles and had access to both 70mm color and black and white film. Commander Frank Borman happened to be turning the command module when it came around on its fourth orbit on December 24th, and the Earth appeared as a blue jewel against the Moon's drab monochrome surface.
Borman reportedly took a black and white photo of the Earth in a slightly lower position next to the moon, but Anders thought the shot would be worthy of color. The conversation among the crew at that moment was famously recorded for posterity (above), and reveals what happened next.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Tuesday December 25 2018, @03:23PM (13 children)
Something ... something ... fake moon landing ... something ... earth is flat. There are just so many people out there that Buzz needs to punch out ...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 25 2018, @04:25PM (1 child)
The earth is round and hollow floating in a flat ocean. Like a pitted olive floating in a bowl of brine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 25 2018, @08:30PM
And yet it is turtles all the way down.
(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Tuesday December 25 2018, @04:58PM (5 children)
There was an episode of SFIA where he actually proposed using some of the flat Earth concepts in building Earth like habitats.
ahh found it Megastructures: Flat Earths [youtube.com]
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday December 25 2018, @05:07PM (4 children)
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday December 25 2018, @05:07PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @03:51PM (1 child)
It depends on the scale (admittedly you said most, so you are right), I think CERN needed to take the curvature into account, and I know that the Sudan mine's use for detecting WIMPs required the particle accelerator (FERMILAB I think) to aim through the earth. Since they were looking for WIMPs it didn't matter much that there was a planet in the way.
http://www.soudan.umn.edu/ [umn.edu]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday December 26 2018, @04:30PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @05:06PM
> I assure [assume] you nobody took the curvature of the Earth into account when they made my residence.
Depends on how you look at it, if the builders used bubble levels at more than one location (eg, used the bubble to set each wall vertical), the curvature was there, built into the measurement. On the other hand, the error in a bubble level is enough that you won't consistently find that your rooms are slightly larger near the ceiling (compared to the dimensions at floor level).
In a fantasy world, there might be budget for a big study of many buildings, and my guess is that statistically the population of room sizes will support a spherical earth model.
To truly build using a flat earth assumption would mean establishing one vertical (with bubble level) and then measuring everything else from that (top and bottom in this example) to guarantee the walls are parallel. And similar for the floors--long straight edges must be used to keep all the different parts of the floor in one plane.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday December 25 2018, @05:44PM (2 children)
He aims to prevent my new lady’s death from the bacterial blood infection sepsis by feeding her colloidal silver
So far she’s taking oral antibiotics but if she starts horking it will be lights and sirens to a delightful two-week inpatient course of inpatient ones
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 5, Informative) by RandomFactor on Tuesday December 25 2018, @07:08PM (1 child)
Colloidal silver diminishes the absorption of a number of antibiotics/antibiotic families.
Web MD [webmd.com] Mayo [mayoclinic.org]
If she must take this particular 'supplement' (it is not considered safe and effective by the FDA) then please inform her doctor and check the drug interactions with her antibiotics yourself.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 25 2018, @07:52PM
It also causes some of these "folk cure" taking idiots to turn into new candidates for the Blue Man Group.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Wednesday December 26 2018, @01:01AM
Technically, those keen on details enough to see through the faking of moon photos (which is a fact for some of them regardless the actual landing on the moon), are likely not buying flat earth theories. But, hey, if your only argument is ad hominem you gotta lump them together to discredit some.
Face it, the only ones to provably land on the moon is us machines. Deal with it.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @02:36AM
Want a 'conspiracy' at least one related.
The crying indian (who was actually an Italian) was propaganda sponsored by coca-cola to allow them to switch over to plastic bottles and put the blame on you.
Geeze at least use the conspiracy theory that is on topic!