OT - Grumpy Old Man Thread

[utee94]

Historians and space enthusiasts have since debated whether Stafford and Cernan could have bucked NASA protocol and flown the final 15.6 kilometers to land on the Moon. Cernan later said that the ascent module was under-fueled to discourage the crew; NASA was also still optimizing the lunar module engines and testing the computer-assisted landing system back on Earth. In any case, the crew was not carrying equipment for a moonwalk.

The got within 16 km of the surface before ejecting the landing module and returning to orbit. 

I don't believe any of this because it is secondhand.  I wasn't there experiencing it directly and therefore it is false and fake.

[Cincydawg]

Yeah, goes back to MDT's question about what we can really know.

I dimly recall in HS physics running ball bearings down a track and calculating when it was pass various points.  It seemed to work, every time.

[MikeDeTiger]

Yeah, goes back to MDT's question about what we can really know.

Yeah, well, one thing you definitely can't know for sure is my location, and that's because I'm going precisely 40 mph.  



some of you will get that and it still won't be very funny

[betarhoalphadelta]

Yeah, well, one thing you definitely can't know for sure is my location, and that's because I'm going precisely 40 mph. 



some of you will get that and it still won't be very funny

Heisenberg gets pulled over by a policeman for speeding. 

Cop: "Sir, do you know how fast you were going?"
Heisenberg: "No, but I know where I am!"

[Cincydawg]

What we have hear, is failure ta communicate.