Apollo 11 Lunar landing - 40th aniversary - w/ personal brag

John McWilliams wrote,on my timestamp of 17/07/2009 8:48 AM:


Not very many of my projects are still in use after 40 years... :-)

The show is _Mythbusters_. The episode was "NASA Moon Landing",
during which they explored various claims by the folks who say the
lunar landings were a hoax. I think it was one of the best episodes
they've ever done. At least in the USA, the Discovery Channel will be
re-airing that episode on Monday, July 20, 2009.

Thanks for the mention. I definitely want to see it, and just sent a web
request for recording it.

It's on at 6 PM PDT, Ch. 278, DirecTV.

OK, noonsio, I might have stock in DTV....


Couldn't care less, I'm still taping it.

Burt Johnson wrote,on my timestamp of 17/07/2009 11:11 AM:
Alan Browne wrote:

Burt Johnson wrote:
angle. With the moon being 250,000 miles away, even the slightest tilt
would mean a normal mirror would bounce the returning beam so wide it
would miss the earth entirely. With my magic design, any telescope on
earth can shine a (very powerful) laser on the moon, and the return beam
will come back right down the throat of the sending telescope.
Not to diminish the engineering work on a space bound piece of
equipment, however, there is nothing fundamentally amazing (and esp. not
"magic") about a corner reflector array. Not now. Not then.

There was lots of magic involved to an 18 y/o freshman that had just
landed his first professional job (I worked my way through college,
since my parents were dead broke).

And not 1 in 10 people I mention this too have any idea how it could
possibly be done.

piffle. I bet you don't even believe in Santa Claus or the Easter
Bunny...

'magic' was clearly used here in the romantic sense. Sorry you don't
have any imagination. Life must be miserable to be like that.



Please! Just ignore that twerp. Alan Browne is a well known troll who knows
everything about anything and has done so better than anyone else. We all know
who these were in school days: the ones measuring dick sizes in the bathroom
corners. He just never left those days...

"Alan Browne" wrote in message
...

Get the basic goal right before its specification.

As in don't post troll threads that have nothing to do with SLR cameras?

Ooh, the irony.

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Charles E Hardwidge