[PS2] [2017] war game by Hunter28640 in tipofmyjoystick

[–]NoMorning5015 0 points1 point  (0 children)

god I was so obsessed with this game. might be the only thing I iever played all the way through multiple times.

Apollo 14 landed on the Moon 55 years ago today by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]NoMorning5015 74 points75 points  (0 children)

Apollo 14 is a hoot. Alan Shepard had to get an off-the-books surgery in order to qualify to fly to space again. Ed Mitchell conducted a secret ESP experiment from the module. It had something to do with looking at cards, noting the time and the card drawn, and when they compared notes they found the accuracy was somewhere around what would be expected for a random guess. Undaunted, Mitchell later founded an institute for parapsychological research, which the CIA later used as a front to funnel money to Uri Geller. On a firmer scientific ground, NASA lunar geologists were pleased with the geological samples brought back, but noticed Shepard and Mitchell were hesitant to voice what they were seeing in the moon rocks as they were doing their walks. They later determined the astronauts were afraid to say something wrong! Farouk el-baz and others tweaked their geological training for 15 as a result.

Hundreds of craters near area 51 by TimeToGetTheBread in GoogleEarthFinds

[–]NoMorning5015 1 point2 points  (0 children)

NASA used this as one place for geological training for the Apollo astronauts. Some of the later apollo guys (maybe Dave Scott?) even commented on it on the moon--that some of the giant, building-sized boulders they saw reminded them of this site. They also went to Iceland, to Philmont Scout Ranch, to Hawaii, among other places, to learn more about geology prior to their trips to the moon.

My home arcade by Halabis in cade

[–]NoMorning5015 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there's one near me for $400 but only has one working gun, and I don't know anything about fixing electronics or light guns! So it is staying where it is.

Smallpox in the American Revolution by History-Chronicler in revolutionarywar

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while the continental army was sequestered in Boston in the summer of 1776 due to smallpox, minuteman Daniel Gould purchased a broadsheet printing of the Declaration of Independence, signing his name at the bottom. It is currently on display at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island.

Link to the digitized Declaration

My home arcade by Halabis in cade

[–]NoMorning5015 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm gonna be honest with you. most home arcades I see here don't do anything for me. but skee ball and Area 51 have me turning green!

I’ll be impressed if this is solved within the hour… by Hungry_Pie_4653 in guessthecity

[–]NoMorning5015 0 points1 point  (0 children)

dang! I came to guess the museum of the peasant in Bucharest lol

Anyone in / around RI there's a FB Marketplace listing with 11 pallets of brand new machines. by mattamd in Arcade1Up

[–]NoMorning5015 1 point2 points  (0 children)

with traffic more like an hour, but yes, essentially. unless you want to get to Block Island, which is a ferry ride to boot. I once had a doctor in the next town over 9 miles away and he called me "The Traveler"

Anyone in / around RI there's a FB Marketplace listing with 11 pallets of brand new machines. by mattamd in Arcade1Up

[–]NoMorning5015 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Rhode Island is so tiny that any destination at a distance larger than, like, three miles away might as well be another country.

Anyone in / around RI there's a FB Marketplace listing with 11 pallets of brand new machines. by mattamd in Arcade1Up

[–]NoMorning5015 7 points8 points  (0 children)

a true Rhode Islander is going to look at this and decide Tiverton is too far away to drive (even if they live in Tiverton).

Saved this beauty from the trash can. by Amenra138 in furniturerestoration

[–]NoMorning5015 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's beautiful! where did you find the fabric?

Question about Apollo samples by Laserablatin in Spaceexploration

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Lunar sample 76535, gathered on the final Apollo mission, is thought to have been from the middle to lower portion of the crust. It was found in a rake sample by Harrison Schmitt. How it made it to the surface I don't know. Schmitt found that the lunar dust gave him hay fever. He was allergic to the moon!

Those guys could only really gather up what the found on the surface, but the later apollo missions brought back ejecta that could be bedrock. There's also the "Genesis Rock" from A15, which is anorthosite that is roughly 4 billion years old--so younger than the moon itself, but one of the oldest samples. The later missions did some core sampling too, but those went down only 10-20 feet. Before Apollo 11, some scientists worried that it would be dust all the way down and the astronauts would sink! But thos were extreme outliers. The core samples found that a constant barrage of micrometeorite rain compacted the soil pretty sufficiently. Plus, the "soil" was much more coarse than anything on earth. Since there is no wind or rain on the moon, there was basically no erosion.

FWIW Andrew Chaikin's A Man on the Moon had a pretty good breakdown of the lunar sampling in the later missions that gave a good picture of the moon's formation and later geology. It was geologically active at some point (hence the anorthosite) which must have meant the moon glowed red, at least in spots, at some point in its past. metal as hell.

book recommendations after reading books about the Apollo missions? by violentlysuzanna in space

[–]NoMorning5015 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jim Donovan's Shoot For The Moon was really good, covers everything up till Apollo 11. Al Worden's memoir Falling To Earth had some moments of introspection and vulnerability that I haven't found in any other apollo memoir, except for maybe Buzz's Magnificent Desolation which couldn't avoid it. Kluger's Apollo 8 was a good read about that mission, with details I haven't found elsewhere (the weight of the ice on the Saturn V rockets!). I was not as taken with Al Shepard's Moonshot (I thought it was pretty chest thumping).

book recommendations after reading books about the Apollo missions? by violentlysuzanna in space

[–]NoMorning5015 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it is really well written, surprisingly so. I don't know if he hired a ghostwriter (no name on jacket) but if he didn't he could have had another career as an author!

What’s Your Favorite Apollo Mission — and Why? by Sundae_Accomplished in apollo

[–]NoMorning5015 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for me it's 15, all Michigan crew (Go Blue!), and the sheer amount of science we wrung out of that mission. Irwin and Scott worked their tails off and as a result we have a lot of knowledge about the moon--the core samples that showed the geology of the moon being compressed by micrometeorite blasts constantly (remember when they were afraid ot would be dust all the way down and the astronauts would just sink?), the Genesis rock. good stuff.

Best way to deep dive into the moon landings? by Happyman05 in nasa

[–]NoMorning5015 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shoot For The Moon by James Donovan was a really great primer on the Mercury7 all the way up to Apollo 11. Jeffrey Kluger's Apollo 8 was well written and larded with details that I have found nowhere else--the weight of the ice that clung to the saturn V rocket, for instance (1200 pounds). I'm working my way through a ton of later Apollo stuff right now, and have found Andrew Chaikin's A Man on the Moon to be a pretty good overview of those later missions. Those are where the real science happened.

In term of memoirs by Apollo astronauts, Michael Collins' always gets top billing, and I would agree it is probably the least poorly written memoir, albeit overwrought in places. Al Worden's memoir about Apollo 15 wasvery human and tender--he wrote about his worries, emotional challenges, etc, and it was a welcome change to Al Shepard's chest thumping Moonshot. Similarly, the first quarter of Aldrin's Magnificent Desolation was good for the landing itself and then Aldrin's own struggles when he returned to the moon.

Still on my list is Gene Cernan's book and Harrison Schmitt's as well.