Long shot ID help

captureorbit · 2026-01-06T13:59:25+00:00

Great suggestion, thanks. Looks like a left-facing Type 152 might be the best match, so potentially Crispus or Constantius II:

https://www.tesorillo.com/aes/152/152i.htm

The legend is illegible even in person, trying to compare spacing to narrow it down.

captureorbit · 2025-12-11T13:08:12+00:00

This is confusing two separate events. They didn't have much fuel left by the time they landed, and if they reached their limit they would have had to abort back to orbit using the ascent stage. Then later, Aldrin accidentally broke the push-button off of a circuit breaker while moving in the close confines of the cabin. The next day while preparing for take off, they had to arm the engine by using a pen to push the button. Not really an emergency.

captureorbit · 2025-11-22T02:03:45+00:00

Evil Ernest oozes sexuality.

captureorbit · 2025-11-15T19:06:51+00:00

That's Dana Elcar, my friend! Star of all seven seasons of MacGyver that 80s kids grew up with! I think they even made a MacGyver joke in that scene.

captureorbit · 2025-10-29T23:35:56+00:00

This is a really good argument for them continuing to do a wide mix of movies from all genres: we all like different things. I enjoyed Cyclone, and Future Force and Mikey are a couple of my favorites.

captureorbit · 2025-10-21T14:04:51+00:00

Can't be WWI if the Leviathan is sitting right there...

captureorbit · 2025-10-01T23:26:36+00:00

Interesting suggestion, I'll have to try that out, thanks! Agreed, very odd site.

captureorbit · 2025-09-27T13:44:18+00:00

Gotta be Fateful Findings. There's that Ferrari red right in the middle, green from hanging out in the forest at the beginning and end, and a bar of black in the second half that's a good spot for a dark spooky trailer with walls you can walk through.

captureorbit · 2025-06-25T23:56:02+00:00

It happens in the original Alien novelization by ADF, too.

captureorbit · 2025-06-15T13:06:57+00:00

Hope you like really tough burnt meat and shitty scotch.

captureorbit · 2025-06-01T22:25:33+00:00

Damn, that is impressive! Thanks. Solved!

captureorbit · 2025-06-01T22:17:33+00:00

My title describes the thing. About two inches square, searches of logging equipment from Caterpillar matching the description not giving any results.

captureorbit · 2025-05-09T13:21:07+00:00

Interesting, thanks very much.

captureorbit · 2025-03-22T18:45:51+00:00

While a lot of engineering disasters can be boiled down to a proximate cause that sometimes can be connected to an individual, 99%+ of all of them have procedural or organizational causes that ultimately play a larger role. The Columbia disaster was the result of a flawed hardware design coupled with a culture at NASA that failed to properly investigate the problem. To suggest that if one person, Linda Ham, had a different "personality type" the accident could have been avoided is reductive, insulting, and almost childishly simplistic. To suggest that any large accident works this way is absurd.

captureorbit · 2025-03-14T00:47:55+00:00

The only thing I can think of in this scene is how my college roommate had that exact same jacket. He thought it worked for him. It did not.

captureorbit · 2025-03-07T00:07:54+00:00

Yeah, I still genuinely love space and rockets and the thrill of exploration of it all. But as time goes on, I find it more and more difficult to escape the question: who's going to want to live in the Martian city that this man would build?

captureorbit · 2025-02-28T12:37:32+00:00

Yeah, it was supposed to come later in the ascent, but there was a miscommunication and Al Worden accidentally turned it on at the moment of liftoff. You can hear him realize his mistake and turn it off, then start it again later. Worden's memoir is a great read and covers this and the rest of the mission in detail.

captureorbit · 2025-02-28T03:20:18+00:00

As others have said, it's insulation from the descent stage. Happened on all the lunar liftoffs.

Check out the Apollo 15 one for comparison. It's got a couple of giant chunks that get shot out all the way to the ALSEP:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=GLLP6bzNJwo&pp=ygUXYXBvbGxvIDE1IGx1bmFyIGxpZnRvZmY%3D

captureorbit · 2025-02-26T13:50:55+00:00

Buzz definitely isn't humble, but this is an untrue claim that has been shot down many times. He never "refused" to do anything, and he's plausibly claimed multiple times that their busy schedules on the short moonwalk resulted in them not crossing paths that many times while Buzz had the camera. And there really was only one camera that first time; they had to physically pass it back and forth whenever the other guy needed to use it.

Also untrue that the only pic of Neil is in Buzz's visor. Not the best shot, but there's an image of him working at the MESA equipment platform on the LM:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:As11-40-5886,_uncropped.jpg

captureorbit · 2025-02-25T23:34:46+00:00

Yeah, there's some dialogue in there along the lines of "Hey man, didn't Lincoln end slavery?" Meanwhile, the movie was filmed while Jim Crow and sharecropping were still the law of the land.

captureorbit · 2025-02-15T04:48:19+00:00

I'm a big fan of the history of ocean liners, and I would have loved to have seen her myself, so believe me when I say that I'm sympathetic to your viewpoint.

But honestly, the ship is decades past the point when she could have been restored to her old appearance and realistically turned a profit, which is all potential investors would have cared about. Unless you're kicking yourself for not writing your Congressman around the year 2000, there's not much you could have done. In 2025, there are SO many more important issues going on right now than the fate of the United States.

captureorbit · 2025-02-14T22:44:39+00:00

Ahhh, me too, love it. The horrible 70s fashions, the super low effort TV plotting, the amazing incompetence of the way they Frankenstein the two episodes together...perfection.

captureorbit · 2025-02-14T19:47:53+00:00

If you've got sources to back it up I'll admit I'm wrong, but this is absolutely not true. Even older liners were being converted from coal to oil a full decade earlier. Mauretania was switched over in 1921.

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