Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

Holy crap, my post was full of errors. That should teach me to write tech stuff before caffeine. (It won't, but it should.) On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Ben Scott wrote: >  LUMINARY is the main program for the LM (Lunar Modular, the lander). s/Lunar Modular/Lunar Module/ >  Both the CM a

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

> Yes, I'm a space junkie! :-D I've liked the Moon Machines series: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=moon+machines ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

>You don't even need to make your own rope memory. Now he tells me! :-) md ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: > I am downloading a PDF of the AGC program "Luminary" ... the program > used on the Lunar Lander is also there ... LUMINARY is the main program for the LM (Lunar Modular, the lander). The main program for the CM (Command Module, the con

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

Ben, Thanks for that email and those links. I got curious about the fact that MAC was the first "high order computer language", so I started searching for that and found this link: http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/07/17/236650/apollo-11-the-computers-that-put-man-on-the-moon.htm whic

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Ben Scott wrote: >  This year is the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 ... Marginally closer to topic than my last: Here's a report from an interview (done circa 1994) with one of the programmers who worked on the software for the Apollo lunar lander computer. I fi

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Ben Scott wrote: >  This year is the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 ... Sort-of related, I got sent a link to a YouTube video entitled "If Man Walked on the Moon Today". I think it is actually pretty apt commentary on what our modern "news media" has become: ht

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

Worked for me on FF 3.0.11, Ubuntu 9.04 x86... $ sudo apt-get install flashplugin\* ... Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse flashplugin-nonfree 10.0.22.87ubuntu2 [1764B] Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound 0.0.svn2431-3 [8160B] ...

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

Another example of cool content that's only viewable if you're willing to jump through a bunch of irritating proprietary hoops: http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/gates-puts-feynman-lectures-online/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnh

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Mark E. Mallett wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:15:42AM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: >>   Needs Flash 10.  Doesn't seem to like Firefox on this Windoze PC. > > Seems to work here under FF3.5 Yah, weird, it works on my Linux box at home, too, but it didn't with Fi

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:15:42AM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > This year is the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 -- the first time a > human being set foot on another world. > > ? The JFK Presidential Library has a website which is providing a > real-time simulation/recreation, complete with CGI mode

[OT] We Choose The Moon

This year is the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 -- the first time a human being set foot on another world.   The JFK Presidential Library has a website which is providing a real-time simulation/recreation, complete with CGI models, recorded audio, video footage, and photos.  It's still on the pad