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There's a Facebook discussion going on about lightning striking rockets, but it occurs to me to bring up some curious questions I've always had about the launch of Apollo 12: 1. Apollo 12, the second lunar landing mission, was launched on November 14, 1969, in the middle of a medium heavy...

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/trump-offered-nasa-unlimited-funding-to-go-to-mars-by-2020.html Perhaps not a fully-thought-out scientific proposal.

I was about to post this as a lengthy response to a thread in the Beginner's forum, but rather than hijack that whole thread, I thought maybe it deserved a post of its own ... I am currently involved -- very loosely -- in a raging Facebook battle instigated and perpetrated by a bully, a...

Listed on eBay. Very Rare Roachwerks Rocketry SOYUZ TM ! https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=152336319078

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/hundreds-galaxies-were-found-hiding-behind-our-milky-way-180958078/?no-ist Including probably trillions of stars. :y::y:

I'm watching movies and reading I've seen eleventy seven zillion football games in my life, one more or less won't make any difference. :lol::lol::lol:

... When a supposedly "scientific" teevee show cites the speed of light as "186,000 miles per second," instead of the accurate figure of 186,282? I mean, that last 282 miles per second does matter -- 282 miles per second is a little more than 1 million MPH. Excuse me while I shake my fist...

Spotted him on Facebook tonight; he has been on my friends list for 2-3 years but we have never exchanged messages. So I decided to shoot him a PM. We were pretty good friends in grade school and HS -- not BEST friends but definitely in the same clique -- but after HS basically he pulled up his...

https://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150121-mega-storms-sweep-uranus :y::y::y:

I come to TRF to get away from bat-brained wingnut emails, not to read more of them.

I have a Sony HandyCam from about 2002-03 which takes very nice video on Hi8 tapes but I am trying to figure out how to download these vids to my hard drive to save and edit in Windows 8. Do I need video capture hardware? There is a lot of cheap stuff available on eBay but most appears to run...

Got out Sunday for a family picnic/launch and my twin nieces, 8, finally got to fly the Sky Hooks they built and painted (with a teeny bit of help from their uncles and brother). They were all excited to hear Uncle JSS's tales of first having built a Sky Hook at age 10 in spring 1969, five...

Wanted to get over to Muskegon but family commitments got in the way (although I did do a launch picnic with my nieces and nephew yesterday). But the NSL schedule sounded like fun so it would be cool to see what people were flying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcUeGRpPzgw :y::y::headbang::headbang:

Another Estes clearance. https://www.estesrockets.com/clearance/ Between being dead-dog broke and having a 55-gallon barrel full of unbuilt kits in the basement, I'll probably be sitting this one out. But there are some pretty good deals.

They were down in Florida for spring break anyway and my sister decided Saturday or Sunday ago to go to KSC today so I guess they got tickets and everything all set up ahead of time. I emailed her last night and told her the launch was scheduled for 1:45 p.m. today and she said, "awesome, I...

I outgrew many of the hobbies I had as a much younger kid, but MOST of them I kind of just gradually drifted out of. A common story among BARs is that when they discovered girls, rockets tended to get left in the basement. I know in my teen years, I slid bit by bit out of rocketry from ages...

I was a little too slow on the trigger to get this in before the lock, but this is important. (I tried a PM but got a 'inbox full' message) (I've already edited out a little extra gratuitous :gavel::gavel: on the OP, we've probably had enough of that) I placed a SEMROC order...

https://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/03/world_war_ii_veteran_receives_purple_heart_70_years_later.html Full disclosure: One of the crew members lost with the "Berlin Playboy" was my uncle.

https://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/science-knowledge/ The scoring curve results are a little ... uhm... :facepalm: