What is the signficance of this picture?

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[Hawkshot99]

moon landing. The significance of the picture however is the fact that the lunar module is in the picture. The skeptics on if we went to the moon, would question how was the picture taken?

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[ScottySkis]

moon landing. The significance of the picture however is the fact that the lunar module is in the picture. The skeptics on if we went to the moon, would question how was the picture taken?

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They say Kubric the great movie director was involved.

 

[Puck it]

Nope.

 

[Nick]

The picture encompasses 100% of all humanity.

 

[Puck it]

The picture encompasses 100% of all humanity.

Close. Not all

 

[ctenidae]

Close. Not all

Right, short by 1

 

[Puck it]

Right, short by 1

Correct. Who is the one?

 

[Nick]

I read about this in a tech blog recently. It's pretty cool when you think about it.

 

[hammer]

Close. Not all

Doesn't include the person in the command module...

 

[St. Bear]

Aren't there multiple probes in deep space? Voyager, I think, is now approching the edge of our solar system.

 

[Cornhead]

Correct. Who is the one?

Umm, the one who took the picture! Taken from the command module, I assume, if you believe we really went there.:wink: My Dad work at Singer Link, they built the flight simulators for the Apollo program, when Neil Armstrong was asked what it was like going to the Moon, he said, "It was just like the simulation". If you saw the movie Apollo 13, there were scenes where they were using the simulator to work out the procedures to try to get the astronauts back to Earth, the simulator was invaluable. It must have been an interesting career for my Dad. When he started working there Link was building the "Blue Box" simulators which used bellows to make the thing pitch and yaw, Link was an organ builder. The last two projects my Dad worked on were the simulators for the F117, and B2 bomber, quite a change over 45 years!


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[ctenidae]

Correct. Who is the one?

Fred Haise. He went back on 13, but obviously didn't get to land then, either. So, in a way, he'll always be excluded from the mass of humanity.
Not necessarily a bad distinction, really...

 

[Puck it]

Fred Haise. He went back on 13, but obviously didn't get to land then, either. So, in a way, he'll always be excluded from the mass of humanity.
Not necessarily a bad distinction, really...

Nope. Haise was only on 13. He was back up for 8 and 11.

 

[ctenidae]

Nope. Haise was only on 13. He was back up for 8 and 11.

Der- right. Michael Collins.

 

[legalskier]

Sam Rockwell?

 

[ctenidae]

So, is there any signifigance other than the 99.99999% of humanity angle?

 

[Puck it]

So, is there any signifigance other than the 99.99999% of humanity angle?

Nope. Just never thought of it like that.

 

[Abubob]

The significance for me is that we normally view this in reverse.