February 2012
“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both...”
– Sir Arthur C. Clarke
January 2012
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Re: Road trip advice? →
Thanks to everyone who has given us advice already! All the replies, messages, and emails will be a huge help.
Just to clarify things, I live in Los Angeles so we aren’t planning to include anything there in the road trip. Plus, San Francisco is a second home to me so we are only staying one night there and leaving early the next morning. Our main goals are to drive up the coast, see...
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Road trip advice?
Okay so my brother and I are taking a road trip up the Pacific coast and I wanted to see if anyone had any advice for things to see. We are planning on taking 9 days in mid-February to drive north via this route:
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Eureka/Crescent City
Southern Oregon coastline
Portland
Seattle
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Whistler, BC, Canada
Anything that we “must-do” in the...
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gadgetry asked: I'm dying to hear your thoughts on Gingrich's recent comments re: our future with space exploration (or colonization, if we're taking his tone to heart).
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What Apollo 11 Astronauts Did Right Before Neil...
Aldrin: You've got a good picture, huh?
Houston: There's a great deal of contrast in it, and currently, it's upside-down on our monitor, but we can make out a fair amount of detail.
Aldrin: Will you verify the position - the opening I ought to have on the camera?
Houston: Stand by.
[Armstrong begins to descend.]
Houston: We can see you coming down the ladder now.
Armstrong: Okay, I just checked getting back up to that first step, Buzz. It's -- not even collapsed too far, but it's adequate to get back up... It takes a pretty good little jump.
Houston: Buzz, this is Houston. F/2 - 1/160th second for shadow photography on the sequence camera.
Aldrin: Okay.
Armstrong: I'm at the foot of the ladder. The [Lunar Module] footpads are only depressed in the surface about 1 or 2 inches, although the surface appears to be very fine grained as you get close to it. It's almost like a powder. Down there, it's very fine. I'm going to step off the [Lunar Module] now. THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND.
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