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I finally got to see the movie that everyone has been raving about here
(especially the Aussie contingent of regular posters) as it was just run on TNT (Turner Network Television) here in the states...you guys were right; that is a really great movie- they must have built that Parkes dish like a brick ****house if it was able to move in winds of that speed- I went out in winds that high during a storm here back when I was working at our local airport, and almost got blown off my feet... has anyone figured out the total amount of force that thing withstood during the tracking of the landing? Great work, Australia...really, really, great work... Pat |
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On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 03:09:52 -0600, Pat Flannery wrote:
I finally got to see the movie that everyone has been raving about here (especially the Aussie contingent of regular posters) as it was just run on TNT (Turner Network Television) here in the states...you guys were right; that is a really great movie- they must have built that Parkes dish like a brick ****house if it was able to move in winds of that speed- I went out in winds that high during a storm here back when I was working at our local airport, and almost got blown off my feet... has anyone figured out the total amount of force that thing withstood during the tracking of the landing? Great work, Australia...really, really, great work... Pat In that case Pat, you should try to get your hands on the DVD. There is much more than just the usual "didn't we have a great time shooting this movie" type of cast and crew interviews for the bonus material. We are treated to archival footage of the Apollo program, JFK's Rice University speech in full and even interviews showing the technicians while they are assembling the space suits. Plenty of space history. Enjoy! -- +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ | Dave Downing, Somerset U.K. | +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ |
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Dave Downing wrote: On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 03:09:52 -0600, Pat Flannery wrote: I finally got to see the movie that everyone has been raving about here (especially the Aussie contingent of regular posters) as it was just run on TNT (Turner Network Television) here in the states...you guys were right; that is a really great movie- they must have built that Parkes dish like a brick ****house if it was able to move in winds of that speed- I went out in winds that high during a storm here back when I was working at our local airport, and almost got blown off my feet... has anyone figured out the total amount of force that thing withstood during the tracking of the landing? Great work, Australia...really, really, great work... Pat In that case Pat, you should try to get your hands on the DVD. There is much more than just the usual "didn't we have a great time shooting this movie" type of cast and crew interviews for the bonus material. We are treated to archival footage of the Apollo program, JFK's Rice University speech in full and even interviews showing the technicians while they are assembling the space suits. Plenty of space history. Enjoy! I missed earlier posts on this. The name of the movie is "The Dish"? It's a story based on space history? -- Hop David http://clowder.net/hop/index.html |
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"Hop David" wrote in message ... I missed earlier posts on this. The name of the movie is "The Dish"? It's a story based on space history? Yes. Specifically it's a fictionalized account of the activities at the radio dish in Australia that received the first images of Neil on the Moon. (and being in Australia explains why the first images of Neil are upside down. :-) -- Hop David http://clowder.net/hop/index.html |
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In article , Greg D. Moore
(Strider) wrote: "Hop David" wrote in message ... I missed earlier posts on this. The name of the movie is "The Dish"? It's a story based on space history? Yes. Specifically it's a fictionalized account of the activities at the radio dish in Australia that received the first images of Neil on the Moon. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg.../-/B00005MKKS/ Certainly worth searching out. "You've got to tell them!" "That we just lost Apollo?" "Oh, I wouldn't say that first." "What would you say first?" "'Hey, you'll *never* guess what just happened...'" -- -Andrew Gray |
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In message , Dave Downing
writes On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 03:09:52 -0600, Pat Flannery wrote: I finally got to see the movie that everyone has been raving about here (especially the Aussie contingent of regular posters) as it was just run on TNT (Turner Network Television) here in the states...you guys were right; that is a really great movie- they must have built that Parkes dish like a brick ****house if it was able to move in winds of that speed- I went out in winds that high during a storm here back when I was working at our local airport, and almost got blown off my feet... has anyone figured out the total amount of force that thing withstood during the tracking of the landing? Great work, Australia...really, really, great work... Pat In that case Pat, you should try to get your hands on the DVD. There is much more than just the usual "didn't we have a great time shooting this movie" type of cast and crew interviews for the bonus material. We are treated to archival footage of the Apollo program, JFK's Rice University speech in full and even interviews showing the technicians while they are assembling the space suits. Plenty of space history. Enjoy! To be honest, that still sounds like "shovelware" - something cheap put on the disk to fill all that space. Is there anything really relevant to Parkes? But Parkes isn't the only dish to be very solid. I've heard that one reason Jodrell Bank's famous dish is still going strong is that it was very solidly made, with bearings from battleship guns and so on. Of course they didn't know much about building 250 foot steerable antennas, which all added to the cost. And more lightly built dishes have been known to collapse! I must admit Parkes big dish is prettier :-) -- Rabbit arithmetic - 1 plus 1 equals 10 Remove spam and invalid from address to reply. |
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In article , Jonathan Silverlight wrote:
But Parkes isn't the only dish to be very solid. I've heard that one reason Jodrell Bank's famous dish is still going strong is that it was very solidly made, with bearings from battleship guns and so on. The main drive, or at least one of them, was taken from a turret drive from, IIRC, /Royal Sovereign/ when she was scrapped. Cheap and sensible - you don't get much more robustly built than that... (The cynic in me suggests that a radio telescope is also, well, harder to break than an optical one...) -- -Andrew Gray |
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On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:17:32 +0000, Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
Yes. Specifically it's a fictionalized account of the activities at the radio dish in Australia that received the first images of Neil on the Moon. For the "historically accurate" account of Parkes observatory's role in Apollo 11 see http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/apollo11/ (and being in Australia explains why the first images of Neil are upside down. :-) Nice joke, but in reality, the initial feed was alternating from the statins in Goldstone California and Honeysuckle Australia, both of which had neglected to correctly set the switch on their scan converters which would flip the image vertically, which was necessary because the camera was mounted upside down in the MESA. The image needed to be flipped again when Armstrong took the camera out and mounted it on a tripod on the lunar surface. The Parkes feed wasn't used until about nine minutes after the TV camera was switched on when it was realized that they had by far the best signal of the three ground stations receiving the transmission. Had Parkes been used from the beginning, we would never have seen the upside down image since they had the inversion switch correctly set. |
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Jonathan Silverlight wrote: But Parkes isn't the only dish to be very solid. I've heard that one reason Jodrell Bank's famous dish is still going strong is that it was very solidly made, with bearings from battleship guns and so on. Of course they didn't know much about building 250 foot steerable antennas, which all added to the cost. And more lightly built dishes have been known to collapse! I must admit Parkes big dish is prettier :-) It has that very interesting and solid-looking brick building as its base...which looks strange, as if it had been built on something left over from the 1800's...a Martello Tower to house a heavy gun to repel Napoleon's expected invasion of Australia perhaps? Pat |
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Rick DeNatale writes:
Nice joke, but in reality, the initial feed was alternating from the statins in Goldstone California and Honeysuckle Australia, both of which had neglected to correctly set the switch on their scan converters which would flip the image vertically, which was necessary because the camera was mounted upside down in the MESA. The image needed to be flipped again when Armstrong took the camera out and mounted it on a tripod on the lunar surface. Don Kimberlin wrote up a nice article on the problems of getting that signal back to Houston...theer not being as much transpacific bandwidth then as now..... and THEN getting the final product back out to viewers across both oceans. Query: What was the first recovery to have live video from the carrier? The first to have video from the chopper? -- A host is a host from coast to & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 |
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