Apollo 11 question

Stuf4 wrote:

Vehicle. His name is Scott because his heritage is Scottish. Not
British, but close.

sigh
http://qntm.org/uk
http://blog.cgpgrey.com/the-differen...hole-lot-more/
and so on.

Stuf4 wrote:

My bad. Apologies especially to Fevric.

grin

Apologies then for the links I've just posted.

Might help someone else though.

From Fevric J. Glandules:
Stuf4 wrote:
Vehicle. *His name is Scott because his heritage is Scottish. *Not
British, but close.

sighhttp://qntm.org/ukhttp://blog.cgpgre...ed-kingdom-gre...
and so on.

Ha, I had just posted that same video over on the Lindbergh thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.s...ef3dd45a14eb63

I've been to England multiple times, and even outside England to other
parts of Great Britain on my latest trip. AND I had seen that video
several moons ago, so you'd think I'd be able to keep it all
straight. But seeing how that video has almost 1.5 million hits on
YouTube alone, it would appear that I'm not the only one who gets
those labels scrambled from time to time.

~ CT

On 9/19/2011 2:18 PM, Fevric J. Glandules wrote:
Stuf4 wrote:

My bad. Apologies especially to Fevric.

grin

Apologies then for the links I've just posted.

Might help someone else though.

I still want to get a copy of Stuf4's "Attic Latin Dictionary". ;-)

Pat

I agree absolutely. They are copying that they have landed safely.

On 17/09/2011 21:07, Alan Erskine wrote:
On 17/09/2011 8:34 PM, GordonD wrote:
I'm currently rereading 'Flight', the autobiography of Chris Kraft. In
his description of the Apollo 11 landing, he quotes Charlie Duke's
famous response to the "Tranquility Base" call:

"Roger, Tranquility, we copy you on the ground!" Then he goes on to say:

On the ground. Is the moon "ground"? Let the philosophers decide that
one.

Clearly he's interpreting what Duke said as: "We copy that you are on
the ground." However I'd always understood him to mean: "We copy you
down here on the ground."

Any comments?

I always thought he meant it to be on the surface.