Park Life

A computer from the future is talking right now to the Pentagon...How does that work?

The germans working for Russia and America worked together right from the late 40's onward. Some of the documents make fascinating reading. It's another level tho folks and too tiring to explain to larger lads.

Yup. Fight scenes were pitiful as were the little fireball -puff -of- smoke-missile explosions (like 80's telly)..

Distracted by the rowing...

Good read.

Well I'm still waiting for the first one. (From Nasa that is)...

Medal chances in the rowing this morning..

This is Olympic level straw manning right here...

Spudberg knows it was faked.

If it was so easy and cushty to do it in the 60's why has no fucker been back? Shuld be a doddle now with or all the high tech..cogh* stuff...

The lunar rover: Huge tyres innit...

This is what I used to think before I learned to read and write.

Cheers.

Anybody got any idea about our boxers? Any chance of a medal?

Well done girls. That's a big win. Some lovely ball control.

YOu realise what you're saying right?

Russia were offering heavy lift at 30% the cost and would have wiped out the American space industry.

It's a little harder these days bro.

Space Shuttle was a complete failure. "Did you know that two significant events in spaceflight took place in 1969? The first was the first manned landing on the moon, on July 20, 1969. The second is a little less known. Buoyed by the success of the space program, President Nixon made the fateful decision to launch the Space Shuttle program in that same year. The cost for the project was estimated to be about five billion dollars to deliver stuff to orbit at $118 per pound. The “space shuttle” was intended to fly much like a plane – cheap and easily serviced, with flights every few weeks and massive cargo capacity. When the Shuttle was finally completed in 1981, the reality was a bit different. First, the shuttle was 20% too heavy, so it couldn’t actually deliver the military payloads it was designed to fly. That left the civilian market. Unfortunately, the actual cost was $27,000 per pound delivered to orbit. Finally, the overhaul after each flight actually took many months and cost $1.5 billion, making regular “shuttle” service impractical. Compounding the cost was the fact that the shuttle tends to explode with cargo and crew every decade or so, and thus costs years of idleness and a dozen billion or so in redesign costs. In other words, the program was a total failure before the shuttle ever got off the ground. If a car maker tried to sell a car that cost 228 times what was promised, could fit only half the advertised passengers, and had to be refurbished after every drive, they might not do so well in the market, especially when a much cheaper alternative was available. The Soviet Soyuz launcher designed in 1965 costs under a tenth of the Shuttle and has now in fact replaced it. When the government was faced with the same problem, it decided to “invent” a market for the shuttle instead. Thus came about thousands of useless space experiments and a useless $160 billion space station, which is scheduled to be demolished in 2016. In other cases, satellites which used to be launched by cheap expendable rockets were redirected to the shuttle, actually delaying the launch and ballooning the costs."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077294/ "One of the more head-scratching examples of NASA’s involvement in a film is the 1978 movie Capricorn One. Capricorn One is a classic post-Watergate conspiracy thriller. The plot is simple: NASA fakes a Mars landing. The three astronauts who were supposed to go on the mission are instead held captive. They escape, and are pursued across the desert and killed one by one before a crusading reporter (à la Bob Woodward) shows up to rescue the last survivor. Capricorn One is not a great film, but as a conspiracy thriller it’s pretty good. The story is tight, the suspense builds well, and the film reaches its climax with a great aerial chase sequence involving a biplane and a couple of Army helicopters over the Mojave Desert—not far from where SpaceShipTwo is currently taking to the air. In the film, NASA is clearly evil. After all, the NASA administrator is behind the conspiracy, and even approves the astronauts’ murders. During a sequence in the middle of the film the astronauts are shown with a lunar module (standing in as a Mars lander) and there’s also an Apollo command module visible in some shots. The lunar module featured prominently in the film’s trailer. For years, articles about the film questioned whether or not NASA provided any equipment for a movie that clearly painted the agency in a bad light. NASA officials reportedly denied that they had provided any assistance. But an amusing article by film historian Frederick C. Szebin, “The Making of Capricorn One,” explains what happened, and makes clear that the film did indeed use some leftover Apollo equipment loaned by NASA. The article is printed in the current issue of Filmfax magazine, but has apparently been available online for a decade at the website mania.com (in a somewhat difficult to read format).

It's also why the Russians never bothered with men moon landings. They knew it was impossible.

Read the medicine ball experiment I posted.

I don't believe man can survive outside of low earth orbit (beyond the protection of earths magnetic field). Cosmic radiation is deadly. All the astronauts would be dead within months of their return. A 60's hasslebald camera could not have takes those pics under the conditions of the shade and sunexposed temperatures, it's impossible. It's why the got Kubrick in...To get the broadcast quality video and pics sorted on a set in Vegas.