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21 Jul 2014, 12:18 am

I remember, every minute, from 3 feet away from the big box black and white RCA TV in my grandmas living room

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTBIr65cL_E[/youtube]

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21 Jul 2014, 1:54 am

Any good conspiracy theories?

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21 Jul 2014, 2:47 am

cyberdad wrote:

Any good conspiracy theories?

I am old school. Don't get down with conspiracy theories. Alex Jones, Art Bell, Those guys are all looney tunes to me and I don't care

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21 Jul 2014, 2:56 am

khaoz wrote:

I remember, every minute, from 3 feet away from the big box black and white RCA TV in my grandmas living room

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTBIr65cL_E[/youtube]

Too bad that the US doesn't want to go back to the moon again.

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21 Jul 2014, 5:31 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT-zT0iaJt8[/youtube]

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21 Jul 2014, 6:10 am

Hahahaha. That's awesome.

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21 Jul 2014, 1:31 pm

cyberdad wrote:

Any good conspiracy theories?

Yeah, that the moon's really a giant billboard. :lol:

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21 Jul 2014, 1:41 pm

Old B/W Zenith here,it even had a remote but no one used it,it was too loud,made a clunking sound.I also remember watching Dark Shadows That tv was my baby sitter.

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21 Jul 2014, 4:35 pm

Had one of the first color sets in the neighborhood growing up. It had a very rounded picture tube on it but don't remember the brand for sure. I can remember getting it and the serviceman coming out several times as a kid. Remember all the space shots and even remember many of the tv programs in B&W back then that changed over to color as time went on. LONG time ago I had forgotten about all this.

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23 Jul 2014, 1:37 am

Jono wrote:

Too bad that the US doesn't want to go back to the moon again.

Has any other country gone to the moon yet? NO! It's just too damn expensive. we are still using the same expendable chemical rocket technology today that we did back in those days. And unless we come up with a way to cut the cost of getting in to space by at least 2 order of magnitude. The best we can hope to see in man space flight is earth orbit.

Did you know that it cost NASA over $40 Billion to put Neil and Buzz on the moon. and that was 1960's dollars. in today's dollars. that's over $300 Billion.

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23 Jul 2014, 2:15 am

LupaLuna wrote:

Jono wrote:

Too bad that the US doesn't want to go back to the moon again.

There is talk of staging a reality TV show on Mars to be funded through commercial sponsorship. Applications are now available. In addition there is not for profit projects to get men on mars...
http://www.mars-one.com/about-mars-one

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23 Jul 2014, 3:38 am

LupaLuna wrote:

Jono wrote:

Too bad that the US doesn't want to go back to the moon again.

Hasn't Putin been spouting silly sh*t about establishing a moon colony? Sounds like he was listening too much to Gingrich's idiocy from back when he ran for president.

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23 Jul 2014, 3:49 am

Misslizard wrote:

Old B/W Zenith here,it even had a remote but no one used it,it was too loud,made a clunking sound.I also remember watching Dark Shadows

That tv was my baby sitter.

I think our remote was bigger than one of those first brick cellular phones. We kept getting it gunked up with braunschweiger and yellow mustard.

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23 Jul 2014, 10:59 am

Misslizard wrote:

Old B/W Zenith here,it even had a remote but no one used it,it was too loud,made a clunking sound.I also remember watching Dark Shadows

That tv was my baby sitter.

You know what was interesting about those remotes back then is that they where all mechanical and had no electronics in them. they didn't even need a battery. They worked by sending ultrasonic sound waves to your TV set. When you press a button on the remote. A spring loaded hammer would strike a xylophone bar and would ring at a specific pitch/frequency and would be picked up my a microphone in your TV set. Each button on the remote had it's own xylophone bar tuned to a different pitch/frequency so the TV knew witch button you pressed. Anyways, that so called "clunking" sound was the hammer striking the xylophone bar. You couldn't hear the tome from xylophone bar it's self because it was in the ultrasonic (>20Khz) range.

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23 Jul 2014, 12:31 pm

cyberdad wrote:

As I stated in my earlier post. Unless we come up with a way to cut the cost of getting in to space (surface to orbit) by at least 2 order of magnitude. None, I repeat, None of these manned interplanetary space missions will ever happen.

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23 Jul 2014, 11:50 pm

cyberdad wrote:

Any good conspiracy theories?

Yeah, the moon is actually an artificial satellite.
I'm not saying it is, that's just the best theory out there.

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