Subnostr

never heard of this angle. are you saying there was no people in that thing, or there were people who didn't make it back?

i was just thinking about how hard the SpaceX reusable landings were to get perfect.

then I realized that we supposedly did one of these reusable landings on the moon, took off again without any maintenance up there, and then intersected again with the orbital module before flying back to earth. all of that happened with technology from 1960s...

the intersection thing with the orbital module really blows my mind. maybe it's easier than i realize, but it seems like an impossibility. it would be hard to do with airplanes, let alone with somehting that's just using it's velocity alone to regulate gravitational pull and thus distance to the moon's surface.

not to mention the fact that they would have to perfectly intersect the orbital modules orbit, otherwise they would have virtually no chance of ever intersecting it again.

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

exactly, even if they plopped the thing there, and there were people in the suits, and they captured the video, etc... doesn't mean they actually survived, and idk about you but maybe you have read about the cancer rates for flight crew on international air transport, and that's only 10km (30kft) out from the ground, hint: the radiation levels exponentially increase, there's this pesky little thing called "inverse square law" governing radiation of all kinds

gojiberra 1y ago

I've always wondered if Flight attendants had health affects. All that pressurization and time change must do something, plus radiation.

However I've seen a good number of older healthy flight attendants. It's almost like your body can survive alot if you have got the love.

The new Nostr pro-human part of me wants to believe that talented astronauts could just pull levers to fire rockets and use gyroscopes to keep it straight. Maybe human brain is so good that if you give us the levers and rockets, we have the on-board sensors and program logic for getting ourselves to the moon and back.

I saw a Cirque du Soleil show, and it made me realize that I've set my bar on human achievement too low.

It's almost like I trust the computer now for everything, and a human doing a cartwheel is shocking.

gojiberra 1y ago

Actually just realized we send shuttle up to meet ISS regularly, so maybe that intersection isn't so hard