TV technology and space exploration went hand-in-hand.
I recall watching the Mercury missions which essentially used a not too updated version of the V-2 rocket. I kept watching all the way through Apollo. Both the Atlas rocket and Saturn V looked about 4 inches tall on my small screen TV. In reality, the Saturn V was about 4 times bigger.
You have to give NASA engineers a lot of credit for forwarding thinking. Voyager 2 is decades old but still communicating (after the ‘shout’) realigned the antenna!
I did not think of NASA when I saw this, not until I saw the sign, though I worked for them for 30+ years. What I thought about was a day 78 years ago today. On that day we unleashed hell, lost a piece of our humanity and changed the world forever.
Then start with NACA (“National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics”) which is where we started in 1915 before it was reformed into “National Aeronautics and Space Administration” in ’58 as we moved from exploring the sky to exploring the heavens.
oldpine52 about 1 year ago
Mr. Wrenchmuller did a lot better than that.
eric_harris_76 about 1 year ago
There are lunatics who do it with anvils.
And others who are nearby when it goes up.
Imagine about 1 year ago
They eventually improved to the point where we now have a moon.
gammaguy about 1 year ago
NASA = Not A Space Agency
David Huie Green AmericaIsGreatItHasUs about 1 year ago
Project Orion, the early years.
Gent about 1 year ago
NASA in BC? Who knews.
NullUnit60 about 1 year ago
Doing better than NASA these days.
Kaputnik about 1 year ago
Neolithic Airborne Stone Agency.
Skeptical Meg about 1 year ago
They’re ahead of SpaceX. It didn’t explode right after launch. And it only cost them 200 anachronism points.
jagedlo about 1 year ago
Glad there wasn’t a misfire and the rock landing on one of them…
dflak about 1 year ago
TV technology and space exploration went hand-in-hand.
I recall watching the Mercury missions which essentially used a not too updated version of the V-2 rocket. I kept watching all the way through Apollo. Both the Atlas rocket and Saturn V looked about 4 inches tall on my small screen TV. In reality, the Saturn V was about 4 times bigger.
njchris about 1 year ago
Well, back in the day, that was the extent of our space achievements.
franish2bzn about 1 year ago
You have to give NASA engineers a lot of credit for forwarding thinking. Voyager 2 is decades old but still communicating (after the ‘shout’) realigned the antenna!
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member about 1 year ago
That was a pretty good first attempt. I mean, no one was hurt and the device survived intact. I dare say it is reusable. Well done team.
mindjob about 1 year ago
I’ll wait until after Halloween when they shoot leftover pumpkins out of carbide cannons
Cerabooge about 1 year ago
If they keep it up, they’ll have a giant ship lifted into space with nuclear bombs. Just in time for the arrival of the space elephants.
(Footfall)
[Unnamed Reader - 83d506] about 1 year ago
Stoned again!
sisterea about 1 year ago
I did not think of NASA when I saw this, not until I saw the sign, though I worked for them for 30+ years. What I thought about was a day 78 years ago today. On that day we unleashed hell, lost a piece of our humanity and changed the world forever.
sobrown51 about 1 year ago
Does Alfred Nobel know about this? (He invented dynamite in case you didn’t know)
Ivan the Terrible about 1 year ago
I use to do that with train torpedoes. Well, once.
bwswolf about 1 year ago
My Grandfather showed me how to split logs with black powder ……. it was interesting and fun …… :)
Moonkey Premium Member about 1 year ago
They left the women out of STEM here. Business as usual. The Fat Broad could have thrown that rock up that high.
zeexenon about 1 year ago
As a boy in the ‘50s, I did the same thing with tin cans and cherry bombs. Didn’t want to destroy the can, so no M80s.
EXCALABUR about 1 year ago
a rock rocket
Dkram about 1 year ago
So, I’m assuming there is a coyote under that rock.
\\//_
mckeonfuneralhomebx about 1 year ago
The acme company strikes again.
Enter.Name.Here about 1 year ago
“Gotta start somewhere.”
Then start with NACA (“National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics”) which is where we started in 1915 before it was reformed into “National Aeronautics and Space Administration” in ’58 as we moved from exploring the sky to exploring the heavens.
falcon_370f about 1 year ago
So that’s how Wile’s rocks defy physics, they’re not the same rocks.
GreggW Premium Member about 1 year ago
ANACHRONISM