That’s a special watch. Cernan was an absolute gent, a very down to earth astronaut. ‘The Last Man on the Moon‘ is an excellent documentary telling his story.
This is the last watch that walked on the moon, in my hand! The Omega Speedmaster ref ST105.003
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS4kl2OaYXU
Just watch it.
That’s a special watch. Cernan was an absolute gent, a very down to earth astronaut. ‘The Last Man on the Moon‘ is an excellent documentary telling his story.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
Wow, quite something to hold an item that has been to the moon.
Such a shame that we weren't able to build on those initial explorations and the endeavour of people like Gene Cernan.
I was willing him to say 'more connected than an Apple watch' 🚀
Gray
That’s very cool, I see why they didn’t go hessalite!
Really enjoying the BBC’s 13 minutes to the moon podcast - the whole endeavour is insane.
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That’s very cool, I see why they didn’t go hessalite!
Really enjoying the BBC’s 13 minutes to the moon podcast - the whole endeavour is insane.
Lets be really honest, no watch has been to the moon because no man has either, but its a romantic notion and a great distraction from political events at the time.
1972 was the last time we ‘popped’ there using less technology than is in an iPhone and we haven’t been back for almost 50 years..........Ummmmmmmm
RIAC
Take your tin foil hat off. It happened it was just horrifically expensive and gained very little in return, regardless of what NASA would have everyone believe. It was a convenient distraction from disastrous American foreign policy in Asia and the middle east and one in the eye for the Soviets. After the first footstep, it all became a bit irrelevant.
I think Bart Sibrel knows the moon landings were real. Buzz put him straight on that one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna...ing_experiment.
Guess the Clangers set it up.
This chap was pretty convincing when talking about his experiences with Apollo 16!
The legend that is Charlie Duke, Capcom for Apollo 11 and 10th man to walk on the moon with Apollo 16
Whilst I agree that the achievement sounds outrageous I truly believe it happened and you can still see the landers and Lunar rovers left up there with strong telescopes as well as the laser ranging as mentioned above.
What I can’t believe would be the 1000s of people who would be required to make the conspiracy work across numerous different countries. That I find more implausible than actually landing on the moon!
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Interesting. One is a low pressure capsule, fireworks and some complex geometry.
The other is a reusable, higher tech, self-propelled, faster than a rifle bullet, no need for 100% o2, no space suit, sip champagne luxury transport system that just needs a check/refuel and 'rinse lather repeat' 000's of times with 000's and 000's of passengers.
OK, I'm convinced!
loved that vid abraxas, but loved buzz punching sibrel a tiny bit more if I'm honest.
That's the good thing about facts. They're true, regardless of "opinion".
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startsw...n-steph-curry/
PSA
8 days: To the Moon and Back.......coming soon to BBC2 and iPlayer
Nothing special really - a few watches were the last to walk on the moon. Eventually this will be among them.
The first to walk on the moon will always be that.
That’s special.
You'd think they could have found a service bezel for it, FFS.
Can you confirm whether you've washed your right hand since this encounter.
Asking for a friend.
Are you mixing a 3 piece tweed suit with jeans in that picture? I think I need to make a call to the Isle of Harris sartorial constabulary...
In the Sotadic Zone, apparently.
Everyone is of course entitled to their views, but for me a test of whether someone is entirely rational, clear thinking or not, is whether they doubt the moon landings.
One of man's greatest scientific and exploratory achievements should not be reduced to the level of a question of belief.
Exactly, there is nothing to believe or not (this is not Religion but science). There are dozens of elements clearly proving that this is real. Laser test, capsules seen by telescopes, 500.000 people working on the Apollo project (not one ever 'coming out' with any proves), the Russians observing everything in detail never ever claiming once it was fake, ....etc
Please let's just stop this BS about the conspiracy. I would suggest to ask the question who would have gained from such a conspiracy? Would the world have changed if they had not landed? The Russians were already out, as the N1 project was not viable..
....and by the way, I have visited the Cape a couple of times and seen and touched the Apollo, Mercury, Gemini, Shuttle artefacts. There is nothing fake about these and Gene Cernan's watch is absolute and almost unique piece of history in my eyes.
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I’ve either seen a moon watch and touched moon rock, or been blagged.
https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.p...ster-Moonwatch
It was the days you could fit a whole operating system on a floppy disk. And code was written in machine code - none of this 3GL rubbish! Those were the days! I’ve visited the Houston control centre and seen the archaic computer systems - it is amazing but after all the maths was relatively simple - no quantum effects to worry about.
I’m a little surprised by your comments - unless of course this is a wind-up
Martyn.
That is very, very cool.
Dave E
Skating away on the thin ice of a new day
Couldn't have put it better myself.
I visited Kennedy in May, a truly inspiring place, to see a Saturn 5 up close is astonishing.
'First Man' perfectly demonstrates IMO the single minded endeavour and in the case of the Apollo astronauts, the bravery required to achieve the ultimate goal.
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Last edited by Gomers; 21st June 2019 at 09:01.
Agreed. It’s clear to me that anybody spouting this nonsense, and truly believing it, has something not quite right with their critical thinking faculties.
Unfortunately, the ‘moon landing conspiracy’ is conveniently lumped in by the sceptics with all the other so-called conspiracy theories (Kennedy assassination, 9/11 etc) where there might be some scope to validly argue that the public is not in full possession of all the facts, as opposed to the moon landings which are absolutely verifiable in so many ways.
This conspiracy rubbish has gone on long enough...........