MacB
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slowmotion said:......so the "getting to the Moon technology" was not available in 1950???
He has a point there David, little bit lax that one
slowmotion said:......so the "getting to the Moon technology" was not available in 1950???
slowmotion said:......so the "getting to the Moon technology" was not available in 1950???
MacB said:the Clangers are real, they're running the country
alecstilleyedye said:i doubt jfk would have been so confident of announcing they'd do it in a decade if the tech was not in place…
alecstilleyedye said:i doubt jfk would have been so confident of announcing they'd do it in a decade if the tech was not in place…
slowmotion said:Lobbing missiles from country to country, and from continent to continent isn't quite the same as poncing about on the Moon....perhaps?
Davidc said:If you look at the maths there isn't a lot of difference. Simply needs to achieve escape evlocity and be on the right trajectory.
I was doing A level maths at the time, and like every other 17/ 18 year old in the world doing maths in 1969 we had to do all of those calculations for homework! I remember I got the figure for a Florida to Moscow missile wrong but got Vladivostok to London right ....
One of our group's parents wrote to the school complaining about how inappropriate and militaristic it was.
Davidc said:I was doing A level maths at the time, and like every other 17/ 18 year old in the world doing maths in 1969 we had to do all of those calculations for homework! I remember I got the figure for a Florida to Moscow missile wrong but got Vladivostok to London right ....
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MacB said:So the global economic meltdown is the fault of your generation, if they'd stuck to simple arithmetic we'd all be fine. But no, they had to teach you maths to blow things up.
Davidc said:The real conspiracy is pretending that it isn't made of green cheese, there aren't clangers living on it, and that the man in the moon doesn't exist.
Browser said:DON'T YOU DARE TRY TO PRETEND THE CLANGERS DON'T EXIST!!!!!!!!
They were there when the Yanks landed, they just hid, that's all!!!!