Sunday, December 16, 2012
Adios, Neil Armstrong
"That's a rather large step for a man . . . one giant leap for Mankind."
You don't remember it that way, do you? That's because the first transmission was edited before sending it out as the second and subsequent playbacks. Everybody remembers it as "That's one small step for [a] man . . . one giant leap for Mankind."
On July 20th, 1969 a friend of mine was recording the TV broadcast with a friend in his bedroom with an Ampex reel to reel recorder. That was about the same time I was watching it "live" on TV. When the replay began, he and his friend noticed a slight change in the wording. After a few replayed broadcasts, they ran the tape back and heard what was originally broadcast.
The reason given for the discrepancy, several years later, was because the bottom rung of the lunar landing module was a few feet from the bottom - where the lunar surface was. The engineers didn't know how soft the lunar surface might be, and how far the lander might sink into the surface, so they apparently planned for the lander sinking into the surface by several inches and left several inches extra on the bottom of the ladder, as well.
The lunar surface proved to be somewhat compact, leaving the bottom rung of the ladder several inches higher than the engineers (and Armstrong) expected. In the suit, he couldn't bend his knees very far and had to literally jump off the bottom rung to get to the surface. What he actually said reflected his immediate response, but was not according to the script as practiced before the landing.
So they edited it with what was a pre-recorded "transmission", or re-recording a live transmission.
That's what the world remembers him saying, as that'sn the only re-transmission that is replayed and officially acknowledged.
You don't remember it that way, do you? That's because the first transmission was edited before sending it out as the second and subsequent playbacks. Everybody remembers it as "That's one small step for [a] man . . . one giant leap for Mankind."
On July 20th, 1969 a friend of mine was recording the TV broadcast with a friend in his bedroom with an Ampex reel to reel recorder. That was about the same time I was watching it "live" on TV. When the replay began, he and his friend noticed a slight change in the wording. After a few replayed broadcasts, they ran the tape back and heard what was originally broadcast.
The reason given for the discrepancy, several years later, was because the bottom rung of the lunar landing module was a few feet from the bottom - where the lunar surface was. The engineers didn't know how soft the lunar surface might be, and how far the lander might sink into the surface, so they apparently planned for the lander sinking into the surface by several inches and left several inches extra on the bottom of the ladder, as well.
The lunar surface proved to be somewhat compact, leaving the bottom rung of the ladder several inches higher than the engineers (and Armstrong) expected. In the suit, he couldn't bend his knees very far and had to literally jump off the bottom rung to get to the surface. What he actually said reflected his immediate response, but was not according to the script as practiced before the landing.
So they edited it with what was a pre-recorded "transmission", or re-recording a live transmission.
That's what the world remembers him saying, as that'sn the only re-transmission that is replayed and officially acknowledged.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
New Moon, August 2012
Without racism there would be no races . . . or even a single race. Mixing all races into one would result in the LCD or Lowest Common Denominator (behaviorally) also known as the Least Competent DNA.
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Independence Day. Really?
I was wondering what, if anything, would be appropriate to post today, 236 years after a group of men decided they'd had enough of tyranny. Wandering around YouTube took me down a very dark path, where videos of:
1) a college kid being beaten unconscious by three cops for nothing more than skipping down a street
2) a man sitting in front of his house being tased and then jumped by ten cops
3) a cop who broke an 84 year old man's neck for "touching" him
4) a woman who was tasered for not signing a traffic ticket
5) a group of poor people who have squatted on an abandoned military base ("Slab City" in Imperial county Calif.) who were confronted by police for not having "permits"
. . . and several more showed me that we have come full circle from tyranny to tyranny. Only this time it's the kind we may have much more trouble getting out from under than what a mere King back in England could impose on us. Now we have drones that can not only spy on us from several hundred feet in the sky above us, but take us out if our Usurper-in-Chief decides we are "enemy combatants". This is a decision that he alone may make, and is now legally justified in doing so, thanks to his unchallenged abuse of power via executive orders, statutes, public laws, policies and procedures.
So what did we fight for, some nebulous idea that we would eventually be a free people in the country our forefathers built?
Ann Coulter gave a little reprieve in her article today posted to World Net Daily:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/on-july-4-remember-we-are-not-french/
However, in reading a comment I was reminded that in fact we never did actually get out from under British rule, as most of us were taught in schools. All one has to do is read the works of The Informer or those of his fellow researcher James Montgomery (much of which was hosted at a now defunct website atgpress.com but can be found in bits and pieces here and there if you but look).
Thankfully a website for Montgomery's published work - "The United States Is Still A British Colony" - still exists. It can be found here:
http://www.civil-liberties.com/books/
Happy "Independence" Day . . . or not.
1) a college kid being beaten unconscious by three cops for nothing more than skipping down a street
2) a man sitting in front of his house being tased and then jumped by ten cops
3) a cop who broke an 84 year old man's neck for "touching" him
4) a woman who was tasered for not signing a traffic ticket
5) a group of poor people who have squatted on an abandoned military base ("Slab City" in Imperial county Calif.) who were confronted by police for not having "permits"
. . . and several more showed me that we have come full circle from tyranny to tyranny. Only this time it's the kind we may have much more trouble getting out from under than what a mere King back in England could impose on us. Now we have drones that can not only spy on us from several hundred feet in the sky above us, but take us out if our Usurper-in-Chief decides we are "enemy combatants". This is a decision that he alone may make, and is now legally justified in doing so, thanks to his unchallenged abuse of power via executive orders, statutes, public laws, policies and procedures.
So what did we fight for, some nebulous idea that we would eventually be a free people in the country our forefathers built?
Ann Coulter gave a little reprieve in her article today posted to World Net Daily:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/on-july-4-remember-we-are-not-french/
However, in reading a comment I was reminded that in fact we never did actually get out from under British rule, as most of us were taught in schools. All one has to do is read the works of The Informer or those of his fellow researcher James Montgomery (much of which was hosted at a now defunct website atgpress.com but can be found in bits and pieces here and there if you but look).
Thankfully a website for Montgomery's published work - "The United States Is Still A British Colony" - still exists. It can be found here:
http://www.civil-liberties.com/books/
Happy "Independence" Day . . . or not.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Memorial. To whom? Sad patsies and dupes conscripted to do the bidding of global corporate masters?
Does anybody really understand what, or more precisely, WHO has been behind every war since 1850 (or thereabouts)? Does anybody know what room in the Waldorf Astoria every one of those wars has been directed from? By the same "person"?
Ever wonder why Lichtenstein has banks that will set up an account IN PERPETUITY? Who would need such an account?
Is the image atop the cliff one of a Hungarian lion holding up its lyin' king, or an Amos 'n Andy Raggedy doll - minus Anne (an image that probably has Disney spinning in his grave)?
Is the game the Big Zero's playing with our Vegas-style economy Baccarat, Russo-Hungarian roulette, or just plain ol' alley cat craps (a la Fritz)?
Pay close attention, Seekers. The dates and times of postings have a pattern. YOU discern them.
Pay VERY close attention.
Does anybody really understand what, or more precisely, WHO has been behind every war since 1850 (or thereabouts)? Does anybody know what room in the Waldorf Astoria every one of those wars has been directed from? By the same "person"?
Ever wonder why Lichtenstein has banks that will set up an account IN PERPETUITY? Who would need such an account?
Is the image atop the cliff one of a Hungarian lion holding up its lyin' king, or an Amos 'n Andy Raggedy doll - minus Anne (an image that probably has Disney spinning in his grave)?
Is the game the Big Zero's playing with our Vegas-style economy Baccarat, Russo-Hungarian roulette, or just plain ol' alley cat craps (a la Fritz)?
Pay close attention, Seekers. The dates and times of postings have a pattern. YOU discern them.
Pay VERY close attention.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Now, on to Important Business.
ANNOUNCING (during the eclipse, appropriately): Season 2 of "Pocyclypse Cafe (that's with an accent aigu, in case you're wondering - (en Francais, not Lakota) can't figure out how to do it in this stupid composer).
Otherwise known as Apocalypse Cafe and sometimes the "Pocky Lips" Cafe.
Reservations for up to 2 - 3 couples this season available. More if things really get out of hand with the clamoring crowds
Location: Rim country, Arizona.
Proprietor & chief bottle washer: Dr. D
Chef Amazing/Extraordinaire, sometime waiter, general mangler of words/ideas and philosopher generale: Corbin
Season Opening: When (if?) Corbin gets here.
Menu: that's the key - you are subjected to whatever we feel at the time (with special consideration given to certain medical conditions).
Venue: Gila County, REPUBLIC of Arizona - written and signed/sealed in YOUR blood legal waiver for damages and accidental poisoning or death required. A medical center is a mere 16 miles, or 30 minute ambulance ride away.
Cost: $5,000.00 Federal Reserve Notes per individual (not person) or real money discount of 3 Gold Canadian Maple Leaf 1 oz. gold coins (Kruggerand accepted as substitute) - $8,000.00 FRN's or 5 Maple Leaf/Kruggerand gold coin per couple (not persons). Nonrefundable reservation of $2,000.00 or 1 oz. gold Maple Leaf/Kruggerand applies, upon application. Please submit choice of music genre, otherwise you will be subjected to Corbin's choice - a rather eclectic mix of classical, opera, offbeat rock, obscure jazz and down home bluegrass, with some really strange German acapella thrown in for good measure.
A once in a lifetime, ultimate, American End Times, pre-Apocalyptic experience for the discerning adventurer. Live as the "almost homeless" do for 5 or more hours in the Rim country of Arizona. Accommodation in the front seat - single occupancy - or the bed - double occupancy - of Corbin's truck available for overnighters. Free breakfast if you stay overnight. Amazing stellar views and training in neighborhood watch patrol ( a la George Zimmerman) available as extra package. Advanced training in general End Times survival or pseudo highbrow homelessness by special arrangement.
Reasonably intelligent repartee like you can't believe, on almost ANY subject - guaranteed - during your stay (Reimann geometry, vector analysis and other such nonsense specifically excluded). Topical discussions may range from Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs to Zeta Reticulan influence on U.S. military policy in international relations.
Contact: respondez, si'l vous plait. Maintenant. In other words if you are reading this, I will take your non-responce as inexcusably rude.
We reserve the right (and rite) to exclude anybody on our whim or fancy. Terms and conditions subject to morphing without notice.
We are an equal opportunity offender.
ANNOUNCING (during the eclipse, appropriately): Season 2 of "Pocyclypse Cafe (that's with an accent aigu, in case you're wondering - (en Francais, not Lakota) can't figure out how to do it in this stupid composer).
Otherwise known as Apocalypse Cafe and sometimes the "Pocky Lips" Cafe.
Reservations for up to 2 - 3 couples this season available. More if things really get out of hand with the clamoring crowds
Location: Rim country, Arizona.
Proprietor & chief bottle washer: Dr. D
Chef Amazing/Extraordinaire, sometime waiter, general mangler of words/ideas and philosopher generale: Corbin
Season Opening: When (if?) Corbin gets here.
Menu: that's the key - you are subjected to whatever we feel at the time (with special consideration given to certain medical conditions).
Venue: Gila County, REPUBLIC of Arizona - written and signed/sealed in YOUR blood legal waiver for damages and accidental poisoning or death required. A medical center is a mere 16 miles, or 30 minute ambulance ride away.
Cost: $5,000.00 Federal Reserve Notes per individual (not person) or real money discount of 3 Gold Canadian Maple Leaf 1 oz. gold coins (Kruggerand accepted as substitute) - $8,000.00 FRN's or 5 Maple Leaf/Kruggerand gold coin per couple (not persons). Nonrefundable reservation of $2,000.00 or 1 oz. gold Maple Leaf/Kruggerand applies, upon application. Please submit choice of music genre, otherwise you will be subjected to Corbin's choice - a rather eclectic mix of classical, opera, offbeat rock, obscure jazz and down home bluegrass, with some really strange German acapella thrown in for good measure.
A once in a lifetime, ultimate, American End Times, pre-Apocalyptic experience for the discerning adventurer. Live as the "almost homeless" do for 5 or more hours in the Rim country of Arizona. Accommodation in the front seat - single occupancy - or the bed - double occupancy - of Corbin's truck available for overnighters. Free breakfast if you stay overnight. Amazing stellar views and training in neighborhood watch patrol ( a la George Zimmerman) available as extra package. Advanced training in general End Times survival or pseudo highbrow homelessness by special arrangement.
Reasonably intelligent repartee like you can't believe, on almost ANY subject - guaranteed - during your stay (Reimann geometry, vector analysis and other such nonsense specifically excluded). Topical discussions may range from Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs to Zeta Reticulan influence on U.S. military policy in international relations.
Contact: respondez, si'l vous plait. Maintenant. In other words if you are reading this, I will take your non-responce as inexcusably rude.
We reserve the right (and rite) to exclude anybody on our whim or fancy. Terms and conditions subject to morphing without notice.
We are an equal opportunity offender.
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