Recent content by ckbarrus

Coming into this thread late, but here's the current instrument inventory: guitars: '65 Fender Jazzmaster '67 Vox Cheetah '75 Fender Telecaster '95 (or so) Fender Stratocaster (main gigging guitar, heavily modified with different switching and '69-era pickups) '02 Fender Stratocaster XII...

It's not that the Ares program looks like Apollo, it's that Ares program has been plagued with shifting designs, cost overruns and basic design flaws (an early one was that no one realized the Orion capsule was too heavy to be lifted by the Ares booster). At this point, I'd be much happier if we...

Once you get past the shrill "OMG Obama is killing NASA!" headlines, there actually is a lot of well-reasoned thought into the decision process behind it. First of all, NASA's budget is being increased ($6 billion more over the next five years) with a much greater emphasis on science and...

Those of you who made it all the way through have stronger stomachs. I had to jump ship at Kiviat's willful ignorance of the Russian missile test (those of us who live near Vandenberg AFB see stuff like that often). And Armstrong has always been the way that he is. A very introverted and...

I'd love to hear David Emory on the show.

This would a great case to take a look back at. It was a national news story for a couple days - I remember seeing a TV story about it all the way out here in California. If anything, it might be neat to take a look back at the entire UFO wave of 1973. If I remember correctly, the Coyne...

Not quite. During the run up to the 1980 presidential election Jimmy Carter admitted the existence of the Stealth ATB (Advanced Technology Bomber) after being continually criticized by Republicans on his opposition to the B-1 (Carter approved both B-2 and F-117 programs). Of course the actual...

I've also been listening to the show since the beginning and honestly, I find the times that David doesn't say anything to be as important and/or telling as the times he does speak up.

The details of this camera can be found on this section (scroll to 109:21:09) of the A11 Lunar Surface Journal. The camera was attached to a equipment shelf. (there's photos of it and a PDF of the camera's manual at that link)

Also, here's another interview with Fendell from the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal that gets into some of the details.

Here's an extensive interview with Ed Fendell (PDF link) who was the Mission Control operator for the Rover's camera. In it he talks about the camera techniques he used to keep up with the EVA activities and the LM ascent. On Apollo 15, the camera motor had burned out and on A16 the rover wasn't...

Thirding & fourthing the praises for this episode. I visited the San Luis Valley several times in the early 1990s (my girlfriend at the time was from Manassa, CO) and damn near everyone there had an odd experience or two to relate, even if it was just knowing someone with a mutilated cow or...

Same here. I listened to the three-part interview with him over on Binall and actually found him to be quite uncompelling and highly selective in the cultural evidence he takes into account. I'd like to hear him answer some questions where he couldn't take a self-serving P.O.V.

The Screenrant link posted above is worth reading if only for the timeline breakdown. Production of Terminator: Sarah Connor was severely disrupted by the writer's strike, pushing back the "drone" episode by months - even though the viral campaign was already ongoing. (Publicity/marketing for...