DSEB Meeting: 07/20/09 -- One Giant Leap for EDV Kind Edition

[Patsy Stone]

:hi: Keith, are ya ever coming back??

[SeattleGirl]

1. Hi Patsy! I started a thread too, but shut it down.

Gad, I wish these idiotic Repukes would just STFU!!!

:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

2. I hope they fail.

:hi:, SG! I didn't see yours. I would have killed mine. Do you want to go back to yours? It seems people are there.

Michael Steele: stupid man or stupidest man ever?

[SeattleGirl]

3. I'm not sure. There are lots of idiots and stupid men on his side of

the aisle.

And Obama is exactly right. This isn't about politics; it's about the crappy healthcare system we have in this country that is killing, literally and financially, the people of this country.

[bleever]

4. Donde esta el Kefe?

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

5. Hi bleev!

:hi:

[bleever]

6. "Devestatingly stupid" comment by Michael Steele

surprises no one.

[SeattleGirl]

8. That's all that ever comes out of his mouth.

[SharonRB]

7. I didn't realize you guys had moved

I wondered where everyone went. Nancy should be up on CNBC right after the break. Here she comes.

See ya.

[Berry Cool]

9. Was I right or was I right?

:hi: Keith is taking this week off to watch baseball at home. I just feel it in my bones. The man is as predictable as clockwork.

[Patsy Stone]

11. I'd love to hear what she says

but this five people talking at once thing blows. :hi:

[SeattleGirl]

13. I hate that too. What that accomplishes, I don't know.

[Patsy Stone]

15. Bad host

Bad, bad host.

[SharonRB]

17. Not my fave

He has trouble controlling the panel. More than three people is too many, as far as I'm concerned.

[SeattleGirl]

19. I agree with that.

It turns into a giant clusterfuck with more than 3 (and sometimes, even that is too many.)

[SharonRB]

16. I know

This Republican guy won't shut up. I'm glad Julian asked him to shut up and told him he was rude.

[SeattleGirl]

20. Republicans all think that if they shout over you, and don't let you

get a word in edgewise, they win points.

With me, all that wins them is that I turn the channel.

[SeattleGirl]

10. Just saw the new "Harry and Louise" ad.

Had heard about it, but this is the first time I've seen it. Anyone here seen it yet?

[Patsy Stone]

12. No

But if I heard correctly, the two actors are, and were, democrats. :)

[SeattleGirl]

14. Yep. It's definitely pro-better health care system.

[SharonRB]

18. I've seen it a few times already.

[SeattleGirl]

21. What do you think of it?

[SharonRB]

25. I think it's good

but I think it could have been better if they said something like "You know, we were really wrong back in the 90s"...and then go into the new stuff.

[SeattleGirl]

27. I agree. I thought that was missing too.

Other than that, I thought it was a good ad.

[GigiMommy]

22. Hi Everybody!!!

:hi: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: No Keith AGAIN!?! Been checking out http://www.wechoosethemoon.com/#. SOOOOO cool. Thanks again Patsy.

[SeattleGirl]

24. Hi Gigi! And a hello to Miss Cassie too!

Two people I work with said today they thought the whole moon landing is a hoax. My jaw dropped. These are two pretty cool women, but wow.

:hi: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Patsy Stone]

28. Capricorn One

:rofl:

[SeattleGirl]

30. ....

:spray:

[SharonRB]

37. Seriously

I can't believe there are still people who believe that. Don't they think that by now the truth would have come out somehow if that were the case?

[SeattleGirl]

38. Exactly.

Someone would have talked by now, if it WERE a hoax.

[GigiMommy]

31. Hi SG!!! My Grandpa Jones had thought the same thing.

:hi: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

He was a "Man of the Cloth" and always thought that humans lived on Earth and Earth alone. We WEREN'T capable of doing such a feat as going to the Moon.

[SeattleGirl]

33. The reasons these women gave were how the American flag was

not drooping (no gravity), and that there was a camera watching the descent down the lunar landing's stairs.

My answers: 1) The flag was probably made to stand straight out (there IS fabric that does that, or wires could have been inserted into the top and bottom of it), and 2) The camera was mounted outside the lunar lander. How else to explain that you could see the surface of the moon coming closer as the lunar lander got closer to it?

[Patsy Stone]

54. Oy, show her these:

Climbing down the nine-rung ladder, Armstrong pulled a D-ring to deploy the Modular Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA) folded against Eagle's side and activate the TV camera. The first landing used slow-scan television incompatible with commercial TV, so it was displayed on a special monitor and a conventional TV camera viewed this monitor, significantly reducing the quality of the picture. The signal was received at Goldstone in the USA but with better fidelity by Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station in Australia. Minutes later the feed was switched to the more sensitive Parkes radio telescope in Australia. Despite some technical and weather difficulties, ghostly black and white images of the first lunar EVA were received and broadcast to at least 600 million people on Earth. Although copies of this video in broadcast format were saved and are widely available, recordings of the original slow scan source transmission from the moon were accidentally destroyed during routine magnetic tape re-use at NASA. Archived copies of the footage were eventually located in Perth, Australia, which was one of the sites that originally received the Moon broadcast.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

The fact of the matter is ... "the video you see where the flag's moving is because the astronaut just placed it there, and the inertia from when they let go kept it moving," said spaceflight historian Roger Launius, of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C.

The astronauts also accidentally bent the horizontal rods holding the flag in place several times, creating the appearance of a rippling flag in photographs (Apollo 11 moon-landing pictures). http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/photogalleries/apollo-11-hoax-pictures/

[SeattleGirl]

57. Thanks, Patsy!

[PSzymeczek]

60. Someone said on CBS Sunday Morning (I think)

that there was a frame to hold it out.

[Patsy Stone]

26. DH is listening to it right now, across the room.

Glad you're enjoying it! :hi:

[GigiMommy]

32. Hey! This is GREAT!!!

:hi: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Patsy Stone]

35. I never realized

they sat in that thing for seven hours after they landed before actually getting out onto the moon. According to Wiki, he descends the stairs at 10:56 p.m. Jeez Louise!

[SeattleGirl]

36. I still think it's amazing that they essentially landed in a little tin can.

Amazing!

[SharonRB]

39. So he hasn't even come out yet?

I thought what's there now might be being replayed. This is still real time, then?

[SeattleGirl]

40. I believe it is.

[SharonRB]

45. Cool.

I wanted to see Armstrong take his one giant step.

I don't know why I remember watching in the middle of a Sunday afternoon. I didn't remember that they came out of the craft at night.

[SeattleGirl]

46. Is that eastern time?

[Patsy Stone]

56. Yes, EDT. nt

[Botany]

23. Rev. forgive me .....

.... please give me 10 minutes w/ Dick Cheney.


Liz can be there too.

[Patsy Stone]

29. "The Annual Counting of the Swans"

How much do you have to love the Brits? LOFL!

[SeattleGirl]

34. This military dude on FAUX Snooze (Col. Peters) should be slapped

all the way across the country. :grr:

[SharonRB]

41. Paula Abdul has fans?

Who knew? :shrug:

[Patsy Stone]

43. Oh, yes

and from the ones who popped up on AI, they're weird!

[SeattleGirl]

42. Ugh. Paula Abdul

Sorry, but I am not into American Idol at all. The only thing I like about is is seeing The American Idol Princess on with Keith.

[SeattleGirl]

44. LOL. Schuster was tweeting during the Abdul story.

And not about her.

[SharonRB]

47. You mean this?

DavidShusterRT @joetrippi @JKottke has a great collection of Apollo 11 resources/info for the 40th anniversary of the lunar landing http://tr.im/tcIU
half a minute ago from web

:rofl:

[SeattleGirl]

48. No, it was this:

RT @GottaLaff AUDIO: Sen. min leader's office admits Dem. pub H.C. plan good 4 small biz http://bit.ly/dAHCA3 minutes ago from web

He tweeted what you posted AFTER that. :rofl:

[SharonRB]

50. ROFL

I just grabbed the first thing I saw.

:rofl:

[SeattleGirl]

52. I notice Rachel occasionally tweets during her show too.

[ralps]

49. Hi Patsy! Hi Everyone! Come back soon Keith!!!!!!!!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[SeattleGirl]

53. ralps! Been waiting for you!

[ralps]

55. Hi SeattleGirl!!! Cool Cat gif! & here's a photo of my great niece w/ her Granddaddy

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[SeattleGirl]

58. Squeeeee! She's adorable!

[Patsy Stone]

59. She's gorgeous, ralps!

:hi:

[GigiMommy]

63. Awwwwwwwww! What a Cutie!

Hi Ralps!!!:hi: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[SeattleGirl]

51. Okay, I just looked at the flag again. There IS a pole or something

running along the top of the flag, holding it straight out!

[Berry Cool]

61. I thought everyone knew about that.

Oh well! Keith did his usual helping-out with the Yankees Old-Timers Day Game this past weekend and from what Shuster said at the end of tonight's show, I don't expect to see him all week. Sorry... :shrug:

[SharonRB]

62. Shuster tweeted he's in NY until Thursday night

Might be a clue as to when Keith will be back.