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Re: It's Moon-landing Monday
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2009 Jul 20, 19:36 -0700
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2009 Jul 20, 19:36 -0700
frankreed@HistoricalAtlas.com wrote: > Two more little "rules" for the game: > 1) The sextant case includes whatever you might want to include in a normal sextant case including various optional filters, telescopes of various types, tools and oils --all the usual things but NO electronics. Oil?!!! Don't you remember "Destination Moon," the 1950 granddaddy of all heavy-on-the-science science fiction movies where the communications antennas won't deploy and the rookie astronaut says "gee, I don't know why, I greased them all up" and the mission commander has to explain that in space the grease turns to glue right before having to go on a perilous spacewalk to free them up? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NavList message boards: www.fer3.com/arc Or post by email to: NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
