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Rudder
Trad climber
Long Beach, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 2, 2011 - 05:55pm PT
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Oh Jumping Jehovah Man - now you've gone and done it - Klimmer's gonna go apeshit for the next week telling us that everything was filmed on some Universal backlot in Devil's Punchbowl.
Thanks a lot.
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monolith
climber
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That would be Warner, not Klimmer.
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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Geeze everyone knows that was filmed at Alabama Hills...
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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They had more than slide rules, though not by a lot.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
or some such
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I double dog dare ya. Not impressed with young punks.
That's my duty as a crusty geezer. It's good for 'em.;-)
(You DO know I'm kidding, right? I could actually care less. None of my beeswax.)
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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I don't yell at em Dingus - that takes too much energy and makes you a target for retaliation.
No, I go stealth... I prefer to lay on my roof under a black tarp and shoot at them with a BB gun.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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I thought demotivational posters were people.....
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Captain...or Skully
climber
or some such
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Well they better stay off the Lucille thread, then. Motivation!!!5!!2!!!
Oh, yes.
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WBraun
climber
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You need a real passport to get to the real moon.
Those astro-nots did not have one ......
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Slide rules ruled at Georgia Tech in 1954, and we all swaggered, having our little swords hanging from our belts - a lot more romantic than carting around an Ipad. Years ago, I heard that Stanislaw Ulam beat the primitive computers available for the Manhattan Project using his trusty slide rule!
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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What you have to keep in mind is that people have been dissing the generation following them since the dawn of time.
"Oooga, me not like kids. Can't hunt mammoth like us."
Those guys that got the astronauts to the moon with their slide rules were from a generation that was put down by their elders. Just like every other generation.
So when you're about to toss out something like "No one under thirty can do..." remember that that's exactly what was said about you when you were under thirty.
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Karen
Trad climber
So Cal urban sprawl Hell
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August West
Trad climber
Where the wind blows strange
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Yea, it might have been done with slide rulers but it was also probably done for 100+ billion dollars (inflation adjusted) and hundreds of heart attacks (not too much of an exageration).
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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^^^^^Someone has been calculating the angle of their dangle...
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Dingus, 'the dingy', misinterprets the point.
It's not about computations and cycles of formulas, but more about making the right calculations initially, and actually taking into account less about human error, but hard science.
That's how they rolled back then. They were willing to sacrifice, and had badasses willing to sign up for this hit, to accomplish a goal,
Now it's a lot of legal crap, etc....
Dudes on the Apollo were badass! Can you imagine???
EDIT: Do you realize that they were sacrificing their lives for this??? There was no guarantee of a safe return. Just theory....
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Do you realize we have a flag on the moon (despite Klimmers objections) that hasn't been revisited in over 40 years???
We were a bolder people BITD.
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Tung Gwok
Mountain climber
South Bend, Indiana
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Love the Mercy post, Karen.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
or some such
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I dunno about you, Baby Blue. Don't be "weing" without consultation.
Ok?
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