Monthly Archives: July 2009

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Agence eureka “Mon arithmétique – j’apprends à compter” – arithmetics book, early XXth century.

The Boat Lullabies (A Subsidiary of Square America) | The Watchers of the Sky (Eclipse, Chicago 19??) – Watching the Eclipse in 1999 in Normandy was an incredible, spooky, extraordinary moment.

# Purpose: 	Part of the source code for Luminary 1A build 099.
#		It is part of the source code for the Lunar Module's (LM)
#		Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC), for Apollo 11.
#	Assemble revision 001 of AGC program LMY99 by NASA 2021112-61
#	16:27 JULY 14, 1969 
# *********************************************************************************
# INCREMENT TTF/8, UPDATE LAND FOR LUNAR ROTATION, DO OTHER USEFUL THINGS
# *********************************************************************************
#
#	TTFINCR COMPUTATIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS --
# Page 803
#		TTF/8 UPDATED FOR TIME SINCE LAST PASS:
#			TTF/8 = TTF/8 + (TPIP - TPIPOLD)/8
#		LANDING SITE VECTOR UPDATED FOR LUNAR ROTATION:
#			____               ____   ____                   __
#			LAND = /LAND/ UNIT(LAND - LAND(TPIP - TPIPOLD) * WM)
#		SLANT RANGE TO LANDING SITE, FOR DISPLAY:
#			                 ____   _
#			RANGEDSP = ABVAL(LAND - R)

via www.wired.com Vague Scientist

40th anniversary of the July 16, 1969 launch of Apollo 11 (via Remembering Apollo 11 – The Big Picture – Boston.com) – really looks like outtakes of 2001: A Space Odyssey… Nasa were right to pick Kubrick as director when they staged it 🙂