Top Gun

You're from the 80s too, you creepy fuck.

You could probably get a cheap used one on eBay.

No. No one anywhere is excited.

That explains so much.

Winter's awesome.

Oh gee, I don't know, maybe because there are electronics in it to detect when the rover had touched down? Maybe because having your rover's legs overheat and potentially buckle on impact would be a really bad thing? Tell me, what's your experience with materials science to determine whether or not the lander should have had insulation there?

All for it. Hey this is cool.

...how the fuck did you pass high school? That. Isn't. Tinfoil. It's a thermally-reflective material. Light wavelengths that are reflected aren't absorbed. The material was designed to reflect wavelengths in the infrared part of the spectrum, i.e. heat. And yes, very small micrometeoroids could be stopped by material of that thickness. That's exactly what it's engineered to do. It couldn't stop anything particularly large, but pretty much nothing could, so it was considered a calculated risk. Seriously, what level of education do you have? You are hopelessly unqualified to have an informed opinion about this. This is why we should have mandatory IQ tests for voting. Right goddamn here.

Goku's only good because he suffered brain damage as an infant, and Vegeta would still be a murderous asshole if he wasn't completely pussy-whipped.

Do yourself a favor and shut the fuck up before you make yourself seem even more goddamn retarded.

So you're admitting you have no fucking idea what you're talking about. Fantastic. You're sure as hell not an example of it, that's for sure.

The "aluminum foil" was a metal-coated insulation material called Kapton, which as I've already said was intended to reflect as much thermal radiation as possible. The ascent stage used it too, but it was covered with thicker shielding to protect the astronauts against micrometeoroids. The black materials were more rigorous thermal blankets in areas that needed additional shielding, coated with high-temperature paint. If you see "cardboard" there, you need your goddamn eyes checked. And yes, the ascent stage lifted off of the descent stage and rendezvoused with the Command-Service Module in lunar orbit. This is literally middle-school science. Newton's Third Law: every action produces an equal and opposite reaction. This is why rockets work. Stop jerking off to a goddamn hologram and get fucking educated.

If you actually knew how to read, you'd know that the overwritten tapes were of the original transmission format from Apollo 11, not the footage as a whole. Due to the limited amount of live data that could be sent from the Lunar Module back to Earth, the live TV broadcast was in an esoteric slow-scan format that wasn't compatible with normal television broadcast formats. The communication stations back on Earth had to perform a real-time conversion of the signal by a process that involved a camera aimed at a video monitor displaying the original format. That original format was also recorded onto magnetic tapes and archived, but no one thought much of treating them as special (though I wish they had), because they weren't something you could actually show on TV. Those magnetic tapes were expensive, so at some point over the next couple of decades, a lot of older backups were re-used for other purposes. We still have all of the lower-quality converted video that was broadcast on television; none of that was "lost." Later Apollo missions produced much higher-quality TV broadcasts that were also preserved. Yes, we know you're fucking retarded.

Y'know while I'm sitting here pissed off I'm gonna hit on one or two other points just to clear the air: Why would the reaction control system thrusters send the entire craft into a spin? They were computer-controlled and fired in the required combinations to maintain a low rotation rate. They also produced fairly weak thrust individually, as do any RCS thrusters. And there's no "blast crater" because the lunar surface consists of a relatively shallow layer of dust on top of a rocky underlayer, and at the point of touchdown the Lunar Module's descent stage engine was throttled down to a low thrust velocity. You'd see the same lack of a crater if you fired the engine on a patch of dirt here on Earth. As it stands the engine did kick up lunar dust, as can be clearly seen on the landing videos, and it left a starburst pattern underneath the lander.

What the actual fuck are you talking about. We have tens of thousands of photographs and dozens of hours' worth of video from the lunar spacewalks. Do you even attempt to think before you type?

As already noted, the Apollo astronauts spent a very limited amount of time passing through the Van Allen belts, so their radiation exposure was minimal. Biological damage from radiation is a function of the length of the exposure. The Apollo trajectories were specifically designed to avoid the inner Van Allen belt and to pass through a relatively thinner portion of the outer belt, further limiting exposure time. Seriously, even a basic understanding of how radiation works would prove this claim bullshit. Heating wasn't a significant issue, as the landings took place completely on the lit side of the Moon. (A vacuum is also a spectacular insulator, so the main issue in spaceflight is usually eliminating heat, not generating it. The Lunar Module featured both passive and active cooling systems. See the shiny gold/silver foil-type material that covered most of the lower descent stage? Those were thermal insulation blankets designed to reflect most of the Sun's thermal radiation. The upper ascent stage, where the crew cabin was, featured an active cooling system with coolant loops and a heat exchanger, much as the International Space Station does today. The astronauts' suits featured much smaller active cooling systems, as modern-day spacesuits do as well. The power requirements weren't really all that excessive, as all you had to do was run pumps to circulate the coolant fluid around the cabin/spacesuit and through the heat exchanger. The Lunar Module's descent stage had large battery packs that were more than capable of generating power for 2-3 days. And you clearly have no idea what you're talking about, as the Lunar Module received extensive testing before the Apollo 11 landing. Apollo 5 was the first unmanned test flight of the LM, and Apollo 9 was a manned test of the entire Apollo spacecraft in Earth orbit that went through docking/undocking and maneuvering procedures. Apollo 10 was the "dress rehearsal" for the actual landing; its Lunar Module descended to within 10 miles of the lunar surface. And that's not even counting the ridiculous amount of testing the spacecraft received on the ground. Did you really think they just stuck it up on Apollo 11 and said "welp hope this works"? This legitimately pisses me off. The lunar landing was by far the greatest accomplishment in all of human history, and yet drooling morons who couldn't even pass a high school physics course sit there and proclaim that it was all fake because they don't have the intelligence to understand what the fuck they're talking about.

Why the hell would I remember this?

The only time I've used that list is when I accidentally added something to it.

There is so much wrong with this I don't even know where to begin.

Glide 4 lyfe

Exclusives I'll grant you, but the minimum specs are hardly what I'd call "ridiculous." A GTX 770 is a 4-year-old card.

Game preferences come down to personal tastes, but man the only way multi-platform games are better on console is if they get shitty PC ports. Glorious master race and all.

Anyone who answers the latter should be drug out into the street and shot.

Nintendo systems are honestly the only consoles I buy anymore. The first-party titles alone make it worthwhile for me. Anything else I'll just buy on PC.

Those times when we need a puking react option.