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Images of Rutherford’s article and the front page of section B of the July 23, 1969 issue of the Courier-Journal . Forty-year-old issues of the Courier-Journal are only available on microfilm, so image quality is not great, and the library microfilm scanner used to obtain these images cannot ...
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Observatory - 05 Nov 09 Lost in the laptop labyrinth
— kensegall.com — Every PC company tries to make it easier for customers to buy their stuff. Unfortunately, there’s a... lot more to it than streamlining the checkout process. The real problem is a nasty one, rooted deep in the corporate culture — and all seem powerless ... (more) Observatory - 05 Nov 09 Lost in the laptop labyrinth

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MAKE Magazine:  Eavesdropping on the moon, circa 1969

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Eavesdropping on the moon, circa 1969
MAKE Magazine — ... In July, 1969, a ham radio operator named Larry Baysinger, from Louisville, KY, used a 20-year old radio from an army tank and a homemade folded dipole antenna array to listen to the Apollo 11 astronauts on the moon. This page is an archive with the original newspaper piece, photos, PDFs of a couple of radio hobby mags and books of the time, and a sort of where are they now update. MP3 of Baysinger's recordings of the audio are also there. Fascinating stuff. Lunar Eavesdropping in Louisville, Kentucky Read more | ...

Listening In On The Apollo 11 Astronauts... From Home
Retro Thing — ... only 35 minutes of conversation between astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin on the lunar surface and their orbiting companion Michael Collins. But the signals were received directly from the moon, over a quarter of a million miles away, not through Houston Space Center." Brilliant stuff. I wish we could recapture the excitement of the space race instead of squandering trillions of dollars irradiating vast swathes of desert with depleted uranium. Read: Lunar Eavesdropping in Louisville, Kentucky [via Make] ...

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