Dear Moon - Hackdot

Re:Dear Moon by komali2 on Monday September 17, 2018 @10:35PM (#18011998)

For those missing the reference: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Affleck

Ben Affleck, talking to Michael Bay about the movie Armageddon, in which oil drillers are sent to an asteroid to drill a hole in it, drop a nuclear bomb into the hole, and then detonate that bomb:

>I asked Michael (Bay) why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers. He told me to shut the fuck up

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Re:Dear Moon by rsync on Monday September 17, 2018 @10:46PM (#18012066)

It really is worth your time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ahtp0sjA5U

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Re:Dear Moon by bhhaskin on Monday September 17, 2018 @11:00PM (#18012132)

Thanks for sharing! It was pretty good.

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Re:Dear Moon by trainingaccount on Monday September 17, 2018 @11:35PM (#18012272)

Actually for Apollo 17 it was found to be easier to train a geologist to be an astronaut than the other way around.

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Re:Dear Moon by rory096 on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @12:16AM (#18012425)

The Apollo astronauts were also trained quite extensively in geology. Highly recommend the Apollo 12 episode of From the Earth to the Moon for a great look at that.

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Re:Dear Moon by psergeant on Monday September 17, 2018 @11:57PM (#18012348)

I guess as long as a high enough percentage of the crew are flight people, you can teach someone else to not get in the way too much?

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Re:Dear Moon by manicdee on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @12:00AM (#18012365)

Or it turns out that 20 years if field experience is harder to teach than 5 years experience in wearing pressure suits and zero/low gravity.

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