95 Replies to “July 20, 2019: Reader Tips”

  1. I have an Apollo 11 DVD set from the firm Spacecraft Films and I plan on watching the portions for the landing and lunar EVA at around the exact time of those events 50 years ago.

    This past Tuesday morning, I was at the house I inherited from my parents. I was sitting in front of my computer and watched the launch video that I referred to in my post a few days ago. I was sitting in the dining room just a few metres from where I saw it on TV 50 years earlier at almost the exact same time.

    1. While people are remembering Apollo 11, an important scientific expedition happened at the same time and has largely been forgotten by history.

      The submarine PX-15 Benjamin Franklin:

      https://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/FRANKLIN/HTML/franklin_links.html

      https://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/FRANKLIN/HTML/franklin_links.html

      set out on its mission with a crew of 5 shortly before the launch of Apollo 11. Its objective was to drift along with the Gulf Stream while remaining submerged in an attempt to simulate what life on board a space station might be like. A month later it surfaced. The data that was obtained proved to be valuable for the Skylab program.

      Apparently, the crew of Apollo 11 were aware of Franklin‘s undertaking and extended greetings.

      After the sub was decommissioned, it ended up in a scrap yard in Canada. It was found several years later and has since been restored.

      The name Piccard might ring a bell with some SDA members and, no, it has nothing to do with Star Trek. Auguste Piccard invented the bathyscaphe and also made several high-altitude balloon flights. Nearly 60 years ago, his son Jacques and USN Lt. Don Walsh became the first men to reach the bottom of the Marianas Trench. This is described in the book Seven Miles Down. The only other person do accomplish that was director James Cameron who made his dive a few years ago.

      1. I’ll have to pass. I don’t have room for it in my apartment. Besides, can you imagine the time and effort required to dust it every week?

    1. During the mission, the crew made a TV transmission during which Armstrong and Aldrin entered the LM. They showed what was inside, including the various instruments as well as their suits.

      I watched a recording of that earlier this evening. The colour and detail were excellent and the capcom mentioned that he was able to read the numbers on the gauges. Ground controllers also noticed a slight discrepancy between one instrument on Armstrong’s side and the corresponding one on Aldrin’s.

        1. Thank you, and you’re welcome.

          Some of the people who worked at the Australian stations were interviewed by Dr. David Livingston on his Internet radio show:

          https://thespaceshow.com

          I don’t remember when those programs ran, but one can find them through the website’s search function. Simply type in terms such as “Mike Dinn” or “Honeysuckle Creek” and those shows will be listed.

          Speaking of which, I remember when the first video downlink of the EVA was shown on TV. The picture was initially upside-down, but the Australian crew corrected that. Unfortunately, the movie The Dish doesn’t cover that point very well.

  5. Hasselblad re-issued the moon landing press release:

    https://www.dpreview.com/news/2644561941/hasselblad-re-issues-1969-press-release-on-moon-landing-cameras

    https://cdn.hasselblad.com/e407a3b3-714b-4efa-aa74-06cd9083ea04_1969+moon+landing+press+release+-+english.pdf

    https://www.hasselblad.com/history/hasselblad-in-space/

    It was primarily Zeiss lenses on the front of those cameras… I’d heard once that at least one of the lenses was built by Fujifilm, Hasselblad and Fuji have had other collaborations, the super wide Hasselblad – Fuji X pan for example.

    1. Hassleblad: great cameras, but quite expensive. I’ve never used one myself

  7. I was the only member of the family who watched the TV coverage of the landing and Armstrong’s first step while it happened.

    I forget what my mother was doing, but she was likely busy with something else. After the landing, I ran outside to my father, who was doing something inside his truck but he wasn’t particularly impressed.

    Later in the evening, my parents went for a walk in the neighbourhood. My mother told me later that it was very quiet for a summer Sunday night, though a lot of houses along the street had their lights on. It seemed that people were inside watching TV as they slowly understood what had just happened.

    1. If I am remembering correctly most Canadians where not that Interested,,, I was working on an overnight Project at CFQC Saskatoon. The Operational Management did not want to Staff the CBC feed and I was asked to turn the Transmitter ON & switch CBC to Air… I did watch It, but I don’t think I felt much more than a fleeting interest…More like your Dad!

      ~ 10 years ago the Library of Congress was looking for Magnetic Recording expertise to recover the DATA that was recorded..They had the 2″ tapes but no hardware that could play them… RCA had developed an 8 Head quadrature rotating head for the program, it was not used on any other platform but Military.. There was a group that re-built an old Ampex machine & that special head assembly…. Last I hear they where successful.. Sometimes my old Roldex has the names of RCA retired Engineers & home Phone numbers…..Helps if they are still alive….

      1. Much of the data acquired during the early days of the space program is in a similar situation. The tapes were stored, but there wasn’t an easy way to read them, if at all, partly because the equipment designed for that either doesn’t exist any more or has been gathering dust somewhere. Modern machinery might not even recognize the formats that were used.

        A few years ago, a group of volunteers undertook to see if they could read the data obtained during the Lunar Orbiter missions. They cobbled together hardware that could handle the tapes, but they went on to filter the data.

        One famous picture taken by one of the spacecraft was the first earthrise. The photo that was originally released was grainy and unclear in places. Some people at the time scoffed and claimed that the picture was faked.

        After processing and re-mastering, an updated version of that picture was released. The detail shown was astounding and rivalled photos taken by, for example, Apollo 8 in clarity.

        While the volunteers were motivated by the desire to preserve that information, plus being able to see if they could actually do it, there was another reason why their effort was of interest. The moon has been examined by a number of spacecraft since the early 1960s and lunar scientists thought of comparing the early photos of certain landmarks with ones that were taken more recently to see if any changes had occurred.

        I haven’t heard much of what that group did in the last few years, but it would be interesting to see if the rest of those data tapes could be similarly processed and what information can be found.

    2. We watched it in our house with our month old first daughter. I remember thinking that my grandfather lived from a time when travel by horse was the main mode of travel and rail was beginning to expand everywhere to a time when men walked on the moon. We thought it was quite exciting.

  8. July 20th 1969 was a Sunday and we were on a day pass from an air cadet camp spending the day off the base. At the resort we visited, it seemed like every business had a TV set on so that everyone could witness the event.
    Today it would be impossible to get the level of interest from the public that we saw for that first moon landing.

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    Watch the full press conference of our Candidates Announcement in London, with speeches by @DMillardHaskell
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    Incredibly proud of our team and star candidates in Ontario.

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  11. Trans Mountain construction work can go ahead as National Energy Board re-validates permits

    The National Energy Board has cleared the way for construction to resume on portions of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project by re-validating all the orders and decisions it enjoyed before its permits were overturned last year.

    https://calgarysun.com/commodities/trans-mountain-construction-work-can-go-ahead-as-national-energy-board-re-validates-permits/wcm/c4240189-72bf-4866-ae84-b8bd7d9d5867

    Note that this means only certain selected site work gets the green light. Not the actual burying of pipe. Must be an election on the horizon.

  14. With all the excitement of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s landing on the moon, another important event in space exploration has been overlooked.

    On this day, in 1976, the first successful landing of a spacecraft on Mars took place. The Viking 1 lander touched down and soon began transmitting pictures. It was during America’s Bicentennial year and the landing was meant to take place on July 4. Unfortunately, the landing site was obscured due to a storm, so another appropriate day was chosen.

    If I remember correctly, President Gerald Ford decreed that July 20 be observed as Space Exploration Day.

  15. Fifty years ago, I was fortunate to be able to watch the Apollo 11 moon landing on TV. It was an event I had long waited to see. Nineteen years earlier, in 1950 when I was a young boy, I saw a movie called “Destination Moon”. It was a really good science fiction depiction of a trip to the moon and back as imagined by the author Robert Heinlein. From then onward, I dreamed about the possibility of space travel and an actual trip to the moon – and lived to see it. And now, fifty years later we hear talk about a possible return to the moon. Do I dare dream of seeing that one?

    Destination Moon (about 1 hour, 31 minutes)

    1. Destination Moon was one of the best SF movies ever made. That’s not surprising, considering that Robert Heinlein worked on it.

      In many ways, it was accurate. It predicted that there would be a political motive for going to the moon and that it would be industrial firms that would build the machines. It also predicted that the landing was made by Americans, but done so for the benefit of “all mankind” and that the first steps would be broadcast, though not instantaneously or using TV.

      That’s one flick I’d like to add to my collection.

    2. foobert, Bernie, aka foobert…saw your nice photos of Drumheller Alberta, last year when you shared them with us all at SDA. They too looked like another planet! Had the opportunity to see it also!

      Thank you so so much for sharing ” Destination Moon” with us!
      I’ve bookmarked.

      1. Destination Moon was made nearly 70 years ago and was produced by George Pal (who later directed The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine) with space artwork by the great Chesley Bonestell. From what I heard, the movie was made on a shoestring budget and won an Oscar for special effects.

        It, along with films such as Forbidden Planet and The Thing From Another World, was one of the best SF movies from the 1950s. Its realism would ultimately be surpassed by 2001: A Space Odyssey.

        1. well it’s certainly one of MY fav sci fi flics of all time.
          it has it all, including the emergency challenge, dealing with zero-gs, fuel issues, radiation, etc.
          superb stuff in it’s day and very prescient.
          I saw it when I was about 7 or 8. most recently some time this past winter.

          1. Turner Classic Movies often shows it.

            One interesting aspect of it appears to have been adopted by NASA. In the movie, each of the space suits has its own colour so that everyone can tell who’s who. Similarly, during the early lunar landing missions, it was sometimes hard to tell who was doing what in the TV transmissions because the suits were identical.

            To get around that, one suit had a stripe on each arm and I believe that was for the mission commander.

            During the movie, one of the crew drifts off the spacecraft and is rescued by one of the others. The way they move around was to use an oxygen bottle and open and close the valve to provide propulsion.

            During Gemini IV, Ed White became the first American to leave his spacecraft, though he was attached by an umbilical. Unlike what Alexi Leonov did a few weeks earlier, namely drifting outside the Voskhod, White was able to propel himself with maneuvering device, nicknamed the “zot gun”. The propellant was pressurized oxygen.

            Those might have been coincidence, but it’s interesting to see that someone thought of those things years before they were used for real.

  17. I was lucky enough to be in the US for the landing. About 60 miles from Teddy Kennedy’s wee accident. Oddly, driving off a bridge and killing a girl was drowned out by the brilliance of the landing.

    Funny that.

    1. I wonder how Dr. Evil is going to deal with Spineless Scheer and Mad Max? Will he ignore the latter and attack the milk maid as a populist alt-right racist?
      PM Dipshit’s crew hate free speech, deny property rights, would disarm sport shooters and probably imprison hunters.
      These elitist globalists need to be attacked (right along with the Spawn) over the next 3 months.
      They are the enemy of individual liberty and freedom in Canada.
      They have immense power and not one of them was elected.

    2. One day we’ll find out who persuaded Gerry to come back on Justin’s behalf—and the name of the progressive youth organization the boy belonged to.

    3. I also doubt that he was ever gone. Now that the media has successfully buried Lavascam the snakes can crawl back out from under the carpet.

    1. OOPS. Ignore referenced link. same as per previous SDA post : If women ruled…We’d all still live in caves, but with very, very fancy curtains.
      (working my may up the SDA reading list)

  22. Andrew Coyne at the National Post website explains that the Unifor panel Groper set up to hand out six hundred million dollars to the media, according to them isn’t enough. With an election coming up how are newspapers supposed to support Justin with only six hundred million dollars. He needs to get real with bribes to his loyal media.

    1. If one wants good references to the Apollo missions, the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

      https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/

      and Apollo Flight Journal

      https://history.nasa.gov/afj/

      are probably the best. The ALSJ started over 2 decades ago by volunteers and has all sorts of information about what happened, including transcripts and references to training manuals. A few years later, the AFJ began as a companion to it, as there was more to Apollo than what took place on the moon.

      The Spacecraft Films DVD set I referred to earlier used ALSJ material.

    1. What! Did the NDP not learn the lesson that kick backs in the form of shares in a refinery have zero value…Who was that masked NDP Premier… Competing in the REAL market is a bitch….

    3. Still don’t explain where they get the feedstock for it. Alberta? Russia, or Alaska? If it isn’t Alberta, I might stick my oar in, just to stir up the waters.

  28. During the Apollo missions, the only real-time information that was often available was the ground-air radio traffic. To show what was going on, the CBS network (and, presumably, the other ones as well) made ample use of animations, models, and simulations to show what was going on. (CBS was the one that the CBC carried during its broadcasts.)

    CBS used animations. I recall, though, seeing a recording of what one network had done. It used a Lunar Module model and that that model emitted a flame from the descent stage engine to approximate the exhaust. After the model landed, the simulated surface caught fire and it took a few seconds for someone off-camera to put it out.

    But the networks often went further than animations and models. I recall that, during Apollo 10, CBS collaborated with one of the Apollo prime contractors to have either company personnel (such as North American Rockwell’s Leo Krupp) or actors dressed as the astronauts act out what was going on in mock-ups of the spacecraft.

    All this, of course, wasn’t the same as seeing what actually happened but it was more than adequate in giving viewers a sense of what was going on.

  29. My husband and I were 3ish give or take a few months but we both remember it, so momentous and charged with emotion it was. My family gathered at my grand parents home and the adults all said to us kids: watch this, you will remember it for the rest of your life, and I have. I remember the beeping noise when they would talk to each other, how funny they moved due to the gravity difference, the strange white silver surface and that it was hard to understand what they were saying. This whole thing really captured the young imagination. Everyone started drawing rockets and space related things with crayons and colored pencils. All the kids, not just us. It was fascinating. I also remember for years after we might be on a trip to the grocery store near sun set and we could look up into the impending night sky and see subsequent rockets. Shining golden needles so small, so high as to be with the stars. People with the stars. It seemed so normal. We believed we could grow up to do anything. I must hand it to the Greatest Generation. Who saves the world in their late teens and 20’s only to turn around and give us the moon at the peak of their influence?

    1. Your comment reminds me of something that happened while Comet Hale-Bopp was visible in the night sky.

      I went outside one night to take some pictures of it and someone in a nearby townhouse was outside on his back porch. He called over to me, pointing to the sky, and asking if it was the comment. After I reassured him that it was, he dashed inside and, a few minutes later, he was accompanied by a pair of toddlers in their pyjamas, who I assumed were his children. He wanted them to see something magnificent and which they would remember the rest of their lives.

      Now that those kiddies are adults, I wouldn’t be surprised if they still recall that night.

      1. YOU knew what he meant when he said “comment”, and let it go, correct?

        I love it when peopleskind screw up the pronunciation of words. Even better, when one is not corrected out of respect, but the word is repeated incorrectly, again, in the conversation. Bet those kids still think they’re …. “comments” up there in the universe!

        (I recall your story last year about these kids. It was very endearing of the dad to do that!)

        Do discard this ‘comment’, if you merely made a typo, of course.
        Ha!

  30. For those that are interested, Groper is still taking personal time in B.C. at taxpayer expense.

  31. After the cancellation of the Avro Arrow, many of the workers went south and contributed to putting men on the moon. But, there’s another Canadian aspect to Apollo 11 that most people aren’t aware of:

    http://spaceq.ca/the-canadian-story-of-the-apollo-lunar-module-landing-legs/

    I also recall that there might have been a contribution by de Havilland Canada’s Special Products/Applied Research division (which later became SPAR Aerospace), but I can’t find any reference to that on the Internet.

  32. At 10:56 p.m. EDT, my husband and I, plus a very tired son and niece, were in pyjamas resting in a motel in N. B. after a long day travelling in a un-a/c car with temps around 90. We’d been on the road for a week and after travelling the mind-blowing beauty of the Cabot Trail, the barren lunar landscape came in second. My husband had been more nervous driving the trail than Aldrin and Armstrong were as they pondered whether they’d ever see earth again. They at least knew what to expect but I had kept hidden the fact that the bottom of the hill was just the beginning of a very exciting and nerve-racking ride with death that would have made even Aldrin blanch.

    1. I also did the Cabot Trail. It was as you describe it, very scary, but majestically scenic!

  33. Here’s David the Menzoid Menzies from Rebel News recalling his experience as a child when he watched the moon landing with his family. For a second there, I thought he was going to cry. He almost made me cry.

    https://youtu.be/IXM4d9gDOyI

  34. This video features Michael Collins with Miles O’ Brian on PBS discussing the Moon Mission:

    https://youtu.be/UQ5rangYxng

    In retrospect, I personally would say that I too was at the edge of my seat and worried as I viewed the mission. Like Collins, I was relieved when “splashdown” occurred and the astronauts were safely ‘home.’
    There are some wonderful pictures in this video. So, enjoy.

      1. One story I heard was that a lot of people gave Apollo 11 a 50-50 chance at successfully landing. Armstrong, apparently, was also skeptical of succeeding the first time.

        Then again, he would have given it his best shot as he was the sort of pilot who was determined to learn something from a failure and was confident that the problem would be resolved by the time the next crew flew.

        By the way, the capcom who spoke with Armstrong and Aldrin during the landing was Charlie Duke, who, later, was the Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 16.

  35. We didn’t have a TV, and bugged our parents to the point where Dad interrupted his farmwork and drove us 30 miles to our grandparents’ place, where we bothered Mom and Dad until they let us stay up to finally see Armstrong step onto the moon. (I think it was well after one am when we finally got to sleep.) I was eight.

    I should add that my grandfather told me of chasing (with all the other boys in town) after the first car to come to Ingersoll. He was twelve at the time, and the Wright brothers hadn’t yet flown. There is the scale of 20th Century achievement translated into human terms – but I wonder about my own grand-kids, and if they will see anything as great.

    1. I mentioned my maternal grandmother in an earlier post. She was born nearly a year after the Wright brothers flew and died after space shuttle launches became commonplace.

  36. The reality is that the Laws of Physics have not changed since the 1960’s… The Application & implementation of those same laws have changed over the Years and they will in the future…Sometimes close, but wrong works until another new idea is found to be a better solution…I have lost count of the wrong theory that I had to forget…

  39. Alaska Railroad and Alaska to Alberta Railway agree to cooperate on rail connection to Canada, Lower 48
    Published: June 27

    The Alaska Railroad Corporation (ARRC) and the Alaska to Alberta Railway Development Corporation (A2A) have established a Master Agreement of Cooperation toward building a 1500-mile connection between the Alaska Railroad and Canadian railroads that also serve the Lower 48 states.

    http://www.a2arail.com/

    Hopefully this project goes through and thus bypasses BC. Actually I’m surprised that BC did not object.

  40. The Vice of Nationalism

    https://newideal.aynrand.org/the-vice-of-nationalism/

    “The thrust of Hazony’s learned book is to urge us to turn away from a legacy of the Enlightenment: the focus on the value of the individual as a sovereign, rational being. Let us instead bury “nationalism” and dedicate ourselves to better understanding what’s required to defend a free society.”

  41. “”Today we declare independence,” Hazony said, “from neoliberalism, from libertarianism, from what they call classical liberalism. From the set of ideas that sees the atomic individual, the free and equal individual, as the only thing that matters in politics.””

    https://reason.com/2019/07/18/the-new-conservative-nationalism-is-about-subverting-individual-liberty/

    “Anti-individualism seems to be the unifying theory of the ascendant political right. If government infringements on personal liberty are the price of achieving good outcomes, conservatives are more than happy to pay it.”

    We’ve been here before except it was called Compassionate Conservatism and it pandered to Christians instead of white losers. David Frum even made a similar quote about the GOP escaping libertarianism. It ends the same way: tears, crushing electoral defeat, and Democrats with all the power. This time, there won’t be a Tea Party. That trickshot is gone.

    1. But somehow it is fine for Trudeau to tell the woman in Quebec to leave Canada if she doesn’t like Trudeau letting in illegal immigrants?

  44. UnMe: Is it the difference between national socialism and international socialism that has a conflict with the multitudes contained in your vastness? To simplify squaring that particular circle, I suggest you adopt a political spectrum that has absolute statism (of any sort) on the left, and absolute anarchy on the right and a sliding scale of increasing individual freedom between the two opposites from left to right – and pick where you want to live, and what you are willing to give up to do so. That should save you – not from trying to argue that rigid government control is just fine when the people you like do it, and an unspeakable evil when your fellow travelers are out of power, because you’re going to do that anyway, but from hiding from the fact that the greatest difference between Nazis and Communists is merely the words they used to justify their killings.

    1. ” not from trying to argue that rigid government control is just fine when the people you like do it, and an unspeakable evil when your fellow travelers are out of power, because you’re going to do that anyway”

      Please stop projecting onto me. You people are the hypocrites not me.

      1. Hypocrites spend their lives cheating, betraying, conning, and deceiving. But despite this disgusting pattern of behavior, they still feel entitled to point out (or invent) the most minor mistakes in others—and they’ll point them out repeatedly, to negate & excuse all of their own horrible actions.

        As a result, you spend more and more time trying to prove your ethics to the most unethical person on the planet. You end up feeling guilty for being five minutes late to a date (months ago), while they gleefully cheat on you with another man or woman.

        If the moral scales in your life seem to be skewed beyond all recognition, you likely encountered a pathological hypocrite—or a psychopath.

        Here are some warning signs:

        1) Do as I say, not as I do. Their actions never seem to match up with their charming words. They have extremely high expectations in you, but don’t seem to follow those standards themselves. They are allowed to have dinner with their “crazy” ex who’s “still in love” with them, but they’ll give you the silent treatment for going out with your friends.

        2) The rules apply to others, but they do not apply to me. They believe they are above the law—both legally and ethically. They feel entitled to behave however they choose, but others must be kept in line at all times. We see this in politics every single day, when our elected officials stomp across the morals they enforce upon everyone else.

        3) It is always someone else’s fault. It’s not their fault for lying. It’s your fault for being so petty and pointing out their lie. They might also bring up your past mistakes, to prove that their lie isn’t actually so bad by comparison. Someone is always out to get them, and that’s the reason behind all of their problems.

        4) Anyone who points out my wrongdoings should be punished. When all else fails, you must be punished, so you learn not to point out their lies anymore. This can be done through triangulation, cheating, and most commonly—the silent treatment.

        5) The perpetual victim. Their bad behavior always has sob-story roots. They learned to lie because of their abusive ex, or their abusive parent. They hate drama; all they’ve ever wanted is some peace & quiet, and yet they provoke more drama than anyone you’ve ever known. They declare their hatred of negativity, all the while calling you “hysterical” to anyone who will listen, even when you are completely ignoring them.

        6) Condescending, patronizing, and superior. You feel like a child being reprimanded by an adult. They speak down to you as if you are intellectually deficient and emotionally unstable. They laugh when you try to express yourself, dismissing any concerns you might have as hyper-sensitive and crazy.

        7) Lies & excuses. Hypocrites have excuses for everything. You will find that they spend a lot more time excusing their behavior than ever actually improving it. Instead of apologizing or admitting fault, they simply ignore reality & argue with solid evidence when confronted with it. Survivors also often notice that psychopaths seem to enjoy the thrill of lying. Sometimes it seems they’ve planted evidence that actually allows you to catch them. They lie even when the truth would suffice. Why? Because duping others is what they do. It is the only highlight of their otherwise insufferably boring lives. (Pathological lying)​

        On the other end of the spectrum, here is their ideal target in relationships, the workplace, and government:

        1) Actions over words. Healthy, humble individuals do not constantly talk about the good things they have done, because it would be arrogant and uncomfortable. Instead, they prove it with their actions, which are intentionally ignored by hypocrites who can simply invent fake virtues with fake words.

        2) The rules apply to me, but I feel bad for judging others. Ideal targets have always paid strong attention to rules and ethics. They are terrified of getting in trouble at school, or breaking the law, or hurting a romantic partner. They have been trained well, and they want to see the same good in others.

        3) It is always my fault. Instead of blaming others for their problems, they tend to blame themselves for everything. Even the slightest suggestion that they’ve done something wrong will lead to long periods of introspection and self-doubt. They will rewrite reality in order to absorb the flaws of others.

        4) Anyone who points out my wrongdoings might be right, even if I don’t remember doing that. Always willing to talk about concerns that others might have about them, and will work extremely hard to ensure they do not upset anyone else that way in the future. Willing to accept fault for something they didn’t actually do, if it means keeping the harmony.

        5) I never want to be the victim, even when I have been harmed. Survivors remain largely silent after abuse, anonymously seeking out help for the nightmare they experienced. Ironically, a hypocrite will scream that you’re a perpetual victim for trying to quietly recover from the hell they put you through. (Victim blaming)

        6) Gentle, compassionate, and flexible. Ideal targets will always be willing to compromise and make things better. They are approachable, warm, and sensitive to the feelings of others. Because of these qualities, they often attract negative and self-centered people like magnets.

        7) Apologies. Will always say sorry when they do something wrong, even if they haven’t done anything wrong at all. While hypocrites will only apologize if they can get something out of it, their targets apologize in order to restore peace & trust.​

        Combine these two personalities, and you have a recipe for self-destruction. The hypocrite walks away unscathed, while you’re left with crippling doubts about your entire sense of self. But these doubts will slowly start to subside, the longer you’re free from this toxic individual.

        Worrying about your own good nature is actually the first sign that everything is going to be just fine. You see, worry is proof of a conscience—something pathological hypocrites don’t have.

        https://www.psychopathfree.com/articles/7-signs-of-hypocrites-the-people-they-target.300/

  45. It’s now 50 years plus a few minutes since the Eagle touched down. Strictly speaking, the first words from the moon were Aldrin’s announcement of “Contact light”.

    Three of the Lunar Module footpads had probes attached on the bottom surfaces. They were used to indicate that they were within about 2 metres of the lunar surface. The ends of the probes would touch the surface and a blue light in the middle of the LM control panel would switch on, indicating that landing was about to occur and that the descent stage engine had to be shut down.

    During the following few seconds, Armstrong and Aldrin had to make sure that the LM was secured and it was only after those steps were completed that Armstrong announced “The Eagle has landed.”

  46. Maxime Bernier
    ‏@MaximeBernier

    Canada’s immigration policy is dysfunctional and needs to be fixed.

    I will unveil the @peoplespca platform on immigration next week.

    Listen to what PPC candidates @SalimMansurLNC and @DMillardHaskell had to say about immigration in Cambridge yesterday.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRVaajXAMLk

  47. Maxime Bernier
    @MaximeBernier

    Maxime Bernier Retweeted Karen Vecchio

    Karen: I defend equal rights and respect for all.

    I will not legitimize radical left-wing trans activists who push their ideology in schools and want to take children away from their parents at age 6 if their refuse to let them start “transitioning.”

    You do. @karen_vecchio

    Karen Vecchio
    @karen_vecchio

    Replying to @MaximeBernier @MichelleRempel

    Perhaps it is best that I wait 24 hours to make a full response. I am just trying to figure out WHICH Max to respond to. The one from a few years ago who worked with me and my office to help find solutions for #equality? or the new 2019 Version?

    Maxime Bernier
    @MaximeBernier

    Reminder that @MichelleRempel and CPC critic for family and children @karen_vecchio are big fans of radical trans activism.

    It’s part of the LibCon centrist consensus.

    I’m asking all true conservatives: HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THIS?

    https://twitter.com/MaximeBernier

  49. 5o years ago,it looked like we were going somewhere,breaking out of this gravity well and exploring new frontiers…
    Instead we choked.
    Now cowering under the cloud cover,we obsess about imaginary weather and wait for the asteroid.
    We are so pathetic we did not even build retirement habitats on the Moon.

    Today we see the results of our choices.
    Still trapped on this tiny rock orbiting an unstable sun.

  50. Breitbart reports that the flags of Japan and Taiwan have been removed from Tom Cruise’s fight jacket in the upcoming Top Gun movie. This is so the film can be shown in box office rich China. Hollywood must not upset the commies.

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