Broom Hilda by Russell Myers for June 15, 2009

  1. Thinker
    Sisyphos  over 15 years ago

    Now that’s scary!

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  2. Emerald
    margueritem  over 15 years ago

    They use a really big hand and camera.

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  3. Lady with a bow
    ejcapulet  over 15 years ago

    Eeeeek!

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    tbree  over 15 years ago

    Big Brother is watching you!

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    drwatson  over 15 years ago

    Google goes too far

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    gjsjr41  over 15 years ago

    Smile please

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  7. What has been seen t1
    lewisbower  over 15 years ago

    Who developes the film?

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    bald  over 15 years ago

    drwatson are you sure that is not our government watching us?

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    puddleglum1066  over 15 years ago

    Lewreader: good question. Back in the ’60s, before the development of CCD video cameras, spy satellites actually returned film to earth for developing! Check out the “Corona” program–from launch to developed film in two hours…

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  10. Right here
    Sherlock Watson  over 15 years ago

    On the count of 3, let’s all give the sky the finger and see what happens. 1… 2…

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    HyveALiveO  over 15 years ago

    puddleglum… that’s ridiculous, who do you think invented the digital camera? Yes, thank you, we owe it to NASA and other spaceprograms, just like we owe the microwave to them.

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    Miserichord  over 15 years ago

    HYVEO-

    The CCD array (the heart of all the early digital cameras) was developed in 1969 at AT&T Bell Labs by Williard Boyle and George E. Smith, while trying to produce a successful picture phone.

    No NASA or military funding was (directly) involved.

    Military intelligence satellites continued to use film cameras well into the ‘90’s, as the picture quality remained far superior to that of any digital camera available.

    The Raytheon Corporation produced the first commercial microwave oven in 1954; it was called the 1161 Radarange. It was large, expensive, and had a power of 1600 watts. The first domestic microwave oven was produced in 1967 by Amana (a division of Raytheon).

    NASA was established on July 29, 1958, by the National Aeronautics and Space Act.

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    yyyguy  over 15 years ago

    what about Tang? please tell me that freeze dried orange juice crystals, at least, were a result of the space program.

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  14. Miserichord5small
    Miserichord  over 15 years ago

    From Wikipedia “Tang is a sweet and tangy, orange-flavored, non-carbonated soft drink from the United States. Named after the tangerine[citation needed], the original orange flavored Tang was formulated by William A. Mitchell for General Foods Corporation in 1957 and first marketed (in powdered form) in 1959.

    It was initially intended as a breakfast drink, but sales were poor until NASA began using it on Gemini flights in 1965 (researched at Natick Soldier Systems Center), which was heavily advertised. Since that time, it has been associated with the U.S. manned spaceflight program, so much so that an urban legend emerged that Tang was invented for the space program.”

    Nope, not Tang either.

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