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It's amazing to think of the things they did with the technology they had in the fifties. There is so much the younger generations take for granted today that engineers of that time would have given, well would have given all they had to get it. Can you imagine what they would have done with a Go-Pro and the digital visualizing of it's images?
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Well, the first images of the "dark" side of the moon would have looked a lot better than this!
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And here I always thought the Dark Side of the Moon looked like this!
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That's what it looks like in "high" resolution.
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REALLY "High" resolution....
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A friend of mine works for a railway company in the UK, whose ^new^ equipment--which was long in development--runs on Windows XP. He writes his own software, and switched back to Windows 7 after trying Windows 10. The planned 2020 cessation of Windows 7 support may not occur, due to the widespread rejection of Windows 10 (it's not that Windows 10 doesn't work, but that it takes more keystrokes and screens to do the same things that 7 already does--radio stations and video production facilities hate 10 for that reason). In any event, I used Commodore software and Windows 98 and XP for years after support for them ended. I know nothing about Linux other than its name, and if my computer shop isn't familiar with it, I would be leery of switching to it.
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Explorer 6 (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_6 ) carried a spin-scan TV camera rather like the Pioneer 0/1/2 device, but its Earth pictures were hard to re-construct because the less-rigid satellite, with four solar paddles on outrigger struts, wobbled; the biconical, battery-powered Pioneer 0 - 2 spacecraft were much more rigid, had better mass distribution (like a top) and had more stable spin axes. Pioneer 3 and 4 also had stable spin axes, having nearly all of their mass--including their numerous mercury batteries--concentrated in the short, wide cylindrical section at the base of the hollow, conical, gold-washed fiberglass off-center-fed vertical dipole (cone-rod) antenna.
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Not only that, but it subversively mines info and wants to sync everything. Between Win 10 and Google, they will try to link, sync mine and share/sell everything they can get from your computer. BTW, with a little work you can make Win10 behave similarly to Win7. Using a 3rd party "Classic Shell" gets the ball rolling, along with a few internal changes like kicking Cortana's butt to the curb. You can go as far as setting up start screens, wallpapers, etc. if you really want it to look like a generic Win7, but the big thing is killing off all those tiles, Cortana and setting up the classic shell. Doing these things has my laptop looking and acting enough like Win7 that other people don't realize I'm running Win10. While I use Linux at home, I do have a laptop with the moderately hated Win10, which is wonderful compared to the vile putrid Win8 that it came with. I use Win10 only because I use the laptop to hook into various smart boards, projectors, etc. at schools and fire stations, and it's just easier to quickly make those things play nicely together with Win10 than Linux. Our school system still uses Win7 exclusively for faculty and computer labs, and Chrome OS for our students' cheaply made and easily demolished chromebooks.
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