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Comment Re:Space news (Score 3, Informative) 79

by roundisfunny on Thursday July 16, 2009 @11:18AM (#28717279) Attached to: Space Shuttle Endeavour Heads To Space Station

In case you care, the JFK Library is sponsoring a real-time online reenactment of the Apollo 11 mission - complete with actual radio transmissions. http://wechoosethemoon.org/ The URL is based on Kennedy's speech about how we choose the moon, not because it's easy, but because it's hard - or something like that.

Submission + - Apollo 11 Mission Coverage....LIVE!!!!!!

Submitted by sparhawktn on Thursday July 16, 2009 @10:12AM

sparhawktn writes: Once again you can relive, or for most of us, live through the Apollo 11 Mission from launch to landing. wechoosethemoon.org

[quote]In honor of the 40th anniversary of the moon landing the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum has launched a new website. The goal of the website is to allow visitors to experience the Apollo 11 mission in real time. In fact, the website will go live at 9:32am on July 16th which is exactly 40 years to the minute after the historic launch.

The website is sponsored by the JFK Presidential Library and Museum[/quote]

Submission + - Apollo 11 40th anniversary re-enactment online now

Submitted by roundisfunny on Thursday July 16, 2009 @09:27AM

roundisfunny writes: As part of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 trip to the moon, the JFK Library has setup a website that will re-enact the launch in real-time over the next couple of days. Check it out on http://wechoosethemoon.org/ — live Twitter feeds available if requested.

Comment Re:What about negatives? (Score 1) 112

by roundisfunny on Tuesday April 11, 2006 @03:22PM (#15107938) Attached to: Digitizing a Large Amount of Photos?

I've used a Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II scanner for negatives.
It worked pretty well, came w/ software for dust correction (canned air works well too).
It was cheaper to buy one of those and re-sell it on ebay when I was done than to get a professional place to scan my slides/negatives (it does both).
I lent it out to a couple of friends and they thought it was easy to use also.
It worked w/ Macs and PCs - I didn't check for Linux support.
If the negative was saved as a .bmp file, it created a 36 MB file - the .jpg version was 2 or 3 MB.

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