I love that ‘moon’ is written under ‘place.’

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Cape Kennedy-Moon-Honolulu.

“You know you could have take a more direct route to Honolulu, right?”

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See this is what life was like before Google maps. You never knew which route was the fastest

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Back then, everything was done through a travel agent and they often got kickbacks if you took certain routes. No doubt some agents got a bonus for routing them so circuitously.

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Up voting for word usage.

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Right before gmaps, you had mapquest. You had to print out your route on paper. Read while driving, and if there was any deviance in the route like construstion, fuck you.

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Highway signage was critical. If you were traveling, you could tell which states sucked by them not having any signs pointing you back to the highway.

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implying with Google Maps you’d know

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“We took the scenic route.”

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Apollo 13 Jack Swigert requested a Tax Filing extension while headed to the moon:

“How do I apply for an extension?” he asked from space to those in Mission Control, who began to laugh. “Things kind of happened real fast down there and I need an extension. I’m really serious.”

Flight director Glynn Lunney later reassured the astronaut: American citizens who were out of the country received a 60-day filing extension. “I assume this applies,” he told the astronaut, who was already far from the planet at that time.

[source]

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I love how this was added to the Apollo 13 movie. As they’re floating about feeling cold and miserable Swigert gets told he has been granted an extension as he is “definitely out of the country”.

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Such a good movie

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See I would have just assumed this was an incredible line added by some hilarious writer. The fact that it’s true is just chefs kiss perfect

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After Apollo 13’s safe return, Grumman Aerospace sent North American Aviation an invoice for “Towing fees” as the lunar module was the active ship during much of the outbound and all of the inbound leg of the mission.

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A channel 5 watcher, I see

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TIL Andrew has never seen The Matrix

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TIL US citizens have no constitutional rights when being held by border control on US soil. That was a real WTF for me.

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Or took “no” as an answer from a woman.

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How good is/was that series, this must the the riskiest thing he’s done though. But the level of journalism is something we rarely see these days.

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

How good is/was that series

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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Love channel 5 news. Andrew is great at what he does.

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Nope, someone showed me elsewhere.

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A channel 5 watcher watcher, I see

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Does that make the rest of us Channel 5 watcher watcher watchers (mushroom mushroom) or is that only if we stare at Flying Squid a lot?

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That’s-a-me!

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Flight No.: APOLLO 11

So fucking badass.

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Cargo: MOON ROCK AND MOON DUST SAMPLES.

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Any other condition on board which may lead to the spread of disease: TO BE DETERMINED

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Technically correct

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I love the “to be determined” if there is anything on board that can cause a health hazard (they did quarantine astronauts when they first came back from the moon)

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The quarantine turned out to be needless, but I understand why they did it. You have to prove landing on the moon is not a biological threat and that’s pretty much the only way to do it.

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