Moon landing.

[openspaceman]

21 hours ago, sime42 said:

I've often thought along similar lines myself. I think the huge amount of effort and money that's gone into space, (literally), over the years would have been far better spent on conserving this once fabulous planet of ours.

(Granted, there have been plenty of great technological spin-offs along the way.)

What I meant to add was it wouldn't be human to do such a thing, history shows us that the dominant have always pursued their desires at the expense of the untermensch, without the surpluses of production being so used we would not have had pyramids or other wonders of the world etc.

[AHPP]

20 hours ago, openspaceman said:

When I started harvesting, in about 1976, we cut pulp in the grounds of a cottage occupied by a load of hippieish avant-garde musicians. They were composing synth music for a theatrical production of HHG. It was the first time I ever saw a floppy disc or a wood burning stove (a Quebb IIRC). Basil still apparently plays locally.

 

It was my introduction to Douglas Adams and what I took away from it was that humans are at best a sideshow in the scheme of things.

 

Basil explained to me they recorded the sound of burning droplets of plastic falling, he called the sound zorch which I think was the name of his band, and the sound was what was fed into his synthesiser.

You’re aware the OG radio series music was The Eagles btw?

 

Synthesis is a fabulously deep rabbit hole in the musical world, especially back then. I imagine their gear took up a small room and looked like it could launch ICBMs?

Edited December 8 by AHPP

[openspaceman]

44 minutes ago, AHPP said:

You’re aware the OG radio series music was The Eagles btw?

 

Synthesis is a fabulously deep rabbit hole in the musical world, especially back then. I imagine their gear took up a small room and looked like it could launch ICBMs?

Not even sure what OG is in this context.

 

Yes it was a strange assortment of bits but not as big as the last computer I used in 1972, that was a DEC PDP8, even then they did not hook it up to a CRT screen but I had seen pacman type games played back on a TV. It did prompt me to buy an Amstrad 6128 and write some basic programs for producing invoices. I gave that up when I finally got to see a spreadsheet program.

 

 

[AHPP]

18 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Not even sure what OG is in this context.

 

Yes it was a strange assortment of bits but not as big as the last computer I used in 1972, that was a DEC PDP8, even then they did not hook it up to a CRT screen but I had seen pacman type games played back on a TV. It did prompt me to buy an Amstrad 6128 and write some basic programs for producing invoices. I gave that up when I finally got to see a spreadsheet program.

 

 

 

Urban Dictionary: OG

WWW.URBANDICTIONARY.COM

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OG used to mean Original Gangster allthough some poeple these days use OG as a quicker way of saying...

 

Man I love synths. 

 

 

[Stubby]

3 hours ago, AHPP said:

 

Urban Dictionary: OG

WWW.URBANDICTIONARY.COM

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OG used to mean Original Gangster allthough some poeple these days use OG as a quicker way of saying...

 

Man I love synths. 

 

 

Do you remember the first Moog ? I was blown away ! I think The Monkeys were first to use one but I liked ELP using one . " Lucky Man " on the album " Tarkus " . Sorry , not Takus just callee ELP I think . Great song .wrote it when he was 15 !  Oh my god , got me going now . Just take a pebble ! Another great song !

Edited December 8 by Stubby

[AHPP]

No, Stubby. I'm under seventy.

[roboted]

31 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Do you remember the first Moog ? I was blown away ! I think The Monkeys were first to use one but I liked ELP using one . " Lucky Man " on the album " Tarkus " . Sorry , not Takus just callee ELP I think . Great song .wrote it when he was 15 !  Oh my god , got me going now . Just take a pebble ! Another great song !

All good stuff @Stubby

I listened to it all a few, days ago.

It was indeed titled "Emerson Lake and Palmer." 

I think "Tank" is my favourite  track.

 

[Doug Tait]

No, he said he's UNDER SEVENTY!

[roboted]

1 minute ago, AHPP said:

No, Stubby. I'm under seventy.

AGEISM.......🤣

[roboted]

1 minute ago, Doug Tait said:

No, he said he's UNDER SEVENTY!

Who is ?     🤔