Miscellaneous NASA comedies

[Critical Mass]

Apparently NASA have just approved an impossible drive that violates the laws of physics...


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ02RFcBcss

I doubt it not.

[Critical Mass]

Don't mind at all Simon... I thought I noticed something odd about the ascent... but then later on forgot that I had noticed it!


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnk1reCu0HU

This movie features, yet again, the bizarre on/off rocket trails @ 07:03
One of many matte painted earth shots @ 09:14
Rear projected 'EVA' @ 09:38 onwards(with 'weightless' strap going from white to invisible black seemingly at random)
Impossibly accelerating & bouncing glove trick @ 11:24
Strange shadow lines @ 11:37 onwards
'Sunrise' @ 21:14 (simpler technique than what they used for the later Gemini 6/7 movie)
Visible fields @ 21:37 (and I think roads/runways just before that on the small Island)
Re-entry shot @ 23:23 featuring UFO's & proof that re-entry involves wildly spinning around whilst sparks shoot at you from a seemingly impossible angle (ambitious... they don't bother with those shots nowadays).
From the pitch dark of extremely high altitude at 24:35 to full day light at 24:48 & parachute deployment at 24:54... 19 seconds

An okay movie... I rate it 3 space monkeys out of 5



Suggested Tagline: "In space no-one can hear you laugh"

[Critical Mass]

Mariner 1 explodes at 1:48 into this movie...

full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd0qCVtrbd0

lol

[hoi.polloi]

That ... is a creative interpretation of an explosion, indeed. Looks like something made in "instant video game maker" software from the 90's. I think the sprite would be called "jellyfish_bomb".

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[Critical Mass]

That ... is a creative interpretation of an explosion, indeed. Looks like something made in "instant video game maker" software from the 90's. I think the sprite would be called "jellyfish_bomb".

Well Hoi initially I thought it was a cartoon looney tunes tunnel or a radioactive spaghetti accident... but then I realized it was probably just one of those darn 'video compression artifacts'.

Nothing to worry about.

An interesting aside... you know how before 9/11 we had all that 'media foreshadowing' (my fave is still this)?

Well what about this tidbit from a 1967 episode of Star Trek...

The Enterprise travels back in time to the contemporary 1960s. It's mentioned that three astronauts are taking part in a manned moon shot on Wednesday. Two years after the episode aired, Apollo 11 blasted off on July 16, 1969 (a Wednesday) carrying three astronauts (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins).

[brianv]

That ... is a creative interpretation of an explosion, indeed. Looks like something made in "instant video game maker" software from the 90's. I think the sprite would be called "jellyfish_bomb".

Well Hoi initially I thought it was a cartoon looney tunes tunnel or a radioactive spaghetti accident... but then I realized it was probably just one of those darn 'video compression artifacts'.

Nothing to worry about.

An interesting aside... you know how before 9/11 we had all that 'media foreshadowing' (my fave is still this)?

Well what about this tidbit from a 1967 episode of Star Trek...

The Enterprise travels back in time to the contemporary 1960s. It's mentioned that three astronauts are taking part in a manned moon shot on Wednesday. Two years after the episode aired, Apollo 11 blasted off on July 16, 1969 (a Wednesday) carrying three astronauts (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins).

I'm currently at S3 E11, woohoo only twelve more episodes.

[Critical Mass]

I'm currently at S3 E11, woohoo only twelve more episodes.

We're at S1E024 next to watch... however we've set ourselves an ambitious task of 'watch 'em all, everything'.

That leaves us 703 episodes to go (plus the movies on top)!

Should last us a couple of years.

[Sukiari]

Though it's not strictly a NASA comedy per se, this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Makuka_Nkoloso is just golden:


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Do3dz9TR0

One thing's for sure: They wasted a lot less money than NASA did.

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[brianv]

^
Cargo cults are marked by a number of common characteristics, including a "myth-dream" that is a synthesis of indigenous and foreign elements; the expectation of help from the ancestors; charismatic leaders; and lastly, belief in the appearance of an abundance of goods.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

"Cargo cult activity in the Pacific region increased significantly during and immediately after World War II, when the residents of these regions observed the Japanese and American combatants bringing in large amounts of material. When the war ended, the military bases closed and the flow of goods and materials ceased. In an attempt to attract further deliveries of goods, followers of the cults engaged in ritualistic practices such as building crude imitation landing strips, aircraft and radio equipment, and mimicking the behaviour that they had observed of the military personnel operating them."

https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve ... _cult.html

[Critical Mass]

NASA telescope aboard giant balloon set for take off

And I thought the Rockoons were stupid.

[simonshack]

And I thought the Rockoons were stupid.

Indeed, CM, indeed...

I was just planning to put together a post of the hilarious "Rockoons" with which, we're told, James Van Allen discovered his belts...





In the meantime, I bumped into their very latest balloon-launched contraption. Meet (what we may call) the "Sauceroon".
NASA says the thing is for delivering large payloads to planet Mars.

"NASA plans to launch the flying saucer from Hawaii as early as this Thursday."


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf-twIwantU

[lux]

A NASA rocket scientist standing in front of the actual “flying saucer” craft shows off the latest in NASA hair net technology as he explains the workings of the craft:



From this video:

full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytt6xCBf7bw

(NASA Mohawk Boy was not available for comment.)

[Critical Mass]

Danish students' space video making NASA history

"This is the most beautiful art I have ever seen," posted Tom Hanks on Twitter.

full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CzBlSXgzqI

If you say so Tom.

[Critical Mass]

I was just planning to put together a post of the hilarious "Rockoons" with which, we're told, James Van Allen discovered his belts...

In the meantime, I bumped into their very latest balloon-launched contraption. Meet (what we may call) the "Sauceroon".

I await your post with anticipation as they and 'sounding rockets' in general seem an interesting (& neglected) area of research.

As perhaps do these Nasa balloons I mean just look at this image...

Doesn't even make sense to forge it... it's a soddin balloon.

full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX95h5r8Xwg

Of course it probably all comes down to the green...

NASA: Huge Science Balloon Crashed Because of Human Complacency

A NASA Mishap Investigation Board has concluded that weather conditions were acceptable for the failed balloon launch on April 29, and there were no technical problems with the balloon or its scientific payload, a $2 million gamma-ray telescope. However, the board identified 25 different human-caused factors that led to the spectacular crash.

[Critical Mass]

Rockoons observe Sun storms from space...


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snxw-FD6bAE