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Speaking of space... yesterday was the anniversary of Apollo 12's launch. For space junkies it calls back to two famous phrases that's become legend "Try SCE to AUX", and "Steely eyed missle man" This write up explains it: On this day in history, on November 14, 1969, Apollo 12 successfully launched to the Moon. But it wasn’t without a little drama. The weather that day at Cape Canaveral in Florida was overcast with light rain and winds. However, at 11:22 am EST, the spacecraft, carrying astronauts Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon, and Alan Bean, blasted off into the clouds, in a seemingly perfect launch. But thirty-seven seconds into launch, all hell broke loose. "What the hell was that?" asked Gordon. Twenty seconds of confusion ensued, and then another disturbance occurred. "Okay, we just lost the platform gang," reported Conrad, "I don't know what happened here. We had everything in the world drop out." The crew and Mission Control didn't know what had happed, and only later determined the Saturn V rocket had been struck by lighting - twice. Were it not for flight controller John Aaron, the mission might have been aborted. Aaron may be remembered more for being instrumental in helping to save Apollo 13, but the part he played in Apollo 12 was just as crucial. When he saw the unusual telemetry readings from Apollo 12. he remembered a flight simulation that took place about a year earlier. He recalled this simulated anomaly concerned an obscure system called Signal Conditioning Equipment (SCE), and remembered normal reading were restored by putting the SCE on its auxiliary setting, which meant that it would run even under low-voltage conditions. So when he quickly called out the recommendation, "Flight, try SCE to "AUX'", most of his mission control colleagues had no idea what he was talking about. Both the flight director and the CapCom asked him to repeat the recommendation. Conrad was unfamiliar with the control but fortunately Alan Bean was familiar with the location of the SCE switch inside the capsule, and flipped it to auxiliary. Telemetry was immediately restored, allowing the mission to continue. This was just one instance that earned Aaron the compliment of being called a "steely-eyed missile man." the absolute highest of NASA compliments. And even today the phrase "SCE to AUX" used to describe a situation where one narrowly averts a catastrophe by coming up with an ingenious plan. (credit - Universe Today, Nancy Atkinson)

I'd like to know who the voters are because.... that seems like a lot of people and I bet we have some here who have watched more Tigers baseball this year than those voters.

The last multiperson crew still alive is Gemini XII, Lovell and Aldrin. The longevity on these guys is amazing. I'm a space nerd and from the Gemini/Apollo era here is who is left: Tom Stafford (92) Jim Lovell (95) Dave Scott (90) Buzz Aldrin (92) Bill Anders (89) Rusty Schweikart (87) Fred Haise (90 - yesterday was his birthday) Charlie Duke (92) Harrison Schmitt (87) 2 weeks ago we lost Ken Mattingly who was 87. The only ones left who have walked on the moon are Buzz Aldrin, Dave Scott, Charlie Duke, and Harrison Schmitt. I hope they can still be here when we do it again, but I'm not sure. I can see it getting delayed.

Option C... It's worse. They report another org says it but they get what wrong that other org said. This image is from the first tweet in response to what I posted, at least on my machine it is. I didn't post the link because sometimes the formatting hides it.

Funny because I haven't thought of that awarrd in decades but remember it being kind of a big deal as a kid. We would join the pepsi/tiger fan club, all of us in the neighborhood, and go to Tiger Stadium, sometimes by ourselves, (We were ages 8-13). The previous Tiger of the Year would be on one of the first programs. We'd buy one for all of us to share. We would argue over who won.

it's about pulling the ladder up behind you.

this one led to a lot of bull**** I saw on social media from people I know. It's horrifying because I hate to say it, the culture is naive and already sheltered in a bubble based on patriarchal forces and the BBC should be above this.

Blaha is one of those guys who was very old to me in 1989. I am afraid to look up how old he was then because I’m sure it’s a lot younger than I am now.

Some video.

wow... I never really thought about it but on B-R's Tigers page where they show 12 pictures of the leaders by WAR.... Tork is not listed. His .8 didn't make the cut. Reese Olsen, Matt Manning, and Alex Lange beat him out.

"Women are too emotional to be in politics....."

It was the Juan Gonzalez MVP awards of the Tiger of the Year award.

how much of it is also due to migration and surburan and exurban expansion? What used to be farmland is now subdivision after subdivisions of new housing. The people who lived in the cities in 1940 now live in what was "the boonies".

that's true. I am not sure when the change happened but I know in the FSD days the Pistons produced their own games. They bought the time and kept the revenue, it was like an infomercial.

Yes, I saw that. Very cool

A lot of "republicans" think its the smarter party... big business, stocks, money, etc. So they want to identify with that more than identifying with "the gays" and "poor people". Even though they most likely are financially better off with D policies. They are incapable of reconciling that.

They should do what the Pistons used to do in the 80's and early 90's for games on Channel 50, do a simulcast where Blaha's radio feed is used on TV. It's probably one of those weird things where even though we are technically so much more advanced now, something prevents it.

I even if he has national aspirations and got one of the top jobs available does that mean he wouldn’t still do Tigers games? Johnny Miller had the top job at ESPN but still did Orioles and Giants games. He seems pretty active now but I assume a steady gig with one team is still an option he likes or else he’d just keep doing what he is doing now. Is a better national gig going to occupy him more than it is now?

I get it but those people aren’t seeing this language anyway. There’s a desire to condemn it but pundits and nerds like us on message boards have been doing that since 2015. All we are doing is grading an exam that doesn’t count for any transcript or official record.

That’s enforced by voters though. Nobody can or will hold him accountable for saying this.

Unless it changes a vote what does it matter? This doesn’t do anything to change a potential outcome of an election. It’s further confirmation from what we have all known He’s said crazy things his whole life and it didn’t matter.

Politically Hillary’s was worse because it confirmed her potential voters skepticism towards her and I do think people bailed. “See… they think are all low class bums.” It was anti populist. It helped create the Obama/Trump voter. Which was a thing. academically Trumps was worse. But political is what matters. An educated and well thought out vote based on issues and studying is cancelled by someone who “aint voting for no bitch because they they think they are better than us”

These grounds are 12 but the hot and neutrals in the box are 14. It’s a 15 amp circuit. This has me motivated to clean up some other things now.