https://pinboard.in/u:jm/public/ recent bookmarks from jm 2024-06-13T09:26:52+00:00 https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/06/death-from-the-skies-musk-edition/ jmSpaceX has dumped 250 pounds of trash on Saskatchewan. Things you don't want coming your way at terminal velocity include an 8 foot, 80 pound tall wall panel shaped like a spear. It turns out that Canada is an entirely other country than Texas, so this is something of an international incident, which Sam Lawler has been documenting in this epic thread over the past few months. ]]> space space-junk saskatchewan canada via:jwz https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3eb57e31d507/ 2024-04-02T11:08:36+00:00 https://github.com/olafurw/opssat-doom jm esa ops-sat-1 doom space hacks via:freqout https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:61180a9e0647/ 2023-08-14T09:06:16+00:00 https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/218496-apollo-11-anniversary-tribute-the-full-mission-flown-in-first-person-view-iva-ksp-rssro/ jm kerbal ksp space apollo-11 apollo moon history video https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1991638db033/ 2022-01-26T12:08:09+00:00 https://www.thespacereview.com/article/873/1 jm[Fedorov's] thought was powerfully shaped by both Orthodox Christianity and Hegelian philosophy. [...] Rather than passively waiting for God to bring on the Millennium, being a good Christian meant participating in the building of heaven on Earth. It was the way in which he expected this to come about that really separated Fedorov from the others. In his thinking there is only one evil in the world that really counts, death. Moreover, rather than being accepted as a part of “the human condition,” part of the human mission is the technological conquest of death. This means not only achieving immortality, but restoring all the people who have ever walked the Earth to life so that they may share the gift as well, making the heaven of the afterlife a physical reality. [...] To help bring the dead back to life, Fedorov believed that humanity would eventually launch expeditions across the cosmos to recover particles that once belonged to their ancestors in order to reconstitute their bodies. Additionally, since Earth would not be big enough to accommodate all of the people who had ever lived at once, room would be found for them on other planets. (via Charlie Stross) ]]> via:cstross rapture nerds singularity futurism posthumanism space biotechnology death immortality life-extension future nikolai-fedorov philosophy religion https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:994b049ed539/ 2021-04-05T21:33:28+00:00 https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/ jm visualization space satellites maps astronomy sky street-view via:lemonodor https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:837f4a5e7db8/ 2020-11-25T10:08:44+00:00 https://www.usgamer.net/articles/half-life-2-episode-two-a-13-year-old-game-gets-new-achievement-for-a-real-life-rocket-launch jmA new achievement called "Gnome Alone" was added to [Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Half-Life: Alyx, and Left 4 Dead 2], and the description sums up exactly what's going on. "If you are reading this achievement, Gabe Newell has successfully launched Gnome Chompski into space. If you did not also receive the achievement 'Manufacturing Ascent', Newell has abandoned his plans to shoot Noam Chomsky into space." ...There's an Amelie-inspired achievement for picking up the gnome at the start of [Half Life 2: Episode Two] and bringing it all the way to the rocket at White Forest Base, an arduous task involving lots of item juggling and repeated cramming of the gnome into a crevice in Episode Two's muscle car. Similar challenges made their way into Alyx and Left 4 Dead 2 as well. ]]> garden-gnomes gnomes funny noam-chomsky achievements games half-life history gabe-newell rockets space https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a726c3dc3437/ 2020-04-05T21:29:34+00:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miura_fold jm via:robby-kraft origami miura-fold miura-ori space folding surfaces paper https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:cc7b6fe72a63/ 2019-12-11T11:26:33+00:00 https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/12/11/elon-musk-spacex-unveil-latest-starlink-plans-creating-an-astronomical-emergency/ jmA responsible entity would address the problems they're actively creating and exacerbating before accelerating their launch schedule. A responsible entity would ask for the approval of all affected parties before proceeding further. A responsible entity would honestly and accurately address the real issues at hand, and would demonstrate that they've listened to communities beyond their own through their actions. On the other hand, an exploitative entity would pay lip service to the communities they affect while continuing to actively harm them. They would ramp up their launch schedule. They would continue to send up offensive, unaltered satellites while putting minimal effort into solving problems that have been raised. They would invite consultants, but would squash any objectionable voices. They would distort the truth about concerns that have been raised. They would put their business interests — such as lucrative potential government contracts — ahead of any human interests. And they would deflect criticism by running PR campaigns that draw attention away from the real issues. ]]> starlink elon-musk light pollution astronomy science space https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:035556b5980f/ 2019-07-22T09:28:56+00:00 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1152277166996017152.html jm space zero-g gravity peeing bodily-functions funny shit https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8d9a8d085be6/ 2019-06-12T11:21:18+00:00 http://tabletopwhale.com/2019/06/10/the-solar-system.html jmThis week’s map shows the orbits of more than 18000 asteroids in the solar system. This includes everything we know of that’s over 10km in diameter - about 10000 asteroids - as well as 8000 randomized objects of unknown size. This map shows each asteroid at its exact position on New Years’ Eve 1999. All of the data for this map is shared by NASA and open to the public. Really lovely stuff!]]> astronomy dataviz map space visualization asteroids planets posters moons solar-system https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0a1f023e72f3/ 2019-04-12T12:40:32+00:00 https://www.nap.edu/read/23659/chapter/10#39 jmThe computation must be done autonomously, in a fraction of a second. Failure to find a feasible solution in time will crash the spacecraft into the ground. Failure to find the optimal solution may use up the available propellant, with the same result. Finally, a hardware failure may require replanning the trajectory multiple times. Page 39 Suggested Citation:"Autonomous Precision Landing of Space Rockets - Lars Blackmore." National Academy of Engineering. 2017. Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2016 Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23659. × Save Cancel A general solution to such problems has existed in one dimension since the 1960s (Meditch 1964), but not in three dimensions. Over the past decade, research has shown how to use modern mathematical optimization techniques to solve this problem for a Mars landing, with guarantees that the best solution can be found in time (Açikmeşe and Ploen 2007; Blackmore et al. 2010). Because Earth’s atmosphere is 100 times as dense as that of Mars, aerodynamic forces become the primary concern rather than a disturbance so small that it can be neglected in the trajectory planning phase. As a result, Earth landing is a very different problem, but SpaceX and Blue Origin have shown that this too can be solved. SpaceX uses CVXGEN (Mattingley and Boyd 2012) to generate customized flight code, which enables very high-speed onboard convex optimization. ]]> spacex blue-origin convex-optimization space landing autonomous-vehicles flight algorithms https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:183e320f645a/ 2019-03-21T17:20:36+00:00 https://www.apollopresskits.com/ jmPress kits prepared by the public relations staff at the major contractors for the Apollo 11 mission provided valuable additional information not found in NASA issued news releases. Reporters and editors from media outlets including television and newspapers had access to such documents from dozens of manufacturers while working on stories about the first lunar landing. These press kits are beautifully prepared, with stunning artwork and fascinating period photographs. It's taken me fifteen years of collecting to amass what I believe to be the most complete collection of Apollo 11 press kits in the world. I'm always on the hunt for more, so please contact me if you have any. Now, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, I've digitized my collection to make it available to scholars, marketers, Apollo buffs, and fans of graphic design.  ]]> apollo nasa history space spacecraft press 1960s https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8380a744e371/ 2018-03-30T20:58:18+00:00 https://medium.com/planet-stories/earths-wonders-like-you-ve-never-seen-them-before-ac9e2f39aa56 jm via:kokogiak pics photos satellite mapping earth space wonders oblique https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fc11f53766f7/ 2018-03-13T21:38:45+00:00 https://www.universetoday.com/138791/7-scott-kellys-genes-changed-year-space/ jmThe study took into account possible genomic and cognitive changes between the two [twin] brothers. These findings were recently clarified by NASA, which indicated that 93% of Scott Kelly’s genes returned to normal after he returned to Earth while the remaining 7% points were missing. These were attributed to “longer-term changes in genes related to his immune system, DNA repair, bone formation networks, hypoxia, and hypercapnia.” In other words, in addition to the well-documented effects of microgravity – such as muscle atrophy, bone density loss and loss of eyesight – Scott Kelly also experienced health effect caused by a deficiency in the amount of oxygen that was able to make it to his tissues, an excess of CO2 in his tissues, and long-term effects in how his body is able to maintain and repair itself. ]]> nasa space iss spaceflight scott-kelly zero-gravity future microgravity health via:elliot https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b7a93d628ae4/ 2018-01-25T10:58:28+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/24/16926426/rocket-lab-humanity-star-secret-satellite-electron-test-launch jmShaped a bit like a disco ball, the Humanity Star is a 3-foot-wide carbon fiber sphere, made up of 65 panels that reflect the Sun’s light. The satellite is supposed to spin in space, too, so it’s constantly bouncing sunlight. In fact, the probe is so bright that people can see it with the naked eye. The Humanity Star’s orbit also takes it all over Earth, so the satellite will be visible from every location on the planet at different times. Rocket Lab has set up a website that gives real-time updates about the Humanity Star’s location. People can find out when the satellite will be closest to them, and then go outside to look for it. The goal of the project is to create “a shared experience for all of humanity,” according to Rocket Lab. ]]> rocket-lab disco-balls satellites humanity-star orbit space https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e59fe56dee83/ 2017-08-17T15:10:53+00:00 http://fuckyeahfluiddynamics.tumblr.com/post/164293348917/if-youve-ever-watched-a-rocket-launch-youve jmIf you’ve ever watched a rocket launch, you’ve probably noticed the billowing clouds around the launch pad during lift-off. What you’re seeing is not actually the rocket’s exhaust but the result of a launch pad and vehicle protection system known in NASA parlance as the Sound Suppression Water System. Exhaust gases from a rocket typically exit at a pressure higher than the ambient atmosphere, which generates shock waves and lots of turbulent mixing between the exhaust and the air. Put differently, launch ignition is incredibly loud, loud enough to cause structural damage to the launchpad and, via reflection, the vehicle and its contents. To mitigate this problem, launch operators use a massive water injection system that pours about 3.5 times as much water as rocket propellant per second. This significantly reduces the noise levels on the launchpad and vehicle and also helps protect the infrastructure from heat damage. ]]> water rockets launch nasa space sound-suppression sound science https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:204e2f8b3d74/ 2017-07-11T11:08:20+00:00 https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/eclipse/ jm eclipse space maps science infographic solar-eclipse sun https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5853cd8d6061/ 2017-04-13T21:22:48+00:00 https://www.flickr.com/photos/modern_fred/sets/72157632022032830/ jm space-1999 space futurism 1970s tv retro scifi https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8ca143fe65cc/ 2017-03-31T11:12:18+00:00 https://emptysqua.re/blog/who-broke-the-challenger-investigation/ jm richard-feynman sally-ride history space challenger o-rings science engineering nasa https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:73e14c2d6471/ 2017-01-10T11:28:04+00:00 https://meh.com/forum/topics/building-the-plane-on-the-way-up jmin 1977, Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) scientists packed a Reed-Solomon encoder in each Voyager, hardware designed to add error-correcting bits to all data beamed back at a rate of efficiency 80 percent higher than an older method also included with Voyager. Where did the hope come in? When the Voyager probes were launched with Reed-Solomon encoders on board, no Reed-Solomon decoders existed on Earth. ]]> reed-solomon encoding error-correction voyager vger history space nasa probes signalling https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a7ad91ea3e43/ 2016-11-03T22:09:13+00:00 https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/5aw6nh/probably_the_prettiest_picture_of_saturn_ever/d9jyxek/ jmIn short, the answer to the question “is this what it would look like if I was there?” is almost always no, but that is true of every photograph. The photos taken from space cameras are no more fake or false than the photos taken from any camera. Like all photos they are a visual interpretation using color to display data. Most space photos have information online about how they were created, what filters were used, and all kinds of interesting details about processing. The discussion about whether a space photo is real or fake is meaningless. There's no distinction between photoshopped and not. It's a nuanced view but the nature of the situation demands it. ]]> photography photos space cassini probes cameras light wavelengths science vision realism real https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c7c74a394c8d/ 2016-10-02T09:11:41+00:00 http://rosettaproject.org/blog/02008/aug/20/very-long-term-backup/ jm So assuming the mission continues well, in 2014 the Rosetta Probe will land on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, where it will measure the comet's molecular composition. Then it will remain at rest as the comet orbits the sun for hundreds of millions of years. So somewhere in the solar system, where it is safe but hard to reach, a backup sample of human languages is stored, in case we need one. As jwz says: 'The Rosetta Disc is now safely installed on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.' ]]> rosetta long-now history language comets solar-system space https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f67031f022a2/ 2016-07-11T09:54:07+00:00 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-mysterious-syndrome-impairing-astronauts-eyesight/2016/07/09/f20fb9a6-41f1-11e6-88d0-6adee48be8bc_story.html?postshare=6431468189274709&tid=ss_tw-bottom jmVisual impairment intracranial pressure syndrome (VIIP) is named for the leading theory to explain it. On Earth, gravity pulls bodily fluids down toward the feet. That doesn’t happen in space, and it is thought that extra fluid in the skull increases pressure on the brain and the back of the eye. ]]> viip sight eyes space zero-gravity health https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f266f3052817/ 2016-07-08T09:26:26+00:00 https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/issues/3 jm'A customer has had a fairly serious problem with stirring the cryogenic tanks with a circuit fault present. To reproduce: Build CSM; Perform mission up to translunar coast; During translunar coast, attempt to stir cryo tanks If a wiring fault exists, the issue may be replicated. Be aware that this may be hazardous to the tester attempting it.' Sample response: 'Does it happens only with translunar coast (sol-3-a), or any moon coasting? It may be a problem with the moon. Just trying to narrow down the issue.' ]]> lol funny apollo apollo-11 apollo-13 agc history space github https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0c73b9850a12/ 2016-01-29T14:46:10+00:00 https://medium.com/@leeked/apollo-11-mission-on-technical-debt-bf1658f05dc7#.yykxyuk4n jm hacks technical-debt backlog prioritisation project-management apollo space history https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:52bcd9d6ace9/ 2015-11-16T15:21:32+00:00 http://boingboing.net/2015/11/16/our-generation-ships-will-sink.html jm earth future kim-stanley-robinson sf space https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:097e4c6d7d2d/ 2015-09-14T04:59:14+00:00 http://michaelkagan.com/prints.html jm paintings prints art michael-kagan space abstract-art tobuy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0b0d1f2981f7/ 2015-03-18T17:33:26+00:00 https://medium.com/matter/mars-one-insider-quits-dangerously-flawed-project-2dfef95217d3 jmSo, here are the facts as we understand them: Mars One has almost no money. Mars One has no contracts with private aerospace suppliers who are building technology for future deep-space missions. Mars One has no TV production partner. Mars One has no publicly known investment partnerships with major brands. Mars One has no plans for a training facility where its candidates would prepare themselves. Mars One’s candidates have been vetted by a single person, in a 10-minute Skype interview. “My nightmare about it is that people continue to support it and give it money and attention, and it then gets to the point where it inevitably falls on its face,” said Roche. If, as a result, “people lose faith in NASA and possibly even in scientists, then that’s the polar opposite of what I’m about. If I was somehow linked to something that could do damage to the public perception of science, that is my nightmare scenario.” ]]> science space mars-one tcd joseph-roche nasa mars exploration scams https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f160eb998643/ 2014-10-06T10:00:16+00:00 http://www.betabrand.com/mens-white-thermal-space-jacket.html jm space clothing fashion geekery jackets https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b340c64f929f/ 2014-07-21T13:56:11+00:00 http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/flowers-in-space-azuma-makoto-exobiotanica/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1& jmthough the vessel was found on the ground, the flowers were not. ]]> japan art bonsai flowers space nevada black-rock-desert exobiotanica https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4dafdbf0045f/ 2014-07-01T09:49:58+00:00 http://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-is-the-actual-hack-that-saved-the-astronauts-of-th-1598385593 jm apollo history space duct-tape hacks fixing via:johnke https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:51a8c2175ed4/ 2014-04-28T10:09:34+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P12r8DKHsak&t=20s jm core-memory memory rope-core guidance apollo space nasa history 1960s via:hn https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3ccb23299279/ 2014-04-08T21:35:05+00:00 http://www.reddit.com/r/picrequests/comments/1w8edr/very_high_resolution_scans_of_original_apollo_11/ jm apollo space history memorabilia images scans science nasa https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f2d350b7e8f9/ 2014-03-11T21:45:52+00:00 http://burritojustice.com/2014/03/07/goodnight-clock/ jm goodnight-moon moon space time space-elevators childrens-books books physics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:478a8600b529/ 2014-01-31T17:50:18+00:00 http://store.steampowered.com/app/253790/ jmrymdkapsel is a game where you take command of a space station and its minions. You will have to plan your expansion and manage your resources to explore the galaxy. recommended by JK.]]> steam games recommended space gaming https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6ea1e2421751/ 2014-01-24T21:25:28+00:00 http://sux4j.di.unimi.it/ jmSome basic succinct data structures. [...] The main highlights are: a novel, broadword-based implementation of rank/select queries for up to 264 bits that is highly competitive with known 32-bit implementations on 64-bit architectures (additional space required is 25% for ranking and 12.5%-37.5% for selection); several Java structures using the Elias–Fano representation of monotone sequences for storing pointers, variable-length bit arrays, etc. Java code implementing minimal perfect hashing using around 2.68 bits per element (also using some broadword ideas); a few Java implementations of monotone minimal perfect hashing. Sux is free software distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. ]]> sux succinct data-structures bits compression space coding https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1a043c48db06/ 2014-01-13T12:49:08+00:00 https://twitter.com/HistoricalPics/status/422125922641518592/photo/1 jm poo turds space spaceflight funny history apollo-10 apollo accidents https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9f0cdd8ab9be/ 2014-01-09T10:48:58+00:00 http://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/life-on-mars-irish-man-signs-up-for-colony-mission-1.1648449 jmLast week, a private space exploration company called Mars One announced that it has shortlisted 1,058 people from 200,000 applicants who wanted to travel to Mars. Roche is the only Irishman on the list. The catch? If he goes, he can never come back. Mad stuff. Works at the Science Gallery, so a co-worker of a friend, to boot ]]> science-gallery dublin ireland mars-one mars one-way-trips exploration future space science joseph-roche https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8de4bba6180d/ 2013-12-07T21:46:33+00:00 http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/building-a-balanced-universe jm eve eve-online algorithms 3d space load-balancing sharding games https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b7fed5c2e0e6/ 2013-10-28T22:57:17+00:00 http://lwn.net/Articles/567288/ jmPlanetary Resources is a company with a sky-high (some might claim "pie in the sky") goal: to find and mine asteroids for useful minerals and other compounds. It is also a company that uses Linux and lots of free software. So two of the engineers from Planetary Resources, Ray Ramadorai and Marc Allen, gave a presentation at LinuxCon North America to describe how and why the company uses FOSS—along with a bit about what it is trying to do overall. ]]> lwn mining planets asteroids space linux foss open-source https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9c5f3bfdb17a/ 2013-06-20T10:32:05+00:00 http://deniszh.blogspot.ie/2012/02/project-voldemort.html jm voldemort cleaner bdb ops space storage monitoring debug https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:87036466f7ec/ 2013-03-24T20:27:32+00:00 http://lwn.net/Articles/540368/ jm To make software more visible, you need to know what it is doing, he said, which means creating "metrics on everything you can think of".... Those metrics should cover areas like performance, network utilization, CPU load, and so on. The metrics gathered, whether from testing or real-world use, should be stored as it is "incredibly valuable" to be able to go back through them, he said. For his systems, telemetry data is stored with the program metrics, as is the version of all of the code running so that everything can be reproduced if needed. SpaceX has programs to parse the metrics data and raise an alarm when "something goes bad". It is important to automate that, Rose said, because forcing a human to do it "would suck". The same programs run on the data whether it is generated from a developer's test, from a run on the spacecraft, or from a mission. Any failures should be seen as an opportunity to add new metrics. It takes a while to "get into the rhythm" of doing so, but it is "very useful". He likes to "geek out on error reporting", using tools like libSegFault and ftrace. Automation is important, and continuous integration is "very valuable", Rose said. He suggested building for every platform all of the time, even for "things you don't use any more". SpaceX does that and has found interesting problems when building unused code. Unit tests are run from the continuous integration system any time the code changes. "Everyone here has 100% unit test coverage", he joked, but running whatever tests are available, and creating new ones is useful. When he worked on video games, they had a test to just "warp" the character to random locations in a level and had it look in the four directions, which regularly found problems. "Automate process processes", he said. Things like coding standards, static analysis, spaces vs. tabs, or detecting the use of Emacs should be done automatically. SpaceX has a complicated process where changes cannot be made without tickets, code review, signoffs, and so forth, but all of that is checked automatically. If static analysis is part of the workflow, make it such that the code will not build unless it passes that analysis step. When the build fails, it should "fail loudly" with a "monitor that starts flashing red" and email to everyone on the team. When that happens, you should "respond immediately" to fix the problem. In his team, they have a full-size Justin Bieber cutout that gets placed facing the team member who broke the build. They found that "100% of software engineers don't like Justin Bieber", and will work quickly to fix the build problem. ]]> spacex dev coding metrics deplyment production space justin-bieber https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:52a0eddc3d9e/ 2013-02-07T17:05:49+00:00 https://dpwf7uc3ns479.cloudfront.net/newbie-guide-final-2013.pdf jm eve-online space goonswarm gaming mmo pdf pulp science-fiction https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:172457faa66a/ 2012-09-07T14:55:10+00:00 http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674taissumani_sept._7/ jm No, I am not a conspiracy theorist who believes that Armstrong’s moon landing was faked at some mysterious location in the Nevada desert. Armstrong reached the moon. But his accolades are undeserved because he was not first. All right-thinking Nunavummiut know this, because we know that Inuit regularly visited the moon for centuries. David Iqaqrialu said as much in a heated exchange in the Nunavut legislature on May 6, 2002. We know it was heated because he prefaced his remarks by telling the Speaker, “I am starting to get hot under the collar...” He then went on to say, as reported in Hansard, “...it is not really related to the question that I posed, but this is background material. 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