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NASA – Apollo40.
When delays with the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) threatened to slow the program (which was trying to meet JFK’s audacious goal of putting a man on the moon ‘before decade’s end’) NASA decided to rewrite several mission plans and sent Apollo 8 on a circumnavigation of the moon (without the LEM) on the first manned launch of the Saturn V rocket.
Tags: goals, science
“Those thinking that online social networking is a substitute for face-to-face interactions might want to think again. Recent research in psychology suggests there are some benefits to real-life socializing that the Internet just can’t provide; researchers at Stanford University have published a report in Psychological Science called “Synchrony and Cooperation” that indicates engaging in synchronous activities (e.g., marching, singing, dancing) strengthens social attachments and enables cooperation”
via Asynchrony in social networking could spell trouble | Technimentis.
Tags: science, thinking
Man adapts by conquering the reducible; the irreducible is impregnable.
W.Ross Ashby
The W. Ross Ashby Digital Archive – Aphorisms
Tags: Add new tag, cybernetics, knowledge
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