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Help me see a web page that's blocked in the U.S.

Chinese Jet Pilot — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:46:42 -0800

May I trouble someone in the U.K. to search the BFI download page and store, and tell me if they offer Project Apollo: Manned Flight to the Moon for sale or download? The site doesn't permit access to those pages from the U.S. I'm not looking to commit some kind of international copyright conspiracy; I just really want to see that movie. I'll expand on this question by mentioning that the film's director, Ed Emshwiller, was a noted science fiction illustrator and experimental animator.

Question about D 'n A...

Squid Voltaire — Fri, 12 May 2006 11:16:08 -0800

Iconic Dionysus / Apollonian imagery (i.e., for a tattoo)? I'm looking for clean, nice iconography for Dionysus and / or Apollo, but I'm not having much luck. There are plenty of things that are associated with them (the lyre, wine, &c.) but nothing that seems iconic. If I showed you a perfect circle, for example, you might not say, "Oh, Apollo!" even if I explained that it represented the rising sun...

To put it another way, if you were a devotee of either of those fine fellows, what would you get tattooed on you arm?

Follow up question: There's crescent moon, the reversed swastika, and then Christ has both the cross (best logo evar!) and the fish (which is also nice). Is this sort of easily-recognizable branding a modern (within the last two thousand years) thing for organized relegion? Or have religious orders always had such symbols, but they've been lost in time? Was the Star of David intimately connected with Judaism three thousand years ago?

Where are the 'moon trees' located?

jwells — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 07:18:33 -0800

'Moon trees' were trees grown from seeds that orbited the moon onboard Apollo 14. Two trees were given to each US state to honor the bicentennial festivities in 1976 but no list of locations was kept. Now a NASA scientist is trying to track them down. I'd like to find one in Rhode Island but he's missing quite a few. Anyone know of one not on his list?

Why was the rocket to go to the moon so big? How do they get home?

scarabic — Tue, 18 May 2004 11:06:02 -0800

Something I've never understood. It takes a giant rocket to achieve escape velocity and leave the Earth. The Apollo mission made it all the way to the moon. But in all the pictures I've ever seen, the only thing they've got on the moon is a lander, a small capsule on legs. Where's the rocket they used to get off the moon? How did they get off the moon? I know the moon is much smaller and has almost no atmosphere, but is leaving it really as easy as firing a few booster rockets? Why is the rocket to leave the Earth so much bigger?