Satellites: Servants In The Sky (1977)
Added 2021-11-30 14:54:37 +0000 UTCThis very faded and abused 16mm reel is definitely dated, and would be considered today by some to be rather Colonialist in tone, but if you scan through the more cringe-worthy narration it does have some really good footage on Landsat and communication satellites of the late 1970's. So.... Welcome to the last class on Friday - the projector is set up - Hey... We're watching a movie!!!! Enjoy!
Comments
But no the earth is flat! LOL Man, how is the USA going backwards?
doug johnson
2021-12-03 11:17:44 +0000 UTCThere was no mention of satellites used for spying on the USSR, or the garbage satellites that simply die and we had no disposal plans for. They seem to think that satellites were plentiful and capable of helping the most disadvantaged people of the Earth. Well, here we are in 2021. There are countless satellites out there providing everything from GPS, to Dish Network, to Google Earth and beyond. But those disadvantaged people shown in the film are STILL disadvantaged even with the Internet slowly creeping in. Satellite deployment has been so successful that now we have hundreds of them out there trying their best not to crash into each other. A bunch of them are inoperable and now space junk we have to keep track of. Now that the US, China and Russia have successfully blown up satellites from Earth we all know we can do it with little regard for the space debris that results. They are "servants" in the sky until they don't work any longer. Now it has switched to the USAF Space Command to be "servants" to the satellites as we have to keep track of, and move satellites because there is so much space debris. I once saw a picture of a Space Shuttle windshield with a HUGE conical impact crater that they eventually attributed to a piece of paint that was orbiting the Earth at an ungodly velocity. That's a piece of paint. What would a rivet, or shard of metal do? I have to hand it to the company that made those space shuttle windshields. Hey, can you call that windshield replacement company that comes to your car to come up to lower earth orbit and replace a space shuttle windshield? And insurance pays for it? I guess they're glad all the shuttles are retired.
Matt Wietlispach
2021-12-01 03:39:28 +0000 UTCKom mit me iff u vant to liff.
lohphat
2021-12-01 01:18:51 +0000 UTCServants. Right. That's what we thought about SkyNet.
BobC
2021-11-30 21:38:13 +0000 UTC
