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Geek Links: Experience Apollo 50th in Real Time (Or On Your Own Time)


Geek Links are cool stories that we’ve found elsewhere on the internet that we think our readers will love, too. Click through to read:

Want to be fully immersed in this week’s history lessons? Want your kids to see what the big deal is? Want to zone out waiting for voices to crackle to life on a dark screen because you can’t bear to fast forward when it’s supposed to be a “real time” experience (speaking personally)? Go to https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/ and see and hear everything that was sent or recorded between Apollo 11 and Mission Control exactly 50 years ago this minute. Any photos, any videos, anything anyone said into a microphone is displayed for you in real time. You can even switch between soundtracks to focus on one controller or another. Want to focus on the good stuff? You can skip around in time—highlights are marked in the timelines at the top of the screen—straight to the moon itself if you want. Go ahead! Take your seat at NASA and experience history as it is (was) made!

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Amy Weir

Amy M. Weir is a public youth services librarian in SW Pennsylvania, and there’s nothing she geeks out about more. Outside of work she obsesses over music (especially rock especially psychedelic pop especially The Beatles), sews clothes, gardens when the weather’s nice, avoids housework, and generally is the poster-child for Enneatype 9, which she attempts to counteract with yoga when she remembers. Her entire family has ADHD. This includes an RPG-and-firearms-geek husband who asked her out by playing a Paladin-in-Shining-Armor devoted to serving her character in D&D; a vehicles-and-video-game-geek 14yo named after a hobbit; an art-and-animation-geek 12yo named after a SFF writer; and an Imaginary Husband named Martin Freeman, who isn’t actually aware of this relationship.

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