Gone in 20 minutes! Yep, Jean 'Moebius' Giraud helped design the spacesuits in Alien, clothes in Blade Runner etc as well as producing some distinctive comic strips. Möbius Strip being the topological reference. Well done schlaugh, your turn

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Are you a Bright?

OK, two part Apollo question. Who spoke the first words upon the first moon touchdown and what did he say?

Neil Armstrong and "Huston, Tranquility base here, the Eagle has landed" or words to that effect

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nope...the key is "touch"down. And I agree in advance that it may be a semantical nit...

The exact quote from Armstrong was "The Eagle has landed."

Or, if are you referring to the footpad probes, Buzz Aldrin said "Contact light. Okay, engine stop."

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Bingo! Contact light and Aldrin were the answers...

On to you Hydro...

Who was the first candidate of the Women in Space program to pass the physical testing regime?

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Jerrie Cobb?

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Yes indeed, good job!

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not that good, i had to look it up...

Anyway, on to the next question...

Approximately how long a period of the Trojan war does the Iliad cover?

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ten years

Wrong. Ten years is how long it lasted. The Iliad covers just 51 days of it.

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not even that from my info, but 51 days is close enough, your turn

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Apparently 51 days is the timespan, but only a few of those are dealt with in detail.

Which part of which great composition (by whom) was directly influenced by the news of the death of Richard Wagner? What did the change consist of?

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Frank Liszt - La Lugubre Gondola I think

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Dark Comedy Theory. Where c is coffee, s is spew, v is velocity, and w is how much windex used to clean LCD monitor. When I put the sentence through the equation, it unified all 4 forces above. I'm hoping someone here can help me express the precise mathematics into an elegant, simple equation. My next step is to post it in ATM, and then hopefully submit if for refereeing.
-Serenitude

Dang! It's entirely possible you are right, but it's not what I was thinking about. Was this work really modified upon the news of the death or was it's composition begun as a reaction to the news? I don't know.

I suggest people kee trying to find "my" solution: It is a large orchestral work, which was far advanced when the news came. Upon receiving the news, the composer made major changes in a key passage in the work.

If no solution appears, the ball's in your field, of course.

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O.K., hints:

Look towards Austria
the change occurred in a symphony.

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Well, not tho hold things down for too long: Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 7, second movement (Adagio). The coda was changed by taking a much more somber turn employing the tuba quartett Wagner used for his operas.

Easy one:

Who built the first programmable binary computer, when, and where is it now?

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bump

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Not that easy, I had to look it up, sorry

Konrad Zuse, 1941 & a replica of the Z3 is in a museum in Munich? (the Z1 being in Berlin but I don't think it was programmable?).

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Are you a Bright?

Was Roy Correct?

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He was - on to you, Ray.

Sorry for the delay. A few days off wothout real internet access.

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