Post by wadefrazier3 on Oct 4, 2009 14:26:52 GMT -4
I hope to re-edit my site one day, which will include the Apollo section, and I may change my phrasing a little, but word-parsing my flying bedstead presentation right now has little interest for me.
I can’t recall what forum it was in, but years ago, somebody took to task my statement of throwing the wrong switch during Apollo 10, causing the LM to spin wildly. My point was how vulnerable the missions were to human error. The rebuttal to my writings was that the pilot threw the right switch, according to the manual, but the manual was wrong, so he really threw the wrong switch, but not because of pilot error, but due to manual-writer error. What a quibble.
So Armstrong crashed it because it ran out of fuel (he does not own any part of that?), not due to flying error. Again, if I ever get to re-editing my site, I may revise some of the language regarding that situation, but it works for me as it is.
I am at least 99% certain that that the moon landings happened as presented, but stuff like landing a few feet away from a crater’s rim on Apollo 12 (which gave a nice porch-front view of Surveyor 3) can give one pause. If a leg had landed in that crater, they may not have been able to take off. It was only the second LM landing, and they were not concerned about landing next to a crater rim, or they were so expert that they could thread that needle? Again, it is a situation that can make one think.
I have been open to evidence that the moon landings were faked, but whenever I am approached, the claimants always recycle the same tired old mine tailings, and I send them to this forum. My doubt is vanishingly small, but until I go to the moon myself, some small doubt will remain, similar to O’Leary’s. Again, lots has been faked and covered up regarding public events, but the moon landings themselves (such as we really landed men on the moon with rocket technology) do not appear to be one of those instances.
I can’t recall what forum it was in, but years ago, somebody took to task my statement of throwing the wrong switch during Apollo 10, causing the LM to spin wildly. My point was how vulnerable the missions were to human error. The rebuttal to my writings was that the pilot threw the right switch, according to the manual, but the manual was wrong, so he really threw the wrong switch, but not because of pilot error, but due to manual-writer error. What a quibble.
So Armstrong crashed it because it ran out of fuel (he does not own any part of that?), not due to flying error. Again, if I ever get to re-editing my site, I may revise some of the language regarding that situation, but it works for me as it is.
I am at least 99% certain that that the moon landings happened as presented, but stuff like landing a few feet away from a crater’s rim on Apollo 12 (which gave a nice porch-front view of Surveyor 3) can give one pause. If a leg had landed in that crater, they may not have been able to take off. It was only the second LM landing, and they were not concerned about landing next to a crater rim, or they were so expert that they could thread that needle? Again, it is a situation that can make one think.
I have been open to evidence that the moon landings were faked, but whenever I am approached, the claimants always recycle the same tired old mine tailings, and I send them to this forum. My doubt is vanishingly small, but until I go to the moon myself, some small doubt will remain, similar to O’Leary’s. Again, lots has been faked and covered up regarding public events, but the moon landings themselves (such as we really landed men on the moon with rocket technology) do not appear to be one of those instances.