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Post by ShowCon on Nov 19, 2005 14:47:07 GMT -4
Gang,
As has been said many times on this board, the posts refuting HB claims have the added benefit of increasing the knowledge of the other members of the board. Almost every day I learn something new.
Just in the past few days of Moon Man's posts, I've learned the following things:
-The LRV used a wax-like phase-change material for thermal control of the batteries.
-The CM could use a skip reentry to control its landing point.
-The LM batteries were repositioned in the descent stage of the J-mission LMs to allow the addition of a water tank and the LRV.
-Just today I learned that the PLSS had a backup oxygen supply that could be used in an emergency.
What did you learn today?
Doug
...and a big 'thank you' to all whose posts make this board such a great source of information.
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politik
Venus
on a crusade against ignorance
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Post by politik on Nov 19, 2005 16:40:52 GMT -4
I learned ignorance is bliss.
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Post by tofu on Nov 19, 2005 16:46:55 GMT -4
I really liked your (showcon) post about the history of the LM; how they started with fixed gear. I saw a very interesting post by sts60 over on BAUT www.bautforum.com/showthread.php?t=34711&page=53about a satellite failing to make orbital velocity. yikes!
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Post by ottawan on Nov 19, 2005 18:25:24 GMT -4
Welcome to the real world fellow posters!
Those of us who lived through the reality of the Apollo landings will always have those memories.
The HB's, none of whom were alive back then, can only spout crap about what they do not, and WILL not understand.
More power to those that debunk . . . . . and Godspeed to those that accomplish.
I rest my case.
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Post by hplasm on Nov 19, 2005 22:01:52 GMT -4
MoonMan really needs to change his bongwater.
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lonewulf
Earth
Humanistic Cyborg
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Post by lonewulf on Nov 19, 2005 22:07:05 GMT -4
bongwater? What's that?
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Post by Retrograde on Nov 19, 2005 22:45:06 GMT -4
That would be the water in his bong.
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lonewulf
Earth
Humanistic Cyborg
Posts: 244
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Post by lonewulf on Nov 19, 2005 22:45:55 GMT -4
Ah I need sleep
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Post by agingjb on Nov 21, 2005 5:09:00 GMT -4
I learnt that the (plasma in the) interplanetary medium is at an estimated temperature of 100,000K. "Tell the young people today that, and they won't believe you." ref: www.nineplanets.org/medium.html
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Post by stutefish on Feb 16, 2006 19:17:41 GMT -4
Over the last week or so since I have found this board, I have learned:
(kickin' it mad HB bullet-point style)
+ That the Moon is a significant source of gamma rays, compared to the Sun. + That even so, the Moon is still not a significant source of gamma rays over the duration of an Apollo mission. + That gamma rays are the product of cosmic ray impacts on the lunar regolith. + That there was a cameraman in charge of remotely controlling the videocamera that filmed the launch of the AMs for Apollos 15, 16, and 17. + That even thought his cameraman rehearsed the procedure repeatedly beforehand, and even though the parameters of the shoot were well known, it still took everybody three tries to get it right. + That Al Bean (allegedly) claims it was a reflection off the LM that ruined Apollo 12's color videocamera. + That the camera didn't even have a lens cap. [1] + That Neil Armstrong's copilot wasn't just some guy named "Buzz", but rather Doctor Aldrin of MIT, one of the world's formost experts in the totally novel field of orbital rendezvous using simple tools. + That the Apollo crews (both ground crew and astronauts) made a lot of jokes, but that their humor was mostly very dry, very subtle, very in-joke. + That the Apollo lunar samples are anhydrous, and that this condition is at present unkown in any earth rock samples. + That the Canadarm is the most important part of the Space Shuttle.[2] + That this board has the most bizarre quotation system I have ever seen.
[1] I understand Jay's argument that this is no excuse. I am, however, firmly in the camp that you don't send a guy to the Moon in one of the most bold, dangerous, and daring endeavors in human history, and then tell him "on top of everything else, remember not to point this camera towards the sun". Doesn't the guy already have enough on his mind, without having to manually and painstakingly--and continuously!--solve a problem that could've been solved trivially with a lens cap? It's not even like they needed advanced robotics to take that problem off the Astronaut's hands.
[2] Okay, not really.
EDIT: To pretty up the formatting a bit, add footnote [2], and capitalize "Sun" in the first bullet-point.
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Post by jovianmoon on Feb 17, 2006 2:55:53 GMT -4
Aside from the vast amount of information relating to the Apollo program imparted by Jay, sts60, Bob B. PeterB. and many others, I have also learned (and relearned) that stargazer, MoonMan and margamatix wouldn't be able to recognise a rational argument if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a piano singing "Rational arguments are here again". (with apologies to Ben Elton - scriptwriter for Blackadder) Cheers.
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Post by Obviousman on Feb 17, 2006 6:01:51 GMT -4
The amount of stuff I learn is just too numerous to list.
The people whose knowledge I draw on are too many too list.
Thanks to everyone - just keep on posting...
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Post by sts60 on Feb 17, 2006 9:57:59 GMT -4
I learned that fanatical Apollo Believers and paid government debunkers (many of whom are the same person, and none of whom actually work as engineers) are too [ stupid | blind | ignorant | insane | evil ] to see the great/obvious/glaring errors/whistleblows in the Apollo imagery, and that the rest of the record is faked, including any history or science book which tends to confirm Apollo, even if it was printed before the Space Race began, and that the Cold War was a sham and any government, NGO, or individual who claimed to track Apollo to, from, or on the Moon is [ lying | deluded | ignorant | stupid | insane ] (as are all the physicists, engineers, and historians).
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Post by BertL on Feb 17, 2006 11:25:04 GMT -4
[...] stargazer, MoonMan and margamatix wouldn't be able to recognise a rational argument if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a piano singing "Rational arguments are here again". (with apologies to Ben Elton - scriptwriter for Blackadder) Cheers. That's because they would turn their heads away so they can't see it. Besides, we all know rational arguments can't sing. ;D
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Post by dwight on Feb 17, 2006 11:29:41 GMT -4
I learnt, by pure accident, that Stargazer will come to this site, log on, then log off a few minutes later. He will then re-log on and subsequently log off again. Somewhere in this musical chairs scenario he will post a reponse, and then log off again. Several minutes later he'll log on then off again. It was a bizarre thing to watch.
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