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Post by greigdempsey on Jan 5, 2007 13:23:16 GMT -4
If you are too lazy to spend three seconds to put up a link, don't expect me to search through a whole thread of arguments by totally unqualified people.
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Post by Jason Thompson on Jan 5, 2007 13:24:56 GMT -4
If you are so lazy as to expect everyone to have links don't bother. I got the information from a book. Actually a number of books. I don't have the books to hand so I cannot post the titles or who wrote them.
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Post by LunarOrbit on Jan 5, 2007 13:26:54 GMT -4
If you are too lazy to spend three seconds to put up a link, don't expect me to search through a whole thread of arguments by totally unqualified people. The link is already in the address bar of your browser: it is this very thread. Start here.
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Post by Apollo Gnomon on Jan 5, 2007 13:40:15 GMT -4
Haven't you read this thread? No I haven't and have no intention of doing so. Troll. Troglodite.
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Post by greigdempsey on Jan 5, 2007 13:40:37 GMT -4
If you are too lazy to spend three seconds to put up a link, don't expect me to search through a whole thread of arguments by totally unqualified people. The link is already in the address bar of your browser: it is this very thread. Start here. Thanks, but it was the incorrect use of the word contingincies and the total irrelevance to what the expert said that made me reply the way I did. Irrelevance is the wrong word, misunderstanding the point is closer.
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Post by LunarOrbit on Jan 5, 2007 14:05:40 GMT -4
The link is already in the address bar of your browser: it is this very thread. Start here. Thanks, but it was the incorrect use of the word contingincies and the total irrelevance to what the expert said that made me reply the way I did. Irrelevance is the wrong word, misunderstanding the point is closer. From Merriam-Webster: Main Entry: con·tin·gen·cyPronunciation: k&n-'tin-j&n(t)-sE Function: nounInflected Form(s): plural -cies1 : the quality or state of being contingent2 : a contingent event or condition: as a : an event (as an emergency) that may but is not certain to occur <trying to provide for every contingency> b : something liable to happen as an adjunct to or result of something else Here is what you were responding to: No-one is denying the luck element in Apollo, but they weren't just shooting people off into space and hoping for the best. They had contingencies just in case to reduce the damage done by solar events. In what way was Jason Thompson misusing the word "contingencies"? NASA had procedures in place in the event that a solar event was detected and determined to be a hazard for the astronauts. Do you have a specific problem with that?
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Post by Apollo Gnomon on Jan 5, 2007 14:09:49 GMT -4
Contingency planning prevents incontinence.
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Post by greigdempsey on Jan 5, 2007 14:23:16 GMT -4
Thanks, but it was the incorrect use of the word contingincies and the total irrelevance to what the expert said that made me reply the way I did. Irrelevance is the wrong word, misunderstanding the point is closer. From Merriam-Webster: Main Entry: con·tin·gen·cyPronunciation: k&n-'tin-j&n(t)-sE Function: nounInflected Form(s): plural -cies1 : the quality or state of being contingent2 : a contingent event or condition: as a : an event (as an emergency) that may but is not certain to occur <trying to provide for every contingency> b : something liable to happen as an adjunct to or result of something else Here is what you were responding to: No-one is denying the luck element in Apollo, but they weren't just shooting people off into space and hoping for the best. They had contingencies just in case to reduce the damage done by solar events. In what way was Jason Thompson misusing the word "contingencies"? NASA had procedures in place in the event that a solar event was detected and determined to be a hazard for the astronauts. Do you have a specific problem with that? I do, he said solar events, not flares. Solar events are continuous. Also Mr Lane reckons the moon is sufficiently hostile without making reference to solar flares and I still don't know what the contingencies were. It's also worth pointing out that a large part of Apollo was Americans bumming about their wonderful technology. As the isssue in question is whether NASA landed men on the moon, any claims for that technology are inadmissable because it is from one of the defendants. The US government actually paid for American TV programmes to be broadcast worldwide at massive discounts that gave a positive view of American society. Trailer parks, people sleeping rough and work weren't included.
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Post by hplasm on Jan 5, 2007 14:31:55 GMT -4
I do, he said solar events, not flares. Solar events are continuous. Care to explain this - with your relevant qualifications to do so, of course?
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Post by AtomicDog on Jan 5, 2007 14:32:45 GMT -4
greig's Anti-American slam having nothing to do with the question of Apollo, noted.
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Post by greigdempsey on Jan 5, 2007 14:35:49 GMT -4
I do, he said solar events, not flares. Solar events are continuous. Care to explain this - with your relevant qualifications to do so, of course? Events are continuous. Events like the emission of charged particles, alpha, beta and gamma radiation.
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Post by greigdempsey on Jan 5, 2007 14:38:51 GMT -4
greig's Anti-American slam having nothing to do with the question of Apollo, noted. It certanly did and I explained why and it wasn't a slam it is a fact. NASA films of Apollo I have seen extoll the virtues of American technolgy That is to be expected.
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Post by Apollo Gnomon on Jan 5, 2007 15:11:56 GMT -4
Well, they tried to do it with polynesian technology, but the reeds couldn't take the acceleration of launch. So it was either American technology or Fairy Magic, which is an order of magnitude more expensive.
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Post by hplasm on Jan 5, 2007 15:13:15 GMT -4
Care to explain this - with your relevant qualifications to do so, of course? Events are continuous. Events like the emission of charged particles, alpha, beta and gamma radiation. Surely they would not count as 'events' then, but the norm, if they are continuous?
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Post by twinstead on Jan 5, 2007 15:18:09 GMT -4
As usual, It doesn't take long in ANY discussion on this particular subject for a certain deep-seated distrust or hatred of America to come out.
It is a trait of many Apollo HBs and almost universal in non American HBs. They deny it, but those of us who have read these debates on this board and many more know otherwise.
I wonder why that is?
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