HB Quote of the Day

[brotherofthemoon]

Try to avoid posting anything you read on this forum.

Today I learned something new. The idea that we landed on the "god damn moon" is "ludacris" because The computer on the "LEM" wasn't powerful enough to "send live video, and many other things."

there is no way in hell we landed on the god damn moon that is ludacris, if we did we would be there right now, if we did we would be heading to mars right now. but were not. but since you like to prove all of the accusations worng then prove this one wrong
how is so that th LEM had 32 k of processing power on its computer chip but yet they were able to land, send live video, and many other things. to refresh some of your memories 32 k is the same amount of processing power that a simple calculator has, wow it is quite amazing that my graphing calculator at school has 8 time more processing power then the LEM that alledgedly took us to the moon maybe i could somehow us my calculator to take me to the moon or maybe even mars, because ive learned alot from the film all i would need is some tin foil to wrap my body in, an oxygen tank, some sunglasses and a cable to pull me up

Source: IMDB message board for Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?

[Data Cable]

I also learned something new. I had no idea "k" was a unit of "processing power."

[reynoldbot]

i think more HB's deserve a good punch to the face sometimes.

[spongebob]

reynoldbot said:

i think more HB's deserve a good punch to the face sometimes.

And that's your idea of reasoned and intelligent scientific debate?

[Bob B.]

spongebob said:

reynoldbot said:

i think more HB's deserve a good punch to the face sometimes.

And that's your idea of reasoned and intelligent scientific debate?

Is there a debate taking place in this thread that I failed to notice?

[Count Zero]

spongebob said:

reynoldbot said:

i think more HB's deserve a good punch to the face sometimes.

And that's your idea of reasoned and intelligent scientific debate?

A man can dream, can't he?

[AtomicDog]

spongebob said:

reynoldbot said:

i think more HB's deserve a good punch to the face sometimes.

And that's your idea of reasoned and intelligent scientific debate?

This is Abuse, Debate's next door.

[nomuse]

spongebob said:

reynoldbot said:

i think more HB's deserve a good punch to the face sometimes.

And that's your idea of reasoned and intelligent scientific debate?

Honestly, Bob, can you look at the quote that opens this thread and imagine the gent quoted is willing or even able to discuss science in rational terms? He strikes me as having that kind of hostile self-superiority that won't brook any correction from outsiders. Perhaps the best response is to walk away, with fantasies of fisticuffs, instead of wasting time in fruitless debate.

On the other hand, if we always did that this board would not exist...

[PhantomWolf]

if we did we would be there right now, if we did we would be heading to mars right now. but were not

The easy counter to this is to use his own logic. Since the Trieste was claimed to have reached the deepest parts of the ocean in 1960 and yet we aren't living in bases under the sea, it must have been a hoax, as are all submarines.

[spongebob]

phantomwolf said:

if we did we would be there right now, if we did we would be heading to mars right now. but were not

The easy counter to this is to use his own logic. Since the Trieste was claimed to have reached the deepest parts of the ocean in 1960 and yet we aren't living in bases under the sea, it must have been a hoax, as are all submarines.

But surely we are still exploring the sea bed?

[Cavorite]

Yes. Using robots.

Much like we're still exploring space.

Using robots.

[Data Cable]

spongebob said:

But surely we are still exploring the sea bed?

Not at that depth.

Wikipedia: Bathyscaphe Trieste:

Trieste was a deep-diving research bathyscaphe ("deep boat") with a crew of two people, which reached a record-breaking depth of about 10,900 m, in the deepest part of the oceans, the Challenger Deep, in 1960. The dive has never been repeated, and presently no manned or unmanned craft exists capable of reaching such depth.

[Cavorite]

datacable said:

Not at that depth.

The Hybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle should be heading down there in a year or so.

www.whoi.edu/sbl/liteSite.do?litesiteid=1810

[Kiwi]

how is so that th LEM had 32 k of processing power on its computer chip... 32 k is the same amount of processing power that a simple calculator has, wow it is quite amazing that my graphing calculator at school has 8 time more processing power then the LEM that alledgedly took us to the moon

Source: IMDB message board for Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?

In the official Nasa movie, Apollo 13: Houston, We've Got a Problem, we see things like the White Team's Guido, Will E. Fenner (with Steve Bales sitting alongside him), performing calculations to bring the damaged spacecraft back to earth. And there's not a calculator in sight, not even a slide rule. Fenner is using pencil and paper.

Speaking as someone who can still do fairly simple pound, shilling, penny, halfpenny and farthing calculations in my head (although my late father would be apalled at my slowness), I'd suggest that Will Fenner and his colleagues individually had considerably more processing power in their heads than five of those self-appointed Apollo critics. ;D

[reynoldbot]

spongebob said:

reynoldbot said:

i think more HB's deserve a good punch to the face sometimes.

And that's your idea of reasoned and intelligent scientific debate?

Sure why not? They certainly don't seem to respond to anything else. I figure a good suckerpunch to the face might get their attention for a brief moment. Hundreds of pages of intelligent scientific debate on this forum have essentially gone nowhere. I propose a more punch-centric debating policy for HB's.