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Post by Count Zero on Feb 14, 2006 7:35:58 GMT -4
IIRC, low lunar orbit speed is ~3,000 miles per hour - compaable to an SR-71 (which would also be at a comparable altitude).
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"Talk"
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Post by Count Zero on Feb 6, 2006 19:53:27 GMT -4
OK, we need to find a really monomaniacal conspiracy theorist to give this to. The associations he comes up with could keep us entertained for a long time!
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Post by Count Zero on Feb 4, 2006 14:55:40 GMT -4
IIRC, the HB called "star" was female. She was here a while back, though I don't recall if that was on the old board.
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Post by Count Zero on Feb 2, 2006 15:35:34 GMT -4
Has anyone here tried FORTH, or use it on a regular basis?
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Post by Count Zero on Jan 26, 2006 4:43:47 GMT -4
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
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Post by Count Zero on Jan 25, 2006 5:43:44 GMT -4
Jay, shouldn't the second pic have more washed out shadows? Something like this, perhaps:
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Post by Count Zero on Jan 31, 2006 19:02:01 GMT -4
They forgot to bring film for the camera. Six times. Nobody's that stupid. The last two times they left the lense cap on.
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Post by Count Zero on Apr 24, 2006 8:02:07 GMT -4
Pshaw! Next you'll be telling me that actually installing watertight gaskets around the doors is somehow more helpful than an indomitable fighting spirit!
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Post by Count Zero on Apr 23, 2006 20:51:40 GMT -4
Er no: Musashi was completed as the second Yamato-class battleship. The third ( Shinano) was belatedly converted to a carrier, but never engaged the US Navy. Sure it did. It successfully engaged and destroyed at least four American torpedoes with her mighty hull! ;D
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Post by Count Zero on Apr 13, 2006 18:50:27 GMT -4
LOL you just gotta love GLP! No I don't.
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Post by Count Zero on Feb 23, 2006 12:34:54 GMT -4
It's a conspiracy, I tells ya!
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Post by Count Zero on Feb 16, 2006 15:47:48 GMT -4
Reminds me of a tourist girl in Prague who was continually moaning about how old the city was. Well, we got rid of lots of old buildings in Dresden...
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Post by Count Zero on Jan 28, 2006 22:14:00 GMT -4
The purpose of the experiment is two-fold:
First, it allows a person to see with his own eyes how much (or how little) the atmosphere actually attenuates starlight.
Secondly, by looking at a lighted landscape, at night, a person can see just how much effect indirect light has on his or her night vision.
I grow weary of the arguements that go,
Hoax Believer: What are the details on this? Pro Apollo Nutter: <long detailed response> Hoax Believer: <ignores response because he doesn't believe a word of it.>
Experiments like those above provide a HB with input from a source with he hopefully finds reliable; his own experience.
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Post by Count Zero on Jan 28, 2006 18:12:12 GMT -4
Let's not this totally disintegrate into a playground farce. I am still curious what "stargazer" saw during his experiment. To recap, I suggested: Dude, get away from the computer, get away from your room, get away from the city and go someplace dark where you can see the stars. Then do some experiments: - Sit in the dark for 15 minutes and enjoy the view. - While you're there, compare the average brightness of the stars straight overhead, with the average brightness of stars 1/3rd of the way up from the horizon to the zenith (be sure you're not facing the glow of city lights). On a clear night with low humidity, you'll find that there's not much difference. Here's the important thing: When you're looking ~30 degrees off the horizon you're looking through twice as much atmosphere as when you're looking straight up. Therefore, the difference in average brightness between ~30 degrees and straight up is the same difference as between straight up and looking through no air at all.- Now switch on you headlights. Go sit on the ground in front of them, facing away. The ground in front of you is well-lit, but nowhere near as well-lit as it would be if it were in the sun. Sit there for 10 minutes (read a book if you like. I recommend anything by Terry Pratchett). Now go turn off your lights and look up - straight up - You know, the way that astronauts can't in their LEVA hoods & helmet. You will not see any but the brightest stars for several minutes. Go ahead. Try it. You don't have to take the word of any webmaster, or any Hoax Believer or Apollo Enthusiast or engineer or physicist. Go do this and trust your own experience. Go be a stargazer, instead of just calling yourself one. A while later, he asked again... Ok, to state it more precisely: I want to know whether the statement by a NASA scientist that "stars are not readily seen in the daylight lunar sky by either the human eye or a camera because of the brightness of the sunlight surface" is true or just another of the zillions of lies spewn out by those "moon travellers" ...And I reminded him that he could check this himself: As I pointed out thirteen pages ago, this is something that you can go check for yourself without having to rely on anyone else's say-so. Get away from the computer, get away from Colby, get away from Jay, get away from Sibrel, get away from Sts60 and go do the experiment yourself.He then announced: So, on the courteous assumption that he was telling the truth about performing this experiment, I asked him about it: Share the experience with us. What was the environment (cloud cover, distance from ground lights, source of light to test night vision)? What, precisely did you do, and what did you observe? Walk me through it step-by-step. Stargazer, this is not information that you have to look-up somewhere. I'm merely asking you to recall what you did and what you saw that night. - What was the environment? - - Cloud cover? - - Distance from ground lights? - - Source of light to test night vision? - What, precisely, did you do? - What did you observe? Walk me through it step-by-step. I would sincerely like to know.
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Post by Count Zero on Jan 27, 2006 16:55:19 GMT -4
Share the experience with us. What was the environment (cloud cover, distance from ground lights, source of light to test night vision)? What, precisely did you do, and what did you observe? Walk me through it step-by-step.
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