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Post by Count Zero on Jan 5, 2007 22:41:58 GMT -4
The Pentagon admitted to losing 2 trillion dollars in 2001. According to the Office of Management and Budget, the outlay for the Department of Defence in 2001 was $290.34 billion, which is less than 1/6th of the money you claim they "lost". Please provide evidence for your claim.
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Post by Count Zero on Nov 7, 2006 21:48:13 GMT -4
I wonder if the Astronauts were actually Aliens... Well, Mike Collins is. He was born in Rome. ;D
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Post by Count Zero on Aug 26, 2006 14:13:06 GMT -4
Hi Gillian! Nice to see you over here. Enjoy . . .
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Post by Count Zero on Feb 9, 2006 2:07:34 GMT -4
I'm going to guess that he was pretty happy that the pilots had stuck to their guns and demanded that they be given flight controls rather then just being passangers like the Soviets. That would be especially true for Gordo Cooper. Near the end of his Mercury flight, his capsule lost all attitude indicators and the automatic stabilization & control systems. He flew the rest of the mission - including retrofire and re-entry - manually.
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Post by Count Zero on Dec 28, 2005 19:58:21 GMT -4
You may have gotten confused by photos taken by a sattelite that show the shadow of the lander base of, if memory serves, Apollo 16. Late in the lunar day, the shadow is many, many times larger than the lander base itself, and that made it possible to take the picture. I know that photos exist of the Apollo 15 & 17 landers. I don't know about 16. A link to that photo would be great, perhaps it will convince people who have their doubts about the authenticity of Apollo. Hopefully the photo wasn't taken by NASA, that would give the CTists an excuse to dismiss it. They were taken by the hi-res panoramic cameras on the Apollo Service Module, so they are NASA. It's almost like asking for pictures of Norgay atop Everst that weren't taken by Hillary.
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Post by Count Zero on Jan 16, 2006 22:45:21 GMT -4
He may be thinking of 633 Squadron, starring Cliff Robertson.
From the Internet Movie Database: This movie wasn't as good as the others.
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Post by Count Zero on Jan 16, 2006 20:01:40 GMT -4
If that doesn't define "a classic", I don't know what does!
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Post by Count Zero on Jan 16, 2006 18:32:08 GMT -4
They also used clips from The Dam Busters, an outstanding movie released year before BaTR. It also involved tight, low-level bomb runs, in the face of intense flak, against difficult targets, in this case using inovative targeting devices and specially-made bombs. Highly recommended!
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Post by Count Zero on Dec 26, 2005 19:00:28 GMT -4
Whoever came up with that one is one sick-minded individual. This is a new low. Has he no decency at all? I am comprehensively disgusted.
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Post by Count Zero on Dec 23, 2005 12:00:57 GMT -4
Nothing odd about it at all Count ... once you have been and viewed the pictures copies will be stored in your internet cache and the browser will use those copies when it recognises the URL on the board. Nifty! If I use the Tools/Internet Options/Delete Cookies, does this clear the cache?
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Post by Count Zero on Dec 21, 2005 22:01:21 GMT -4
If you just click on the links, it doesn't work. If you follow Bob's instructions and copy/paste the addresses to your browser, then you can see the pictures. Oddly enough, when I then return to this BB, I can now see the images in Sts60's post.
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Post by Count Zero on Dec 22, 2005 1:28:39 GMT -4
So, what horrible, unforgivable thing did David Lifton do to you that you would inflict Jack White upon him?
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Post by Count Zero on Dec 21, 2005 3:28:16 GMT -4
I don't know if we can really call him an HB because he did just say that he thought the photos with the Earth in them were faked. I don't remember him saying anything about the landings being faked. Copernicus only made two posts, and both of them were polite and sincere. The reversed sign on the librations is exactly the kind of mistake I make all the time, hence the kind of thing my peers routinely and helpfully challenge. That his argument has ultimately turned out to be wrong doesn't mean it was intended to deceive or mislead. I don't think we've heard enough yet from Copernicus to calibrate on his approach. I concur and retract the HB label.
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Post by Count Zero on Dec 21, 2005 0:18:14 GMT -4
I used Alcyone Ephemeris, which confirmed Copernicus' libration numbers, and corroberated that he had the direction of offset reversed.
Also, contrary to his post, the Moon was not near perigee at the time. The photo was taken on December 12, 1972; apogee was on December 4, 1972 at 13:28 GMT, and perigee was on December 19 1972 at 12:46 GMT, so the Earth was close to the median distance.
Still, he is the first HB I've seen who has attempted to use legitimate mathematics to argue his point, and for this I give him credit.
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Post by Count Zero on Dec 17, 2005 23:41:57 GMT -4
That's a mountain, not the horizon. ToSeeked. Can you answer the terminator question?
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