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Post by scooter on Jun 14, 2011 11:32:13 GMT -4
It's interesting that Jarrah has interacted with some authorities/educated sources, usually to attempt to verify some tidbit he believes to be "incriminating". The answers are invariably out of context, misunderstood or misinterpreted by Jarrah. But he never follows up with a "so, based on this data, the Apollo missions must have been impossible, correct?"
He fears this question to these authorities from whom he so liberally cherry picks. I would challenge him on this, being the "expert" he is, he would certainly be able to dissect the response. Right?
I'd love to see an ambush interview on him...
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Post by scooter on May 24, 2011 0:12:55 GMT -4
I just visited your link...now I need to find all the pieces of my brain scattered about the room here.... he's a real piece of work there...
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Post by scooter on May 22, 2011 14:50:34 GMT -4
He's got spunk. I think I'd recommend to him joining a local rocketry club. Many years ago, I remember a young, enthusiastic rocketeer in our local club. I lost track of him, and as it turned out, he went to school, and after a stint with Boeing, went on to become chief aerodynamicist for Spaceship 1. He returned for a visit to share his experiences on the project. What a story.
The sky's the limit....
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Post by scooter on May 16, 2011 20:07:02 GMT -4
I was in the Pentagon...once...at least that's what the sign at the rail stop said it was. Got lost as hell in there, wandering from ring to ring, as I was walking, there was a "decor change", then a couple of stiff Marines, with bayonetted weapons, and a door that said something to the effect of "Secretary of Defense"... ...it was one of those "well, THIS isn't where I'm supposed to be" moments...
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Post by scooter on May 14, 2011 1:10:33 GMT -4
I think few HBs are even aware of Apollo 9 and 10. If they were aware of those missions we wouldn't see the "the lunar module was never tested" claim so often. Be glad they're at least aware it was the lunar module, and don't try to "prove" a hoax by arguing the space shuttle cannot go to the moon It's pretty easy to determine age groups when these kind of "arguments" are brought forward. I remember Columbia's first flight, I was a newbie 1Lt in AWACS...that was a long time ago. Capsules are like dinosaurs to many "younger" folks, Shuttle is all they know. I really wonder what they teach in school these days.
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Post by scooter on Apr 29, 2011 21:26:44 GMT -4
This gentleman seems to be quite a fan of White, Percy et al. For someone publishing a science magazine, he seems terribly lacking in critical thinking.
It's like watching Percy's video all over again, while perusing White's photographic "studies". Painful, determined ignorance. One wouldn't know where to start in dissecting his "arguments".
I have a marvelous view of a big mountain here (about 12 miles away), I think I might go out and create some "impossible" shots some day.
(eta: is this guy's magazine supposed to be a serious piece of work? I was under the impression it was a science journal of sorts, but a search has it self labled as an "alternative news" publication...a little too alternative for me.)
Nice to see him being challenged by the audience.
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Post by scooter on Dec 10, 2010 8:07:46 GMT -4
Just noticed that the CSM at the start of the trailer, which is flying towards the moon, doesn't have a LM attached. "Uhhh, Flight, did we miss a step here...??"
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Post by scooter on Nov 17, 2010 13:02:00 GMT -4
It was over at the loose change site forum some years back...he disappeared shortly thereafter, and I got de-registered for some unknown reason. I'm not even sure if it's still there. He was using it as a means for the LEO stack to escape detection, (you know, whooshing across the sky so fast nobody would notice it). Unfortunately, those darned pesky orbital mechanics kinda screw it all up...
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Post by scooter on Nov 15, 2010 13:12:24 GMT -4
In one of the photos he is mistaking the antenna for a footpad...(LM installed in the adapter)
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Post by scooter on Nov 7, 2010 23:52:28 GMT -4
Jarrah still goes on about using relay satellites while the CSM/LM whatever are in LEO...doesn't bother with the fact that such an orbit would have the LEO spacecraft out of LOS with the relay satellite around the Moon for 45 minutes per Earth orbit...just a "minor" issue.
We went over this mess years ago with him (on a 9/11 hosted site) He proposed a 25,000mph LEO...we countered that, and he kinda dissappeared on us. Also, hiding them in LEO would be a problem.
He really doesn't know what he's talking about, at all.
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Post by scooter on Nov 7, 2010 21:24:04 GMT -4
Take care...
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Post by scooter on Nov 5, 2010 20:52:13 GMT -4
I suspect his pictures were created for his YouTube series (search "hunchbacked" if you are so inclined...). Plenty of pretty pictures and graphics, but all misdirected...all thrust, no vector.
I would love to set down with him for an hour with "Orbiter", it's a marvelous way to learn how orbital mechanics work, and why thrusting in any direction during orbit will have unexpected (for the novice) consequences down the road when you least expect, or want, them.
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Post by scooter on Oct 30, 2010 7:45:58 GMT -4
I was flipping through a book I have ( Space Systems Failures, D. Harland and R. Lorenz, 2005, ISBN 0-387-21519-0) and it discusses (among other things, including a couple of missions with which I've been involved :-() the hand-grab of Intelsat 603 by the crew of STS-49. The first attempts to grab the bird with the specially-designed capture bar failed; on one of the tries, Pierre Thuot had acutally latched the satellite, but it slipped off and resumed its spin. The propellant inside had sufficient angular momentum to spin the satellite back up. Finally, six pairs of hands proved enough to hold it steady until the momentum of the propellants was dissipated, and they were able to attach the bar, secure it, and complete their job. Boy, do I remember watching that spacewalk. 3 guys (three pairs of hands)out there (the first 3 man spacewalk), in a seemingly juryrigged operation, careful communications protocol so they wouldn't step all over each other's transmissions. Foot restraints in places they were never meant to be...it was a strange one for sure. And that was a really big and heavy piece of hardware. Did what they needed to do. I sometimes wonder what HBs think of these multi page, detailed discussions that come after some wacky theory gets blown away? Do they really think all of this stuff is just "made up"?
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Post by scooter on Oct 27, 2010 13:14:42 GMT -4
It also indicates that a spacecraft would align along it's longitudinal axis, which would have the CSM pointing at the Earth all the time, not "level" to the surface. Gosh, go the sleep for 90 minutes, and...
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Post by scooter on Oct 27, 2010 11:11:11 GMT -4
oooh boy, here we go...
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