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Post by chew on Apr 17, 2010 19:23:37 GMT -4
I think I got it!
It's the reflections in the visors. Scott looks tiny in Irwin's visor. In Nicollier's visor, the "astronaut" taking the photograph looks big. "Astronaut" is in quotes because the reflected image doesn't look like an astronaut to me but the author of the website may be assuming it is an astronaut.
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Post by chew on Apr 16, 2010 10:30:37 GMT -4
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Post by chew on Apr 16, 2010 10:23:21 GMT -4
My turn!
One is being burned alive by intense cosmic radiation, the other is at a cool 98.6F beneath the omnipotent protection of the Van Allen Belts?
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Post by chew on Apr 8, 2010 18:55:50 GMT -4
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Post by chew on Apr 3, 2010 11:50:38 GMT -4
Ah, got it.
That's cool.
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Post by chew on Apr 2, 2010 21:38:08 GMT -4
I had always thought it was because Cape Canaveral was at 28.5N latitude and the minimum orbital inclination equals your latitude (unless you expend butt tons more fuel). So everything was designed around that limitation. And we didn't want to rent from any countries on the equator.
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Post by chew on Mar 27, 2010 23:38:49 GMT -4
Yesterday I had a dream I was driving down a freeway while sitting on a tire rim that was laying on its side. It wasn't very fast as all the other cars were passing me. I could adjust the speed by lurching forward or backwards and steered by leaning left or right. You'd think a big chunk of metal grinding along a paved road at 50 mph would make a very loud noise but it was very quiet. After traveling a while I took an off-ramp and pulled into a gas station to get a soda. Then I was on my way again.
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Post by chew on Mar 24, 2010 12:35:12 GMT -4
Sound stages on the Moon have to be able to be pressurized; otherwise, the flags won't flap in the wind. Then you let all the air out so the dust kicked up by the astronauts and rover will travel in a parabolic arc. Then you re-pressurize the stage so you can film in shadows.
That hurt my brain to write that.
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Post by chew on Mar 24, 2010 10:58:24 GMT -4
"Some historians surmise that Hitler's father really was Johann Georg Hiedler. An explanation for Hitler being sent to live on his uncle's farm as a child is that Hiedler and Maria were simply too poor to raise Hitler, or could not raise him as well as his uncle, or perhaps Maria's health was in decline (she died when he was 10). " This is refering to Adolf Hitler's father, Alois.
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Post by chew on Mar 24, 2010 10:31:18 GMT -4
Are you saying the quatrain accurately describes Hitler? The quatrain says he was born into a poor family. He wasn't. Hitler's parents were born into poor families, but by the time Hitler was born, his family was no longer poor.
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Post by chew on Mar 24, 2010 10:22:42 GMT -4
One believer of Nostradamus' predictions said about the Hitler thing, "Hitler and Hister are only off by one letter. And Nostradamus was known to use anagrams."
WTF? First of all, the only evidence Nostradamus used anagrams comes from the believers who would rearrange words in order to make a prediction fit, and since the prediction now fit, that proves Nostradamus used anagrams!
And secondly, Hitler and Hister are not anagrams! You can't delete one letter, add a different letter, rearrange it and call it an anagram!
They also try to say, "Well, Hister is an old name for the Danube river and Hitler was born by the Danube river".
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Post by chew on Mar 24, 2010 10:10:50 GMT -4
but wikipedia says that Henry II was born on 1519, his killer on 1530, so this makes Henry older.. D'oh! You're right. I was going off my memory. I should have googled it. But it's still crap.
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Post by chew on Mar 24, 2010 10:01:18 GMT -4
I was impressed by Pasteur.. and the hitler thing, as he seduces people by his tongue while being born to a poor family.. Pasteur is french for "pastor". Hitler's father was a civil servant. He was not born into a poor family. Seducing people with your speech is not unique to Hitler.
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Post by chew on Mar 24, 2010 9:47:26 GMT -4
A 4 year old? I wrote "4 years older". Henry was 40 when he died, the guy that killed him was 44.
The quatrain was published before Henry was killed; it wasn't linked to Henry's death until 1614.
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Post by chew on Mar 24, 2010 9:20:52 GMT -4
True, but I think it was worth it for the "Moon landing was faked on the Moon idea". That's some quality crazy right there. It does raise one question that just begs to be asked. At what point can you describe a moon landing filmed on the moon as being a fake? When you fly an entire film crew and pressurized sound stage to the Moon.
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