|
Post by chew on Mar 6, 2010 14:30:46 GMT -4
So how DO you catch up with an orbiting craft in front of you? Slow down. So... how... DO... you... catch... up... with... an... orbiting... craft... in... front... of... you?
|
|
|
Post by chew on Mar 6, 2010 13:16:03 GMT -4
Someone should have asked him the "how do you catch up with an orbiting craft in front of you?" question. Jay was working his way to that but the guy didn't take the bait.
|
|
|
Post by chew on Mar 6, 2010 10:58:08 GMT -4
Ah, well. Maybe we'll convince the next one that comes along.
|
|
|
Post by chew on Mar 5, 2010 20:43:39 GMT -4
blackbriar1,
you mentioned in your opening post it takes 25 minutes for a spacecraft to orbit the Moon.
Only one person has ever claimed that and he is arguably the least knowledgeable person about Apollo to ever have used the internet. I beg you to go elsewhere for your information about Apollo.
|
|
|
Post by chew on Mar 5, 2010 18:24:17 GMT -4
Why is it that whenever I see "LEM" I just know that the writter is an HB and their ignorance of the program is high. Probably because some of us hinterlanders never achieved a self gloating orb like mind like that of our higher learned self professed??? At least we hinterlanders were educated enough to spell correctly and don`t need to hide behind the use of acronyms. The point PhantomWolf was trying to make is the acronym "LEM" was discontinued by NASA in the early 1960's. The official designation is "LM". It is one of those "tells" hoax believers make. Don't accuse people of being poor spellers. Your spelling, punctuation, and grammar so far has been atrocious but nobody, until now, is pointing it out to you. And what the hay is a "hinterlander"?
|
|
|
Post by chew on Mar 5, 2010 18:10:47 GMT -4
Is it a fair comparison between the Gemini and what it consisted of and the lunar module and what it`s on board fuel supply was? Apples and Oranges. You're absolutely right they are apples and oranges. It is much more difficlut to rendezvous in Earth orbit than Lunar orbit. 17,300 mph in Earth orbit versus 3,600 mph in lunar orbit. On Earth, atmospheric drag compounds the problem. As previously mentioned, numerous Gemini spacecraft rendezvoused in Earth orbit. One spacecraft was already in orbit and the second spacecraft launch was timed to faciltate the rendezvous. This required a narrow launch window but the spacecraft had maneuvering systems so the launch time didn't have to set to the nearest second. About 45% of the total weight of the LM was fuel. About 45% of the Ascent stage was fuel. Plug those numbers into the rocket equation and you'll have your answer.
|
|
|
Post by chew on Mar 3, 2010 10:45:15 GMT -4
If Grissom's Mercury capsule had live camera feed and he did panic, as straydog's parents alleged, he most likely would not have remained in the astronaut corps.
|
|
|
Post by chew on Feb 26, 2010 14:29:20 GMT -4
Explodium? Is that an allotrope of unobtainium?
|
|
|
Post by chew on Feb 26, 2010 11:13:11 GMT -4
So now the moon has no gravity. And I always thought it had surface gravity roughly equal to 1/6 of earth's, so I learned something at that site. Shortly after I posted, there were 1399 votes. There are now 17 more, all of them "real". So if they are all because of my post here, then I will pat myself on the back 17 times. 102 times. Remember, the Moon only has 1/6th the gravity so you have to compensate for the lower gravity.
|
|
|
Post by chew on Feb 23, 2010 13:02:03 GMT -4
McGowan's sole method of research is to rent Discovery channel videos from Netflix.
|
|
|
Post by chew on Feb 21, 2010 23:30:20 GMT -4
Thanks, laurel. I can't find my copy of Chaikin's book.
|
|
|
Post by chew on Feb 21, 2010 17:20:42 GMT -4
They could always have initiated an abort. The descent stage would sink first giving the crew time to react and get the ascent stage away. That would be frustrating. To be that close, and yet The NASA Administrator told the Apollo 11 crew to not take any chances and to abort if they needed to and he would put them on the next mission to the Moon. He also told that to the Apollo 12 crew. Unfortunately, he didn't tell that to the Apollo 13 crew.
|
|
|
Post by chew on Feb 18, 2010 18:02:42 GMT -4
Oh, oh, don't forget the tired, unfounded, unreferenceable, old gem that it will take 6 feet of lead shielding to survive a trip to the Moon!
|
|
|
Post by chew on Feb 18, 2010 17:49:50 GMT -4
Phantomwolf, ZOMG, that thread you linked is 23 pages long! ;D That was my first thought, "Oh man, he sent him to that horrendously long thread." To pull out some of the crunchy bits of that thread, one of our esteemed members, drewid, made videos that plotted the trajectory of one of the Apollo missions. This doesn't directly address radiation in space but it does show how the missions were designed to avoid the inner zones of the Van Allen Belts. It's on page 21 of that thread: apollohoax.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=gotopost&board=theories&thread=2614&post=75933
|
|
|
Post by chew on Feb 15, 2010 19:31:11 GMT -4
A chuck steak browned then braised until tender in water, liquid smoke and miso. Tastes like steak and bacon!
|
|