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Post by banjomd on Mar 18, 2010 21:40:36 GMT -4
Leonov says, "... These people don't know anything about technology. Or they just seek popularity."
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Post by banjomd on Mar 18, 2010 11:38:50 GMT -4
I reiterate:Now, a question for you: (openmindedskeptic) Why would someone want to cast aspersions on the greatest feat of manned exploration? Something that people dedicated their careers and and occasionally their lives to accomplish only to have it be spat upon by vandals who, for reasons unknown, wish to take it away. The people who made it possible, from the (lowly) machinist who constructed an antenna that remains on the lunar surface to the men who zipped up the only thing that kept them from a decompressive, hypoxic death, are dwindling. Why would anyone find joy in spray-painting graffiti on their accomplishment? This is a serious, not flippant, question and it is not meant to attack or demean merely to try to understand a way of thinking.
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Post by banjomd on Mar 17, 2010 17:14:05 GMT -4
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Post by banjomd on Mar 16, 2010 23:14:21 GMT -4
Can you resolve my skepticism?Nope, I can't. Neither can anyone else if you choose to believe the pseudoscientific drivel that HB'ers spew. You've been given a key (hint: clavius.org); use it wisely I believe almost all of your doubts will be addressed there. Just my opinion. Now, a question for you: Why would someone want to cast aspersions on the greatest feat of manned exploration? Something that people dedicated their careers and and occasionally their lives to accomplish only to have it be spat upon by vandals who, for reasons unknown, wish to take it away. The people who made it possible, from the (lowly) machinist who constructed an antenna that remains on the lunar surface to the men who zipped up the only thing that kept them from a decompressive hypoxic death, are dwindling. Why would anyone find joy in spray-painting graffiti on their accomplishment? I just don't get it.
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Post by banjomd on Mar 13, 2010 13:18:04 GMT -4
"Dibs" on the falcon feather ;D
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Post by banjomd on Mar 10, 2010 14:28:26 GMT -4
...And here's somewhere you REALLY don't want to spend too much time. The rant that is TimecubeHoly moly! Do you think that this website's creator is in need of heavy-duty psychotropic drugs? Do not read too much; I think it might cause "Dain Bramage"!
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Post by banjomd on Mar 8, 2010 0:20:22 GMT -4
Agreed. They were absolutely essential for Apollo to be successful.
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Post by banjomd on Mar 7, 2010 19:59:08 GMT -4
Thanks, Bob B. Looks like I'll be ordering another book! ;D
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Post by banjomd on Mar 6, 2010 23:06:12 GMT -4
"Whifferdills are caused by allowing the target to move relative to the stars (failing to null the inertial line of sight rate, as the experts would describe it) and not making large enough corrections early enough to completely stop this unwanted motion.) "Carrying The Fire" Michael Collins P188
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Post by banjomd on Mar 6, 2010 22:48:14 GMT -4
I saw that! from, "Carrying The Fire"; Michael Collins. p209-210 "good Lord, we are doing a whifferdill around the Agena, an out-of-plane whifferdill...John and I both know what has to be done now. We have sinned. We have somehow wandered off our prescribed path of righteousness, albeit only a tiny little meander, but now we must pay the penalty, and that means fuel...John has no choice but to hose out whatever fuel is necessary to cut short our helix-shaped circumnavigation of the Agena, driving us right up to it and stopping next to it." Gemini 10 had 36% fuel remaining instead of the 60% that it should have had. (BTW- Collins' books are an excellent read!)
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Post by banjomd on Mar 6, 2010 14:39:45 GMT -4
In reading one of Michael Collins' books, he talks about getting into a whifferdill and wasting a LOAD of fuel to rendezvous. Is it safe to say that whifferdills are of historical significance and do not occur anymore? If so, when did they stop being a threat to rendezvous?
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Post by banjomd on Mar 6, 2010 14:16:11 GMT -4
So how DO you catch up with an orbiting craft in front of you? Everybody knows; just point your nose at your target and blast away! I mean it's not like you need to know orbital mechanics. ;D
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Post by banjomd on Mar 6, 2010 10:46:33 GMT -4
Leonov reiterates: Don't know if this is old hat but, beginning @ 11:54, he gives his opinion on the lunar landing hoaxers. "That is ignorance, total ignorance on the part of those who say so. These people don't know anything about technology. Or they just seek popularity."Quoted from: RT.com rt.com/Top_News/2009-07-21/I_could_see_Armstrong_bouncing_on_the_moon.html?fullstory"I could see Armstrong bouncing on the moon"; Published 21 July, 2009, 22:51
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Post by banjomd on Feb 19, 2010 15:35:01 GMT -4
Don't know if this is old hat but, beginning @ 11:54, he gives his opinion on the lunar landing hoaxers. "That is ignorance, total ignorance on the part of those who say so. These people don't know anything about technology. Or they just seek popularity."Quoted from: RT.com rt.com/Top_News/2009-07-21/I_could_see_Armstrong_bouncing_on_the_moon.html?fullstory"I could see Armstrong bouncing on the moon"; Published 21 July, 2009, 22:51
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Post by banjomd on Jan 18, 2010 14:57:28 GMT -4
Does it annoy anyone else when people see a photograph of an astronaut on the Moon and automatically assume it's from Apollo 11? (They forgot to include James Irwin's name too. I realize I shouldn't take LOL sites like Pundit Kitchen too seriously, but still, this is a silly inaccuracy.) Yes it sure does but, then again, I'm a Space Nerd! It bugs me that with the LRV on the right they could've narrowed it to 3 flights and, with no commander's stripes, only 3 people! (I would be more annoyed if I was there and was misidentified! )
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