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Post by LunarOrbit on Sept 4, 2005 0:21:41 GMT -4
Let us not forget that the lunar module pilot on Apollo 11 was Doctor Edwin Aldrin, Jr. (MIT), one of the world's foremost experts on practical orbital rendezvous. He demonstrated his expertise on his Gemini flight. They didn't call him "Doctor Rendezvous" for nothing.
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Post by Kiwi on Sept 4, 2005 0:49:09 GMT -4
And could [the Lunar Module] have met it [the Command Module] and coupled with it without incident, despite the completely untried nature of such a manoeuvre? Margamatix: Yet again you demonstrate your inability to criticise the Apollo project because of your ignorance. (In case it crosses your mind, this is not an ad hominem.) Tell us something that is very easy to find out: Approximately how many times was (a) rendezvous and (b) docking performed between two U.S. spacecraft, either in earth orbit or lunar orbit, prior to Apollo 11? Your statement, " despite the completely untried nature of such a manoeuvre" could only be true if the answer to that question was "Never." Do you know anything at all about the dangerous situation Neil Armstriong and David Scott got into on the Gemini 8 mission? I guess not, right?
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Post by sts60 on Sept 4, 2005 22:29:29 GMT -4
None of us, for instance, would consider an ordinary riding lawnmower a good choice for driving cross-countryWell, 73-year-old Alvin Straight of Wisconsin made just such a trip to visit his brother. David Lynch, best known for weird and violent movies such as Blue Velvet, made a terrific G-rated account called The Straight Story.
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Post by rocketdad on Sept 5, 2005 0:33:59 GMT -4
None of us, for instance, would consider an ordinary riding lawnmower a good choice for driving cross-countryWell, 73-year-old Alvin Straight of Wisconsin made just such a trip to visit his brother. David Lynch, best known for weird and violent movies such as Blue Velvet, made a terrific G-rated account called The Straight Story. Yeah, but that was on roads. I'm talking about driving a lawn mower on wagon ruts and open fields. Most people would balk at doing it in a VW Beetle (another Nazi product by another German engineer, Ferdinand Porche) which was actually designed for rough-duty driving. Just trying to point out the difference between our "modern" perceptions and "ancient" reality.
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Post by jovianmoon on Sept 5, 2005 2:06:00 GMT -4
Been lurkin' a lot lately, nothing much has changed since my first post...
Ah well, here we are again folks. Margamatix bailing out of a thread when he's in over his head and won't have the common decency and intellectual honesty to admit when he's wrong. What a surprise. His fallacious reasoning has been pointed out to him time and time again. That he lacks even the most basic understanding of what constitutes a logical argument shows up painfully clear, as has the fact that his understanding of space travel is clearly insufficient to back up his so-called criticisms of the Apollo programme. And yet he keeps parroting the same sort of glib Sibrelesque arguments as before. There are two possibilities:
1) He is unable to understand.
2) He is unwilling to understand.
If option 2 applies, then you are all wasting your time and Margamatix is just revelling in his willful ignorance. The old maxim applies: "Never argue with a person who would not know if he had lost".
If option 1 applies, then perhaps the bare basics of reason and logic need to be broken down even further for Margamatix, with some simultaneous picture book lessons about rocketry and space travel. I'm certainly no expert myself - far from it - but the basics really aren't that hard to grasp for a person of average intelligence who wants to understand. If option 1 really does apply then Margamatix has a long way to go and I wish him well.
Cheers.
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