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Post by margamatix on Aug 9, 2005 15:22:21 GMT -4
I have been trying to get hold of a copy of the blueprints of the Apollo spacecraft, but I have been told that they have all been destroyed by the FBI.
Even for me, this seems a little far-fetched.
Is it true?
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Post by margamatix on Aug 5, 2005 17:52:06 GMT -4
Well, maybe you need to think a bit more about what the rover looked like and how it operated. It had front and rear drive wheels - the wheels were able to turn for steering. How could dust not be directed towards the rover itself at times? I see what you are saying, but surely, if we accept that explanation, there would have been some dust on the feet of the lunar module itself? |
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Post by margamatix on Aug 5, 2005 17:14:40 GMT -4
How much longer, and in how many irrelevant contexts, are you going to keep milking that quote? Only until monday, when I have to go back to work. |
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Post by margamatix on Aug 5, 2005 16:16:41 GMT -4
What moon dust does depends on whom you talk to.
Gene Cernan said it was a very fine, all pervasive dust that got into the spacesuits "and all moving parts"
I don't see how any could have got into any moving part of the lunar rover if it simply flew up and back in a cock's tail trajectory.
Can I ask an unrelated question about the differences in our common tongue, raised by this?
I was always told that the word "cock", was taboo in American English, even when unrelated to its slang meaning, or used as part of a longer word. So where we say cockroach, they say roach, to quote just one example.
Is this not true? I thought "rooster" would be the word an American English speaker would use?
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Post by margamatix on Aug 3, 2005 17:02:15 GMT -4
I sure wouldn't. It isn't capable of entering the Earth's atmosphere. . Let's be honest. Apart from being the subject of an early piece of Photo-Shoppery, it isn't capable of anything |
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Post by margamatix on Aug 3, 2005 16:51:51 GMT -4
and you wanted to visit Earth...  Would you go in this? |
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Post by margamatix on Aug 3, 2005 11:46:00 GMT -4
No- as engineers say, "If it looks wrong, it probably is wrong.
I just change my signature every week or so anyway, and signatures may be a quote from someone else, in which case I will attribute the quote, or some of my own home-spun trucker philosophy, in which case I won't.
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Post by margamatix on Aug 3, 2005 10:50:07 GMT -4
I just made it up.
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Post by margamatix on Aug 3, 2005 9:20:30 GMT -4
Doesn't matter to me.
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Post by margamatix on Aug 3, 2005 16:43:36 GMT -4
I'm guessing that this was the famous photo of Aldrin -- the "classic" astronaut photo? That's it. Lunar Orbit's avatar. |
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Post by margamatix on Aug 3, 2005 16:16:17 GMT -4
No. Your program omitted to tell you that the crater pattern around the Apollo 11 landing site was reproduced in Nevada intentionally so as to allow the astronauts to fly over it from various directions and see what the craters would look like from different altitudes and angles, so they wouldn't be taken by surprise when they encountered the actual three-dimensional surface. Oh please! |
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Post by margamatix on Aug 3, 2005 15:52:14 GMT -4
Some I have given to you. You may disagree with my views, and that is your opinion.Why do you say it was foolish? It was NASA's idea in the first place! The conspiracy theorists try to tell you that Pres. Kennedy just announced this plan out of the blue and that NASA was taken by surprise and had to scramble to meet it -- all wide-eyed and scared. . Why? That's exactly what happened when President Reagan made his big speech announcing the "Star Wars" strategic defence shield. I once heard a programme on BBC radio in which a then NASA described listening to that speech. He then turned to his colleague (since both of them would have been in the front-line of developing and building such a thing) and he said "Would you know how to do that?" After a long pause, came the answer... "Nope". |
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Post by margamatix on Aug 3, 2005 15:44:41 GMT -4
Views are one thing. Allegations of fact are another. . I thought I had made this clear. That we did not land on the moon is my opinion only |
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Post by margamatix on Aug 3, 2005 15:33:45 GMT -4
So the Fox drivel got ya, eh? Thanks for clarifying the influences. It was a British-produced and narrated programme. |
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Post by margamatix on Aug 3, 2005 15:17:57 GMT -4
I am sure that at the very least, you understand how light travels. If the sun was behind me, a mirror placed flat on the ground in front of me would make no difference whatsoever to my frontal illumination. The light would be reflected away from me, not back towards me. |
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