Ok, so what exactly is the problem here?

Your first link shows a picture of the spacecraft with units that presumably radiate heat out into space. During normal operation, the electrical systems would be generating heat, and the panels you point out seem to be a way of ditching the excess heat. This suggests that the electrical systems generate a lot of heat. Which is in keeping with the assertion that electrical equipment was not that efficient.

I'm not sure what I am supposed to see in the pictures in your second link. I would point out though that Lovell apparently lived long enough to write the essay you quoted, so your theory that they all died is pretty much out the window. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_frown.gif[/img]

Now, the next link is to a NASA kids site, and it says

It doesn't say that it does do this, just that it can. It then says that there are measures to prevent this happening, such as reflective surfaces, and heat exchangers. What's your point? Are you saying that the Apollo 13 crew should have stopped spinning so that one side of their craft might heat up, but the difference in temperature of systems would cause them to break, leading to certain death?

Then there's the essay from Jim Lovell, and a cryptic remark about a red-handed lie (which metaphor I'm not sure I understand). As I understand it, the liquid cooled garment worn under the suit is just that, a jumpsuit you wear which takes heat from your body, transfers it to a liquid in the garment, from whence the heat is transfered to the outer layer and radiated away. So you don't sweat yourself to death. Don't think that I'd want to wear a cooling garment in 38 degree weather. But that's just me.

Ok, that's enough. You need to work out what your position is, and then try to support it. Right now you have too many contradictory agendas running at once.

Ben Benoy