Well!!!


OK, the Moon is black as asphalt. Fine, according to some philisophical hokum white is black. Go ahead and believe it you true believers. THAT, I'm not buying.

You want to talk metals? Now you're talking my bussiness. I've got 2500 pounds of my own aluminum handiwork in deap space right now. With a little heart and arrow with me and my girlfriend's initials scribed inside one big piece. You see those C-17 Airforce transports dropping food to the Afganies? I cut the titanium jet tailcones for most of them. You fly Boing 747, 777 etc. Your life is swinging on my handiwork bigtime. Ever bring your kids to the aquarium? Guess who's hand made that 20 ton piece of plastic thats holding back those 20,000 tons of water from crushing your kids to a screaming pulp. That's me.

I make assertions and have the courtesy, not to mention the scientific propriety, to provide links to official NASA drawings, images and figures to support my assertions.

YOU make assertions and expect ME to do the research to support YOUR assertions.

Tsk, tsk, tsk.

You sound like creationists.

I don't think it's too much to ask that if you say the moon is as black as asphalt or a blackboard that you find some pictures from the NASA image gallery, to which I provide a link, containing hundreds of pictures of the Moon from every concievable perspective that you find some that show it to be black. Instead of playing some occult philisophical numbers game.

Not that any of that makes a bit of difference to the point that there is no legitimatly supported theory as to why Apollo 13 got cold when enormous expense is invested in throwing a cooling system that is designed to manage deadly heat up there and it "has to be turned off".

Heck, calling it a cooling system is to under rate it to the point of idiocy. Once the launch stages fall away the spacecraft themselves are nearly all life support system. And life support means pressure vessel, air and cooling.

SAMU



PS

That aquarium plastic mentioned above, It's DOT designation is PVHO. Presurized Vehicle Human Occupancy. And none of it meets the DOT Specs. Just thought you'd like to know.

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