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On 2002-06-14 20:36, JayUtah wrote:
In 1996 the Delta rocket DC-X toppled over on landing and exploded.
Yeah, but why did it tip over? It took off, flew around for a while, returned to its launch site, landed safely, and shut off its engine. It fell over because the landing leg collapsed. The supposedly difficult technology -- variable-thrust engines, guidance, attitude-control, navigation -- these were all solved successfully. Its downfall was caused by something so prosaic as an unsuitably strong weld.
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The Delta crashed because of an unconnected hydraulic line on the landing gear. Also, it had already had several successful test flights before the crash. So you can't say it hasn't be done.
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...x-33/dc-xa.htm
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However, when the Apollo 11 landed, Neil Armstrong famously left his footprint in undisturbed dust.
Interesting claim, since no photograph of the first footprint was taken.
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Isn't the famous footprint photo acutally one of Aldrin's, and deliberately made to test the compaction ability of the soil?
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How come every lunar blast-off was perfect?
Because it had to be. Therefore an incredible amount of engineering was expended toward making sure that engine would fire, and that one of the two redundant guidance systems would function.
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Also, there were only six launches in total. Getting six out of six right doesn't seem like that much of a stretch to me. Besides, we should be giving them a pat on the back for accomplishing such a great feat, not using their success to imply that something is fishy.
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In a vacuum, the dust should be thrown back in a arc.
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A lot of the apparent "cloudiness" is obviously motion blurring in the exposure.
And here's one you didn't comment on, the comment at the bottom of the page:
p.s. nasa.gov and senate.gov have been looking at this page.
I know, I've got a site log!
You may be watching me, I'm watching you too!
So somebody from the very large nasa.gov domain clicked on his site. Doesn't mean anything does it? Maybe they were trying to find a legitimate Apollo site and stumbled onto this one by mistake. Maybe someone just got curious as to what was being said about them. Maybe they were trying to find an example of a site that was idiotic to prove just how little threat cranks like this pose. And the same goes for the senate domain as well. But no, it's gotta be Men In Black watching him like a hawk. And to follow up with that pseudo-macho comeback. Ooh.
I'd say this page was pretty low, but actually the low point was looking at the guestbook and seeing how many (rude ad homenim words deleted) actually agree with his statements. It's sooo sad.