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Old 18-March-2002, 07:13 PM
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Well, my Danish is rusty, and was never incredible in the first place, but let's take a look. Just don't ask me to do a word-for-word translation. Heh, it helps to have a pretty good idea of what it's saying before I even read it... [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

Erf... Well, it's a good report, presenting arguments HB's give and the counter-arguments that tell why they're wrong. They cover radiation, unstable LM's, dust and flag-waving, flames from the LM rocket, lack of stars in the sky, shadows, and multiple light sources as well as other photography difficulties. They also mention Bill Kaysing's view on the Apollo 1 fire.

One thing that's sort of interesting is they have a HBer, Henrik Melvang, claiming that rocket propulsion wouldn't work in a vacuum. I've only heard that before in accounts of British scientists in WW2 claiming that V-2's wouldn't work, while they were being bombed by them. What I say is "Has the guy ever watched sattilite TV?" But it's sorta nice that they stick it in, 'cause it covers the basics of rocketry anyway. Actually, IMO they about it a bit too much. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]

Oh! A PhD they interviewed said almost the exact same thing about sattilite TV. That's worth a grin. The Dr also invited Henrik Melvang to the Intitute of Physics and Astronomy, where they have a demonstration of a rocket engine working in a vacuum.

Hmm... there's also some issues on re-entry... Apparently they say that the command module returning to earth would be going just as fast as when it left earth, and the engines wouldn't be able to slow it enough to survive re-entry. I know, you're not bringing back nearly as much mass as you're sending up, and seem to explain that one pretty well. But still, it's something new, and just how fast WOULD the CM be moving when it returned? Even if it was on a pretty free trajectory on the way back, it would fall towards the earth and pick up velocity for a couple hundered thousand kilometers before actually reaching it.

It also mentions some arguments about the capsule landing in the ocean, which is also new (at least to me). Some guy argues that the capsule was falling too fast during splashdown to be safe. The site says it was moving 40 km/h... that's about as fast as a fender-bender. Some various other things along the same lines, issues with the capsule flotation system, etc. Finishes up with a short discussion of "are you sure the rocks are really from the moon" and "then why didn't the Russians think of it first or blow the whistle on the hoax?"

I'm not sure all the details are 100% correct, but for a non-scientific news report that's sort of a given anyway. They do quote the BA several times, even if they mis-spell his name in the link at the bottom [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] (it's spelled right in the article). In all, it's pretty good, definately a "good guy" article. Thanks for digging it up.
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