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http://www.empusa.clara.net/lunar/lunar1.htm
I posted this site on Apollohoax a few months ago, but I had to post here because it's so laughable. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img] Enjoy!
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Here's some comments by "Pete Bown MPhys(Hons), DipEd, GradInstP, LRPS" in his guestbook, that you might get a chuckle out of:
"Pete Bown: As you say, the Moon doesn't have an atmosphere. But, the temperature is below -20 Celcius during daylight. The Moon can not be hotter than the Earth as it is the same distance from the Sun and receives the same amount of energy. There is no atmosphere to generate a greenhouse effect to raise the temperature to the same level as Earth. The Kodak film used would have shattered. Heat can stil be dissipated by radiation, that's how we get heat from the Sun. - Pete Bown: Try blowing into a bag of flour. In a vacuum a blast of gas will not cloud diffuse or billow out like an aerosol, it will form a jet. The path will only be disturbed by gravity or an object in it's way. On the Moon the blast from a decending rocket would form a pattern." There's more. But I don't know how many I can get away with producing here. |
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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.
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What's Really Sick though, is The Sheer Amount, of Willful Ignorance, that they Display!
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Actually, if the respondents are being truthful, the most depressing part is how many HS students bought into it!
BTW – 2 questions for Jay: 1 - I know the landing profile called from the descent engine to shut down at 1.8m (6’) from the surface, did that happen on every mission? 2 – I agree with the reason that the pool of light behind Aldren in AS11-40-5902 and 5903 is reflection from the LM aft equipment bay. What I can’t figure out is why are the MET tracks from Apollo 14 so bright in AS14-67-9367? If you’ve answered this before, my apologies. I just don’t fully understand the optical properties of the lunar soil. |
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"Pete Bown: As you say, the Moon doesn't have an atmosphere. But, the temperature is below -20 Celcius during daylight.
You'd think a physicist could spell "Celsius" correctly. But I'm told that spelling ability is not a good determiner of intelligence, so that's not necessarily an argument. However, knowing the correct daylight temperature of the lunar surface is a matter of intelligence, or at least of suitable research. The Moon can not be hotter than the Earth as it is the same distance from the Sun and receives the same amount of energy. Okay, so he apparently flunked thermodynamics. Receiving the same amount of energy is not the same as absorbing the same amount of it. And absorbing the same amount is not the same as reaching the same equilibrium temperature. There is no atmosphere to generate a greenhouse effect to raise the temperature to the same level as Earth. ROTFL! Heat can stil be dissipated by radiation, that's how we get heat from the Sun. Except that any heat from the film won't radiate any farther than the inside of the magazine. And since the magazine will absorb heat during its sporadic exposures to sunlight and conduct that heat to its inside surface via conduction and then radiate it to the film, everybody's happy. In a vacuum a blast of gas will not cloud diffuse or billow out like an aerosol, it will form a jet. Thus localizing its effect on the particulate. |
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1 - I know the landing profile called from the descent engine to shut down at 1.8m (6’) from the surface, did that happen on every mission?
Armstrong didn't because he didn't hear Aldrin call out the contact light and so he didn't shut down the engine until he saw it himself. This meant the struts didn't compress fully and they had to see if they could jump back up to the first rung. Some of the astronauts confided later that they were going to let the contact light stay lit for a second or so before killing the engine. There's something in pilot's nature about not wanting to shut down a perfectly good engine while still above the "runway". But they said they followed the profile in the simulators. On a couple of missions you can see a jolt in the 16mm DAC footage as they drop the full planned distance. 2 – I agree with the reason that the pool of light behind Aldren in AS11-40-5902 and 5903 is reflection from the LM aft equipment bay. What I can’t figure out is why are the MET tracks from Apollo 14 so bright Because the soil has been artificially compacted and so forms a semblance of a uniform flat surface without much texture. Remember that if you look anywhere but directly down-sun you're seeing a mix if lit and shaded sides of the texture. If the texture is mashed flat there's less shadow to see. |