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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Candace Owens

      1/ TJIC, why aren't you full on red-tribe ?https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1487107786609676289 …

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      Candace OwensVerified account @RealCandaceO
      Now for some light-hearted fun. What’s the one “conspiracy theory” that no matter what anyone says you believe is true. Mine is that the moon landing in 1969 was completely faked. Just nothing about it makes sense. Especially NASA “accidentally erasing” the original footage.
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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Candace Owens

      2/ ...because blue check red tribe people say things like "how would we transmit RADIO of all things, from the moon?!?! in 1969 ?!!?"https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1487108332385099791 …

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      Candace OwensVerified account @RealCandaceO
      The biggest thing for me is the fuel tank size, plus the live broadcast with audio from the moon. In 1969. I just cannot.
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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted bob

          3/ People just say [ false and dumb ] things. Archives exist. You can write the archivists and get copies of documents. https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/20302/were-the-saturn-v-construction-plans-destroyed#20306 …https://twitter.com/agentd007/status/1487136198569115657 …

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          bob @agentd007
          Replying to @RealCandaceO
          "lost the plans" to the Saturn V is my big problem with it.
          3 replies 0 retweets 53 likes
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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

          4/ re @RealCandaceO 's "OMG lol imagine sending radio waves from the moon" idiocy: in 1946 we sent radio waves TO the moon, bounced them off, and received them backhttps://www.edn.com/project-diana-bounces-radio-waves-off-moon-january-10-1946/ …

          6 replies 3 retweets 65 likes
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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

          5/ I'm not saying that people who haven't taken at least one EM physics course shouldn't be allowed to vote ... wait, no, that's exactly what I'm saying

          4 replies 10 retweets 98 likes
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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted AugustusFinknottle

          6/ this gets back to the point I made in an earlier homesteading thread today: people think one thing, so they pick a sentence out of a bag that holds related concepts "USG is incompetent and can't build launch vehicles" <-> "we lost the blueprints"https://twitter.com/AugustusFinkno1/status/1487167663960961033 …

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          AugustusFinknottle @AugustusFinkno1
          Replying to @MorlockP
          But I think the story is NASA can’t make a Saturn V anymore. So the plans are missing something.
          2 replies 0 retweets 43 likes
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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Cary Bleasdale

          7/ I don't understand what's pat about this. I've read dozens of books on the topic from retired engineers and others (out of the 100s that exist). It was an INSANE amount of hard work with thousands of failures along the way.https://twitter.com/Cary_Bleasdale/status/1487167720969936899 …

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          Cary Bleasdale @Cary_Bleasdale
          Replying to @MorlockP
          I admit I'm a little suspicious of the neatness of it. Oh boy, a buncha Buzzcut square jawed all American boys managed to gin up a lunar lander, a much larger rocket, and ace a moonshot the very first time using KNOWHOW and ELBOW GREASE. It's a little...pat. Maybe but
          3 replies 0 retweets 65 likes
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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

          8/ There are rockets that exploded on the launch pad, operator induced oscillations during reentry, jet sleds that malfunctioned, people burning to death in high O2 environments, insane money spent...

          5 replies 1 retweet 63 likes
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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted  🍂 The Pectrichory  🍄

          9/ right brained right hand rule right hand of God there are no accidentshttps://twitter.com/The_Petrichory/status/1487168890606030851 …

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           🍂 The Pectrichory  🍄 @The_Petrichory
          Replying to @MorlockP @RealCandaceO
          lmao right-hand rule as a shibboleth
          3 replies 0 retweets 36 likes
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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Cary Bleasdale

          10/ it worked, therefore it had to be fake? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯https://twitter.com/Cary_Bleasdale/status/1487170407023136769 …

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          Cary Bleasdale @Cary_Bleasdale
          Replying to @MorlockP @RealCandaceO
          Yes and then it all comes together perfectly for the big movie finish. It has a real narrative feel to it, (which is what they wanted!) maybe it was just a magic moment and it came together just right, but I've seen a lot of big expensive projects and they don't work that well
          4 replies 0 retweets 45 likes
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        10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

          11/ The only way to think "they went from nothing in 1961 to a movie-finish landing in 1969, just like the script called for, with no false starts" requires not having read a ton on the topic.

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        11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

          12/ The grand project started in the 1920s, Operation Paperclip gave us a cadre of trained experts with centuries of combined experience, we were already pouring insane money into ICBMs, we spent about 3% of US GDP on the project for a decade, literally thousands of companies >

          2 replies 1 retweet 45 likes
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        12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

          13/ ...were working in parallel, there were tens of thousands of failures. We had thrust instability vortexes inside the F-1 engines, we had capsules catch fire with O2 atmospheres, we had LEMs w instrument panels that shorted out bc of floating solder balls ...

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        13. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

          14/ We almost had an in space catastrophe w the Agena target vehicleshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agena_target_vehicle …

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        14. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

          15/ (speaking of, we didn't fully understand the implications of orbital mechanics until the attempted rendezvouses w the target vehicle, bc speeding up did NOT close the gap, as every reader of Heinlein [ now ] knows)

          2 replies 2 retweets 38 likes
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        15. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Cary Bleasdale

          16/ The lunar lander "worked" the first time in Apollo-11 because that was not the first time, it was the sixth time. LEMs had been flown on Apollo 5, 6 , 8, 9, and 10.https://twitter.com/Cary_Bleasdale/status/1487171316436418560 …

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          Cary Bleasdale @Cary_Bleasdale
          Replying to @MorlockP @RealCandaceO
          Compare the way the lunar lander worked the first time, to, say, the first week of a new Microsoft version launch, or a battleship shakedown cruise.
          7 replies 0 retweets 51 likes
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        16. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

          17/ Also, there were MULTIPLE problems w the LEMs. Windows broke in testing, things shorted out. During Neal Armstrong's descent in Apollo 11 the LEM's AGC overloaded, crashed, and rebooted dozens of times bc of data from the descent radar.

          4 replies 0 retweets 37 likes
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        17. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Cary Bleasdale

          18/ It's not an argument that Apollo was real. The argument for Apollo being real is that you can buy a laser, point it at the Apollo-11 landing site, and get bounces off of the cats-eye-reflector they left behind. It's an argument for >>>https://twitter.com/Cary_Bleasdale/status/1487172840948637697 …

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          Cary Bleasdale @Cary_Bleasdale
          Replying to @MorlockP @RealCandaceO
          "Thousands of companies working in parallel under the guiding hand of Uncle Sam' is something we've had before and since, with...extremely mixed results. I don't see that a an argument for the lunar landing.
          1 reply 0 retweets 36 likes
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        18. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

          19/ ...how we managed to do it in "just" 10 years. The answer is that it wasn't 10 years. It was 10,000 + people working in parallel for 10 years.

          6 replies 0 retweets 48 likes
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        19. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Cary Bleasdale

          20/ > It wasn't actually flown though. Please stop saying dumb and false things. LEMs were flown into orbit (or beyond) on all of those flights, and humans piloted LEMs in space on Apollo 9 and 10 LEM was flow in Earth orbit on 9 and lunar orbit on 10https://twitter.com/Cary_Bleasdale/status/1487173497554194433 …

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs added,

          Cary Bleasdale @Cary_Bleasdale
          Replying to @MorlockP @RealCandaceO
          It wasn't actually flown though. Like I said, that's the part you would and could easily fake, I see reasonable room to doubt that happened without being an idiot dumdum. Especially given that it's the underpinning of the entire modern technopriesthood.
          3 replies 1 retweet 32 likes
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        20. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Evan

          21/https://twitter.com/EvanMcM/status/1487173654869913601 …

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs added,

          Evan @EvanMcM
          Replying to @MorlockP @RealCandaceO
          Have any books to recommend on the subject? Especially anything on the more technical side if that exists
          1 reply 0 retweets 19 likes
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        21. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

          22/ not a complete list, but from one bookshelf here in the officepic.twitter.com/vmx8QvT0gZ

          2 replies 3 retweets 37 likes
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        22. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted ROGUEWEALTH  📯

          23/ [ re the bookshelf photos above ] 😂https://twitter.com/ROGUEWEALTH/status/1487176613284528131 …

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs added,

          ROGUEWEALTH  📯 @ROGUEWEALTH
          Replying to @MorlockP @RealCandaceO
          This explains why The Aristillus Series works so well.
          1 reply 0 retweets 24 likes
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        23. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 28

          24/ On that note, I was chatting in a private forum with @robkroese earlier today about his work on Mammon book 2 and he asked a question about the kinetic energy / damage from an object falling from orbit ...so I uploaded a spreadsheet I'd made for Aristillus vol 2 years ago

          3 replies 0 retweets 42 likes
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