1/ TJIC, why aren't you full on red-tribe ?https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1487107786609676289 …
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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
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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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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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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...
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9/ right brained right hand rule right hand of God there are no accidentshttps://twitter.com/The_Petrichory/status/1487168890606030851 …
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10/ it worked, therefore it had to be fake? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯https://twitter.com/Cary_Bleasdale/status/1487170407023136769 …
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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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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 >
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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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14/ We almost had an in space catastrophe w the Agena target vehicleshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agena_target_vehicle …
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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)
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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 …
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22/ not a complete list, but from one bookshelf here in the officepic.twitter.com/vmx8QvT0gZ
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23/ [ re the bookshelf photos above ]
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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 agoShow this thread
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