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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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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Yeah most people don't know the previous Apollo mission had the lander do pretty much everything except touch down.
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Upon further reflection, the most accurate part of Interstelllar was the widespread belief that we never went to the moon-- because they were a civilization in terminal decline.
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