Posted on 08/01/2023 8:25:54 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
In my book a bunch of conspiracies about 9/11 and the JFK assassination
To quote my father “can’t can’t do anything “.
I think it was Arthur C. Clarke who said that when a scientist says that something is possible, he is always right, and when he says something is impossible, he is almost always wrong.
Yes - 9/11 inside job, and JFK assassination/LHO - will had those to list. I’d add the various airliner tragedies, but they don’t have the individual appeal that a true ‘distractor’ media reminder has.
Von Braun just happened to be the Father of US manned launches. This is not some guy who existed in 1895. He may have been wrong but he was RIGHT THERE, more vibrant and alive than Einstein at the time. He was in his prime in ‘69.
Not this poop again.
Wait until we see Chinese land on the moon.
Wouldn’t it be great to make everyone think we landed on the moon...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw
Art? Is that you?
Of course he is right. We must of used alien technology.
Love Mitchell and Webb!
Please look up the limits of the earth's Van Allen radiation belts.
Unfortunately, with the technology of the day, an immense pay load and a new rocket much larger than the Saturn V would have been needed to land a spacecraft directly on the Moon and then return it to Earth. That would have meant considerably greater expense and several extra years of development that would have violated JFK's pledge to get to the Moon by 1970.
A solution was contrived by a NASA engineer, who eventually got a hearing from higher ups: carry a lunar lander but do not bring it back to Earth. This reduced the payload needed and meant that the Saturn V and the Apollo spacecraft and a lunar lander could be used to beat the Russian and get to the Moon by 1970 as pledged.
Olson was right of course. Not only was there no need for it, but the negative effects of computerizing the hapless consumers are still piling up.
No, Von Braun’s theories weren’t “wrong” per se, not in the slightest, what was at issue was how to _meet the deadline_ of putting a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.
Lunar orbit rendezvous was controversial, but it greatly decreased the size of the rocket needed to effect a landing.
Ironically enough the strategy they used, advocated by Houbolt meant that Apollo was kind of a dead end, they succeeded in the quest to get there firstest, but that was the end of it.
Even so NASA had built the infrastructure needed and had plans for over 100 Saturn V launches, and a crewed Mars landing by circa 1986, the soonest reasonable launch/landing window.
Then Congress threw it all away in favor of the (sometimes) flying brick.
The Chinese recently said they need another 15 years. Presumably to solve the fuel issue and Van Allen Radiation issue.
50% of peer reviewed papers in scientific journals turn out to be wrong. The process of science requires us to have a hypothesis and figure out a way of testing it. Most of the time, our hypothesis is wrong, which is how we eventually come to a better understanding.
So by definition, most scientists are wrong most of the time. It’s only the occasional proof that a hypothesis appears correct that we move forward.
No, they don't extend past Luna. They don't even extend past Geosynchronous Orbit.
Note that:
A) They're belts, not spheres.
B) They're not uniformly intense.
C) They're not uniformly thick.
When sending Men to Luna, you send them AROUND the most intense parts, and send them quickly. Radiation exposure is cumulative.
The "Moon Landing was a Hoax" crowd simply do not know what they're talking about. Some are ignorant, some are gullible, and some are damned liars.
This is what NASA says about the belts:
https://spacecenter.org/what-are-the-van-allen-radiation-belts/
In 1900, there was talk in Congress about closing the patent office, since everything possible had already been invented.
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