Re: Facts That Make Walz Run.
From: R. Steve Walz (rstevew_at_armory.com)
Date: 06/19/04
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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 05:05:30 GMT
XC-A1CB-880-9 wrote:
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> Facts that make Steve run..Walz thinks we went to the moon.
>
> (1) How did Apollo get through the Van Allen Belt Steve?
>
> Radiation is a big problem when it comes to space travel and the Earth's
> magnetic field concentrates this radiation into the Van Allen belts that
> surround the Earth. No matter what, the Apollo crafts had to go through
> these belts and there was no way the Apollo crafts could afford to take all
> the weight of lead shielding with them..
> They could not have survived travelling through the Van Allen Belt without
> suffering from radiation sickness, or death, without a 6 feet thick solid
> lead shield.
> =================================
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If they had STAYED there, but they didn't. They passed through them
at a high rate of speed, near 25,000 miles per hour, shortly after
the service module burn into translunar insertion from earth orbit.
The Van Allen belts are quite a bit higher than near-earth orbit,
but not as high as geosynchronous orbit used by telecom sats.
The dosage was still substantial, but not anywhere near lethal.
> (2) Where are the stars?
> Why are there no stars in the sky in the photographs taken from the lunar
> surface?
> ==================================
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They are too dim for the relative light level into both video and
film cameras. They are "washed out". However, you CAN see them
on the Moon with your eyes, if you're not looking near the earth
or sun. Some shots away from light sources show them distinctly.
> (3) The video shows Neil Armstrong climbing down the ladder and stepping
> onto the surface. If he was supposed to be the first man on the Moon, who
> took the video?
> ==================================
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The external "porch" camera was used.
> (4) They didn't have the computer technology in those days to get to the
> Moon and back. Recentley China said: "The technology to get to the moon
> could come within the next ten years.
> ==================================
>
> Questions Steve won't answer
>
> Why does the American flag appear to be blowing in a breeze?
> In the vacuum of space this should not be possible.
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It was wrinkled.
Some pix show it wiggling from being bumped or recently moved.
It is not waving, there is no "breeze".
> http://www.astrocentral.co.uk/flag.jpg
> ----------------------------
>
> Why is there no blast crater?
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No "blast", the engines are more like a big propane torch.
There is a small one, but the engines didn't have long to burn
against the metal-oxide silica lunar surface. The stuff doesn't
burn, and melts only at fairly high temperatures. The descent
engines burn fairly cool.
> When the lunar module landed it should have made a large crater.
> http://www.astrocentral.co.uk/belowlm.jpg
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Nope. It didn't crash, it slowed to only a few feet per second and
turned off the engines a foot or two above the surface.
I can't wait till we set up a concession stand at the Mare
Tranquilitatis landing site so you CRANKS can know it really
happened!!
Steve
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