Re: Facts That Make Walz Run.

From: EjP (nospam_at_hackers.are.bad)
Date: 06/18/04 

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:41:51 -0500

XC-A1CB-880-9 wrote:

> Facts that make Steve run..Walz thinks we went to the moon.
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> (1) How did Apollo get through the Van Allen Belt Steve?
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> 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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Of all the kook "arguments", I always find this one the most amusing.
Scientists literally spend their entire careers studying the van Allen
belts, but somehow when this issue comes up all these guys who flunked
high school Earth science suddenly become experts on the subject.

Since "XC" is just just an expert, perhaps he can enlighten us
all with the typical dose rates (mR/hr) and spectra that
would be encountered by a spaceship passing through the van
Allen belts so we can more accurately assess his claims.

No? Somehow I'm not surprized.

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> (2) Where are the stars?
> Why are there no stars in the sky in the photographs taken from the lunar
> surface?

Asked and answered many times. In a word, "contrast"
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html#stars

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> (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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Is that really the best you can do?

Presumably if XC were preparing for one of the biggest moments in
history, he'd be too dumb to think to mount a camera in advace.
Luckily, NASA was more clever than that.

The camera was mounted to another leg of the lander, which explains the
somewhat awkward angle of the shot.

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> (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.

Computers don't fly to the moon. The calculations are pretty tough
to do by hand, but well within computing capability at the time. Since
they weren't running Windows, there wasn't a lot of overhead.

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> Questions Steve won't answer
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> Why does the American flag appear to be blowing in a breeze?
> In the vacuum of space this should not be possible.
> http://www.astrocentral.co.uk/flag.jpg

This picture merely shows wrinkles.

Flag is only seen to move when astronauts are handling
it.

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> Why is there no blast crater?
> When the lunar module landed it should have made a large crater.
> http://www.astrocentral.co.uk/belowlm.jpg
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First an expert on radiation, and now on propellants. Do XC's
talents know no bounds?

Moron.

-E

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