Re: IEEE SPECTRUM magazine: Apollo 13, We Have a Solution <- WARNING! CT Troll Thread!

>>From Scott Hedrick:
> "rk" <stellare@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

> > Now, you were the one who introduced claims of and bragging about
> "visiting
> > with one of NASA's most experienced astronauts ..." and you have
made lots
> of
> > ambiguous claims/brags over the years, which are unverifiable. So
you can
> > either back that claim up or not -- it's your topic.
>
> Since Stuffie saw fit to bring it up, *privacy* is not an issue. All
Stuffie
> has to do to gain some credibility is *provide the name of the
astronaut in
> question* and *information regarding the date and time of the visit*.
If in
> fact you had a conversation with this astronaut on the subject at
hand and
> offered any meaningful contribution to the conversation, the
astronaut in
> question should remember you. If he was at the designated time and
place but
> doesn't remember you, then it's clear that, at best, you were a
fanboy
> hoping to absorb some of the aura of being an astronaut and had no
real
> conversation. Note that a "Hi, who do I make this out to?" does not
> constitute a real conversation or even *notice* from the astronaut in
> question.
>
> Stuffie, who did you talk to? Where? When?
>
> If you won't answer, then it's yet another lie on your end. I can
actually
> document my meeting with Tom Stafford in 1992, where I engaged in a
real
> conversation with him (and got some autographs as well). After 13
years
> (savor the irony!) I wouldn't expect him to remember. What, did this
guy
> visit your high school or something?

If you're going to start of with the premise that I am lying, then I
don't see much point in trying to convince you otherwise. Kinda like
spending lots of energy with the folks who believe that NASA is lying
about going to the Moon.


Now I find it curious to see the level of effort put into this thread
to provide support for the position that the A13 tank exploded.

I've had excellent talks with Jim Lovell. Now I could spend my energy
in trying to prove that I did, by mailing photos of me with him or
showing my neat Moon globe that both he and his wife were nice enough
to sign, highlighting the location of "Mt Marilyn". I have actually
met face to face with several members of this forum on repeated
occasions and I have even shared personal photos of some of the fun
stuff I've done. But it wasn't for the purpose of proving anything.

If this forum was to learn that my job entails working side-by-side
with astronauts and that I am friends with many of them, having
relationships that go back to long before they became astronauts, even
as far back to being school classmates, then what would that change?
It has no effect whatsoever on the validity of the facts presented
about Apollo 13.

I find it a sad statement about how this forum operates that there is
little focus on the space history issue that has been raised. I am
imagining that there are more than a few members who have actually
decided to read the report of the Review Board to discover for
themselves the scarcity of the use of the word explosion. Instead of
voicing agreement, the strategy becomes a turn to ad hominem attacks.

I have seen this type of thing happen so many times here...


~ CT

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