Comments by "MRA" (@yassassin6425) on "Apollo 11: The final 13 minutes to the Moon - BBC World Service, 13 Minutes to the Moon podcast" video.

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  8. "FAKE..." The circumstances surrounding your birth? Your education? Or your hooker's sole orgasm? "WHO WAS FILMING THE FAST MOVING MODULE.." The Command Module pilot. "N IF IT LANDED..HOW IT MANAGED TO COME UP FROM THE SURFACE OF MOON...😂" The moon has one sixth of the gravity of the earth, to lift off from the moon, the ascent stage needed to overcome this. The force you exert on a surface due to gravity pulling you down is measured in Newtons (N) - this depends on the strength of gravity at a given location - in this case 0.17g. The ascent rocket expelled exhaust gases at Ve = 3.0 x 103 m/s. Its initial mass, including fuel, was 4800 kg. With no atmosphere, they could accelerate constantly, get up to speed very quickly and could reach orbit at very low altitude. That's a lot less fuel required. The Tsiolkovsky rocket equation tells us that the 2 tons of fuel in the LM ascent stage could propel the ~2 tons of empty mass to a speed of more than 2000 m/s, when they only needed 1600 m/s to get into lunar orbit and dock with the CM. In 100 sec, the ascent stage was travelling over 600 mph. In under seven minutes, they had reached orbital velocity. The LM ascent stage weighed just about 1700 lb on the moon and had a 3500 lbf engine, so it had easily enough thrust. Ignition was hypergolic and the lunar lander's ascent engine used Aerozine 50, a half-and-half mixture of hydrazine and unsymmetric dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) developed for the Titan 2 and witnessed during the Gemini programme. "AND WHY DIDN'T AMERICAN NASA EVER WENT THERE AGAIN...😅" They did, on five more occasions. It would have been at least ten had it not been for the premature cancellation of the programme resulting in the loss of Apollo 18, 19 and 20 in addition to the aborted landing of Apollo 13. Presumably NASA inexplicably felt the need to fake their own failure too? "THEY LIED TO WHOLE WORLD 🌎" And to think, for in excess of half a century no one has noticed bar a community of gullible, cretinous believers in dumb online conspiracy theory that tells them what to think about a subject they have zero knowledge of whatsoever. "COLD WAR TACTICS...." And the Soviets didn't think to call them out on it. So the usual ignorance, personal incredulity, logical fallacies, shouty caps lock insistence and childish emojis. Congratulations, full house on my dipshit conspiracy believer bingo card.
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  12. "Have you seen Kubrick's moon statement? It is vox populis." You mean the excerpt from T Patrick Murray's atrocious "Shooting Stanley Kubrick" featuring an appallingly cast Tom Mayk who doesn't even look or sound like him that was trending on social media? Seriously, this is a dumb as it gets. "My two cents." And therein lies the problem with granting internet access to village idiots. "The Belt is one of the key elements." You mean the Van Allen Belts? - in the plural, since there are two, in addition to a third that is transitory. You didn't even know that, so why should anyone care what you have to say? Let's face it, the only reason that you've actually heard of the belts in the first place is because some online con artist grifting junk conspiracy theory told you what to think about them and you're attempting to sound informed and clever on the comments section of You Tube. If you have a shred of integrity then I'd like you to honestly ask yourself the following questions: 1/ How much do I genuinely know about the Van Allen Belts? - their shape extent and distribution? Energies and intensity? Type of radiation? 2/ What do I actually understand by alpha and beta particle radiation and shielding against it? 3/ What have I understood about the actual structure of the Command Module and the materials that it was fashioned from? 4/ What have I learnt about the trajectories flown by each of the Apollo missions and their passage through the belts? 5/ What do I know about what James Van Allen himself, (and his soviet counterpart Sergei Vernov) had to say about the belts and the Apollo missions? 6/ Why do I think that I know better than them? 7/ Compared to the 68 minute transit of the Apollo missions, how long did last year's Polaris Dawn mission spend in the more dangerous inner belt? 8/ What have I done to challenge my preconceptions and the claims made by online conspiracy theorists in relation to the VABs? If the answer to these questions is nothing, or I don't know, then obtaining them will prevent you from humiliating yourself in the future and avoid making such a dumb and ignorant statement on on a public comments section with no actual prior knowledge about the subject whatsoever.
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  15. Except they didn't. One astronaut, Don Pettit, speaking in 2017 used an unfortunate turn of phrase. Since then, conspiracy theorists and those that parrot their nonsense have obsessively fixated upon it because that's what they do. However, if you have a modicum of intelligence, critical faculty, integrity and the will to objectively appraise the information that you receive and you place his sentence within it's full and intended context, then it's abundantly clear what he is referring to. The premature cancellation of Apollo in 1972 due to the retraction of funding from congress and the lack of political and public will, resulted in the abandonment of the specific expertise, the tooling, the production processes, the plants and most significantly, the heavy lift capability that sent crewed missions to the moon. Emphasis was placed instead on low Earth orbit, primarily, the development of the Space Shuttle which promised much, but failed to deliver in terms of it's commercial and financial returns and launch cadence. The other huge project was obviously the construction of the ISS. Neither of which send man to the surface of the moon. Deep space exploration became the preserve of unmanned missions - robotic landers and probes. Pettit was speaking prior to the approval of Project Artemis that will return man to the surface of the moon. The technology of Apollo is old and obsolete but since much of the hardware remains, you can understand that his use of the word 'destroyed' was metaphorical. Rebuilding a manned programme to the moon using modern technology that has superseded that of Apollo has been a protracted and painstaking process on a budget that is a fraction of that of Apollo. Why is it even necessary to explain this? - again?
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  21.  @lalkhanlaghari8410  So like your fellow dumb conspiracy believing ilk, you completely disregarded my reply to you. Entire branches of science, specialist fields of expertise and disciplines worldwide such as aerospace engineering, Pulitzer nominated investigative journalism, Nobel Prize winning physicists, over 10.000 private sector organisations and investments and each of the 76 space agencies on the planet to name a few all corroborate the moon landings. The Apollo Programme has been forensically dissected by entire branches of science and specialist fields and disciplines, investigative and technical journalists and some of the finest minds on the planet for over half a century. It was completely transparent and there is no engineering project in history of the scale and complexity that has been so ingrained in the public eye and exhaustively covered. In addition to this, in excess of half a century, the physics of every mission profile, the engineering of every design down to each schematic, specification - to every nut, bolt, switch and circuit breaker has been forensically scrutinised and technically examined worldwide. There are tens of thousands of publications, journal articles/papers and books written on the subject. The private sector space sector is growing exponentially. Companies such as Blue Origin and Space X and Aerojet Rocketdyne are part of a huge supply chain of consisting of a myriad of contractors, partnerships and stakeholders in Project Artemis. Meanwhile independent organisations such as Intuitive Machines, Advanced Space, Astrobotic, Northrup-Grumman, Venturi Astrolab and many others are making modern lunar missions happen in addition to the 76 other space agencies on the planet. To varying degrees, the work they're doing is predicated upon what was learned during the Apollo missions and this invites large scale investment from stakeholders with serious money on the line who need to be privy to the inner workings of these ventures. There are also companies working on next generation of lunar terrain vehicles for the Artemis missions who base aspects of their work on the accomplishments of Apollo. Then there are the professors teaching orbital mechanics at MIT, Purdue, UC Boulder, and other elite universities whose work also draws on the achievements of the Apollo program). The scientific, technical, independent and third party evidence in support of the Apollo moon landings is demonstrable and has a voice of its own.
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  23. Unfortunately, your comment was shadow banned, and so only visible in my notifications, so I have duly summarised it below "So you are saying my digging was watching a crap online conspiracy video?" No, you have probably squandered a large portion of your life watching multiple crap conspiracy videos. "Digging" does not involve self-proclaimed overnight armchair 'expertise' frittering away your evenings consuming junk You Tube videos, cherry picked click bait confirmation bias, quote mining, false equivalence and circular self-referencing pseudoscientific conspiracy websites, do feel free to share - how precisely did you do yours? Do you have anything new? Oh hang on... "What about if I watched hundreds of videos and read 10+ books?" Books? I'd say why don't you try it instead. Naturally, you'll ensure that the literature is objective, well researched and don't have the names Kaysing or Sibrel on the spine and cover. Why don't you start by reading up on the actual science, technology and history of spaceflight and the Apollo Programme instead of relying upon what dumb online conspiracy theorists tell you what to think? "You assuming someone else’s intellect, ability, and determination to dig is ignorantly laughable. Why?" Because clearly, you equate "intellect, ability and determination to dig" with junk conspiracy theory. "Can I show you some areas to look into? Or do you trust the government agencies over your brothers?" Should we trust our governments? No. Patriotism, as far as I am concerned, involves distrusting the government. Keep them in check. They are our employees...they are to represent us, yet they are frequently self-serving. But that distrust is pointless if we're fooled into thinking that our government is always up to something and yet we can't discern when it is, and when it isn't - or detracts from genuine corruption or duplicity. Of course governments lie, deceive and conspire. No one in their right mind would suggest otherwise. But simply because they do that does not then logically follow that claims that the moon landing was faked, or any random conspiracy theory of one's arbitrary choosing, devising or consequence of personal bias/agenda should automatically be assumed to be true. The government is irrelevant. The science is demonstrable and the mathematics axiomatic thereby having a voice of their own. Meanwhile the independent and third party evidence in support of the moon landings is incontrovertible. Areas to look into? What I'd like you to do instead is to present your singular most compelling piece of evidence that the six Apollo moon landings were faked. What do you regard as irrefutable evidence? I absolutely guarantee that I have heard it before over and over and over again, and I can tell you where it came from...that is of course unless you have your own original thoughts and observations, which I would welcome. I have invited this from countless conspiracy believers, but as yet, it has never happened. You could be the first.
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  38. Firstly, the main objective of the dummy was to equip it with the first-generation Orion Crew Survival System suit – a spacesuit astronauts will wear during launch, entry, and other dynamic phases of their missions. It was fitted with sensors to record gs and acceleration in order that engineers could compare Artemis I flight data with previous ground-based vibration tests with the same test dummy, and human subjects, to correlate performance. Accelerometers inside Orion yielded data for comparing vibration and acceleration between the upper and lower seats. It also evaluated the integration of the newly designed systems with an energy dampening system that the seats are mounted on. In terms of radiation, Orion is a completely different craft to Apollo designed for longer duration and distance The longest Apollo mission was Apollo 17 at 12 days - in comparison, Artemis 1 was 25 days (42 originally) and unlike Apollo reached an apogee around the moon of 40,000 miles. The mannequin was also testing a new radiation shielding vest, called the astrorad. Also the mission coincided with peak solar activity which was a tremendous opportunity to gain more data in respect of the crew cabin and its systems. Secondly, the Russians did have a moon programme which actually continued after the cancellation of Apollo. Their aspirations to reach the moon were confounded by the continued failure of the N1 rocket, the untimely death of Sergei Korolev and a fraction of the funding of the Apollo Programme.
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  55. So in common with your conspiracy addled, cretinous ilk, you completely ignored my reply to your nonsensical OP and moved the goalposts altogether. "The conspiracy theories about the Moon landing being filmed in a Hollywood studio has many grains of truth" Present them then. Go ahead. Wait - Hollywood? and not as others claim Shepperton? or was that Elstree - no, Pinewood surely. Hold on, what about Cannon AFB New Mexico? No, I'm sure that was supposed to be the Arizona desert? Or was it Death Valley? You absolute clowns can't even get your ridiculous stories straight. I guess it depends upon which crap conspiracy video that you've allowed yourself to be duped by. Got to say, that's some Hollywood Studio that can simulate uninterrupted 1/6th g and a vacuum and bears an uncanny resemblance to Theophilus in The Sea of Tranquility; the Head Crater vicinity, Ocean of Storms; the Fra Mauro Formation near Cone Crater; the eastern edge of Mare Imbrium, Hadley Rille; The Descartes Highlands; and the eastern edge of Mare Serenitati in the Taurus Littrow Valley. Credit too to the prop/set designers to have managed to dupe and entire branch of science called geology with over a third of a ton of fabricated moon rock! "Why 50 years between the first moon landing and Artemis?" Cost. It is obscenely expensive to send crewed missions to the moon, which is why the Apollo Programme was cancelled in 1972. The budget was allocated to the development of the Space Shuttle instead and the construction of the ISS whilst deep space exploration became the preserve of much cheaper robotic landers and probes that don't have the associated risk of manned missions. Artemis was only approved by Congress as recently as 2018.
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