Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: WitchyOoman</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
I forgot to impart this tidbit of knowledge, too:
Unnnu ever talk to anybody involved with with NASA?
I have, like I said before.
Astronauts back then were specifically trained NOT to jump any higher than toes-just-off-ground in low-G ... and with very good reason: <span style="font-weight: bold">If they jumped higher and accidentally twisted a bit in their fall, they'd end up falling on their backpack or suit, and the potential ensuing damage to backpack or suit c/would mean instant death to them.</span>
Let's recall that those space suits were very fragile, not like today's space suits. One tear would mean death to the astronaut. Damage to his backpack could mean death to him. I wouldn't even have let my toes leave lunar surface, personally!
Remember how the men walked hunched forwards on the moon?
It's so they could maintain their center of balance and not fall over backwards onto their fragile life-sustaining backpack.
I really wish I could be as happily ignorant of aerospace engineering science as some of unnu, because some of unnu lead much more interesting lives in unnu's suspicions.
Too bad I attended Project SPARC at NEHS...
That takes away from my fancies.
But wait! <span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">I</span></span></span> can imagine the reality of deep space travel in another few generations...
Didn't unnu read, a page or two back, when I admitted to having attended Project SPARC - Northeast High School's magnet school of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, in Philadelphia?
Like I said - I've been part of this kind of stuff. It's real. It was real back then, too.
How would unnu who are really Jamaicans (as opposed to those of us who love JA) convince a person who's never been to JA that your island really exists? Without actually taking them there?
Maybe if you tell me that, I can translate that experience and do the same for unnu with aerospace engineering...</div></div>
Last night I caught a tv show by National Geographic about this whole issue Link called Conpiracy Moon Landing. It goes through every one of these "problems" that the deniers come up with, and then conclude reminding everyone that the astronauts left mirrors on the Moon's surface that astronomers on Earth have been bouncing laser beams off since 1969.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: WitchyOoman</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
I forgot to impart this tidbit of knowledge, too:
Unnnu ever talk to anybody involved with with NASA?
I have, like I said before.
Astronauts back then were specifically trained NOT to jump any higher than toes-just-off-ground in low-G ... and with very good reason: <span style="font-weight: bold">If they jumped higher and accidentally twisted a bit in their fall, they'd end up falling on their backpack or suit, and the potential ensuing damage to backpack or suit c/would mean instant death to them.</span>
Let's recall that those space suits were very fragile, not like today's space suits. One tear would mean death to the astronaut. Damage to his backpack could mean death to him. I wouldn't even have let my toes leave lunar surface, personally!
Remember how the men walked hunched forwards on the moon?
It's so they could maintain their center of balance and not fall over backwards onto their fragile life-sustaining backpack.
I really wish I could be as happily ignorant of aerospace engineering science as some of unnu, because some of unnu lead much more interesting lives in unnu's suspicions.
Too bad I attended Project SPARC at NEHS...

That takes away from my fancies.
But wait! <span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">I</span></span></span> can imagine the reality of deep space travel in another few generations...
Didn't unnu read, a page or two back, when I admitted to having attended Project SPARC - Northeast High School's magnet school of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, in Philadelphia?
Like I said - I've been part of this kind of stuff. It's real. It was real back then, too.
How would unnu who are really Jamaicans (as opposed to those of us who love JA) convince a person who's never been to JA that your island really exists? Without actually taking them there?
Maybe if you tell me that, I can translate that experience and do the same for unnu with aerospace engineering...</div></div>
Last night I caught a tv show by National Geographic about this whole issue Link called Conpiracy Moon Landing. It goes through every one of these "problems" that the deniers come up with, and then conclude reminding everyone that the astronauts left mirrors on the Moon's surface that astronomers on Earth have been bouncing laser beams off since 1969.
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