• Operation Blue Book TV show

    From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to All on Wednesday, January 01, 2020 15:33:36
    Does anyone watch this show? I've always been interested in the UFO phenomenon and am curious if we'll ever see extraterrestrial life in our lifetime, and if the world's governments already know something. I've watched the first several episodes of this show, and it's at least midly interesting as it's based on real investigations in the US government's Project Blue Book starting in the 1950s.

    Nightfox

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Nightfox on Thursday, January 02, 2020 01:19:03
    Re: Operation Blue Book TV show
    By: Nightfox to All on Wed Jan 01 2020 03:33 pm

    Does anyone watch this show? I've always been interested in the UFO phenomenon and am curious if we'll ever see extraterrestrial life in our lifetime, and if the world's governments already know something. I've watched the first several episodes of this show, and it's at least midly interesting as it's based on real investigations in the US government's Project Blue Book starting in the 1950s.

    There was a movie back in the 70's with a similar name/theme. I remember being very excited to see it (at a drive-in back then). I'll have to check out the TV show, assuming you're inferring that's its good.

    digital man

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  • From Rampage@VERT/SESTAR to Nightfox on Thursday, January 02, 2020 07:10:29
    Re: Operation Blue Book TV show
    By: Nightfox to All on Wed Jan 01 2020 15:33:36


    Does anyone watch this show? I've always been interested in the UFO phenomenon and am curious if we'll ever see extraterrestrial life in
    our lifetime, and if the world's governments already know something.
    I've watched the first several episodes of this show, and it's at
    least midly interesting as it's based on real investigations in the
    US government's Project Blue Book starting in the 1950s.

    "Operation Blue Book" or "Project Blue Book"??

    i remember a show of that or very similar name back in the '70s... i don't think it was "Project UFO" but it might have been... one of the reviewers askes about it being known as "Project Blue Book" and that is listed as an alternative title... i certainly remember a show by that name, though...

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077065/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_U.F.O.

    i do not recognize the title screen shot on wikipedia, though... it doesn't look familiar but the episodes seem to be... the showing times seem to be about how i remember, too, because it was a late evening show...

    while searching, i also found this which is nice...

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0y_pNxamlHSI_G2mHfDhLmxgAUdLEd60

    or, for long line breakage, this tiny url...

    https://tinyurl.com/w2vq3b5




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  • From Lupine Furmen@VERT/FURFOL to Nightfox on Thursday, January 02, 2020 09:27:40
    Re: Operation Blue Book TV show
    By: Nightfox to All on Wed Jan 01 2020 15:33:36

    Does anyone watch this show? I've always been interested in the UFO phenomenon and am curious if we'll ever see extraterrestrial life in our lifetime, and if the world's governments already know something. I've watched the first several episodes of this show, and it's at least midly interesting as it's based on real investigations in the US government's Project Blue Book starting in the 1950s.

    Wow, that's an old series. I remember watching it when I was a kid.
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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Digital Man on Thursday, January 02, 2020 13:45:04
    Re: Operation Blue Book TV show
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Thu Jan 02 2020 01:19 am

    There was a movie back in the 70's with a similar name/theme. I remember being very excited to see it (at a drive-in back then). I'll have to check out the TV show, assuming you're inferring that's its good.

    Overall I think the show is good. It has a feel of The X-Files as well as a mystery drama. I'm still a little skeptical that the subject deserves an entire TV series, but I think it's still an interesting show.

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Rampage on Thursday, January 02, 2020 13:46:39
    Re: Operation Blue Book TV show
    By: Rampage to Nightfox on Thu Jan 02 2020 07:10 am

    "Operation Blue Book" or "Project Blue Book"??

    Project Blue Book. It's a fairly recent show; Season 1 started in January 2019.

    i remember a show of that or very similar name back in the '70s... i don't think it was "Project UFO" but it might have been... one of the reviewers askes about it being known as "Project Blue Book" and that is listed as an alternative title... i certainly remember a show by that name, though...

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077065/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_U.F.O.

    i do not recognize the title screen shot on wikipedia, though... it doesn't look familiar but the episodes seem to be... the showing times seem to be about how i remember, too, because it was a late evening show...

    while searching, i also found this which is nice...

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0y_pNxamlHSI_G2mHfDhLmxgAUdLEd60

    or, for long line breakage, this tiny url...

    https://tinyurl.com/w2vq3b5

    Interesting.

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Lupine Furmen on Thursday, January 02, 2020 13:47:06
    Re: Operation Blue Book TV show
    By: Lupine Furmen to Nightfox on Thu Jan 02 2020 09:27 am

    Wow, that's an old series. I remember watching it when I was a kid.

    No, it's not old, season 1 just started in January 2019..

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Lupine Furmen on Thursday, January 02, 2020 13:55:47
    Re: Operation Blue Book TV show
    By: Nightfox to Lupine Furmen on Thu Jan 02 2020 01:47 pm

    Wow, that's an old series. I remember watching it when I was a kid.

    No, it's not old, season 1 just started in January 2019..

    I realized I meant Project Blue Book, not Operation Blue Book..

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Digital Man on Thursday, January 02, 2020 13:56:47
    Re: Operation Blue Book TV show
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Thu Jan 02 2020 01:19 am

    There was a movie back in the 70's with a similar name/theme. I remember

    I just raelized I had typed Operation Blue Book when I meant Project Blue Book..

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blue_Book

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Nightfox on Thursday, January 02, 2020 15:06:00
    Re: Operation Blue Book TV sh
    By: Nightfox to All on Wed Jan 01 2020 03:33 pm

    Does anyone watch this show? I've always been interested in the UFO phenome s show, and it's at least midly interesting as it's based on real investigat

    Nightfox


    I watched the pilot episode and maybe another 2 episodes, and couldn't get
    into it. It seemed too obvious there was a conspiracy going on right from
    the get go, almost like it was like the wrost kept secret in the higher government circles. The pilot was supposed to be the skeptic, and right off
    I got the impression he's being told not to be as helpful.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Digital Man on Thursday, January 02, 2020 15:12:00
    Re: Operation Blue Book TV sh
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Thu Jan 02 2020 01:19 am

    Re: Operation Blue Book TV show
    By: Nightfox to All on Wed Jan 01 2020 03:33 pm

    Does anyone watch this show? I've always been interested in the UFO phenomenon and am curious if we'll ever see extraterrestrial life in our lifetime, and if the world's governments already know something. I've watched the first several episodes of this show, and it's at least midly interesting as it's based on real investigations in the US government's Project Blue Book starting in the 1950s.

    There was a movie back in the 70's with a similar name/theme. I remember bei

    digital man

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    IIRC it was called Project UFO.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Moondog on Thursday, January 02, 2020 15:18:37
    Re: Operation Blue Book TV sh
    By: Moondog to Nightfox on Thu Jan 02 2020 03:06 pm

    I watched the pilot episode and maybe another 2 episodes, and couldn't get into it. It seemed too obvious there was a conspiracy going on right from the get go, almost like it was like the wrost kept secret in the higher government circles. The pilot was supposed to be the skeptic, and right off I got the impression he's being told not to be as helpful.

    I had a feeling that a government conspiracy/cover-up is probably the whole point of the show. The US government has been quiet on the UFO issue, but it's still debateable about what they found at Roswell in 1947. I heard that when the UFO at Roswell was discovered, there was initially a story run in the news that the US government found a "flying saucer", but right away (the next day?), the US government changed their position and said it was a weather balloon. If it was a weather balloon, why not just state that from the start?

    Nightfox

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to NIGHTFOX on Thursday, January 02, 2020 18:37:00
    Does anyone watch this show? I've always been interested in the UFO phenomenon
    and am curious if we'll ever see extraterrestrial life in our lifetime, and if >he world's governments already know something. I've watched the first several >pisodes of this show, and it's at least midly interesting as it's based on real
    investigations in the US government's Project Blue Book starting in the 1950s.

    I remember a TV show called "(something) Blue Book" back in the 1970's. It sounds like maybe it was based off of, or related to, a movie that was out
    back then (based on DM's post). I watched it a couple of times but I was a young child and, as my father did not believe in UFOs, it was not tuned
    into on our TV at home much. :)

    I have heard of the new show. Where is it available?


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Dumas Walker on Thursday, January 02, 2020 17:08:22
    Re: Operation Blue Book TV sh
    By: Dumas Walker to NIGHTFOX on Thu Jan 02 2020 06:37 pm

    I remember a TV show called "(something) Blue Book" back in the 1970's. It sounds like maybe it was based off of, or related to, a movie that was out back then (based on DM's post). I watched it a couple of times but I was a young child and, as my father did not believe in UFOs, it was not tuned into on our TV at home much. :)

    I have heard of the new show. Where is it available?

    In the original subject, I meant to say Project Blue Book, not Operation Blue Book.

    It's produced by the History Channel (I guess they're just called "History" these days). I've seen Amazon Prime stream it. I don't have cable TV, but I suppose it's probably on the History Channel if you have cable.

    I tend to think the universe is so huge that I have a hard time believing we're the only intelligent life out there. I also don't think we know all there is to know about physics, and it might be possible that there is a way to travel through the universe that we haven't discovered yet.

    Nightfox

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  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to Nightfox on Friday, January 03, 2020 08:25:57
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Nightfox to Moondog on Thu Jan 02 2020 03:18 pm

    I had a feeling that a government conspiracy/cover-up is probably the whole point of the show. The US government has been quiet on the UFO issue, but

    The assasination of President Kennedy was a conspiracy. Not UFO's. We need to get our priorities straight. ;-)

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to HusTler on Friday, January 03, 2020 15:54:14
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: HusTler to Nightfox on Fri Jan 03 2020 08:25 am

    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Nightfox to Moondog on Thu Jan 02 2020 03:18 pm

    I had a feeling that a government conspiracy/cover-up is probably the who point of the show. The US government has been quiet on the UFO issue, bu

    The assasination of President Kennedy was a conspiracy. Not UFO's. We nee to get our priorities straight. ;-)


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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Nightfox on Friday, January 03, 2020 14:39:00
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Nightfox to Moondog on Thu Jan 02 2020 03:18 pm

    Re: Operation Blue Book TV sh
    By: Moondog to Nightfox on Thu Jan 02 2020 03:06 pm

    I watched the pilot episode and maybe another 2 episodes, and couldn't into it. It seemed too obvious there was a conspiracy going on right fr the get go, almost like it was like the wrost kept secret in the higher government circles. The pilot was supposed to be the skeptic, and right off I got the impression he's being told not to be as helpful.

    I had a feeling that a government conspiracy/cover-up is probably the whole as discovered, there was initially a story run in the news that the US gover st state that from the start?

    Nightfox


    I have no problem with conspiracy / coverup being part of the plot. don't
    make it so obvious, like a poorly kept joke.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Dumas Walker on Friday, January 03, 2020 14:40:00
    Re: Operation Blue Book TV sh
    By: Dumas Walker to NIGHTFOX on Thu Jan 02 2020 06:37 pm

    Does anyone watch this show? I've always been interested in the UFO phenom >and am curious if we'll ever see extraterrestrial life in our lifetime, and >he world's governments already know something. I've watched the first seve >pisodes of this show, and it's at least midly interesting as it's based on >investigations in the US government's Project Blue Book starting in the 195

    I remember a TV show called "(something) Blue Book" back in the 1970's. It sounds like maybe it was based off of, or related to, a movie that was out back then (based on DM's post). I watched it a couple of times but I was a young child and, as my father did not believe in UFOs, it was not tuned
    into on our TV at home much. :)

    I have heard of the new show. Where is it available?


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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to HusTler on Friday, January 03, 2020 14:42:00
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: HusTler to Nightfox on Fri Jan 03 2020 08:25 am

    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Nightfox to Moondog on Thu Jan 02 2020 03:18 pm

    I had a feeling that a government conspiracy/cover-up is probably the who point of the show. The US government has been quiet on the UFO issue, bu

    The assasination of President Kennedy was a conspiracy. Not UFO's. We nee

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Moondog on Friday, January 03, 2020 14:48:12
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Moondog to Nightfox on Fri Jan 03 2020 02:39 pm

    I have no problem with conspiracy / coverup being part of the plot. don't make it so obvious, like a poorly kept joke.

    And I don't have a problem with a coverup being brought to light.

    Nightfox

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to NIGHTFOX on Friday, January 03, 2020 18:47:00
    It's produced by the History Channel (I guess they're just called "History" the
    e days). I've seen Amazon Prime stream it. I don't have cable TV, but I suppo
    e it's probably on the History Channel if you have cable.

    I do. I used to watch History all the time when it was actually about
    history. I need to check the schedule and see if/when it is on!

    I tend to think the universe is so huge that I have a hard time believing we're
    the only intelligent life out there. I also don't think we know all there is t
    know about physics, and it might be possible that there is a way to travel thro
    ugh the universe that we haven't discovered yet.

    I think the odds are that there is other life out there. There may even be good odds that some forms of it are intelligent. On the other hand, it
    seems like most of these exo-planets they've been finding are either not in
    the habitable zones or, if they are, lack other features that would make complex life a likelihood.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Friday, January 03, 2020 21:58:12
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Nightfox to Moondog on Fri Jan 03 2020 02:48 pm

    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Moondog to Nightfox on Fri Jan 03 2020 02:39 pm

    I have no problem with conspiracy / coverup being part of the plot. don make it so obvious, like a poorly kept joke.

    And I don't have a problem with a coverup being brought to light.



    you sure seem quick to defend that fake moon landing.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Dumas Walker on Friday, January 03, 2020 22:15:56
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Dumas Walker to NIGHTFOX on Fri Jan 03 2020 06:47 pm

    I think the odds are that there is other life out there. There may even be good odds that some forms of it are intelligent. On the other hand, it seems like most of these exo-planets they've been finding are either not in the habitable zones or, if they are, lack other features that would make complex life a likelihood.

    It seems like they've been discovering a lot of them lately though. I've heard some are in the habitable zone for their solar system. And as big as the universe is, I'm betting there are a lot more out there we haven't seen yet.

    Nightfox

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  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to Dumas Walker on Saturday, January 04, 2020 08:09:52
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Dumas Walker to NIGHTFOX on Fri Jan 03 2020 06:47 pm

    I do. I used to watch History all the time when it was actually about history. I need to check the schedule and see if/when it is on!

    Remember when History Channel had great shows about "history"? I was willing to pay for it back then. You what the have on now? Pawn Stars and American Pickers. And the shows run all day. Sad..very sad.


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to HusTler on Saturday, January 04, 2020 12:09:19
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: HusTler to Dumas Walker on Sat Jan 04 2020 08:09 am

    Remember when History Channel had great shows about "history"? I was willing to pay for it back then. You what the have on now? Pawn Stars and American Pickers. And the shows run all day. Sad..very sad.

    At least Project Blue Book is about something that happened in recent history..

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to MRO on Saturday, January 04, 2020 12:34:50
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: MRO to Nightfox on Fri Jan 03 2020 09:58 pm

    And I don't have a problem with a coverup being brought to light.

    you sure seem quick to defend that fake moon landing.

    I don't think there's much reason to believe it was faked. That's one of those things where after 50 years, I'd think we'd know by now if it was faked. One reason is Russia was in a space race with us, and if we had faked it, I'd think the Russians want to tell the world about that.

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  • From Marisag@VERT/AMIGAC to Rampage on Saturday, January 04, 2020 13:35:01
    Re: Operation Blue Book TV show
    By: Rampage to Nightfox on Thu Jan 02 2020 07:10:29

    I used to watch that "project blue book" show back in the day. I figured this now one was a reboot...

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Nightfox on Sunday, January 05, 2020 13:46:00
    On 01-03-20 22:15, Nightfox wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

    It seems like they've been discovering a lot of them lately though.
    I've heard some are in the habitable zone for their solar system. And
    as big as the universe is, I'm betting there are a lot more out there
    we haven't seen yet.

    Yes, there's literally thousands of known exoplanets now, and we've barely scratched the surface. There's such a diversity of planets out there too. Surely, we're not alone. One thing that seems to happen in this corner of the Universe is that things tend to progress towards local complexity and order, which has led to intelligent life. And there's some evidence to suggest that there's more than one evolutionary road to intelligence - some very different species such as octopus are also quite intelligent.

    So why isn't a similar process happening elsewhere in the Universe? I suspect it is, but the vast distances make it harder for us to meet our interstellar neighbours. :)

    I'm also sure that if we do something stupid and make ourselves extinct, some other intelligent species will emerge to take our place in several million years time. :)


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  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to mro on Saturday, January 04, 2020 21:03:28
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Nightfox to MRO on Sat Jan 04 2020 12:34 pm

    And I don't have a problem with a coverup being brought to light.

    you sure seem quick to defend that fake moon landing.

    Where did this fake Moon Landings come from? I just watched Apollo 11 (2019) documentary. (Great Movie) which part was fake? All of it? What authority claims it was fake? The UFO guys?

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Saturday, January 04, 2020 21:54:17
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Nightfox to MRO on Sat Jan 04 2020 12:34 pm

    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: MRO to Nightfox on Fri Jan 03 2020 09:58 pm

    And I don't have a problem with a coverup being brought to light.

    you sure seem quick to defend that fake moon landing.

    I don't think there's much reason to believe it was faked. That's one of th


    there's no reason to belive it was faked if you dont look at the many facts we have about the entire situation.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to HusTler on Saturday, January 04, 2020 21:57:03
    Re: Fake Landings
    By: HusTler to mro on Sat Jan 04 2020 09:03 pm

    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Nightfox to MRO on Sat Jan 04 2020 12:34 pm

    And I don't have a problem with a coverup being brought to light.

    you sure seem quick to defend that fake moon landing.

    Where did this fake Moon Landings come from? I just watched Apollo 11 (2019 documentary. (Great Movie) which part was fake? All of it? What authority claims it was fake? The UFO guys?



    i dont know who the ufo guys are. there's just a lot of funny stuff happening back then that makes no sense. there's a lot of information out there. there's a lot of stuff that nasa did that was strange.

    like i said before, i saw that shit at the air and space museum in Dc and no fucking way did people wear that shit in outerspace. you could poke your finger through that shit.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Vk3jed on Saturday, January 04, 2020 21:11:15
    Re: Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Vk3jed to Nightfox on Sun Jan 05 2020 01:46 pm

    So why isn't a similar process happening elsewhere in the Universe? I suspect it is, but the vast distances make it harder for us to meet our interstellar neighbours. :)

    I think that's a distinct possibility. The Fermi paradox asks that question, and I've heard of a few theories. It could be that there were advanced civilizations on other planets that evolved and died off long ago. Perhaps others aren't space-faring yet or don't even have technology to be broadcasting radio waves, etc..

    I'm also sure that if we do something stupid and make ourselves extinct, some other intelligent species will emerge to take our place in several million years time. :)

    True. :)

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to MRO on Saturday, January 04, 2020 21:11:49
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: MRO to Nightfox on Sat Jan 04 2020 09:54 pm

    I don't think there's much reason to believe it was faked. That's one
    of th

    there's no reason to belive it was faked if you dont look at the many facts we have about the entire situation.

    There are also a lot of facts that support it not being faked.

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to HusTler on Saturday, January 04, 2020 21:13:43
    Re: Fake Landings
    By: HusTler to mro on Sat Jan 04 2020 09:03 pm

    you sure seem quick to defend that fake moon landing.

    Where did this fake Moon Landings come from? I just watched Apollo 11 (2019) documentary. (Great Movie) which part was fake? All of it? What authority claims it was fake? The UFO guys?

    People have been theorizing for years that the first moon landing was fake. I remember seeing the movie Sneakers in 1992 when it came out and there was a joke in there about the moon landing being faked.

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to MRO on Saturday, January 04, 2020 21:24:24
    Re: Fake Landings
    By: MRO to HusTler on Sat Jan 04 2020 09:57 pm

    like i said before, i saw that shit at the air and space museum in Dc and no fucking way did people wear that shit in outerspace. you could poke your finger through that shit.

    I'm sure there was a reason for that, and I don't claim to know more than the scientists and engineers who worked on that stuff.

    There's still stuff left on the moon from the moon landing. There is a reflector array that was installed on the moon that still works today - We can reflect lasers off of it.

    There's plenty of information out there supporting the moon landing (though you'll probably find a way to say it's all lies or fake):

    https://bit.ly/2QsYEPX
    Full URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/12/12/heres-your-proof-that-w e-landed-on-the-moon-steph-curry/#4444d16449d9

    https://www.history.com/news/moon-landing-fake-conspiracy-theories

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Nightfox on Sunday, January 05, 2020 17:11:00
    On 01-04-20 21:11, Nightfox wrote to Vk3jed <=-

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    Re: Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Vk3jed to Nightfox on Sun Jan 05 2020 01:46 pm

    So why isn't a similar process happening elsewhere in the Universe? I suspect it is, but the vast distances make it harder for us to meet our interstellar neighbours. :)

    I think that's a distinct possibility. The Fermi paradox asks that question, and I've heard of a few theories. It could be that there
    were advanced civilizations on other planets that evolved and died off long ago. Perhaps others aren't space-faring yet or don't even have technology to be broadcasting radio waves, etc..

    There's other possible answers too, like that civilisations around our level are more than 200 light years apart - which means they wouldn't know of each other's existence. And another issue, that I haven't seen specifically mentioned is that because of the finite speed of light, the only civilisations that would hope to see would (now) be considerably more advanced than us, even if we detected them as being at approximately equivalent, because we're seeing them as they were years/centuries ago. A civilisation 1000 light years away would have advanced 1000 years beyond how we see them from Earth.

    Of course, if FTL travel ever becomes feasible, then that will give a more accurate picture than any remote observation could. :)

    And if we treat intelligent life as an emergent property of this Universe, then chances are other civilisations (at least in this galaxy) are at a stage comparable to our own. And therein lies the answer to Fermi's Paradox - we're not seeing other civilisations, because of a combination of:

    1. Sheer distance - we're all far apart.

    2. Relativity - signs of other civilisations haven't reached Earth yet, due to the finite speed of light.

    I'm also sure that if we do something stupid and make ourselves extinct, some other intelligent species will emerge to take our place in several million years time. :)

    True. :)

    Yep, each iteration of complex life on Earth after extinction events seems to have become more advanced. The extinction events are like hitting the reset button, allowing different species to become dominant.


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Nightfox on Sunday, January 05, 2020 17:17:00
    On 01-04-20 21:24, Nightfox wrote to MRO <=-

    There's plenty of information out there supporting the moon landing (though you'll probably find a way to say it's all lies or fake):

    It has also been suggested that it would have been harder to fake the moon landings, given all the details, than to have actually done the real thing. This is given that you not only have to put stuff on the Moon that is there - has been seen, and is used for science experiments, but also the accuracy of movement in 1/6g was correct (I have seen experiments done in the "vomit comet" to compare movement in actual 1/6g to that fudged by means normally accessible to movie studios).

    And then there's a number of third parties like radio amateurs who tracked the mission, which means antennas pointing in the right direction, as well as correct Doppler shift for where the spacecraft was, no matter where in the world they were. There's only one way that could have happened. :)

    Yeah, just try faking all of that. ;)


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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Nightfox on Sunday, January 05, 2020 00:30:00
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Nightfox to HusTler on Sat Jan 04 2020 12:09 pm

    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: HusTler to Dumas Walker on Sat Jan 04 2020 08:09 am

    Remember when History Channel had great shows about "history"? I was willing to pay for it back then. You what the have on now? Pawn Stars a American Pickers. And the shows run all day. Sad..very sad.

    At least Project Blue Book is about something that happened in recent histor

    Nightfox

    History based fiction. Not quite the same as retelling historic accounts.



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  • From Rampage@VERT/SESTAR to Marisag on Sunday, January 05, 2020 07:19:32
    Re: Operation Blue Book TV show
    By: Marisag to Rampage on Sat Jan 04 2020 13:35:01


    I used to watch that "project blue book" show back in the day. I figured this now one was a reboot...

    yup, exactly... i'd have to see the new one to see if the format is the same or if it is simply a whole new show with a similar theme and name... too bad i don't get the history channel any more...


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  • From Rampage@VERT/SESTAR to HusTler on Sunday, January 05, 2020 07:23:23
    Re: Fake Landings
    By: HusTler to mro on Sat Jan 04 2020 21:03:28


    And I don't have a problem with a coverup being brought to light.

    you sure seem quick to defend that fake moon landing.

    Where did this fake Moon Landings come from? I just watched Apollo
    11 (2019) documentary. (Great Movie) which part was fake? All of
    it? What authority claims it was fake? The UFO guys?

    it comes from conspiracy theorists and deniers... they say it was all put on and faked on a movie set sound stage... their biggest argument stems from total ignorance as to why they cannot see stars in the moon landing pictures... ignorance is what drives these conspiracy theorys...


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  • From Rampage@VERT/SESTAR to MRO on Sunday, January 05, 2020 07:24:37
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: MRO to Nightfox on Sat Jan 04 2020 21:54:17


    there's no reason to belive it was faked if you dont look at the many facts we have about the entire situation.

    these are proven scientific facts? where are they documented, please...


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  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to All on Sunday, January 05, 2020 09:27:22
    Re: Fake Landings
    By: Nightfox to MRO on Sat Jan 04 2020 09:24 pm

    like i said before, i saw that shit at the air and space museum in Dc and no fucking way did people wear that shit in outerspace. you could poke your finger through that shit.

    Well if the landings were fake then NASA owes the American Tax Payor several billion dollars. I would also question the validity of all the Mars landings and other space exploration vehicles out there. All those pictures are fake? All the data collected is made up? But if you DO believe the moon landing was real I recommend seeing Apollo 11 (2019). You can DL it from my BBS.

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Vk3jed on Sunday, January 05, 2020 09:50:00
    Vk3jed wrote to Nightfox <=-

    On 01-04-20 21:24, Nightfox wrote to MRO <=-

    There's plenty of information out there supporting the moon landing (though you'll probably find a way to say it's all lies or fake):

    It has also been suggested that it would have been harder to fake
    the moon landings, given all the details, than to have actually
    done the real thing. This is given that you not only have to put
    stuff on the Moon that is there - has been seen, and is used for
    science experiments, but also the accuracy of movement in 1/6g
    was correct (I have seen experiments done in the "vomit comet" to
    compare movement in actual 1/6g to that fudged by means normally accessible to movie studios).

    And then there's a number of third parties like radio amateurs
    who tracked the mission, which means antennas pointing in the
    right direction, as well as correct Doppler shift for where the
    spacecraft was, no matter where in the world they were. There's
    only one way that could have happened. :)

    Yeah, just try faking all of that. ;)

    Yep. Anyone who actually believes the moon landings were faked
    is...... an idiot.


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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Vk3jed on Sunday, January 05, 2020 09:55:00
    Vk3jed wrote to Nightfox <=-

    On 01-03-20 22:15, Nightfox wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

    It seems like they've been discovering a lot of them lately though.
    I've heard some are in the habitable zone for their solar system. And
    as big as the universe is, I'm betting there are a lot more out there
    we haven't seen yet.

    Yes, there's literally thousands of known exoplanets now, and
    we've barely scratched the surface. There's such a diversity of
    planets out there too. Surely, we're not alone. One thing that
    seems to happen in this corner of the Universe is that things
    tend to progress towards local complexity and order, which has
    led to intelligent life. And there's some evidence to suggest
    that there's more than one evolutionary road to intelligence -
    some very different species such as octopus are also quite
    intelligent.

    So why isn't a similar process happening elsewhere in the
    Universe? I suspect it is, but the vast distances make it harder
    for us to meet our interstellar neighbours. :)

    Agreed. The number of planets/solar systems/galaxies that exist
    is so vast that it's pretty much beyond comprehension. To think
    that our one little planet is the ONLY one where conditions are
    right for life is pretty naive. There are SURELY huge numbers of
    other planets where there are life forms at various stages of intelligence/advancement. I'd go so far as to say that it's VERY
    doubtful that we are even close to the most advanced.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to NIGHTFOX on Sunday, January 05, 2020 13:04:00
    Remember when History Channel had great shows about "history"? I was
    willing to pay for it back then. You what the have on now? Pawn Stars and >Hu> American Pickers. And the shows run all day. Sad..very sad.

    At least Project Blue Book is about something that happened in recent history..

    It is good that they are actually doing a show that does have a history
    aspect to it.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Sunday, January 05, 2020 13:07:00
    there's no reason to belive it was faked if you dont look at the many facts we >have about the entire situation.

    LOL, I would not swear to it, but I can almost remember you making fun of someone a while back because they thought the Moon landing was fake. :)


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  • From Rampage@VERT/SESTAR to HusTler on Sunday, January 05, 2020 13:05:00
    Re: Fake Landings
    By: HusTler to All on Sun Jan 05 2020 09:27:22


    I recommend seeing Apollo 11 (2019). You can DL it from my BBS.

    apparently you are not running the web server or you are running it on a non-standard port... my firefox tells me there's no connection to havens.synchro.net when i try with http and https...


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Rampage on Sunday, January 05, 2020 09:58:00
    Rampage wrote to HusTler <=-

    it comes from conspiracy theorists and deniers... they say it was all
    put on and faked on a movie set sound stage... their biggest argument stems from total ignorance as to why they cannot see stars in the moon landing pictures... ignorance is what drives these conspiracy
    theorys...

    I loved the movie Capricorn One - it was about a Mars landing that NASA knew would fail, so they faked the landing and planned on killing the astronauts.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to HusTler on Sunday, January 05, 2020 09:59:00
    HusTler wrote to mro <=-

    Where did this fake Moon Landings come from? I just watched Apollo 11 (2019) documentary. (Great Movie) which part was fake? All of it? What authority claims it was fake? The UFO guys?

    The Flat Earth Society.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to HusTler on Sunday, January 05, 2020 10:00:00
    HusTler wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

    Remember when History Channel had great shows about "history"? I was willing to pay for it back then. You what the have on now? Pawn Stars
    and American Pickers. And the shows run all day. Sad..very sad.

    I'm trying to think what would have happened if MTV debuted with morons in a group house trying to procreate instead of music videos?


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to MRO on Sunday, January 05, 2020 10:07:00
    MRO wrote to Nightfox <=-

    there's no reason to belive it was faked if you dont look at the many facts we have about the entire situation.

    Fact number 1: Buzz Aldrin will punch you.



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  • From Zombie Mambo@VERT/ZZONE to Nightfox on Sunday, January 05, 2020 11:50:47
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Nightfox to MRO on Sat Jan 04 2020 12:34 pm

    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: MRO to Nightfox on Fri Jan 03 2020 09:58 pm

    And I don't have a problem with a coverup being brought to light.

    you sure seem quick to defend that fake moon landing.

    I don't think there's much reason to believe it was faked. That's one of th
    to tell the world about that.

    Nightfox


    I always thought the fact that we still don't know for sure means it was fake. MAYBE we got there in the 70s, but 69 was faked. When you have to defend every single little detail with "facts" that are hard to believe, it seems fake.

    Boeing can't even get their planes to fly, but we got through radiation with tinfoil, and got everything right about gravity, gravitational pulls, orbits, solar flares, rate of descent and ascent, etc? With a Ti-Calculator for a computer?

    We can't keep people alive on earth but we kept three guys alive in little suits with oxygen and food and water, let them split up, kept one in orbit until the others landed, walked around, planted a flag, then got back in their little tank and jetisoned back up to the 3rd where they reconnected, crawled into yet another tank, and rocketed through the extreme heat of earth rentry safely landing in the ocean?

    Not buying it.

    There would be real video of this and real touch/feel evidence, and by now, a constant camera monitoring the sites from a satellite or something in orbit around said moon.


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  • From Zombie Mambo@VERT/ZZONE to MRO on Sunday, January 05, 2020 11:52:36
    Re: Fake Landings
    By: MRO to HusTler on Sat Jan 04 2020 09:57 pm

    Re: Fake Landings
    By: HusTler to mro on Sat Jan 04 2020 09:03 pm

    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Nightfox to MRO on Sat Jan 04 2020 12:34 pm

    And I don't have a problem with a coverup being brought to light.

    you sure seem quick to defend that fake moon landing.

    Where did this fake Moon Landings come from? I just watched Apollo 11 (2 documentary. (Great Movie) which part was fake? All of it? What authority claims it was fake? The UFO guys?



    i dont know who the ufo guys are. there's just a lot of funny stuff happeni back then that makes no sense. there's a lot of information out there. there's a lot of stuff that nasa did that was strange.

    like i said before, i saw that shit at the air and space museum in Dc and no fucking way did people wear that shit in outerspace. you could poke your fin through that shit.

    Plus EVERYONE knows the data types for computer systems were not what they are today. At best they had INT for a data type ending at 32,768 and if MILESTOMOON column in their DB was set to INT there's no way they could have made it the whole way. Any rookie NASA DBA could use the data to conclude it was faked.

    :)


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  • From Zombie Mambo@VERT/ZZONE to Vk3jed on Sunday, January 05, 2020 11:56:25
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Vk3jed to Nightfox on Sun Jan 05 2020 05:17 pm

    On 01-04-20 21:24, Nightfox wrote to MRO <=-

    There's plenty of information out there supporting the moon landing (though you'll probably find a way to say it's all lies or fake):

    It has also been suggested that it would have been harder to fake the moon landings, given all the details, than to have actually done the real thing. This is given that you not only have to put stuff on the Moon that is there has been seen, and is used for science experiments, but also the accuracy of movement in 1/6g was correct (I have seen experiments done in the "vomit com to compare movement in actual 1/6g to that fudged by means normally accessib to movie studios).

    And then there's a number of third parties like radio amateurs who tracked t mission, which means antennas pointing in the right direction, as well as correct Doppler shift for where the spacecraft was, no matter where in the world they were. There's only one way that could have happened. :)

    Yeah, just try faking all of that. ;)


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    Maybe the "stuff" on the moon that is "there" was put there later, but not in 1969.

    And maybe it was put there by un-manned missions that crashed into the moon at a controlled rate of speed and deployed prior to the crash. who knows.

    I mean how hard would it be to gently float a mirror on to the surface to later be used for "scientific experiments" ?

    With all the technology of today it still took them a few tries to catch the expired rocket on the ship (spacex?). But we're to believe they could land safely, re-launch, and meet up with their 3rd partner, then detach and land back on earth safely. In 1969.


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Gamgee on Monday, January 06, 2020 07:25:00
    On 01-05-20 09:50, Gamgee wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Yeah, just try faking all of that. ;)

    Yep. Anyone who actually believes the moon landings were faked
    is...... an idiot.

    Some people just like to believe in conspiracy theories. :/


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Gamgee on Monday, January 06, 2020 07:28:00
    On 01-05-20 09:55, Gamgee wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    So why isn't a similar process happening elsewhere in the
    Universe? I suspect it is, but the vast distances make it harder
    for us to meet our interstellar neighbours. :)

    Agreed. The number of planets/solar systems/galaxies that exist
    is so vast that it's pretty much beyond comprehension. To think
    that our one little planet is the ONLY one where conditions are
    right for life is pretty naive. There are SURELY huge numbers of
    other planets where there are life forms at various stages of intelligence/advancement. I'd go so far as to say that it's VERY
    doubtful that we are even close to the most advanced.

    Actually the law of averages would say that we're most probably around the middle of the pack, in the absence of any other information. :) There seems to be some level of synchronicity in the Universe, especially in living things. For example, there's several documented examples of people in different parts of the world independently inventing the same thing.


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Vk3jed on Sunday, January 05, 2020 13:13:39
    Re: Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Vk3jed to Nightfox on Sun Jan 05 2020 05:11 pm

    There's other possible answers too, like that civilisations around our level are more than 200 light years apart - which means they wouldn't know of each other's existence. And another issue, that I haven't seen specifically mentioned is that because of the finite speed of light, the only civilisations that would hope to see would (now) be considerably more advanced than us, even if we detected them as being at approximately equivalent, because we're seeing them as they were years/centuries ago. A civilisation 1000 light years away would have advanced 1000 years beyond how we see them from Earth.

    Of course, if FTL travel ever becomes feasible, then that will give a more accurate picture than any remote observation could. :)

    And if we treat intelligent life as an emergent property of this Universe, then chances are other civilisations (at least in this galaxy) are at a stage comparable to our own. And therein lies the answer to Fermi's Paradox - we're not seeing other civilisations, because of a combination of:

    1. Sheer distance - we're all far apart.

    2. Relativity - signs of other civilisations haven't reached Earth yet, due to the finite speed of light.

    True, and good points. :)

    Yep, each iteration of complex life on Earth after extinction events seems to have become more advanced. The extinction events are like hitting the reset button, allowing different species to become dominant.

    I've also heard a theory that humans might not have originated from Earth and may have been planted here by extraterrestrials. I doubt that though, since there are primate species on earth that are very similar (and I've heard we humans have about 99% of our DNA in common with chiimpanzees.

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Vk3jed on Sunday, January 05, 2020 13:15:02
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Vk3jed to Nightfox on Sun Jan 05 2020 05:17 pm

    It has also been suggested that it would have been harder to fake the moon landings, given all the details, than to have actually done the real thing. This is given that you not only have to put stuff on the Moon that is there - has been seen, and is used for science experiments, but also the accuracy of movement in 1/6g was correct (I have seen experiments done in the "vomit comet" to compare movement in actual 1/6g to that fudged by means normally accessible to movie studios).

    And then there's a number of third parties like radio amateurs who tracked the mission, which means antennas pointing in the right direction, as well as correct Doppler shift for where the spacecraft was, no matter where in the world they were. There's only one way that could have happened. :)

    Yeah, just try faking all of that. ;)

    Yep. Although we were able to make movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey, I don't think our level of special effects technology was good enough at the time to fake something like a moon landing.

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Zombie Mambo on Sunday, January 05, 2020 13:23:00
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Zombie Mambo to Nightfox on Sun Jan 05 2020 11:50 am

    I always thought the fact that we still don't know for sure means it was fake. MAYBE we got there in the 70s, but 69 was faked. When you have to

    What do you mean, "still don't know for sure"? We've known for sure since it happened. The problem is when people come up with conspiracy theories and spread them which confuses things.

    Boeing can't even get their planes to fly, but we got through radiation

    Again, what do you mean by "Boeing can't even get their planes to fly"? Are you aware Boeing has been around making airplanes that fly for a long time? They may have had a problem with ONE of their models (737) recently but that's just one model in recent times in the whole history of Boeing. Companies aren't perfect and sometimes make a product with problems; you can't expect everything to be perfect.

    orbits, solar flares, rate of descent and ascent, etc? With a Ti-Calculator for a computer?

    Are you an expert in computing? In a similar aspect, think of how much computing power today's commercial jets have, vs. what airplanes/jets had back in the 50s & 60s - Even though we have it now, all that computing power wasn't always needed. You may be underestimating what engineers and scientists could do back in the day.

    We can't keep people alive on earth but we kept three guys alive in little

    Since when have we had our priorities straight though? We spend money to fight wars, host Olympic games, etc., while at the same time there are many homeless people in the world who don't have enough to eat.

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Rampage on Sunday, January 05, 2020 13:32:25
    Re: Fake Landings
    By: Rampage to HusTler on Sun Jan 05 2020 07:23 am

    it comes from conspiracy theorists and deniers... they say it was all put on and faked on a movie set sound stage... their biggest argument stems from total ignorance as to why they cannot see stars in the moon landing pictures... ignorance is what drives these conspiracy theorys...

    That, and why the flag seems to be waving as if there was wind (they don't seem to understand the flag was shaken due to the flag pole being planted in the ground on the moon). Or "we couldn't have had the technology yet" because computers were so much more primitive back then, etc..

    And I think if it was faked, we would have known about it by now. Russia would have found out and told the world.

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to HusTler on Sunday, January 05, 2020 13:34:05
    Re: Fake Landings
    By: HusTler to All on Sun Jan 05 2020 09:27 am

    Mars landings and other space exploration vehicles out there. All those pictures are fake? All the data collected is made up? But if you DO

    Sometimes NASA has to compose a picture of a planet or something using multiple photos from different positions because the camera just can't capture it all in one shot. And some people think because of that, it's "fake".

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, January 05, 2020 13:38:42
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to HusTler on Sun Jan 05 2020 09:59 am

    Where did this fake Moon Landings come from? I just watched Apollo

    The Flat Earth Society.

    I don't think all of the moon landing deniers are Flat Earthers, but certainly it seems most/all Flat Earthers believe the moon landing(s) was faked.

    The first time I stumbled upon the Flat Earth Society web site, I thought it was some kind of joke or satire.. It seemed I was wrong. I wasn't around in the 60s during the space race, but sometimes I wonder how we went from there to now, where a lot of people believe the Earth is flat? In some ways it seems we have regressed..

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Zombie Mambo on Sunday, January 05, 2020 13:40:14
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Zombie Mambo to Nightfox on Sun Jan 05 2020 11:50 am

    fake. MAYBE we got there in the 70s, but 69 was faked. When you have to defend every single little detail with "facts" that are hard to believe, it seems fake.

    I think the burden is on the moon landing deniers to defend why the moon landing was faked. IMO that is what seems harder to believe..

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Zombie Mambo on Sunday, January 05, 2020 13:42:01
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Zombie Mambo to Vk3jed on Sun Jan 05 2020 11:56 am

    I mean how hard would it be to gently float a mirror on to the surface to later be used for "scientific experiments" ?

    First you say you don't think we could have gone to the moon with a craft that had something like a TI calculator for a computer, and then you say it should be fairly easy to just gently float a mirror onto the surface of the moon? Wat?

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Vk3jed on Sunday, January 05, 2020 16:07:00
    Vk3jed wrote to Gamgee <=-

    On 01-05-20 09:55, Gamgee wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    So why isn't a similar process happening elsewhere in the
    Universe? I suspect it is, but the vast distances make it harder
    for us to meet our interstellar neighbours. :)

    Agreed. The number of planets/solar systems/galaxies that exist
    is so vast that it's pretty much beyond comprehension. To think
    that our one little planet is the ONLY one where conditions are
    right for life is pretty naive. There are SURELY huge numbers of
    other planets where there are life forms at various stages of intelligence/advancement. I'd go so far as to say that it's VERY
    doubtful that we are even close to the most advanced.

    Actually the law of averages would say that we're most probably
    around the middle of the pack, in the absence of any other
    information. :) There seems to be some level of synchronicity in
    the Universe, especially in living things. For example, there's
    several documented examples of people in different parts of the
    world independently inventing the same thing.

    Maybe (around the middle of the pack). I might argue that we may
    be "below average" due to the age of our planet. The universe is
    roughly 13.7 billion years old. The Earth is about 4.5 billion
    years old. So, planets/systems that formed sooner (the ones
    further out from the Big Bang, closer to the edges of the
    universe), and therefore *older*... would theoretically have had
    more time to develop and be more advanced than us. That's my
    belief, anyway. :-)



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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Zombie Mambo on Sunday, January 05, 2020 16:26:00
    Zombie Mambo wrote to Nightfox <=-

    I always thought the fact that we still don't know for sure means
    it was fake. MAYBE we got there in the 70s, but 69 was faked.
    When you have to defend every single little detail with "facts"
    that are hard to believe, it seems fake.

    Of course we know for sure. Don't be an idiot.

    Boeing can't even get their planes to fly,

    I've flown on many Boeing planes, many times.

    but we got through
    radiation with tinfoil, and got everything right about gravity, gravitational pulls, orbits, solar flares, rate of descent and
    ascent, etc? With a Ti-Calculator for a computer?

    Yes.

    We can't keep people alive on earth but we kept three guys alive
    in little suits with oxygen and food and water, let them split
    up, kept one in orbit until the others landed, walked around,
    planted a flag, then got back in their little tank and jetisoned
    back up to the 3rd where they reconnected, crawled into yet
    another tank, and rocketed through the extreme heat of earth
    rentry safely landing in the ocean?

    Yes.

    Not buying it.

    See above about not being an idiot.

    There would be real video of this and real touch/feel evidence,
    and by now, a constant camera monitoring the sites from a
    satellite or something in orbit around said moon.

    There is real video of it. There is real touch/feel evidence.
    Don't be an idiot.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Rampage on Sunday, January 05, 2020 17:39:50
    Re: Fake Landings
    By: Rampage to HusTler on Sun Jan 05 2020 07:23 am


    it comes from conspiracy theorists and deniers... they say it was all put on and faked on a movie set sound stage... their biggest argument stems from to ignorance as to why they cannot see stars in the moon landing pictures... ignorance is what drives these conspiracy theorys...


    there's a lot of strange stuff regarding nasa. like they lost their data on the trip. the also taped over the video of the trip.

    i dont think we could have done it back then technology wise. we werent advanced enough.

    also they say we only landed on the moon once. why is that? just weird.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Rampage on Sunday, January 05, 2020 17:40:12
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Rampage to MRO on Sun Jan 05 2020 07:24 am

    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: MRO to Nightfox on Sat Jan 04 2020 21:54:17


    there's no reason to belive it was faked if you dont look at the many facts we have about the entire situation.

    these are proven scientific facts? where are they documented, please...


    i already posted it last time i talked about it.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Dumas Walker on Sunday, January 05, 2020 17:41:05
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Sun Jan 05 2020 01:07 pm

    there's no reason to belive it was faked if you dont look at the many facts >have about the entire situation.

    LOL, I would not swear to it, but I can almost remember you making fun of someone a while back because they thought the Moon landing was fake. :)



    nope.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, January 05, 2020 17:41:56
    Re: Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Sun Jan 05 2020 10:07 am

    MRO wrote to Nightfox <=-

    there's no reason to belive it was faked if you dont look at the many facts we have about the entire situation.

    Fact number 1: Buzz Aldrin will punch you.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Zombie Mambo on Sunday, January 05, 2020 17:46:51
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Zombie Mambo to Nightfox on Sun Jan 05 2020 11:50 am


    I always thought the fact that we still don't know for sure means it was fak MAYBE we got there in the 70s, but 69 was faked. When you have to defend eve single little detail with "facts" that are hard to believe, it seems fake.

    Boeing can't even get their planes to fly, but we got through radiation with tinfoil, and got everything right about gravity, gravitational pulls, orbits solar flares, rate of descent and ascent, etc? With a Ti-Calculator for a computer?

    We can't keep people alive on earth but we kept three guys alive in little suits with oxygen and food and water, let them split up, kept one in orbit until the others landed, walked around, planted a flag, then got back in the little tank and jetisoned back up to the 3rd where they reconnected, crawled into yet another tank, and rocketed through the extreme heat of earth rentry safely landing in the ocean?


    it's something incredibly difficult that we probably cant even do today. there's a lot of shit that doesnt make sense.

    and like i said, i have been to the air and space museum and i've seen that shit up close. you can look at the gear and everything. then you can go see a real airplane. total difference. now there are micro sized meterors and all kinds of shit flying around in space at an estimated 22,500mph. one little crum could have gone in the ship and out the other like a hot knife through butter.

    that is some fake shit. gold foil you can poke your finger through kept them alive? not to mention made it all the way up there and back?
    bullshit.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to nightfox on Sunday, January 05, 2020 17:48:28
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Nightfox to Vk3jed on Sun Jan 05 2020 01:15 pm

    Yep. Although we were able to make movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey, I don think our level of special effects technology was good enough at the time to fake something like a moon landing.


    i dont think you have even seen the video after saying that.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Sunday, January 05, 2020 17:49:58
    Re: Fake Landings
    By: Nightfox to HusTler on Sun Jan 05 2020 01:34 pm


    Sometimes NASA has to compose a picture of a planet or something using multi photos from different positions because the camera just can't capture it all one shot. And some people think because of that, it's "fake".



    hahaha

    you know every picture of the earth is a fake? why is that? they even posted the name of the guy that does it at nasa. they have even talked about it on the nasa website.


    every time nasa announces something there's no real pics. just photoshops.

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to MRO on Sunday, January 05, 2020 19:57:00
    MRO wrote to Zombie Mambo <=-

    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Zombie Mambo to Nightfox on Sun Jan 05 2020 11:50 am


    I always thought the fact that we still don't know for sure means it was fak MAYBE we got there in the 70s, but 69 was faked. When you have to defend eve single little detail with "facts" that are hard to believe, it seems fake.

    Boeing can't even get their planes to fly, but we got through radiation with tinfoil, and got everything right about gravity, gravitational pulls, orbits solar flares, rate of descent and ascent, etc? With a Ti-Calculator for a computer?

    We can't keep people alive on earth but we kept three guys alive in little suits with oxygen and food and water, let them split up, kept one in orbit until the others landed, walked around, planted a flag, then got back in the little tank and jetisoned back up to the 3rd where they reconnected, crawled into yet another tank, and rocketed through the extreme heat of earth rentry safely landing in the ocean?


    it's something incredibly difficult that we probably cant even do
    today. there's a lot of shit that doesnt make sense.

    and like i said, i have been to the air and space museum and i've
    seen that shit up close. you can look at the gear and
    everything. then you can go see a real airplane. total
    difference. now there are micro sized meterors and all kinds of
    shit flying around in space at an estimated 22,500mph. one
    little crum could have gone in the ship and out the other like a
    hot knife through butter.

    that is some fake shit. gold foil you can poke your finger
    through kept them alive? not to mention made it all the way up
    there and back? bullshit.

    You and the Zombie make a good pair. Dumb and dumber.


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to MRO on Sunday, January 05, 2020 22:44:03
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: MRO to Zombie Mambo on Sun Jan 05 2020 05:46 pm

    it's something incredibly difficult that we probably cant even do today. there's a lot of shit that doesnt make sense.

    So if we didn't land on the moon in 1969, why do you think it is that Russia hasn't called us out on it after all these years? Russia was competing with us in our space programs, and if we faked it, I'd think Russia would want to expose that fact. Or is there some big global conspiracy with other countries working with the US to hide the truth that our moon landing was faked?

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Nightfox on Sunday, January 05, 2020 23:37:00
    Re: Re: Project Blue Book TV
    By: Nightfox to Vk3jed on Sat Jan 04 2020 09:11 pm

    Re: Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Vk3jed to Nightfox on Sun Jan 05 2020 01:46 pm

    So why isn't a similar process happening elsewhere in the Universe? I suspect it is, but the vast distances make it harder for us to meet our interstellar neighbours. :)

    I think that's a distinct possibility. The Fermi paradox asks that question et or don't even have technology to be broadcasting radio waves, etc..

    I'm also sure that if we do something stupid and make ourselves extinct some other intelligent species will emerge to take our place in several million years time. :)

    True. :)

    Nightfox


    On the series Cosmos I recall them saying in Earth's history there have been
    4 near extinction events so far, and some form of life adapted and thrived afterwards. People worry about the planet, but it's not going anywhere.
    They should be worried where we're going.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Vk3jed on Sunday, January 05, 2020 23:43:00
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Vk3jed to Nightfox on Sun Jan 05 2020 05:17 pm

    On 01-04-20 21:24, Nightfox wrote to MRO <=-

    There's plenty of information out there supporting the moon landing (though you'll probably find a way to say it's all lies or fake):

    It has also been suggested that it would have been harder to fake the moon landings, given all the details, than to have actually done the real thing. This is given that you not only have to put stuff on the Moon that is there has been seen, and is used for science experiments, but also the accuracy of movement in 1/6g was correct (I have seen experiments done in the "vomit com to compare movement in actual 1/6g to that fudged by means normally accessib to movie studios).

    And then there's a number of third parties like radio amateurs who tracked t mission, which means antennas pointing in the right direction, as well as correct Doppler shift for where the spacecraft was, no matter where in the world they were. There's only one way that could have happened. :)

    Yeah, just try faking all of that. ;)


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    be the first to call our bluff.

    The same goes for the tall tales of cars in the 1960's leaving the factories with experimental 70mpg carburators. Big Oil couldn't buy out the communists who would benefit off that stolen technology. The Chinese don't give a crap about patent protection. Second, why the hell is a prototype carb sitting on
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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to MRO on Sunday, January 05, 2020 23:51:00
    Re: Fake Landings
    By: MRO to Rampage on Sun Jan 05 2020 05:39 pm

    Re: Fake Landings
    By: Rampage to HusTler on Sun Jan 05 2020 07:23 am


    it comes from conspiracy theorists and deniers... they say it was all put and faked on a movie set sound stage... their biggest argument stems from ignorance as to why they cannot see stars in the moon landing pictures... ignorance is what drives these conspiracy theorys...


    there's a lot of strange stuff regarding nasa. like they lost their data on the trip. the also taped over the video of the trip.

    i dont think we could have done it back then technology wise. we werent advanced enough.

    also they say we only landed on the moon once. why is that? just weird.


    NASA has lost data because they stored documentation locally in the hurricane belt rather than moving stuff to much stabler environments. Scientists have
    to reverse engineer 50 year ld Saturn rockets becuase the original plans with modifications were lost from water damage or shuffled around after several warehouses lost their roofs in a hurricane.

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  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to Rampage on Monday, January 06, 2020 06:51:12
    Re: Fake Landings
    By: Rampage to HusTler on Sun Jan 05 2020 01:05 pm

    apparently you are not running the web server or you are running it on a non-standard port... my firefox tells me there's no connection to havens.synchro.net when i try with http and https...

    I took the Web stuff offline. I was unable to get a secure certificate so I gave up on it.

    HusTler@ havens.synchro.net

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  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to MRO on Monday, January 06, 2020 07:02:35
    Re: Fake Landings
    By: MRO to Rampage on Sun Jan 05 2020 05:39 pm

    it comes from conspiracy theorists and deniers... they say it was all put on and faked on a movie set sound stage... their biggest argument stems

    i dont think we could have done it back then technology wise. we werent advanced enough.

    also they say we only landed on the moon once. why is that? just weird.

    What? Only landed once? Seriously? So Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 never happened?

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Zombie Mambo on Monday, January 06, 2020 06:51:00
    Zombie Mambo wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    It has also been suggested that it would have been harder to fake the moon landings, given all the details, than to have actually done the real thing. This is given that you not only have to put stuff on the Moon that is there has been seen, and is used for science experiments, but also the accuracy of movement in 1/6g was correct (I have seen experiments done in the "vomit com to compare movement in actual 1/6g to that fudged by means normally accessib to movie studios).

    And then there's a number of third parties like radio amateurs who tracked t mission, which means antennas pointing in the right direction, as well as correct Doppler shift for where the spacecraft was, no matter where in the world they were. There's only one way that could have happened. :)

    Yeah, just try faking all of that. ;)


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    Maybe the "stuff" on the moon that is "there" was put there later, but
    not in 1969.

    Or, like the monolith, placed on the moon millenia ago.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Zombie Mambo on Monday, January 06, 2020 06:54:00
    Zombie Mambo wrote to Nightfox <=-

    Boeing can't even get their planes to fly, but we got through radiation with tinfoil, and got everything right about gravity, gravitational
    pulls, orbits, solar flares, rate of descent and ascent, etc? With a Ti-Calculator for a computer?

    Slide rules and paper calculations.

    There would be real video of this and real touch/feel evidence, and by now, a constant camera monitoring the sites from a satellite or
    something in orbit around said moon.

    Or, at least we could find the people who were responsible for aging the
    heat shield on Apollo 11 with butane torches before sending it to the Smithsonian.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Monday, January 06, 2020 21:36:26
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Nightfox to MRO on Sun Jan 05 2020 10:44 pm

    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: MRO to Zombie Mambo on Sun Jan 05 2020 05:46 pm

    it's something incredibly difficult that we probably cant even do today there's a lot of shit that doesnt make sense.

    So if we didn't land on the moon in 1969, why do you think it is that Russia hasn't called us out on it after all these years? Russia was competing with in our space programs, and if we faked it, I'd think Russia would want to expose that fact. Or is there some big global conspiracy with other countri working with the US to hide the truth that our moon landing was faked?


    it's probably a cultural thing. the russians have already proven that they are superior when it comes to outer space business.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Moondog on Monday, January 06, 2020 21:56:23
    Re: Fake Landings
    By: Moondog to MRO on Sun Jan 05 2020 11:51 pm


    NASA has lost data because they stored documentation locally in the hurrican belt rather than moving stuff to much stabler environments. Scientists have to reverse engineer 50 year ld Saturn rockets becuase the original plans wit

    regarding the moon data, they didnt say it was lost due to damage.

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Zombie Mambo on Monday, January 06, 2020 20:22:00
    On 01-05-20 11:56, Zombie Mambo wrote to Vk3jed <=-


    Maybe the "stuff" on the moon that is "there" was put there later, but
    not in 1969.

    And you conveniently ignored the rest of my post. :P


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Nightfox on Monday, January 06, 2020 20:24:00
    On 01-05-20 13:13, Nightfox wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    1. Sheer distance - we're all far apart.

    2. Relativity - signs of other civilisations haven't reached Earth yet, due to the finite speed of light.

    True, and good points. :)

    :)

    Yep, each iteration of complex life on Earth after extinction events seems to have become more advanced. The extinction events are like hitting the reset button, allowing different species to become dominant.

    I've also heard a theory that humans might not have originated from
    Earth and may have been planted here by extraterrestrials. I doubt
    that though, since there are primate species on earth that are very similar (and I've heard we humans have about 99% of our DNA in common
    with chiimpanzees.

    Well maybe not humans, but there is an idea that life on Earth may have been seeded, perhaps by microbes riding on comets.


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Nightfox on Monday, January 06, 2020 20:26:00
    On 01-05-20 13:15, Nightfox wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Yep. Although we were able to make movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey,
    I don't think our level of special effects technology was good enough
    at the time to fake something like a moon landing.

    Even today it would take a bit of work, especially if you wanted other real time stuff like dialogue. A number of productions seeking realistic zero/low g effects actually used the vomit comet for those scenes, effectively filming the real thing.


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Gamgee on Monday, January 06, 2020 20:36:00
    On 01-05-20 16:07, Gamgee wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Maybe (around the middle of the pack). I might argue that we may
    be "below average" due to the age of our planet. The universe is
    roughly 13.7 billion years old. The Earth is about 4.5 billion
    years old. So, planets/systems that formed sooner (the ones
    further out from the Big Bang, closer to the edges of the
    universe), and therefore *older*... would theoretically have had
    more time to develop and be more advanced than us. That's my
    belief, anyway. :-)

    But there is the possibility that the Universe itself has to have evolved enough for the right conditions for life to emerge.

    In the primordial Universe, once conditions had cooled sufficiently for normal matter to form, the Universe was composed mainlt of hydrogen, with a littl helium. That's not a useful mixture, and it had to be transformed. This happened through star formation. From what I understand of cosmology, the first generation of stars were massive stars of the "live fast, die young, in spectacular fashion" type. Their lives produced a number of elements like carbon, oxygen, etc, with more heavier elements produced in the supernovas at the end of their lives.

    Some generations of stars had lived and died, before a supernova nudged a large cloud of dust and gas 4.6 - 5 billion years ago. This cloud formed into our sun and the planets. After 9 billion years, there were now enough heavier elements to form both life and a suitable habitat for it to develop in.

    And again, from a consciousness point of view, perhaps consciousness also had to develop over the eons to a point where complex life could develop, just like a child has to develop to a certain point, before they can understand the world around them, and that understanding improves with age.

    We don't really know, but I'm adding some thoughts to the situation.


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Gamgee on Monday, January 06, 2020 20:46:00
    On 01-05-20 16:26, Gamgee wrote to Zombie Mambo <=-

    Boeing can't even get their planes to fly,

    I've flown on many Boeing planes, many times.

    Me too - several 737 models, 767, 777, 747. Haven't flown on a 787 yet. The 747s got me to the US and back, well only as far as NZ on the way back, because the last leg from Auckland was in an A320. :)


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Moondog on Tuesday, January 07, 2020 16:21:00
    On 01-05-20 23:43, Moondog wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    The Soviets and Chinese had all the reason in the world to debunk a
    hoax and the technology to detect one. If something couldn't have been done, they'd be the first to call our bluff.

    Yes, the Soviets would certainly have wanted the US moon landings to be a hoax.
    I'm sure they'd have been watching like hawks with every instrument at their disposal.

    The same goes for the tall tales of cars in the 1960's leaving the factories with experimental 70mpg carburators. Big Oil couldn't buy
    out the communists who would benefit off that stolen technology. The Chinese don't give a crap about patent protection. Second, why the
    hell is a prototype carb sitting on a production vehicle instead of
    being locked in a lab somewhere?

    Yeah, I wasn't around in those days. ;)


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Moondog on Tuesday, January 07, 2020 16:52:00
    On 01-05-20 23:37, Moondog wrote to Nightfox <=-

    On the series Cosmos I recall them saying in Earth's history there have been 4 near extinction events so far, and some form of life adapted and thrived afterwards. People worry about the planet, but it's not going anywhere. They should be worried where we're going.

    At least 4. *shuffle* *shuffle*

    Actually, 5 major mass extinctions.

    From a randomly googled website. :)

    https://www.thoughtco.com/the-5-major-mass-extinctions-4018102

    1.
    The Ordovician Mass Extinction

    When: The Ordovician Period of the Paleozoic Era (about 440 million years ago)
    Size of the Extinction: Up to 85% of all living species eliminated
    Suspected Cause or Causes: Continental drift and subsequent climate change

    2.
    The Devonian Mass Extinction

    When: The Devonian Period of the Paleozoic Era (about 375 million years
    go)
    Size of the Extinction: Nearly 80% of all living species eliminated
    Suspected Cause or Causes: Lack of oxygen in the oceans, quick cooling of air temperatures, volcanic eruptions and/or meteor strikes


    3.
    The Permian Mass Extinction

    When: The Permian Period of the Paleozoic Era (about 250 million years ago)
    Size of the Extinction: An estimated 96% of all living species eliminated
    Suspected Cause or Causes: Unknown—possibly asteroid strikes, volcanic activity, climate change, and microbes

    4.
    The Triassic-Jurassic Mass Extinction

    When: The end of the Triassic Period of the Mesozoic Era (about 200 million years ago)

    Size of the Extinction: More than half of all living species eliminated

    Suspected Cause or Causes: Major volcanic activity with basalt flooding, global climate change, and changing pH and sea levels of the oceans

    5.
    The K-T Mass Extinction

    When: The end of the Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era (about 65 million years ago)
    Size of the Extinction: Nearly 75% of all living species eliminated
    Suspected Cause or Causes: Extreme asteroid or meteor impact

    6. The Sixth Major Mass Extinction: Happening Now?

    Is it possible that we are in the midst of the sixth major mass extinction? Many scientists believe we are. A number of known species have been lost since humans' evolution. Since these mass extinction events can take millions of years, perhaps we are witnessing the sixth major mass extinction event as it happens. Whether or not humans will survive is yet to be determined.

    And my guess is as we are a relatively large (physically) species, we're probably in the firing line when conditions really deteriorate. Often larder species are more vulnerable to extincetion events. The Earth will go on, life will go on, humanity? All bets are off. :)


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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to MRO on Tuesday, January 07, 2020 00:54:00
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: MRO to Nightfox on Mon Jan 06 2020 09:36 pm

    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Nightfox to MRO on Sun Jan 05 2020 10:44 pm

    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: MRO to Zombie Mambo on Sun Jan 05 2020 05:46 pm

    it's something incredibly difficult that we probably cant even do to there's a lot of shit that doesnt make sense.

    So if we didn't land on the moon in 1969, why do you think it is that Rus hasn't called us out on it after all these years? Russia was competing w in our space programs, and if we faked it, I'd think Russia would want to expose that fact. Or is there some big global conspiracy with other coun working with the US to hide the truth that our moon landing was faked?


    it's probably a cultural thing. the russians have already proven that they superior when it comes to outer space business.


    The Russians would've jumped all over us if they spotted a hoax. The space race would've been over and any further accomplishments by the US would be tarnished by a hoax.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to MRO on Tuesday, January 07, 2020 00:56:00
    Re: Fake Landings
    By: MRO to Moondog on Mon Jan 06 2020 09:56 pm

    Re: Fake Landings
    By: Moondog to MRO on Sun Jan 05 2020 11:51 pm


    NASA has lost data because they stored documentation locally in the hurri belt rather than moving stuff to much stabler environments. Scientists h to reverse engineer 50 year ld Saturn rockets becuase the original plans

    regarding the moon data, they didnt say it was lost due to damage.

    Even if it wasn't damaged, it was stored in the same storage system, and as buildings would've been damaged, items would've been moved and undamaged items
    would've also been relocated to make space.

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Vk3jed on Tuesday, January 07, 2020 08:07:00
    Vk3jed wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Maybe (around the middle of the pack). I might argue that we may
    be "below average" due to the age of our planet. The universe is
    roughly 13.7 billion years old. The Earth is about 4.5 billion
    years old. So, planets/systems that formed sooner (the ones
    further out from the Big Bang, closer to the edges of the
    universe), and therefore *older*... would theoretically have had
    more time to develop and be more advanced than us. That's my
    belief, anyway. :-)

    But there is the possibility that the Universe itself has to have
    evolved enough for the right conditions for life to emerge.

    In the primordial Universe, once conditions had cooled
    sufficiently for normal matter to form, the Universe was composed
    mainlt of hydrogen, with a littl helium. That's not a useful
    mixture, and it had to be transformed. This happened through
    star formation. From what I understand of cosmology, the first
    generation of stars were massive stars of the "live fast, die
    young, in spectacular fashion" type. Their lives produced a
    number of elements like carbon, oxygen, etc, with more heavier
    elements produced in the supernovas at the end of their lives.

    Some generations of stars had lived and died, before a supernova
    nudged a large cloud of dust and gas 4.6 - 5 billion years ago.
    This cloud formed into our sun and the planets. After 9 billion
    years, there were now enough heavier elements to form both life
    and a suitable habitat for it to develop in.

    And again, from a consciousness point of view, perhaps
    consciousness also had to develop over the eons to a point where
    complex life could develop, just like a child has to develop to a
    certain point, before they can understand the world around them,
    and that understanding improves with age.

    We don't really know, but I'm adding some thoughts to the
    situation.

    Most excellent thoughts. I hadn't really considered it that way,
    but it makes perfect sense. It's a mind-bending topic to try and
    understand, and even if you *think* you understand it, you may be
    mistaken... :-) Thanks for the input, very interesting.



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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Vk3jed on Tuesday, January 07, 2020 08:09:00
    Vk3jed wrote to Gamgee <=-

    On 01-05-20 16:26, Gamgee wrote to Zombie Mambo <=-

    Boeing can't even get their planes to fly,

    I've flown on many Boeing planes, many times.

    Me too - several 737 models, 767, 777, 747. Haven't flown on a
    787 yet. The 747s got me to the US and back, well only as far as
    NZ on the way back, because the last leg from Auckland was in an
    A320. :)

    I haven't been on a 787 yet, either. But I can add the 757 and
    the 727 (I think the 727's are all gone now). Have also been on a
    few Airbus models but somehow I feel better on a Boeing. :-)



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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Vk3jed on Tuesday, January 07, 2020 22:01:41
    Re: Re: Project Blue Book TV
    By: Vk3jed to Moondog on Tue Jan 07 2020 04:52 pm

    6. The Sixth Major Mass Extinction: Happening Now?

    Is it possible that we are in the midst of the sixth major mass extinction? Many scientists believe we are. A number of known species have been lost sin


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Moondog on Tuesday, January 07, 2020 22:03:42
    Re: Fake Landings
    By: Moondog to MRO on Tue Jan 07 2020 12:56 am


    regarding the moon data, they didnt say it was lost due to damage.

    Even if it wasn't damaged, it was stored in the same storage system, and as buildings would've been damaged, items would've been moved and undamaged ite
    would've also been relocated to make space.


    they lost it and they have no idea where it went.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Gamgee on Tuesday, January 07, 2020 20:07:35
    Re: Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Gamgee to Vk3jed on Tue Jan 07 2020 08:09 am

    I haven't been on a 787 yet, either. But I can add the 757 and
    the 727 (I think the 727's are all gone now). Have also been on a
    few Airbus models but somehow I feel better on a Boeing. :-)

    I flew on a 737 that still had ashtrays in the armrest. :)

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to poindexter FORTRAN on Tuesday, January 07, 2020 23:28:23
    Re: Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Gamgee on Tue Jan 07 2020 08:07 pm

    I flew on a 737 that still had ashtrays in the armrest. :)

    Sometimes I wonder how often they clean/sanitize the inside of an airplane. One time a long time ago, I was on a plane (I think it was a 747 on one of the international flights I've taken), and this particular plane had small tray tables that would flip up & fold out from one of the arm rests in the seats. At one point I happened to glance down at the armrest, and inside where the tray table was stored, I saw a big brown stain in there from what looked like something that had dripped in there. Who knows how long that had been there..

    Nightfox

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  • From Limping Ninja@VERT/CAPSHRIL to Vk3jed on Wednesday, January 08, 2020 04:41:49
    Re: Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Vk3jed to Nightfox on Sun Jan 05 2020 05:11 pm

    And if we treat intelligent life as an emergent property of this Universe, then
    chances are other civilisations (at least in this galaxy) are at a stage comparable to our own. And therein lies the answer to Fermi's Paradox - we're
    not seeing other civilisations, because of a combination of:

    The biggest rub here is that the earth is around 4.5ish billion years old, the Milk Way is around 13.5. Even if life were an emergent property that is a hugh margin. We could assume (albeit a bit naively for now) that most solar systems took approximately the same time to form but even in our models the planets in our system have variances of +/- 100MM years. On a grander scale, depending on star, the other solar systems would have even larger variances. Then look at the speed of evolution after certain criteria are met, are we anomalous or average and what is the median.

    At the end even if you take just the possible planetary variance you are talking of scales that are longer than our rise to dominance and civilizations. I can't remember which series, I think it was Alastair Reynolds, had a sci-fi trope about the early civilizations warring to almost extinction and building a massive AI (that assumedly they were uploaded to) and self-propagating sentinel system that wiped out civilizations that became too advanced. I won't posit that as an actual outcome, though!

    -LN

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  • From Limping Ninja@VERT/CAPSHRIL to Zombie Mambo on Wednesday, January 08, 2020 04:43:24
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Zombie Mambo to Nightfox on Sun Jan 05 2020 11:50 am

    Boeing can't even get their planes to fly, but we got through radiation with

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  • From Limping Ninja@VERT/CAPSHRIL to Zombie Mambo on Wednesday, January 08, 2020 05:16:59
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Limping Ninja to Zombie Mambo on Wed Jan 08 2020 04:43 am

    Boeing can't even get their planes to fly, but we got through radiation with

    That's a cute statement, but you know there are > 100k flights per day with around 12 million people, right? It detracts from your POV when you make statements like these as reasonings for your rationale.

    In regards to the radiation quote, do you think we are hiding a vast conspiracy on the amount of radiation in those belts? The rads/s is easily quantifiable and simple math can show you roughly how much radiation an astronaut (without ship shielding) would receive in an hour of flight, it's around 13rad, about 287 rad below a lethal dose.

    Do you have data to contradict that? From what I see (looking at 'conspiracy' sources) most people are finding articles that talk about max measured rad in specific regions of the Van Allen belt and assuming a direct path flight through the widest bands. This doesn't show a clear understanding of how space flight works (Kerbel Space Program is a fun game to help you there).

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to poindexter FORTRAN on Wednesday, January 08, 2020 07:41:00
    poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Gamgee <=-

    I haven't been on a 787 yet, either. But I can add the 757 and
    the 727 (I think the 727's are all gone now). Have also been on a
    few Airbus models but somehow I feel better on a Boeing. :-)

    I flew on a 737 that still had ashtrays in the armrest. :)

    Haha, nice! Haven't seen that in a LONG time...


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Limping Ninja on Wednesday, January 08, 2020 06:48:00
    Limping Ninja wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    civilizations. I can't remember which series, I think it was Alastair Reynolds, had a sci-fi trope about the early civilizations warring to almost extinction and building a massive AI (that assumedly they were uploaded to) and self-propagating sentinel system that wiped out civilizations that became too advanced. I won't posit that as an actual outcome, though!

    That's an interesting trope. I can't remember the name or author, but recall bits of a book where mankind started exploring nearby stars and found bombed-out civilizations. They discovered a race that looked for telltales
    of civilazation and took them out pre-emptively.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Limping Ninja on Wednesday, January 08, 2020 06:50:00
    Limping Ninja wrote to Zombie Mambo <=-

    In regards to the radiation quote, do you think we are hiding a vast conspiracy on the amount of radiation in those belts? The rads/s is
    easily quantifiable and simple math can show you roughly how much radiation an astronaut (without ship shielding) would receive in an
    hour of flight, it's around 13rad, about 287 rad below a lethal dose.

    The Van Allen belts were apparently bad for hair, though - I remember
    reading that astronauts went gray shortly after coming back. Not sure if that's quantifyable, though.


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  • From Limping Ninja@VERT/CAPSHRIL to poindexter FORTRAN on Wednesday, January 08, 2020 16:22:23
    Re: Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Limping Ninja on Wed Jan 08 2020 06:48 am

    bombed-out civilizations. They discovered a race that looked for telltales
    of civilazation and took them out pre-emptively.

    It almost sounds like the same book, they were a bit further along in colonizing in this one, an archaeologist discovered some clues but too late for one of the worlds. Similar concept though, tell-tale signs of advanced (extra-solar system) and goodbye.

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  • From Limping Ninja@VERT/CAPSHRIL to poindexter FORTRAN on Wednesday, January 08, 2020 16:26:52
    Re: Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Limping Ninja on Wed Jan 08 2020 06:50 am

    The Van Allen belts were apparently bad for hair, though - I remember reading that astronauts went gray shortly after coming back. Not sure if

    I guess you could say that is pretty.... rad.... <ba-dum-bum>

    that's quantifyable, though.

    Overall I think they received less than 2rad total due to shielding. With that said, they did notice a couple years back that some astronauts are possibly getting gene-flips on some hair genes.

    The Scott Kelly study (twin study) was interesting too:

    https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6436/eaau8650

    Here is a more readable version: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/11/18306525/scott-mark-kelly-twins-year-international-spac e-station-nasa-dna-genes-health

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Limping Ninja on Wednesday, January 08, 2020 15:44:38
    Re: Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Limping Ninja to Vk3jed on Wed Jan 08 2020 04:41 am


    At the end even if you take just the possible planetary variance you are talking of scales that are longer than our rise to dominance and civilizatio I can't remember which series, I think it was Alastair Reynolds, had a sci-f trope about the early civilizations warring to almost extinction and buildin massive AI (that assumedly they were uploaded to) and self-propagating senti system that wiped out civilizations that became too advanced. I won't posit that as an actual outcome, though!


    just the way the universe works out so far i can tell that if we met intelligent life it would just destroy us. we should just worry about ourselves.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Limping Ninja on Wednesday, January 08, 2020 15:47:49
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Limping Ninja to Zombie Mambo on Wed Jan 08 2020 05:16 am

    In regards to the radiation quote, do you think we are hiding a vast conspir on the amount of radiation in those belts? The rads/s is easily quantifiable and simple math can show you roughly how much radiation an astronaut (withou ship shielding) would receive in an hour of flight, it's around 13rad, about 287 rad below a lethal dose.


    i'm not sure if we even know how much radiation is up there and how it's concentrated.

    i remember some astronaughts saying they had 'cosmic ray visual phenomena' from the cosmic rays/radiation/whatever.

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Limping Ninja on Thursday, January 09, 2020 11:09:00
    On 01-08-20 04:41, Limping Ninja wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    The biggest rub here is that the earth is around 4.5ish billion years
    old, the Milk Way is around 13.5. Even if life were an emergent

    Actually the Milky Way is believed to be "only" around 9-10 billion years old, IIRC. :)

    property that is a hugh margin. We could assume (albeit a bit naively
    for now) that most solar systems took approximately the same time to
    form but even in our models the planets in our system have variances of +/- 100MM years. On a grander scale, depending on star, the other solar systems would have even larger variances. Then look at the speed of evolution after certain criteria are met, are we anomalous or average
    and what is the median.

    Sure, solar system ages can vary, and 100M years is not a long time at cosmological scales. This is where we enter the realm of philosophy and the nature of life and consciousness itself. :) And also there's the question of what's possible. Is FTL travel possible? Einstein's own mathematics suggests it is possible, using some form of spacetime warping (Star Trek may have got it right! :) ). We won't know for sure until someone successfully buids one! :)

    At the end even if you take just the possible planetary variance you
    are talking of scales that are longer than our rise to dominance and civilizations. I can't remember which series, I think it was Alastair Reynolds, had a sci-fi trope about the early civilizations warring to almost extinction and building a massive AI (that assumedly they were uploaded to) and self-propagating sentinel system that wiped out civilizations that became too advanced. I won't posit that as an actual outcome, though!

    Now that sounds like a theme in a number of SF novels. :)


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to poindexter FORTRAN on Thursday, January 09, 2020 11:22:00
    On 01-08-20 06:48, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Limping Ninja <=-

    That's an interesting trope. I can't remember the name or author, but recall bits of a book where mankind started exploring nearby stars and found bombed-out civilizations. They discovered a race that looked for telltales of civilazation and took them out pre-emptively.

    One of Arthur C Clarke's last series of books (co-authored with Stephen Baxter, IIRC) was the "Firstborn" series, which started with an unprecedented solar flare and some really crazy mixing of historical periods, which all led to the discovery of the "Firstborn", who were the first intelligent race in the Universe, and who were hell bent on eliminating other races, befaure they contributed too much to the entropy of the Universe, which would bring about heat death earlier. They started with slow, but energy efficient means of eliminating competition species and then got more direct and sophisticated, if the first attempt failed.


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to poindexter FORTRAN on Thursday, January 09, 2020 11:24:00
    On 01-08-20 06:50, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Limping Ninja <=-

    The Van Allen belts were apparently bad for hair, though - I remember reading that astronauts went gray shortly after coming back. Not sure
    if that's quantifyable, though.

    They were also around age 40 (I think Neil Armstrong was 39, for example), and many people do go grey during their 40s.


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to MRO on Thursday, January 09, 2020 11:25:00
    On 01-08-20 15:47, MRO wrote to Limping Ninja <=-

    i remember some astronaughts saying they had 'cosmic ray visual
    phenomena' from the cosmic rays/radiation/whatever.

    That has been well documented - flashes of light, presumably from cosmic rays hitting atoms inside their eye.


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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Wednesday, January 08, 2020 19:44:00
    Re: Re: Project Blue Book TV
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Limping Ninja on Wed Jan 08 2020 06:48 am

    Limping Ninja wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    civilizations. I can't remember which series, I think it was Alastair Reynolds, had a sci-fi trope about the early civilizations warring to almost extinction and building a massive AI (that assumedly they were uploaded to) and self-propagating sentinel system that wiped out civilizations that became too advanced. I won't posit that as an actual outcome, though!

    That's an interesting trope. I can't remember the name or author, but recall bits of a book where mankind started exploring nearby stars and found bombed-out civilizations. They discovered a race that looked for telltales of civilazation and took them out pre-emptively.



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    Reminded me of a story I heard where the leadign characters are from a
    sentient race of artificial life, and they're on an arcaeological mission to a far off dead world they believe may lead them to a point of origin. They discover the used up world and signs of a long lost organic presence as the dominant lifeforms. They find vaults in the ruins which contain drawings as well as primitive data drives whch appear to be intact. Among the data they discover the basis of early artifical life, both in physical form, but also
    in source code which proves they're related. Their ancestors were designed
    and sent into space to explore and learn life's mysteries.

    Half of the crew is excited, but the others fear returning home will re-open centuries of heated debate whether they were the product of evolution versus intelligent design. In a way both sides are partially right, however even amongst the intelligent design crowd they fear the concept of being the
    product of a "lesser" being may incite riots.

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  • From Zombie Mambo@VERT/ZZONE to MRO on Thursday, January 09, 2020 20:48:19
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: MRO to Zombie Mambo on Sun Jan 05 2020 05:46 pm

    that is some fake shit. gold foil you can poke your finger through kept them alive? not to mention made it all the way up there and back?
    bullshit.


    Exactly. And then there's the "Slingshot around the moon" and the "oh a thin layer of tin foil will protect them from the radiation belt".

    Let alone the issue of oxygen.

    No way it was done.

    One of the funniest videos to me is the video of the lander "taking off" from the moon to go back up to hook up with #3 (names escapes me) and come back to earth. It looks soooooooo fake. AND, like, if that camera was there filming the liftoff, where's the footage it continued to take for X amount of time? They just left it there in the position to film the takeoff, but not to monitor anything?

    Come on.

    WAY too many issues.... the missing tapes were "misplaced"... right.
    THey'd be locked up with the friggin' atomic clock.


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  • From Zombie Mambo@VERT/ZZONE to poindexter FORTRAN on Thursday, January 09, 2020 20:48:52
    Re: Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Zombie Mambo on Mon Jan 06 2020 06:54 am

    Zombie Mambo wrote to Nightfox <=-

    Boeing can't even get their planes to fly, but we got through radiation with tinfoil, and got everything right about gravity, gravitational pulls, orbits, solar flares, rate of descent and ascent, etc? With a Ti-Calculator for a computer?

    Slide rules and paper calculations.

    There would be real video of this and real touch/feel evidence, and by now, a constant camera monitoring the sites from a satellite or something in orbit around said moon.

    Or, at least we could find the people who were responsible for aging the heat shield on Apollo 11 with butane torches before sending it to the Smithsonian.


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  • From Zombie Mambo@VERT/ZZONE to Limping Ninja on Thursday, January 09, 2020 20:50:41
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Limping Ninja to Zombie Mambo on Wed Jan 08 2020 05:16 am

    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Limping Ninja to Zombie Mambo on Wed Jan 08 2020 04:43 am

    Boeing can't even get their planes to fly, but we got through radiatio

    That's a cute statement, but you know there are > 100k flights per day with

    In regards to the radiation quote, do you think we are hiding a vast conspir d receive in an hour of flight, it's around 13rad, about 287 rad below a let

    Do you have data to contradict that? From what I see (looking at 'conspiracy This doesn't show a clear understanding of how space flight works (Kerbel Sp


    First, chill out dude.
    Second, realize that tinfoil is not protection against grains of sand moving at 2000,00000 KPH.

    Once you realize that, you'll see that calculations mean nothing.

    Also, you're speaking in terms of EARTH calculations.
    Right there, I call BS.

    Anything EARTH defined means nothing in space.


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  • From Zombie Mambo@VERT/ZZONE to Vk3jed on Thursday, January 09, 2020 20:51:30
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Vk3jed to Zombie Mambo on Mon Jan 06 2020 08:22 pm

    On 01-05-20 11:56, Zombie Mambo wrote to Vk3jed <=-


    Maybe the "stuff" on the moon that is "there" was put there later, but not in 1969.

    And you conveniently ignored the rest of my post. :P


    ... Hey Dad, are we gonna stop for ice cream? Can we, huh?

    Yeah no crap. That's cuz all of these conspiracy shit is supposed to be comic relief.

    I ignored it, because I don't care.

    And, because we all know its bs. We never went there.


    :)


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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Zombie Mambo on Thursday, January 09, 2020 21:58:00
    Zombie Mambo wrote to Limping Ninja <=-

    In regards to the radiation quote, do you think we are hiding a vast conspir d receive in an hour of flight, it's around 13rad, about 287 rad below a let

    Do you have data to contradict that? From what I see (looking at 'conspiracy This doesn't show a clear understanding of how space flight works (Kerbel Sp


    First, chill out dude.
    Second, realize that tinfoil is not protection against grains of
    sand moving at 2000,00000 KPH.

    There are no "grains of sand" in outer space. Certainly not
    between the Earth and the Moon, anyway.

    Once you realize that, you'll see that calculations mean nothing.

    Also, you're speaking in terms of EARTH calculations.
    Right there, I call BS.

    Anything EARTH defined means nothing in space.

    At what grade level did you drop out of school?

    You truly make yourself look stupid with statements like those
    above. Go get some education.


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  • From Limping Ninja@VERT/CAPSHRIL to Zombie Mambo on Friday, January 10, 2020 04:44:16
    First, chill out dude.

    Huh? You quoted me saying there are > 100k flights per day and that it detracts from your POV by saying "boeing can't even keep a plane in the sky" - I believe my response was perfectly valid.

    Second, realize that tinfoil is not protection against grains of sand moving at 2000,00000 KPH.

    You obviously don't understand how the whipple shield is designed, what it is designed of, and how ballistics works.

    Once you realize that, you'll see that calculations mean nothing.

    Please feel free to provide the calculations disproving the effectiveness of ballistic dispersion on the whipple shielding, I'm happy to be disproven.

    -LN

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  • From Rampage@VERT/SESTAR to Zombie Mambo on Friday, January 10, 2020 06:24:43
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Zombie Mambo to Limping Ninja on Thu Jan 09 2020 20:50:41


    Second, realize that tinfoil is not protection
    against grains of sand moving at 2000,00000 KPH.

    ummm... no one said foil (not tinfoil) was protection against grains of sand... foil of different types is used for various things... one is to shield against radiation... another is as an ablative shield to protect against heat of reentry...

    then there's that number you put up there with all those zeros... since you used KPH, i'm guessing you're using european numbering format... if so, that comma you used is a decimal point and thus those trailing 5 zeros don' mean a thing and the number is only 2000 KPH... so for north americans and others that (still) use miles per hour, that's only 1243 MPH... that's not insignificant but it is still fast... the speed of meteoroids can actually
    be much faster... quoted speeds range from 11 to 70+ KPS... yes, kilometers per *second*, not per hour... for those that use miles, that's 7 to 45 miles per second...

    protecting against meteoroids is done with layers of materials... numerous layers of different types... kevlar, alumin[i]um, and others... the first layer, generally a metal shield, is to provide a barrier that can break up the meteoroid into fine dust particles... the other layers serve to further slow, catch, and deflect those particles... each layer provides a barrier which serves to slow down the material and eventually trap it... if there's not enough layers, then parts of the meteoroid can make it through the barriers so they put in more layers... these protective layers are know as MKI (Multi Layer Insulation)... think of bullet-proof and bullet-resistant
    vests and clothing and you'll get the idea... in both cases, this protective shielding is generally made out of layer upon layer of high tensile strength fibers... the fibers and layers they make work together to share and absorb the force required to stop the projectiles...

    https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/multiLayer_insulation_closeup.jpg

    or https://preview.tinyurl.com/s4vszo9

    https://cdn.hswstatic.com/gif/body-armor-layers.jpg

    https://image.dhgate.com/0x0s/f2-albu-g4-M01-25-14-rBVaEVe9VXuATrQCAAMCxJToJwA289.jpg/bullet-proof-vest-body-bulletproof-vest-nij.jpg

    or https://preview.tinyurl.com/yxxkxaxf

    i'm not going to go into more details here for various reasons... one is that there's so much information available on these topics... another is that i've not even finished my c0ffee and i really don't feel like writing multiple 1000+ words posts with the details and information of how all this is put together and works... suffice it to say that a lot of people with more education, testing equipment, and time to test than you or i have
    worked many long hours to develop the systems that protect our electronics and people who go into space...

    lastly, we (TINW) cannot tell if you (inclusive) are simply flaunting your ignorance or just trolling... either way, it is not a good look on you (inclusive)... you (inclusive) are smart people but this? this is quite ugly on you (inclusive)... educate yourselves, sirs... the information is available and there are real life examples that are easily found and can be tested...


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Gamgee on Friday, January 10, 2020 07:06:00
    Gamgee wrote to Zombie Mambo <=-

    Second, realize that tinfoil is not protection against grains of
    sand moving at 2000,00000 KPH.

    There are no "grains of sand" in outer space. Certainly not
    between the Earth and the Moon, anyway.

    There are tonnes of debris in near-earth orbit to deal with.


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  • From Limping Ninja@VERT/CAPSHRIL to poindexter FORTRAN on Friday, January 10, 2020 12:32:06
    Re: Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Gamgee on Fri Jan 10 2020 07:06 am

    There are tonnes of debris in near-earth orbit to deal with.

    There are quite a few debris, but we've been able to protect against them quite easily. Beyond our near-earth junk it lowers down considerably, otherwise our 42 year old satellite off in the far beyond would have been toasted long ago.

    -LN

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to poindexter FORTRAN on Friday, January 10, 2020 12:57:00
    poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Gamgee wrote to Zombie Mambo <=-

    Second, realize that tinfoil is not protection against grains of
    sand moving at 2000,00000 KPH.

    There are no "grains of sand" in outer space. Certainly not
    between the Earth and the Moon, anyway.

    There are tonnes of debris in near-earth orbit to deal with.

    While that is true, it is relatively easy to deal with that, and
    it's not nearly the same scenario that the Zombie was attempting
    to discuss.


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Rampage on Friday, January 10, 2020 12:22:54
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Rampage to Zombie Mambo on Fri Jan 10 2020 06:24 am

    ummm... no one said foil (not tinfoil) was protection against grains of sand... foil of different types is used for various things... one is to shield against radiation... another is as an ablative shield to protect against heat of reentry...

    It seems many of the moon landing conspiracy theorists don't fully understand the science or what all was involved in the vehicle or the process of the moon landing. Many of us aren't an expert in that stuff, and the thought process seems something like "I don't understand it, therefore it doesn't make sense to me, therefore it didn't actually happen."

    Nightfox

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  • From Sprite@VERT/TINTETBB to Limping Ninja on Friday, January 10, 2020 16:56:45
    Re: Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Limping Ninja to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Jan 08 2020 16:26:52

    Overall I think they received less than 2rad total due to shielding. With that said, they did notice a couple years back that some astronauts are possibly getting gene-flips on some hair genes.

    I think the bit that would freak me out the most is the spike in cardiac related illness as they age after getting back.
    The twins study was pretty interesting though, too.

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  • From Sprite@VERT/TINTETBB to Zombie Mambo on Friday, January 10, 2020 17:04:51
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Zombie Mambo to Limping Ninja on Thu Jan 09 2020 20:50:41

    Second, realize that tinfoil is not protection against grains of sand moving at 2000,00000 KPH.
    Once you realize that, you'll see that calculations mean nothing.

    What? You mean like the calculations about the energy imparted by a grain of sand moving at these velocities? Because that's a pretty straightforward calculation and can very accurately tell what kind of shielding, precisely, would be necessary for such an impact (even if it's not possible to put up in space at this point). So I don't think it's the calculations that mean nothing at this point...
    Also, 2000,00000 KPH goes to show how much care you're seeming to put into the accuracy of your own argument here. Not that I was the original person to be defending myself here, or anything.

    Also, you're speaking in terms of EARTH calculations.
    Right there, I call BS.

    Dude google 'inertial frames of reference'. As soon as you take those into account these 'earth calculations' can quite easily be transplanted out into a different frame of reference.
    Can you describe a little more precisely your argument for those of us playing along at home right now?

    Anything EARTH defined means nothing in space.

    Yeah, but if you accurately describe the inertial frames of reference you can navigate between the two.
    At least I _think_ the term that I'm looking for is inertial frame of reference here. I'm pretty sure that even if it's not the right terminology that those around here who've gone through even basic high school physics will be able to follow what I'm saying, though.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Limping Ninja on Saturday, January 11, 2020 13:42:25
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Limping Ninja to Zombie Mambo on Fri Jan 10 2020 04:44 am


    Second, realize that tinfoil is not protection against grains of sand movi at 2000,00000 KPH.

    You obviously don't understand how the whipple shield is designed, what it i designed of, and how ballistics works.


    i understand that the whipple shield/bumper is a thin shield of foil mounted with standoffs

    GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE WITH THAT SHIT.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Rampage on Saturday, January 11, 2020 13:43:26
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Rampage to Zombie Mambo on Fri Jan 10 2020 06:24 am

    Second, realize that tinfoil is not protection

    ummm... no one said foil (not tinfoil) was protection against grains of sand


    Actually people have said that. this last guy that referenced the whipple shield did.

    https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/multiLayer_insulation_clos


    ^^ more fake info

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Saturday, January 11, 2020 14:22:54
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Nightfox to Rampage on Fri Jan 10 2020 12:22 pm

    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Rampage to Zombie Mambo on Fri Jan 10 2020 06:24 am

    ummm... no one said foil (not tinfoil) was protection against grains of sand... foil of different types is used for various things... one is to shield against radiation... another is as an ablative shield to protect against heat of reentry...

    It seems many of the moon landing conspiracy theorists don't fully understan the science or what all was involved in the vehicle or the process of the mo


    this is extremely ironic considering the fact that YOU don't understand that they are infact claiming that a thin foil is actually a defense against natural missles out in space. tin foil mounted on brackets.

    how it can even survive the trip out of the atmosphere, i have no idea.

    it's important to question what you are told. especially when nasa is concerned.

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  • From Zombie Mambo@VERT/ZZONE to Gamgee on Saturday, January 11, 2020 10:35:40
    Re: Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Gamgee to Zombie Mambo on Thu Jan 09 2020 09:58 pm

    At what grade level did you drop out of school?

    You truly make yourself look stupid with statements like those
    above. Go get some education.

    Excellent comeback.
    Way to google the radiation levels too, we're impressed.
    You need to understand how to have a conversation, and identify sarcasm and generalisms within them, in order to be useful in society. Obviously, you missed that. Perhaps it was your parents who failed you there.
    Perhaps it was society.

    My education level and the "read a book" or "go back to school" argument are pointless to the arguments everyone makes about why it is unlikely the landing actually was possible,.
    in 1969.

    Because I didn't major in the ins-and outs of what to call celestial bodies and microscopic particles floating through space has no impact on my ability to call BS on a sheet of tinfoil surviving impact with said objects. Choosing to describe them as "sand" is perfectly fine for the argument being made.

    What's not fine, is your inability to even accept the fact that someone disagrees with you, regardless of whether or not they provide or do not provide information. For example, you might believe in the Judeo Christian God.

    I might not.

    Neither of us has any proof whatsoever He exists... and science does not either. But if I disagree with you, you're the type of person that is going to ue Earth Science to bolster your opinion, you're going to belittle those who disagree because they don't care about Earth Sciene, which proves nothing, and you're going to shout them down, be dick, and then go vote for someone like Corey Booker, or any of the other Dems out there in an act that, in itself, shows you're not worth listening to because you support idiots.

    Or maybe you'll vote for Trump, and equally appaling choice.

    Either way, people like you are no fun at dinner, no fun at work, and basically boring.

    Have a great day


    Thanks,
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  • From Zombie Mambo@VERT/ZZONE to Limping Ninja on Saturday, January 11, 2020 10:45:18
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Limping Ninja to Zombie Mambo on Fri Jan 10 2020 04:44 am

    First, chill out dude.

    Huh? You quoted me saying there are > 100k flights per day and that it detra from your POV by saying "boeing can't even keep a plane in the sky" - I beli my response was perfectly valid.

    Second, realize that tinfoil is not protection against grains of sand movi at 2000,00000 KPH.

    You obviously don't understand how the whipple shield is designed, what it i designed of, and how ballistics works.

    Once you realize that, you'll see that calculations mean nothing.

    Please feel free to provide the calculations disproving the effectiveness of ballistic dispersion on the whipple shielding, I'm happy to be disproven.

    -LN

    Of course you believe your point is completely valid.
    That's because you totally missed mine, which is typical.

    How were those calculations for the Whipple Shielding tested?
    Oh yeah they launched stuff, flew it to the moon, brought it back, and examined it... or wait maybe they did it in a lab on earth... hmmmm... Then there's this 91 finding
    Recent hypervelocity impact (HVI) test results have shown that the original 1969 Cour-Palais predictor improperly scales to the particle sizes that the WP-2 shields must be designed to protect against. The original
    equations have been redesigned to correct this scaling deficiency.

    So there's that. We must have gotten "lucky" right?

    I don't buy the testing, the results, the science behind any of it because it was not tested in space. "It -SHOULD- work" when we get there is a lot to bet human life on.

    And tests done in earth orbit aren't good enough.

    I think since 1969 they have come a long way because technology has too. Who knows what we REALLY have between us and the moon and beyond that they arent telling us.


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  • From Zombie Mambo@VERT/ZZONE to Rampage on Saturday, January 11, 2020 10:57:01
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Rampage to Zombie Mambo on Fri Jan 10 2020 06:24 am

    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Zombie Mambo to Limping Ninja on Thu Jan 09 2020 20:50:41


    Second, realize that tinfoil is not protection
    against grains of sand moving at 2000,00000 KPH.

    ummm... no one said foil (not tinfoil) was protection against grains of sand

    then there's that number you put up there with all those zeros... since you only 2000 KPH... so for north americans and others that (still) use miles pe be much faster... quoted speeds range from 11 to 70+ KPS... yes, kilometers

    protecting against meteoroids is done with layers of materials... numerous l rticles... the other layers serve to further slow, catch, and deflect those hrough the barriers so they put in more layers... these protective layers ar vests and clothing and you'll get the idea... in both cases, this protective p the projectiles...

    https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/multiLayer_insulation_clos

    or https://preview.tinyurl.com/s4vszo9

    https://cdn.hswstatic.com/gif/body-armor-layers.jpg

    https://image.dhgate.com/0x0s/f2-albu-g4-M01-25-14-rBVaEVe9VXuATrQCAAMCxJT

    or https://preview.tinyurl.com/yxxkxaxf

    i'm not going to go into more details here for various reasons... one is tha e details and information of how all this is put together and works... suffi worked many long hours to develop the systems that protect our electronics a

    lastly, we (TINW) cannot tell if you (inclusive) are simply flaunting your i urselves, sirs... the information is available and there are real life examp


    )\/(ark

    I flaunt my ingorance while you flaunt your intelligence that's it right? There's plenty of infomation on plenty of things, and most of it becomes disproven within 100 yrs or so. That's all I need to say.

    Remember this is an entertainment forum, not )\/(ark gets to try and show his superior knowledge to people who are enjoying a lighthearded discussion about whether or not we really landing on the moon in 1969.

    I was in middle school when the first challenger exploded.
    I was an adult when the second one did.

    Compare my comment about Boeing to those stats.
    We were supposed to have worked out all the issues that failed (and in some cases killed) our testers in the space program.

    cue the "you're an idiot" and "go back to school" and "the challenger presented such different challenges than the apollo and mercury missions and
    then go back and look at every word and every phrase i made so you can start off the reply with "ummmmm" (that's new slang for when you're about to hit us with your superiority, you must start with Ummmmm... just like those "news" articles that turn into Opinion in the second paragaph.... Ummm maybe Mr. President, except for the fact that.....).

    Or better yet, don't reply. Go turn your attention to reading up on some other subject so you can come back and apply your acumen to some other subject, like when someone says "Do you really think microwave ovens are safe? I don't" and doesn't provide you facts from a 1978 Berkley douchebag who "proved" they are safe.

    Same guy that said coffee was good for you, then said it wasn't, and now says it is again.

    Or the peer reviewed guy wrote the definitive study on Gluten saying it was bad and people are intolerent, causing an entire industry to stand up and make gluten free products, and restaraunts to offer menu choices, only to come out recently and say he was wrong, and his study tests where invalid and inconclusive, and that there's no evidence to suggest there really is a case for gluten intolerance, and now NOBODY believes him.

    What this all tells you is, science isn't always right, especially where its applied (that matters), and peers often go along (for noteriety?), and if you wait long enough, the opposite will be "true".

    And don't start with the scientific method.

    cheers.

    have a beer.

    //s


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  • From Zombie Mambo@VERT/ZZONE to Sprite on Saturday, January 11, 2020 11:09:43
    Re: Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Sprite to Zombie Mambo on Fri Jan 10 2020 05:04 pm

    Can you describe a little more precisely your argument for those of us pla

    Anything EARTH defined means nothing in space.

    Yeah, but if you accurately describe the inertial frames of reference you
    At least I _think_ the term that I'm looking for is inertial frame of refe saying, though.


    Google?
    Are you a google scientist?
    So I should just give up because you and any high school kid can regurgitate a link (without even knowing if it's right because you didn't spend the time to go that far) so there, I'm wrong?

    I am entitled to believe we didn't land on the moon in 1969 because I don't feel we had the technology. We may have had some compelling studies and calculations, but I don't feel we could put it all together that quickly and make it work. I base that on a history of this country taking years to do things far less complex.

    That's my argument. Its not a debate, its an opinion.

    Turning my original opinion into an argument about equations you're googling is not going to change my mind, and for those highly educated folk that I can't have a conversation with because i'm of course just a rube that has GED saddens if your mind is changed because an equation or test here on earth exrapolated by some "Frame of Reference" concept then what else will you buy into? Is all that is needed to get your backing a study or two, some peer reviews, and test results?

    To me, if we landed on the moon in 1969 there would be much more evidence.
    And someone else would have done it by now if there's "So much evidence out there". It would appear there would be a guide to follow that even a highschooler apparently could make happen.

    SO why was it worth us doing in the first place, and why has only the USSR and China been able to even get there since?

    a. because it's hard to get there, and technology wasn't good enough for a while. Wasn't it like 76 when russia went? They were a super power then. ANd they didn't send a man. So while maybe we could land something there, the challenge of keeping men alive seems pretty hard even almost 10 years later.
    b. because there's no reason to go there?
    c. Because you can't

    That's pretty much it.
    If it were possible in 1969 it should be routine in 2020 and if the reasons for why it isn't are because its too hard, with all the technology we have now, well... That's enough for me.

    I don't need to be a scientist, on things like this simple logical judgment sometimes is enough.


    Thanks,
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  • From Rampage@VERT/SESTAR to MRO on Saturday, January 11, 2020 15:05:45
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: MRO to Limping Ninja on Sat Jan 11 2020 13:42:25


    i understand that the whipple shield/bumper is a thin shield of
    foil mounted with standoffs

    incorrect... there is no foil in a whipple shield... think "spaced armour" and you'll be a lot closer...


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  • From Rampage@VERT/SESTAR to MRO on Saturday, January 11, 2020 15:10:50
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: MRO to Rampage on Sat Jan 11 2020 13:43:26


    Second, realize that tinfoil is not protection

    ummm... no one said foil (not tinfoil) was protection against grains of sand

    Actually people have said that. this last guy that referenced the whipple shield did.

    no they didn't, if they did, i missed it... there are two types of shielding being discussed in this thread... micrometeoroid shielding and ablative heat shielding... whipple shielding doesn't have any foil in its basic design... the basic design is two plates separated by some space... there are at least 6 whipple shield designs... some of them may use some foil as part of a layered middle padding layer but it is not simply foil alone...


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Rampage on Saturday, January 11, 2020 15:40:48
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Rampage to MRO on Sat Jan 11 2020 03:05 pm

    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: MRO to Limping Ninja on Sat Jan 11 2020 13:42:25


    i understand that the whipple shield/bumper is a thin shield of
    foil mounted with standoffs

    incorrect... there is no foil in a whipple shield... think "spaced armour" a you'll be a lot closer...


    you're talking about current technology. we are not.

    for example, look at current shielding that was ruptured. https://i.imgur.com/uIT3Frf.png


    that's layers of shielding stuffed with kevlar.

    what did they have in 1969? probably not much if anything.

    i'm not even sure if there is information on apollo spacecraft having HAD any other shielding than the thin aluminum hull that many sources state it has.

    i dont think we can trust nasa because they are full of it.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Rampage on Saturday, January 11, 2020 15:41:32
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Rampage to MRO on Sat Jan 11 2020 03:10 pm

    Actually people have said that. this last guy that referenced the whipple shield did.

    no they didn't, if they did, i missed it... there are two types of shielding


    you missed it.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to MRO on Saturday, January 11, 2020 13:43:19
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: MRO to Nightfox on Sat Jan 11 2020 02:22 pm

    this is extremely ironic considering the fact that YOU don't understand that they are infact claiming that a thin foil is actually a defense against natural missles out in space. tin foil mounted on brackets.

    how it can even survive the trip out of the atmosphere, i have no idea.

    It has been explained numerous times in numerous places.

    Nightfox

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  • From Rampage@VERT/SESTAR to MRO on Saturday, January 11, 2020 17:34:41
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: MRO to Rampage on Sat Jan 11 2020 15:41:32


    Actually people have said that. this last guy that referenced the whipple shield did.

    no they didn't, if they did, i missed it... there are two types of shielding

    you missed it.

    where's the quote? or perhaps a message id number?


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Saturday, January 11, 2020 18:55:45
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Nightfox to MRO on Sat Jan 11 2020 01:43 pm

    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: MRO to Nightfox on Sat Jan 11 2020 02:22 pm

    this is extremely ironic considering the fact that YOU don't understand that they are infact claiming that a thin foil is actually a defense against natural missles out in space. tin foil mounted on brackets.

    how it can even survive the trip out of the atmosphere, i have no idea.

    It has been explained numerous times in numerous places.


    well, those explainations are lies.
    i dont believe anything nasa says. they are just full of shit with their photoshopped images and bullshit reports.

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  • From Sprite@VERT/TINTETBB to Zombie Mambo on Saturday, January 11, 2020 17:49:03
    Re: Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Zombie Mambo to Sprite on Sat Jan 11 2020 11:09:43

    Google?
    Are you a google scientist?
    So I should just give up because you and any high school kid can regurgitate a link (without even knowing if it's right because you didn't spend the time to go that far) so there, I'm wrong?

    I didn't paste any links, though. Forgive me if I'm missing something.

    I am entitled to believe we didn't land on the moon in 1969 because I don't feel we had the technology. We may have had some compelling studies and calculations, but I don't feel we could put it all together that quickly and make it work. I base that on a history of this country taking years to do things far less complex.

    Dude, I don't know if we landed on the frigging moon or not. That wasn't where I took exception. Where I took exception, primarily, is where you stated that we can't use 'earth equations' in space or something really similar.
    And let me be one to tell you, I'm not exactly unversed in conspiracy theory. When I say that I don't know if we landed on the moon or not I'm not just saying that because I didn't take exception with it and I want to get past that, I'm saying it because I honestly don't know if it's faked or not. I've spent a lot of time going over the evidence on both sides and it's pretty tough to tell without keys to NASA. So I prefer to keep my mind open on both sides.

    That's my argument. Its not a debate, its an opinion.

    Yeah and you just heard mine. Doesn't change the point that that's not what I was talking about when I wrote the message that you're replying to, though.

    Turning my original opinion into an argument about equations you're googling is not going to change my mind, and for those highly educated folk that I can't have a conversation with because i'm of course just a rube that has GED saddens if your mind is changed because an equation or test here on earth exrapolated by some "Frame of Reference" concept then what else will you buy into? Is all that is needed to get your backing a study or two, some peer reviews, and test results?

    I didn't google shit. I know this off the top of my head, actually. Also, I'm a rube, as well, with a GED. But I went to school some more after that, for whatever that's worth. If you believe that there are _any_ satellites up above the atmosphere that worked with equations calculated here on earth then your own argument is a crock. Are you saying we don't have GPS?
    As far as what you said about studies, peer reviews, and test results... Just wow. I mean, yeah, that shit can be falsified, and a person should always look at the evidence themselves and make up their own conclusions. That's the smart thing to do, especially in an age defined by misinformation and propaganda. I just really don't think you understand what you're trying to get at here, though. Maybe even less than I do. That's a pretty tough feat, and you've got my respect for pulling it off.

    To me, if we landed on the moon in 1969 there would be much more evidence. And someone else would have done it by now if there's "So much evidence out there". It would appear there would be a guide to follow that even a highschooler apparently could make happen.

    Like I said, I've seen a lot of compelling arguments that we didn't, and there's the inertia of the belief that we did. I don't know which one wins. Wish I could tell better. You are still of the mistaken belief that I ever debated this with you, though.

    SO why was it worth us doing in the first place, and why has only the USSR and China been able to even get there since?

    For what it's worth, and just to prove that I'm still willing to discourse with you on whatever common ground we may have (conspiracy theory, maybe?) I've heard that one of the reasons that it was imperative for us to go to the moon (if we did) was because there had been unearthed some evidence that the sun has recurrent micronova phases. Which would mean that when it goes micronova again it'll send us back to the stone age and/or wipe out most of the population (not like we wouldn't do it ourselves given all technology being wiped out in a 'just in time' society like ours). This would leave evidence behind on the lunar surface that wouldn't make it to the Earth's surface due to our atmosphere. I can look up the video if you'd like to know more about this potential cataclysm in our future. It's a very interesting set of documentary films, just produced recently, and with very good special effects and legitimate (if hypothetical) science behind it.

    a. because it's hard to get there, and technology wasn't good enough for a while. Wasn't it like 76 when russia went? They were a super power then. ANd they didn't send a man. So while maybe we could land something there, the challenge of keeping men alive seems pretty hard even almost 10 years later. b. because there's no reason to go there?
    c. Because you can't

    I agree that it'd be hard to keep a person alive there, and even in/around the van allen belts. But I just don't know for certain. Then again, I was never in this debate to start with. So I hope whoever you WERE debating that with is reading this, so that it didn't all get typed for nothing.

    That's pretty much it.
    If it were possible in 1969 it should be routine in 2020 and if the reasons for why it isn't are because its too hard, with all the technology we have now, well... That's enough for me.

    I agree that sounds pretty suspicious.

    I don't need to be a scientist, on things like this simple logical judgment sometimes is enough.

    Your argument would carry a lot more weight if you'd look into some details on the matter and not totally eschew mathematics. Plus, you're not relying on logical judgment, you're relying on a somewhat logical basis for suspicion.
    Anyway, whatever works. You're certainly entitled to your views.

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  • From Rampage@VERT/SESTAR to Sprite on Sunday, January 12, 2020 08:37:09
    Re: Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Sprite to Zombie Mambo on Sat Jan 11 2020 17:49:03


    If it were possible in 1969 it should be routine in 2020 and if the
    reasons for why it isn't are because its too hard, with all the
    technology we have now, well... That's enough for me.

    I agree that sounds pretty suspicious.

    quite easily, the reasons why it isn't common today is because of politics... follow the $$$... look at the budgets and where the $$$ was allocated...

    look also at what happened with the apollo program TV broadcasts... there was good coverage for a while and then it slowed... why? because people got bored of seeing it so they switched to other channels... how do we know this? Neilsen Families and their ratings... the neilsen ratings started back in the '50s or before... they are also used for audio ratings and lead to what music is played more when it is more popular...

    families voluntarily report what they are watching or listening to... they were watching the launches and moon landings transmissions.. then they got bored and switched to other shows... the ratings for the apollo stuff dropped so the TV stations and networks stopped broadcasting about them so much...

    couple that with the budgets and how the congress lowered the $$$ for NASA to work with and it is easy to see how our space program has languished as badly as it has... today we have private industries leading the way to space... SpaceX's reusable 1st stages is a huge advantage at lower the cost to launch... without GPS and other technologies, it still wouldn't be possible or as easy as it is today...

    i fully agree that we should have been on the moon with some sort of ""moon bases"" decades ago... however, i also feel that there would have been more tragedies if we had pushed for that as hard as we did to get apollo to
    the moon... tragedies in loss of personell and equipment due to possible unforeseen situations... but we cannot learn without failures... that's well known...


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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Zombie Mambo on Sunday, January 12, 2020 07:51:00
    Zombie Mambo wrote to Gamgee <=-

    At what grade level did you drop out of school?

    You truly make yourself look stupid with statements like those
    above. Go get some education.

    Excellent comeback.

    Thank you.

    Now please take my advice in the last four words I posted above,
    and then come back and try to have an intelligent conversation
    about a subject you clearly know nothing about.

    Or don't come back, either way is fine.



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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Zombie Mambo on Sunday, January 12, 2020 08:01:00
    Zombie Mambo wrote to Limping Ninja <=-

    I don't buy the testing, the results, the science behind any of
    it because it was not tested in space.

    That's because you don't understand science (or much else,
    apparently). As I've already said, you're short on education.

    "It -SHOULD- work" when we get there is a lot to bet human
    life on.

    You made a true and accurate statement right there. That's
    exactly what we (NASA) did in the 60's/70's. Truth.

    "Nothing ventured, nothing gained."

    "He who dares, wins."



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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to MRO on Sunday, January 12, 2020 08:18:00
    MRO wrote to Nightfox <=-

    ummm... no one said foil (not tinfoil) was protection against grains of sand... foil of different types is used for various things... one is to shield against radiation... another is as an ablative shield to protect against heat of reentry...

    It seems many of the moon landing conspiracy theorists don't fully understan the science or what all was involved in the vehicle or the process of the mo


    this is extremely ironic considering the fact that YOU don't
    understand that they are infact claiming that a thin foil is
    actually a defense against natural missles out in space. tin
    foil mounted on brackets.

    how it can even survive the trip out of the atmosphere, i have no
    idea.

    Damn, you really *are* related to the Zombie one. You also need
    some education. The "foil shielded" vehicle (known as the "LEM")
    was not exposed to the atmosphere during the trip out of the
    atmosphere.

    But really, some research and knowledge will help you avoid having
    to say "I have no idea" so much. Good luck.



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  • From Limping Ninja@VERT/CAPSHRIL to Zombie Mambo on Sunday, January 12, 2020 10:17:53
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Zombie Mambo to Limping Ninja on Sat Jan 11 2020 10:45 am

    Who knows what we REALLY have between us and the moon and beyond that they arent telling us.

    You are railing against ad hominem attacks, but seriously your argument is juvenile. Your stance is ignorant and, I daresay, disingenuous. Your assertion that the government of the United States faked a moon-landing and then somehow was able to fool and quash all research of all scientists in the world until this very day to hide that fact is completely fluffing ridiculous.

    Furthing your argument that somehow there is a vast world-wide conspiracy to hide 'stuff in space' from you shows that you either haven't thought this through or likely are poorly medicated. There is no more conversation here, you've shown that it isn't possible.

    -LN

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Limping Ninja on Sunday, January 12, 2020 21:45:01
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Limping Ninja to Zombie Mambo on Sun Jan 12 2020 10:17 am

    juvenile. Your stance is ignorant and, I daresay, disingenuous. Your asserti that the government of the United States faked a moon-landing and then someh was able to fool and quash all research of all scientists in the world until this very day to hide that fact is completely fluffing ridiculous.


    yeah like it's never done that before *rolls eyes*

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Zombie Mambo on Saturday, January 11, 2020 15:30:00
    On 01-09-20 20:51, Zombie Mambo wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Yeah no crap. That's cuz all of these conspiracy shit is supposed to be comic relief.

    I ignored it, because I don't care.

    And, because we all know its bs. We never went there.


    :)

    Haha some things don't carry well over text. :)


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  • From Sprite@VERT/TINTETBB to Rampage on Wednesday, January 15, 2020 12:58:05
    Re: Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Rampage to Sprite on Sun Jan 12 2020 08:37:09

    quite easily, the reasons why it isn't common today is because of politics... follow the $$$... look at the budgets and where the $$$ was allocated...

    Oh I agree. It's quite probable.

    look also at what happened with the apollo program TV broadcasts... there was good coverage for a while and then it slowed... why? because people got bored of seeing it so they switched to other channels... how do we know this? Neilsen Families and their ratings... the neilsen ratings started back in the '50s or before... they are also used for audio ratings and lead to what music is played more when it is more popular...

    Yup.

    couple that with the budgets and how the congress lowered the $$$ for NASA to work with and it is easy to see how our space program has languished as badly as it has... today we have private industries leading the way to space... SpaceX's reusable 1st stages is a huge advantage at lower the cost to launch... without GPS and other technologies, it still wouldn't be possible or as easy as it is today...

    It's pretty awful how much funding and manpower we've diverted away from the sciences and exploration in the name of war. :P

    i fully agree that we should have been on the moon with some sort of ""moon bases"" decades ago... however, i also feel that there would have been more tragedies if we had pushed for that as hard as we did to get apollo to the moon... tragedies in loss of personell and equipment due to possible unforeseen situations... but we cannot learn without failures... that's well known...

    I agree completely, as well.

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  • From Zombie Mambo@VERT/ZZONE to Gamgee on Friday, January 17, 2020 14:03:46
    Re: Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Gamgee to Zombie Mambo on Sun Jan 12 2020 08:01 am

    Zombie Mambo wrote to Limping Ninja <=-

    I don't buy the testing, the results, the science behind any of
    it because it was not tested in space.

    That's because you don't understand science (or much else,
    apparently). As I've already said, you're short on education.

    "It -SHOULD- work" when we get there is a lot to bet human
    life on.

    You made a true and accurate statement right there. That's
    exactly what we (NASA) did in the 60's/70's. Truth.

    "Nothing ventured, nothing gained."

    "He who dares, wins."



    ... If it weren't for Edison we'd be using computers by candlelight

    I love how I'm short on education, like you know anything about me.
    You're short relevance, humor, and a few other things I won't mention because I am not a complete pr1ck like you, and people like you.

    Enjoy


    Thanks,
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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Zombie Mambo on Friday, January 17, 2020 17:45:00
    Zombie Mambo wrote to Gamgee <=-

    I don't buy the testing, the results, the science behind any of
    it because it was not tested in space.

    That's because you don't understand science (or much else,
    apparently). As I've already said, you're short on education.

    "It -SHOULD- work" when we get there is a lot to bet human
    life on.

    You made a true and accurate statement right there. That's
    exactly what we (NASA) did in the 60's/70's. Truth.

    "Nothing ventured, nothing gained."

    "He who dares, wins."

    I love how I'm short on education, like you know anything about
    me.

    Well, I do know something about you. I know that you make
    ridiculous, uninformed statements about a subject you very clearly
    know nothing about. Only a poorly educated person would do that,
    thus my conclusion.

    You're short relevance, humor, and a few other things I won't
    mention because I am not a complete pr1ck like you, and people
    like you.

    I'm glad there aren't very many people like you around to drag
    down the overall intelligence level of the population. It's bad
    enough these days as it is. Remember - it's never too late to go
    back to school! Now run along and go find your safe space.



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  • From Zombie Mambo@VERT/ZZONE to Limping Ninja on Sunday, January 19, 2020 11:02:48
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Limping Ninja to Zombie Mambo on Sun Jan 12 2020 10:17 am

    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Zombie Mambo to Limping Ninja on Sat Jan 11 2020 10:45 am

    Who knows what we REALLY have between us and the moon and beyond that t arent telling us.

    You are railing against ad hominem attacks, but seriously your argument is j uash all research of all scientists in the world until this very day to hide

    Furthing your argument that somehow there is a vast world-wide conspiracy to ossible.

    -LN


    Right. Because
    1. You have a higher education, supreme to us all, and you say so. money well spent.
    2. All "research" points to it. Because research has NEVER been wrong.
    3. A government, and other governments wishing to retain super power status agreeing on something that the people wouldn't like? Right, that never happens.

    4. The US government covering stuff up? Cmon who believes that nonsense. Only uneducated dolts, obviously (#Kennedy #Area51) "the people aren't ready".

    You may have untold years of study, and you may have spent nn time brushing shoulders with the smartest people in the world, but at the end of the day, just admit you're mad because us dumb folk know bs when we see it, and call it out.

    Carry own with your superiority complex, but know that just because your facts support your opinion and reality, does not mean you're right.

    Imagine a world with just man's facts, and not intuition, emotion, and instinct. Your world must suck ass.


    Thanks,
    Zombie Mambo

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to ALL on Monday, January 20, 2020 12:57:00
    OK so you all have got me watching this show as S1 is available via our
    local cable on-demand as a free with limited commercials show. So far, I
    have made it through 2 episodes. I am enjoying it. I may have missed it
    being mentioned here, but there appears to be a cold war espionage angle in addition to the obvious UFO angle.


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  • From Sockmedic@VERT/MLCBBSAU to Dumas Walker on Tuesday, January 21, 2020 09:32:34
    Re: Project Blue Book TV show
    By: Dumas Walker to ALL on Mon Jan 20 2020 12:57:00

    OK so you all have got me watching this show as S1 is available via our local cable on-demand as a free with limited commercials show.

    *laughs in BitTorrent*

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  • From Zombie Mambo@VERT/ZZONE to Gamgee on Saturday, January 25, 2020 15:54:36
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Gamgee to Vk3jed on Sun Jan 05 2020 09:50 am

    Yep. Anyone who actually believes the moon landings were faked
    is...... an idiot.

    Yep, just like anyone who believes JFK was killed by more than one bullet. Idiots.

    Or anyone who believes there's no way man built the pyramids.
    Total fools to think that.

    Or get this... Anyone who thinks Joe Biden might be guilty of selling his office... Only a total idiot would believe that, right?

    Idiots.

    We should call everyone that disagrees with us idiots because to do so greatly demonstrates how serious and smart we are, and how idiotic they are.


    Thanks,
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  • From Zombie Mambo@VERT/ZZONE to Nightfox on Saturday, January 25, 2020 15:58:33
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Nightfox to Vk3jed on Sun Jan 05 2020 01:15 pm

    Yep. Although we were able to make movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey, I don

    Really? I always thought the video of the 69 landing looked horrible compared t o what was done in hollywood around the same time. When you look at some of the practicing films where they were learning things, it almost looks like it was being scripted for film.

    also I would really like to see the "lost" tapes.

    How does a group that supposedly pulled all of this off lose tapes?
    if they were capable of missing that, how many other things did they miss?


    Thanks,
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  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to Zombie Mambo on Sunday, January 26, 2020 11:04:26
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Zombie Mambo to Gamgee on Sat Jan 25 2020 03:54 pm

    Yep. Anyone who actually believes the moon landings were faked
    is...... an idiot.

    Or anyone who believes there's no way man built the pyramids.

    So how did they build the pyramids? Why can't we explain how they were built? I'm not saying they didn't build them. I just don't understand how we can land a man on the moon but don't know how to build a pyramid with some rope and wood.
    HusTler@ havens.synchro.net

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to HusTler on Sunday, January 26, 2020 12:05:29
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: HusTler to Zombie Mambo on Sun Jan 26 2020 11:04 am

    So how did they build the pyramids? Why can't we explain how they were built? I'm not saying they didn't build them. I just don't understand how we can land a man on the moon but don't know how to build a pyramid with some rope and wood.

    Building a pyramid and sending someone to the moon are two totally separate tasks. Apples & oranges.

    I imagine there is a lot of information that has historically been lost. If the ancient Egyptians documented how they built the pyramids, perhaps whatever documentation they had has degraded over time. We can make reasonable guesses about how the pyramids were built, but we probably won't know for sure. The same goes with things like Stonenehge (plus why they were built) and the Easter Island statues, etc.. We're talking things that were built hundreds or thousands of years ago, and whatever documentation may have been written about them might not have been preserved.

    Nightfox

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to HusTler on Sunday, January 26, 2020 14:24:34
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: HusTler to Zombie Mambo on Sun Jan 26 2020 11:04 am


    So how did they build the pyramids? Why can't we explain how they were buil I'm not saying they didn't build them. I just don't understand how we can la a man on the moon but don't know how to build a pyramid with some rope and wood.

    they built them using leverage and other tricks. and a lot of slaves.

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  • From Rampage@VERT/SESTAR to HusTler on Sunday, January 26, 2020 16:18:19
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: HusTler to Zombie Mambo on Sun Jan 26 2020 11:04:26


    Yep. Anyone who actually believes the moon landings were faked
    is...... an idiot.

    Or anyone who believes there's no way man built the pyramids.

    So how did they build the pyramids? Why can't we explain how they
    were built? I'm not saying they didn't build them. I just don't
    understand how we can land a man on the moon but don't know how
    to build a pyramid with some rope and wood.

    that's easy to explain... the knowledge used then was lost over the ages... kinda like the knowledge of sword making was lost and some methods are only just now being rediscovered...


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Rampage on Sunday, January 26, 2020 21:58:27
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Rampage to HusTler on Sun Jan 26 2020 04:18 pm


    that's easy to explain... the knowledge used then was lost over the ages... kinda like the knowledge of sword making was lost and some methods are only just now being rediscovered...


    yepper. they still cant make true damascus steel and they have been trying hard.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to HusTler on Sunday, January 26, 2020 23:19:00
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: HusTler to Zombie Mambo on Sun Jan 26 2020 11:04 am

    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Zombie Mambo to Gamgee on Sat Jan 25 2020 03:54 pm

    Yep. Anyone who actually believes the moon landings were faked
    is...... an idiot.

    Or anyone who believes there's no way man built the pyramids.

    So how did they build the pyramids? Why can't we explain how they were buil
    HusTler@ havens.synchro.net

    They had more than rope and wood. They had basic geometry, measuring devices based on such geometry, and the workers were more specialized than what the average person assumes. They had to be much more than slaves. The valley is full of smaller family burial plots. Unlike salve labor that was purged when no longer needed, the plots appear to be compensation for several years of service.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Nightfox on Sunday, January 26, 2020 23:25:00
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Nightfox to HusTler on Sun Jan 26 2020 12:05 pm

    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: HusTler to Zombie Mambo on Sun Jan 26 2020 11:04 am

    So how did they build the pyramids? Why can't we explain how they were built? I'm not saying they didn't build them. I just don't understand h we can land a man on the moon but don't know how to build a pyramid wit some rope and wood.

    Building a pyramid and sending someone to the moon are two totally separate

    I imagine there is a lot of information that has historically been lost. If ids were built, but we probably won't know for sure. The same goes with thi tation may have been written about them might not have been preserved.

    Nightfox

    The Great Library of Alexandria was burned during invasions not by the attckers, but by the residents who didn't want knowledge to be stolen. It
    was common to belive invaders destroyed books or texts to destroy history or culture. during the Crusades libraries were captured, and information flowed up into Europe, which led to the Renaissance. The artists and mathematitions of the time didn't magically pull math and science from thin air. Someone els e laid the ground work, and they either took credit or built on top of it.

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  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to Nightfox on Monday, January 27, 2020 10:12:55
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Moondog to Nightfox on Sun Jan 26 2020 11:25 pm

    So how did they build the pyramids? Why can't we explain how they
    were built? I'm not saying they didn't build them. I just don't

    Building a pyramid and sending someone to the moon are two totally
    separate
    I imagine there is a lot of information that has historically been
    lost. If ids were built, but we probably won't know for sure. The
    same goes with thi tation may have been written about them might not

    I'd just like to see a replica built using whatever tools were available at the time. We have the documents describing God but no books like "How to bulid a Pyramid for dummies"? Ever seen these modern blacksmiths make a sword? It takes them all day to make one sword. How do you supply an army of 1000 with a sword using this method. No books on "How to build a sword for dummies" either? :-) Out of all the civilations nodody left the "cookbook" behind?
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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to HusTler on Monday, January 27, 2020 11:31:44
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: HusTler to Nightfox on Mon Jan 27 2020 10:12 am

    I'd just like to see a replica built using whatever tools were available at the time. We have the documents describing God but no books like "How to bulid a Pyramid for dummies"? Ever seen these modern blacksmiths make a

    I've heard that the bible and other religious documents have probably been edited and corrupted over time. I've heard the Catholic church removed and replaced some of the sections of the bible hundreds of years ago..

    sword? It takes them all day to make one sword. How do you supply an army of 1000 with a sword using this method. No books on "How to build a sword for dummies" either? :-) Out of all the civilations nodody left the "cookbook" behind?

    As has been said, such information could have been lost, burned, or otherwise damaged. It's like an instruction book someone might have today that may end up thrown away and ends up in a landfill where it decomposes over time.

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Monday, January 27, 2020 18:28:00
    So how did they build the pyramids? Why can't we explain how they were buil >> I'm not saying they didn't build them. I just don't understand how we can la >> a man on the moon but don't know how to build a pyramid with some rope and >> wood.

    they built them using leverage and other tricks. and a lot of slaves.

    +1


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  • From Rampage@VERT/SESTAR to HusTler on Monday, January 27, 2020 20:10:53
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: HusTler to Nightfox on Mon Jan 27 2020 10:12:55


    Out of all the civilations nodody left the "cookbook" behind?

    heard of the "dead sea scrolls"? that's what happened to all the "cookbooks"... can only imagine what the stuff written on animal hides looks like... let's also not forget about them even thinking to write stuff down... a lot was handed down verbally and via training because only a few actually knew how to write...


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  • From Zombie Mambo@VERT/ZZONE to HusTler on Monday, January 27, 2020 15:51:20
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: HusTler to Zombie Mambo on Sun Jan 26 2020 11:04 am

    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Zombie Mambo to Gamgee on Sat Jan 25 2020 03:54 pm

    Yep. Anyone who actually believes the moon landings were faked
    is...... an idiot.

    Or anyone who believes there's no way man built the pyramids.

    So how did they build the pyramids? Why can't we explain how they were buil
    HusTler@ havens.synchro.net


    I was just kidding. Be careful what you ponder here, you'll be called an idiot with low education if you don't ascribe to the beliefs of certain individuals.

    But yeah that's the kind of thing that gets me.

    Or, remember we were told we'd have flying cars by 1980?
    Maybe we all assumed that was true because we all believed we actually landed on the moon in 1969 because surely, if we could get to the moon, we could figure out our own planet's ins/outs to the point that flying cars would be easy.

    40 yrs later, still no flying cars and drones are just a rehash of model plains and helicopters with a few new bells and whistles, and autonomous cars kill people.

    but we went to the moon on our first try.

    and got back.



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  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to Zombie Mambo on Tuesday, January 28, 2020 09:01:06
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Zombie Mambo to HusTler on Mon Jan 27 2020 03:51 pm

    but we went to the moon on our first try.

    and got back.


    First try? I don't know about that. There were a shit load of practice runs starting with Gemini through Apollo 10.
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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Dumas Walker on Tuesday, January 28, 2020 11:00:00
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Mon Jan 27 2020 06:28 pm

    So how did they build the pyramids? Why can't we explain how they were bu >> I'm not saying they didn't build them. I just don't understand how we can >> a man on the moon but don't know how to build a pyramid with some rope an >> wood.

    they built them using leverage and other tricks. and a lot of slaves.

    +1


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    Regarding slave labor, throwing a bunch of people at a project doesn't guarantee success. These workers had to be trained, skilled craftsmen who could lead others as well as build. The theory now is the family grave plots all over the valley were compensation for skilled labor.


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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Zombie Mambo on Tuesday, January 28, 2020 11:29:00
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Zombie Mambo to HusTler on Mon Jan 27 2020 03:51 pm


    Or, remember we were told we'd have flying cars by 1980?
    Maybe we all assumed that was true because we all believed we actually lande on the moon in 1969 because surely, if we could get to the moon, we could figure out our own planet's ins/outs to the point that flying cars would be easy.

    40 yrs later, still no flying cars and drones are just a rehash of model pla and helicopters with a few new bells and whistles, and autonomous cars kill people.

    but we went to the moon on our first try.

    and got back.



    Thanks,
    Zombie Mambo

    Never invest in what a futurist says. Most of their speculation comes from looking at what we have now, then assuming some technical obstical will be overcome to reach their conclusions. These conclusions have little to do with
    politics, economic trends, culture,or even practicality of such designs.

    Electric cars has been a dream since the car was invented. There are
    examples of electric cars from over 100 years ago. Battery design is only
    one obstacle. The electronics to control and harness that power in an efficie nt manner is another factor. Fast charging and the ability to charge a battery safely over and over is another factor. Mileage is a major factor. We're getting much closer than we ever were before with electric cars. Same goes
    for autonomous vehicles. The processing power and cost of components has
    gone down considerably when compared to the large delivery vans carrying multiple mainframe computers like Mercedes was experimenting with 30 years
    ago.

    Flying cars? Is that really practical? The concepts of flight and piloting s eem simple, but so does the idea people can navigate open flat roads and properly maintain automobiles. If a car runs out of fuel, you can pull off
    the road. If a flying car is expected to be safe, it would have to be
    smarter than the driver to prevent running low on fuel or power. Same
    applies to landing and parking. Imagine what traffic and gridlock would look like when lanes are not just left and right, but stacked? I'm sure there will
    be restricted flight zones over some population areas and suburbs, so
    flying anywhere you want or taking a direct flight path may not always be possible.

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MOONDOG on Tuesday, January 28, 2020 18:09:00
    Regarding slave labor, throwing a bunch of people at a project doesn't guarantee success. These workers had to be trained, skilled craftsmen who could lead others as well as build. The theory now is the family grave plots all over the valley were compensation for skilled labor.

    I don't doubt they had plenty of skilled labor, too. I suspect they would
    have needed more workers for hauling the stuff into place, and in greater numbers. Skilled workers are more scarce, so you don't want them getting
    hurt when that large stone block falls down. Hence the slaves.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to NIGHTFOX on Tuesday, January 28, 2020 18:14:00
    I've heard that the bible and other religious documents have probably been edit
    d and corrupted over time. I've heard the Catholic church removed and replaced
    some of the sections of the bible hundreds of years ago..

    Either the Protestants removed several books, or the Catholics added them later.


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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to HusTler on Tuesday, January 28, 2020 22:10:00
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: HusTler to Zombie Mambo on Tue Jan 28 2020 09:01 am

    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Zombie Mambo to HusTler on Mon Jan 27 2020 03:51 pm

    but we went to the moon on our first try.

    and got back.


    First try? I don't know about that. There were a shit load of practice run
    HusTler@ havens.synchro.net

    All previous flights were test flights. None were actual landing attempts. They were baby steps. Each Apollo flight leading up to 11 was a proof of concept mission. Each time they went one step further. Apollo 10 carried an LEM, but that was a dress rehearsal to practice undocking, achieving powered descent orbit, and recovery. I'd want proof these procedures were solid
    before going any further. I recall hearing an interview with Neill Armstrong asking what was his top priority when landing on the moon, he said making
    sure they could leave. Everything else from then on was a distraction from
    the time he could prepare to go.


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  • From DaiTengu@VERT/ENSEMBLE to MRO on Wednesday, January 29, 2020 12:12:34
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: MRO to HusTler on Sun Jan 26 2020 02:24 pm

    they built them using leverage and other tricks. and a lot of slaves.

    Are they slaves if they were paid?

    (They were paid. In Beer. Among other things)

    DaiTengu

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Moondog on Wednesday, January 29, 2020 20:59:29
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Moondog to HusTler on Sun Jan 26 2020 11:19 pm


    They had more than rope and wood. They had basic geometry, measuring device based on such geometry, and the workers were more specialized than what the average person assumes. They had to be much more than slaves. The valley i full of smaller family burial plots. Unlike salve labor that was purged whe no longer needed, the plots appear to be compensation for several years of service.


    they used leverage tricks and used the sand with ropes to stand the blocks up straight. and lots of slaves.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Dumas Walker on Thursday, January 30, 2020 01:26:00
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Dumas Walker to MOONDOG on Tue Jan 28 2020 06:09 pm

    Regarding slave labor, throwing a bunch of people at a project doesn't guarantee success. These workers had to be trained, skilled craftsmen who could lead others as well as build. The theory now is the family grave pl all over the valley were compensation for skilled labor.

    I don't doubt they had plenty of skilled labor, too. I suspect they would have needed more workers for hauling the stuff into place, and in greater numbers. Skilled workers are more scarce, so you don't want them getting hurt when that large stone block falls down. Hence the slaves.


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    Non-skilled labor does not necessarily mean slave labor. We think of all leaders in the past as being despots, but a "god on earth" could probably muster people willing to work by their own free will.

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  • From Zombie Mambo@VERT/ZZONE to Moondog on Saturday, February 01, 2020 11:59:37
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Moondog to Zombie Mambo on Tue Jan 28 2020 11:29 am

    Flying cars? Is that really practical? The concepts of flight and piloting eem simple, but so does the idea people can navigate open flat roads and properly maintain automobiles. If a car runs out of fuel, you can pull off the road. If a flying car is expected to be safe, it would have to be smarter than the driver to prevent running low on fuel or power. Same applies to landing and parking. Imagine what traffic and gridlock would loo like when lanes are not just left and right, but stacked? I'm sure there wi
    be restricted flight zones over some population areas and suburbs, so flying anywhere you want or taking a direct flight path may not always be possible.


    Gridlock- hollywood thinks it would look something like the 5th Element or Star Wars scenes in the recent movies... Who knows. Who cares. The point is, futurists are right in many cases. Those talking about space travel in the 40s were "futurists" and 20 years later supposedly went to the moon.

    If it was done in 1969, it should be routine now.
    cost should not be a factor
    we should have colonies there by now

    You're making alot of assumptions about what things would look like and "have" to be. like the car would have to be smarter than the driver. would it have to be? Would it even be called a car anymore?

    What if they were made in such a way that when they ran out of power, they glided. Or could be flown into a lower traffic pattern that took anything in the pattern by force, manually slowing it down (tractor beam). Are today's cars smarter and are they actually helping in these situations to avoid injury?
    Who knows. Who cares.

    We're talking about America as if what we decide will dictate what happens in the rest of the world, while a large % of the rest of the world rides mopeds, deals in vehicles with poor emission regulations, and who's infrastructure is slowly falling apart or falling into the oceans.

    If rich countries brought in flying vehicles, all that would do is give liberals another thing to whine about that the less fortunate should have too at your cost.

    Despite the fact that the practicality of such transportation is lacking serious merit anyway.








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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Zombie Mambo on Saturday, February 01, 2020 16:10:17
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Zombie Mambo to Moondog on Sat Feb 01 2020 11:59 am

    If it was done in 1969, it should be routine now.
    cost should not be a factor
    we should have colonies there by now

    I'd think moon colonies would be a bit impractical, even now. I can see why the US would have wanted to go to the moon in 1969 - The idea of space travel was popular then, and we wanted to prove to the Russians in particular that we could do it. But if we had a colony on the moon, there would need to be air-tight shelters and a way to provide a steady supply of oxygen, water, and food, waste management, etc.. I don't think there's a big need for a moon colony right now. We have plenty of issues back on Earth that are arguably more important.

    Nightfox

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Saturday, February 01, 2020 20:55:27
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Nightfox to Zombie Mambo on Sat Feb 01 2020 04:10 pm

    could do it. But if we had a colony on the moon, there would need to be air-tight shelters and a way to provide a steady supply of oxygen, water, an food, waste management, etc.. I don't think there's a big need for a moon colony right now. We have plenty of issues back on Earth that are arguably more important.


    looks like the aliens that live on the moon have accomplished their goals.

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Nightfox on Saturday, February 01, 2020 22:05:00
    Nightfox wrote to Zombie Mambo <=-

    If it was done in 1969, it should be routine now.
    cost should not be a factor
    we should have colonies there by now

    I'd think moon colonies would be a bit impractical, even now. I
    can see why the US would have wanted to go to the moon in 1969 -
    The idea of space travel was popular then, and we wanted to prove
    to the Russians in particular that we could do it. But if we had
    a colony on the moon, there would need to be air-tight shelters
    and a way to provide a steady supply of oxygen, water, and food,
    waste management, etc.. I don't think there's a big need for a
    moon colony right now. We have plenty of issues back on Earth
    that are arguably more important.

    No argument with most of that, other than the need for it. My
    point there is that eventually.... mankind is going to have to
    expand our living space, due to many factors... such as pollution, overcrowding, nuclear holocaust, or whatever. Eventually if we
    want to survive as a species, we'll need somewhere new to live.
    In order to do that, we have to learn how to live in hostile
    environments like the moon, at least until we (hopefully) can
    tailor a new planet/body to our needs (temp/atmosphere, etc).
    We've got to start somewhere, and the moon is close by. I think
    if we had continued the pace of the space program from the 1970's
    to the present day, we might already have inhabited colonies on
    Mars. Hopefully we will get things moving again soon.



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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Zombie Mambo on Monday, February 03, 2020 11:42:00
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Zombie Mambo to Moondog on Sat Feb 01 2020 11:59 am


    Despite the fact that the practicality of such transportation is lacking serious merit anyway.








    Thanks,
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    I liked looking at covers of magazines such as Popular Mechanics, especially from the 1960's when they would show the father of the household stepping out of his helicopter arriving home from work. The cheapest helicopters are
    $400k or more.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Nightfox on Monday, February 03, 2020 11:46:00
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Nightfox to Zombie Mambo on Sat Feb 01 2020 04:10 pm

    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Zombie Mambo to Moondog on Sat Feb 01 2020 11:59 am

    If it was done in 1969, it should be routine now.
    cost should not be a factor
    we should have colonies there by now

    I'd think moon colonies would be a bit impractical, even now. I can see why
    we had a colony on the moon, there would need to be air-tight shelters and
    on Earth that are arguably more important.

    Nightfox

    Wear and tear on equipment, clothing, and the human body would be serious issues considering every flake of dust is a tiny razor blade due to no
    wind or weather to tumble and polish the edges off. The abrasive grit will destroy seals and bearings quickly. Fill your lungs with it and pray you
    don't suffer from mesothelioma.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Gamgee on Monday, February 03, 2020 11:47:00
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Sat Feb 01 2020 10:05 pm

    Nightfox wrote to Zombie Mambo <=-

    If it was done in 1969, it should be routine now.
    cost should not be a factor
    we should have colonies there by now

    I'd think moon colonies would be a bit impractical, even now. I
    can see why the US would have wanted to go to the moon in 1969 -
    The idea of space travel was popular then, and we wanted to prove
    to the Russians in particular that we could do it. But if we had
    a colony on the moon, there would need to be air-tight shelters
    and a way to provide a steady supply of oxygen, water, and food,
    waste management, etc.. I don't think there's a big need for a
    moon colony right now. We have plenty of issues back on Earth
    that are arguably more important.

    No argument with most of that, other than the need for it. My
    point there is that eventually.... mankind is going to have to
    expand our living space, due to many factors... such as pollution, overcrowding, nuclear holocaust, or whatever. Eventually if we
    want to survive as a species, we'll need somewhere new to live.
    In order to do that, we have to learn how to live in hostile
    environments like the moon, at least until we (hopefully) can
    tailor a new planet/body to our needs (temp/atmosphere, etc).
    We've got to start somewhere, and the moon is close by. I think
    if we had continued the pace of the space program from the 1970's
    to the present day, we might already have inhabited colonies on
    Mars. Hopefully we will get things moving again soon.



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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Moondog on Monday, February 03, 2020 13:05:18
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Moondog to Zombie Mambo on Mon Feb 03 2020 11:42 am


    I liked looking at covers of magazines such as Popular Mechanics, especially from the 1960's when they would show the father of the household stepping ou of his helicopter arriving home from work. The cheapest helicopters are $400k or more.


    yeah but the helicopters you build from the magazine dont cost that much.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to MRO on Monday, February 03, 2020 22:26:00
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: MRO to Moondog on Mon Feb 03 2020 01:05 pm

    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Moondog to Zombie Mambo on Mon Feb 03 2020 11:42 am


    I liked looking at covers of magazines such as Popular Mechanics, especia from the 1960's when they would show the father of the household stepping of his helicopter arriving home from work. The cheapest helicopters are $400k or more.


    yeah but the helicopters you build from the magazine dont cost that much.

    Unserstood, but the helicopters I'm talking about were the futurist's view of commercial offerings we'd have by the 21st century. i don't believe we would have gridlock like seen in the movies, however there would be off limits
    flight zones like they currently have for conventional aircraft. If you want to merge onto a road or enter cities, you'll have to obey flight zone rules
    and enter air traffic holding patterns.

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  • From Derision@VERT/AMIGAC to Moondog on Tuesday, February 04, 2020 01:31:04
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Moondog to MRO on Mon Feb 03 2020 22:26:00

    Unserstood, but the helicopters I'm talking about were the futurist's view of commercial offerings we'd have by the 21st century. i don't believe we would have gridlock like seen in the movies, however there would be off limits
    flight zones like they currently have for conventional aircraft. If you want to merge onto a road or enter cities, you'll have to obey flight zone rules
    and enter air traffic holding patterns.

    Whilst they sound cool and all, flying cars are an awful idea. The average driver has enough difficulty getting around two dimensional roads.

    Air traffic is so tightly controlled already, that having everyone zipping to work through the air would be a continuous string of catastrophic collisions, vehicle failures, and fiery death. As a person who can actually fly a plane, I would hate to have to take it to work every day.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Derision on Tuesday, February 04, 2020 12:08:38
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Derision to Moondog on Tue Feb 04 2020 01:31 am

    Whilst they sound cool and all, flying cars are an awful idea. The average driver has enough difficulty getting around two dimensional roads.

    With self-driving cars being developed though, I wouldn't be too surprised to see a self-flying personal transport vehicle of some kind.

    Nightfox

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Derision on Tuesday, February 04, 2020 16:35:00
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Derision to Moondog on Tue Feb 04 2020 01:31 am


    Whilst they sound cool and all, flying cars are an awful idea. The average d

    Air traffic is so tightly controlled already, that having everyone zipping t to take it to work every day.

    D

    That's my point. They would have to be maintained in a similar way to airplanes, and if you look at how well or poorly some cars are taken care of,
    I can't see a car owner paying the money to do a to the frame teardown and inspection, let alone pay to rebuild a vehicle. If there's a failure, there's
    no equivalent of pulling off the shoulder and calling a wrecker.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Nightfox on Tuesday, February 04, 2020 20:34:00
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Nightfox to Derision on Tue Feb 04 2020 12:08 pm

    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Derision to Moondog on Tue Feb 04 2020 01:31 am

    Whilst they sound cool and all, flying cars are an awful idea. The aver driver has enough difficulty getting around two dimensional roads.

    With self-driving cars being developed though, I wouldn't be too surprised t

    Nightfox

    Self piloting drones exist. It's a matter of making one big enough to haul a person and deliver them safely to their destination. There was a team making a quad bladed hover bike, however they were nowhere near ready for a live rider. They did create an offshoot product that would carry a 200lb load.
    The vehicle they did produce could help in extracting wounded soldiers from ha rd to reach spots, or haul equipment and gear to soldiers under fire.

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  • From Derision@VERT/AMIGAC to Moondog on Sunday, February 16, 2020 18:27:08
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Moondog to Derision on Tue Feb 04 2020 16:35:00

    That's my point. They would have to be maintained in a similar way to airplanes, and if you look at how well or poorly some cars are taken care of,
    I can't see a car owner paying the money to do a to the frame teardown and inspection, let alone pay to rebuild a vehicle. If there's a failure, there's
    no equivalent of pulling off the shoulder and calling a wrecker.

    Hell, even a lot of airplanes are horribly maintained. I knew this guy with a small plane, something like a Kitfox, where it's low-power enough to be considered "experimental" and therefore the FAA doesn't require the same airworthiness checks as on a regular plane (you can't change the seats in a Piper or a Cessna or something without having it inspected). Thing leaked oil like an old Volkswagen, and I'm surprised it never quit while actually in the air, cos the dude was too cheap to overhaul the engine. That's how I'd see the "regular" driver-turned-pilot, and it's just waiting for a disaster.

    Conversely, something like an autogyro would be a much better idea because it generates lift from an unpowered rotor, so if the engine quits while you're in the air, you just slowly and gently descend to the ground. But they're also not much faster than just driving a car, so there isn't that much of a point unless you're an enthusiast.

    AJ

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Derision on Sunday, February 16, 2020 21:18:13
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Derision to Moondog on Sun Feb 16 2020 06:27 pm

    Conversely, something like an autogyro would be a much better idea because it generates lift from an unpowered rotor, so if the engine quits while you're in the air, you just slowly and gently descend to the ground. But they're also not much faster than just driving a car, so there isn't that much of a point unless you're an enthusiast.

    Well if there were designated flying spaces in addition to highways & roads, that could potentially at least ease congestion a bit.

    Nightfox

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Derision on Monday, February 17, 2020 21:54:00
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Derision to Moondog on Sun Feb 16 2020 06:27 pm

    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Moondog to Derision on Tue Feb 04 2020 16:35:00

    That's my point. They would have to be maintained in a similar way to airplanes, and if you look at how well or poorly some cars are taken care of,
    I can't see a car owner paying the money to do a to the frame teardown an inspection, let alone pay to rebuild a vehicle. If there's a failure, there's
    no equivalent of pulling off the shoulder and calling a wrecker.

    Hell, even a lot of airplanes are horribly maintained. I knew this guy with gular plane (you can't change the seats in a Piper or a Cessna or something e. That's how I'd see the "regular" driver-turned-pilot, and it's just waiti

    Conversely, something like an autogyro would be a much better idea because i just driving a car, so there isn't that much of a point unless you're an ent

    AJ


    A couple of years ago my cousin passed away due to pancreatic cancer, and one of the possessions he left behind was a two seater ultralight plane. When
    his father went to sell it, he was expecting top dollar for it. Instead, the buyer offered a low price, then explained why. He noticed the plane's engine received normal maintenance, however the airframe hadn't been checked. As mentioned, ultralights aren't required to be maintained to the same levels as larger aircraft. The buyer them proceeded to show how he knew the plane had sat outside for a long time, and the material on the wings was damaged due to UV rays. He could poke holes through the fabric, then he ran his fingers across the tail's framework, and demonstrated the steel framework underneath the cloth had also suffered from rust, and part of the tail snapped off. My uncle was a bit hard headed and was angry the guy was tearing into the plane, but afterwards he realized how much danger his son was in flying around a 20 year old plane with serious rot problems, and probably saved someone else
    from having the tail snap off in the middle of flight.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Moondog on Tuesday, February 18, 2020 06:33:00
    Moondog wrote to Derision <=-

    off. My uncle was a bit hard headed and was angry the guy was tearing into the plane, but afterwards he realized how much danger his son was
    in flying around a 20 year old plane with serious rot problems, and probably saved someone else from having the tail snap off in the middle
    of flight.

    Still, sort of a dick move. :|



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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Tuesday, February 18, 2020 18:40:00
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Moondog on Tue Feb 18 2020 06:33 am

    Moondog wrote to Derision <=-

    off. My uncle was a bit hard headed and was angry the guy was tearing into the plane, but afterwards he realized how much danger his son was in flying around a 20 year old plane with serious rot problems, and probably saved someone else from having the tail snap off in the middle of flight.

    Still, sort of a dick move. :|



    ... Emphasize differences

    The tail piece broke was a section steel rebar type material. He didn't
    break it on purpose. He showed my uncle how rusted it was by showing how it bends, when it shouldn't bend. It snapped instead. Anyone familiar with ultralights would've checked the fabric and structural components before
    buying a plane they cannot fly.

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  • From Derision@VERT/AMIGAC to Moondog on Saturday, February 22, 2020 19:54:34
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Moondog to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Feb 18 2020 18:40:00

    Still, sort of a dick move. :|

    The tail piece broke was a section steel rebar type material. He didn't break it on purpose. He showed my uncle how rusted it was by showing how it bends, when it shouldn't bend. It snapped instead. Anyone familiar with ultralights would've checked the fabric and structural components before buying a plane they cannot fly.

    Definitely not a dick move, it's important to know the shape things are in. When I was looking at buying a Jeep, I brought a hammer to each one I viewed so I could pound on the frame. Half the time, the frames would disintegrate after three taps. Generally, the sellers were disappointed but glad that they'd found out about it.

    AJH

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Derision on Sunday, February 23, 2020 13:17:40
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Derision to Moondog on Sat Feb 22 2020 07:54 pm


    Definitely not a dick move, it's important to know the shape things are in. When I was looking at buying a Jeep, I brought a hammer to each one I viewed I could pound on the frame. Half the time, the frames would disintegrate aft three taps. Generally, the sellers were disappointed but glad that they'd fo out about it.


    if you came up on my vehicle with a hammer you would get 3 taps and disintegrate.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Derision on Sunday, February 23, 2020 16:02:00
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Derision to Moondog on Sat Feb 22 2020 07:54 pm

    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Moondog to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Feb 18 2020 18:40:00

    Still, sort of a dick move. :|

    The tail piece broke was a section steel rebar type material. He didn't break it on purpose. He showed my uncle how rusted it was by showing how bends, when it shouldn't bend. It snapped instead. Anyone familiar with ultralights would've checked the fabric and structural components before buying a plane they cannot fly.

    Definitely not a dick move, it's important to know the shape things are in. ly, the sellers were disappointed but glad that they'd found out about it.

    AJH

    lol. Running a magnet along a body or tapping it with a hammer is more of a cosmetic issue than a structural issue, however finding out half the vehicle
    is rotted away will compel me to certainly look at the frame and hitch
    points. My brother's hobby is off roading, and he runs into quite a few truck s and jeeps that look awesome on the surface, but have serious rot issues. We've had to talk my nephew out of buying old beater trucks because the Michigan winters and road salt laid waste to the undersides of some otherwise nice trucks with strong motors.

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  • From Derision@VERT/AMIGAC to MRO on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 22:58:09
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: MRO to Derision on Sun Feb 23 2020 13:17:40

    Definitely not a dick move, it's important to know the shape things are in. When I was looking at buying a Jeep, I brought a hammer to each one I viewed I could pound on the frame. Half the time, the frames would disintegrate aft three taps. Generally, the sellers were disappointed but glad that they'd fo out about it.

    if you came up on my vehicle with a hammer you would get 3 taps and disintegrate.

    Heheh. If the frame of your vehicle can't take three taps from a hammer -- or if you're wary of a potential buyer doing so -- then I would have turned around as soon as you objected.

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  • From Derision@VERT/AMIGAC to Moondog on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 23:01:11
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Moondog to Derision on Sun Feb 23 2020 16:02:00

    lol. Running a magnet along a body or tapping it with a hammer is more of a cosmetic issue than a structural issue, however finding out half the vehicle is rotted away will compel me to certainly look at the frame and hitch points. My brother's hobby is off roading, and he runs into quite a few truck s and jeeps that look awesome on the surface, but have serious rot issues. We've had to talk my nephew out of buying old beater trucks because the Michigan winters and road salt laid waste to the undersides of some otherwise nice trucks with strong motors.

    Man, almost all Jeeps have the frame rot. It's almost like Chrysler made them out of the thinnest metal possible, and then forgot to paint the inside of the frame... so while it might look nice and undercoated on the outside, there's no actual metal under that coating.

    I have an XJ where they seem to have given up painting the underbody about halfway back, so it goes from paint and undercoating to bare metal around the rear wheel wells. Quality American made, y'know.

    AJH

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Derision on Thursday, February 27, 2020 10:14:00
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Derision to Moondog on Tue Feb 25 2020 11:01 pm

    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Moondog to Derision on Sun Feb 23 2020 16:02:00

    lol. Running a magnet along a body or tapping it with a hammer is more o cosmetic issue than a structural issue, however finding out half the vehi is rotted away will compel me to certainly look at the frame and hitch points. My brother's hobby is off roading, and he runs into quite a few truck s and jeeps that look awesome on the surface, but have serious rot issues. We've had to talk my nephew out of buying old beater trucks beca the Michigan winters and road salt laid waste to the undersides of some otherwise nice trucks with strong motors.

    Man, almost all Jeeps have the frame rot. It's almost like Chrysler made the r that coating.

    I have an XJ where they seem to have given up painting the underbody about h

    AJH

    My brother's mid-90's YJ had the frames rot near the rear. I never
    understood how they retained their resale value.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Derision on Friday, February 28, 2020 07:46:28
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Derision to MRO on Tue Feb 25 2020 10:58 pm

    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: MRO to Derision on Sun Feb 23 2020 13:17:40

    Definitely not a dick move, it's important to know the shape things ar in. When I was looking at buying a Jeep, I brought a hammer to each on viewed I could pound on the frame. Half the time, the frames would disintegrate aft three taps. Generally, the sellers were disappointed glad that they'd fo out about it.

    if you came up on my vehicle with a hammer you would get 3 taps and disintegrate.

    Heheh. If the frame of your vehicle can't take three taps from a hammer -- o if you're wary of a potential buyer doing so -- then I would have turned aro as soon as you objected.


    oh i was up real late. been working 75 hr weeks. still, i wouldnt want someone pounding around. visual inspection does the job just fine.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to MRO on Friday, February 28, 2020 10:43:07
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: MRO to Derision on Fri Feb 28 2020 07:46 am

    oh i was up real late. been working 75 hr weeks. still, i wouldnt want someone pounding around. visual inspection does the job just fine.

    You break it, you bought it.

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  • From Derision@VERT/AMIGAC to Moondog on Tuesday, March 03, 2020 17:56:06
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Moondog to Derision on Thu Feb 27 2020 10:14:00

    My brother's mid-90's YJ had the frames rot near the rear. I never understood how they retained their resale value.

    They didn't, up until fairly recently... the whole Cash for Clunkers nonsense took a fleet of servicable used cars off the market, driving up the prices of everything else... Jeeps in particular, because if you keep oil in them, they'll run forever. Back in the early 2000s, you could find a mid-90s XJ for the equivalent of like $900 in today's money. Now, I see rusty sh*tboxes going for over 5 grand.

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to DERISION on Wednesday, March 04, 2020 18:57:00
    They didn't, up until fairly recently... the whole Cash for Clunkers nonsense t
    ok a fleet of servicable used cars off the market, driving up the prices of eve
    ything else...

    I think that was actually the whole point... fuel the economy by getting
    rid of the cheaper sources of used cars and making the remaining ones more expensive. There are cars that don't even run that sell for way more than
    they should ever be worth now that there are fewer older, cheaper
    alternatives.


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  • From Lupine Furmen@VERT/FURFOL to Dumas Walker on Friday, March 06, 2020 11:07:26
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Dumas Walker to DERISION on Wed Mar 04 2020 18:57:00

    They didn't, up until fairly recently... the whole Cash for Clunkers
    nonsense t ok a fleet of servicable used cars off the market, driving
    up the prices of eve ything else...

    I think that was actually the whole point... fuel the economy by getting rid of the cheaper sources of used cars and making the remaining ones more expensive. There are cars that don't even run that sell for way more than they should ever be worth now that there are fewer older, cheaper alternatives.

    And that is REALLY hurting those of us that don't have a lot of money to spare, or youth looking to purchase their first vehicles.
    -+-

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Dumas Walker on Friday, March 06, 2020 17:18:00
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Dumas Walker to DERISION on Wed Mar 04 2020 06:57 pm

    They didn't, up until fairly recently... the whole Cash for Clunkers nonsen >ok a fleet of servicable used cars off the market, driving up the prices of >ything else...

    I think that was actually the whole point... fuel the economy by getting
    rid of the cheaper sources of used cars and making the remaining ones more expensive. There are cars that don't even run that sell for way more than they should ever be worth now that there are fewer older, cheaper alternatives.


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    I bought my Scion xD with Cash for Clunkers credits. I went from a 15 mpg
    92 S-10 Tahoe to a 32-36mpg compact wagon. While I liked having a truck, I found more than often I needed covered or climate controlled storage than an open bed, and I didn't want to install a cap or tonneau cover.

    The goal of Cash for Clunkers was to get lesser efficient vehicles off the road. In practice, I question how many "decomissioned" vehicles were scrapped, or even neutralized by pouring epoxy down their drivetrains. I
    heard after awhile some scrap yards could not process the vehilces in the required amount of time. I'm not sure if a retired VIN could be made
    insurable again, however I can imagine other components could be salvaged.
    The motor still ran good in my 17 year old truck, but I had to watch the oil level each week.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Lupine Furmen on Friday, March 06, 2020 17:30:00
    Re: Cheap Cars
    By: Lupine Furmen to Dumas Walker on Fri Mar 06 2020 11:07 am


    And that is REALLY hurting those of us that don't have a lot of money to spa or youth looking to purchase their first vehicles.
    -+-

    I question if someone who does not have alot of money should be buying
    a vehicle that isn't fuel efficient, unless it is a work truck. Of the vehilc es I saw turned in at the dealership, they were vehicles at the point in their lives where making them highway reliable would cost more than the vehicle's resale value. Tires, brakes, and hoses are consumable items expected to fail and easy to fix, however anything labor intensive that requires several hours to fix at $100 an hour.

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to LUPINE FURMEN on Saturday, March 07, 2020 11:08:00
    And that is REALLY hurting those of us that don't have a lot of money to spare,
    or youth looking to purchase their first vehicles.

    I think a lot of folks fall into one of those categories. I am not the
    type that needs to keep up with the Joneses, so I normally buy used.
    However, the last time I went looking, a decent used car that would have
    cost me maybe $5k before cash-for-clunkers is now upwards of $15k. I could
    by a much newer car for not much more. :(


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MOONDOG on Saturday, March 07, 2020 11:10:00
    The goal of Cash for Clunkers was to get lesser efficient vehicles off the road.

    That was half of it. The other half was a "false" stimulation of the
    economy by driving prices on what was left up, and encouraging people to
    buy new cars from two of the companies who participated in bringing the
    economy down.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Moondog on Saturday, March 07, 2020 18:53:40
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Moondog to Dumas Walker on Fri Mar 06 2020 05:18 pm


    The goal of Cash for Clunkers was to get lesser efficient vehicles off the road. In practice, I question how many "decomissioned" vehicles were scrapped, or even neutralized by pouring epoxy down their drivetrains. I heard after awhile some scrap yards could not process the vehilces in the required amount of time. I'm not sure if a retired VIN could be made insurable again, however I can imagine other components could be salvaged.


    cash for clunkers was a failure overall. it was expensive(over 3 billion) and it took perfectly decent used cars out of the wild.

    it was supposed to help low income people with old cars. it hurt the people that it was designed to help and it was paid for by the poor people. it created inflation, as well.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Lupine Furmen on Saturday, March 07, 2020 07:13:00
    Lupine Furmen wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

    And that is REALLY hurting those of us that don't have a lot of money
    to spare, or youth looking to purchase their first vehicles.

    It's almost as if the agenda of government is the transfer of wealth from
    this generation to older generations. Why buy a used junker in a private exchange when you can finance a new car and have a bank, automaker and their old, rich, white shareholders profit?


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Moondog on Saturday, March 07, 2020 07:18:00
    Moondog wrote to Lupine Furmen <=-

    I question if someone who does not have alot of money should be buying
    a vehicle that isn't fuel efficient, unless it is a work truck.

    It's all a matter of total cost of ownership. I did some numbers on the back of a napkin a few years back to see what buying a cheap gas guzzling used
    SUV would be compared to a new fuel-efficient car. Even given the ups and downs of fuel costs and living in a state with some of the highest fuel
    costs in the country, the break-even point between a new econobox and a couple-of-years-old SUV was a couple of years out.

    I bought a lightly used SUV recently instead of new, I'm comfortable paying half of the cost of a new SUV against the risk of an out-of-warranty repair. If something catastrophic goes wrong, I'll have paid as much as a new car.

    If not, I come out ahead.

    If I buy a new car, there's no upside.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Dumas Walker on Saturday, March 07, 2020 20:13:00
    Dumas Walker wrote to LUPINE FURMEN <=-

    I think a lot of folks fall into one of those categories. I am not the type that needs to keep up with the Joneses, so I normally buy used. However, the last time I went looking, a decent used car that would
    have cost me maybe $5k before cash-for-clunkers is now upwards of $15k.
    I could by a much newer car for not much more. :(

    Yeah, I've got a 16 year old son, and I'm looking for one of those $500 beaters that used to be common on Craigslist. Now they're all racing in the
    24 hour of Lemons series.


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  • From ryan@VERT/MONTEREY to poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, March 08, 2020 00:53:00
    If I buy a new car, there's no upside.

    My girlfriend and I share a car because we don't drive much. I walk a few blocks to work (if I even go in), otherwise I travel frequently and work pays for flights/rentals/ubers. My gf drives a mile each way for work. Other than that, groceries and restaurants are the places we go, and we don't typically
    go far...nice thing about living in the Bay Area is everything is close,
    unless you want to take a weekend trip.

    All that said, we happily lease a car. We're on our second lease and it's
    nice. We don't pay for maintenance, unless we need new tires. We drive less than 10k miles/year so we get a rather low rate for a nice brand new car. And every three years, we get a new one, and we turn the old one in, no questions asked.

    I understand that it's silly to throw money away like that, but I don't think of a car as an investment, I think of it as a necessity that I'd like to have
    a few years, throw out and get a new one...sort of like a cell phone or
    tablet or something.

    Then again, I have a '67 GTO parked and rising in value daily, so I guess I
    get the best of both worlds hehe.

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  • From Rampage@VERT/SESTAR to poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, March 08, 2020 13:35:20
    Re: Re: Cheap Cars
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Dumas Walker on Sat Mar 07 2020 20:13:00

    Yeah, I've got a 16 year old son, and I'm looking for one of
    those $500 beaters that used to be common on Craigslist. Now
    they're all racing in the 24 hour of Lemons series.

    i see what you did there LUL


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to ryan on Sunday, March 08, 2020 10:07:00
    ryan wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    All that said, we happily lease a car. We're on our second lease and
    it's nice. We don't pay for maintenance, unless we need new tires. We drive less than 10k miles/year so we get a rather low rate for a nice brand new car. And every three years, we get a new one, and we turn the old one in, no questions asked.

    I understand that it's silly to throw money away like that, but I don't think of a car as an investment, I think of it as a necessity that I'd like to have a few years, throw out and get a new one...sort of like a cell phone or tablet or something.

    When I was in college at SFSU, I owned a beater car. Once I started working,
    I took MUNI everywhere, and my car became a weekend thing. Between gas, insurance and parking tickets, my friends who rented cars when they needed them ended up coming out ahead.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to ryan on Sunday, March 08, 2020 14:58:20
    Re: Re: Cheap Cars
    By: ryan to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Mar 08 2020 12:53 am

    blocks to work (if I even go in), otherwise I travel frequently and work pay for flights/rentals/ubers. My gf drives a mile each way for work. Other than that, groceries and restaurants are the places we go, and we don't typically go far...nice thing about living in the Bay Area is everything is close, unless you want to take a weekend trip.



    driving just under 100 miles a day here with my 2 jobs and i'm now living in milwaukee.

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  • From Derision@VERT/AMIGAC to Lupine Furmen on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 13:38:46
    Re: Cheap Cars
    By: Lupine Furmen to Dumas Walker on Fri Mar 06 2020 11:07:26

    I think that was actually the whole point... fuel the economy by getting rid of the cheaper sources of used cars and making the remaining ones more expensive. There are cars that don't even run that sell for way more than they should ever be worth now that there are fewer older, cheaper alternatives.

    And that is REALLY hurting those of us that don't have a lot of money to spare, or youth looking to purchase their first vehicles.

    This right here. My first car was an awful '78 Buick Skylark that I got for a whopping $100 in 1995. It had problems but I'd seen peers with brand new Mustangs and Mercedes and such as their first cars, and they all inevitably get it banged up or something, so we wanted to go cheap yet reliable, with no worries if it got a little dinged up.

    My girlfriend's nephew is looking at his first car now, and they can't find anything remotely similar to the beater I had below four grand which is ridiculous, even accounting for 25 years of inflation. Meanwhile I see Jeeps that are essentially just tubs with no wheels or engines going for $5000 as "projects," and I just watched a YouTube video where they were predicting that the old Cherokee XJ should start pulling in prices around $16k for fair condition. Which, I believe, is actually *more* than they sold for originally.

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  • From Derision@VERT/AMIGAC to Moondog on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 13:42:22
    Re: Re: Fake Landings
    By: Moondog to Dumas Walker on Fri Mar 06 2020 17:18:00

    The goal of Cash for Clunkers was to get lesser efficient vehicles off the road. In practice, I question how many "decomissioned" vehicles were scrapped, or even neutralized by pouring epoxy down their drivetrains. I heard after awhile some scrap yards could not process the vehilces in the required amount of time. I'm not sure if a retired VIN could be made insurable again, however I can imagine other components could be salvaged. The motor still ran good in my 17 year old truck, but I had to watch the oil level each week.

    The yards were required to destroy every vehicle, and only certain components were permitted to be resold on the used part market -- which also hurt the salvage yards, because they were now limited in what they could resell. Like, they could resell alternators or AC compressors, but engine components were off the table, as were the vehicle chassis. VINs of vehicles surrendered through the program could no longer be registered or insured.

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  • From Derision@VERT/AMIGAC to Moondog on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 13:47:15
    Re: Cheap Cars
    By: Moondog to Lupine Furmen on Fri Mar 06 2020 17:30:00

    I question if someone who does not have alot of money should be buying
    a vehicle that isn't fuel efficient, unless it is a work truck.

    It's easy for most of us to sit back and say that, but for a lot of people, a vehicle is required transportation, and the fuel efficiency isn't really that important. Someone who is poor and needs to get to a job or travel to take care of a family member or something generally doesn't have the extra money -- or the credit -- to get something newer and more fuel efficient, so a cranky old minivan or an Oldsmobile from the Carter administration is better than nothing, even if they're running on a quarter tank of gas 90% of the time.

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  • From JIMMY ANDERSON@VERT/OTHETA to RYAN on Tuesday, March 10, 2020 09:59:00
    RYAN wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-

    If I buy a new car, there's no upside.

    Which is why I'm taking three weeks to fix my brakes myself
    on my 260k miles 2006 Chevy Silverado instead of buying a
    newer one and having a payment! Other than tires, gas & oil,
    this is all I've had to spend on it in about a year! And this
    is costing me about $400 to do the master cylinder, front brakes
    and back brakes (back have NEVER been serviced). Would cost over
    $1000 to take it somewhere to do...

    I understand that it's silly to throw money away like that, but I don't think of a car as an investment, I think of it as a necessity that I'd like to have a few years, throw out and get a new one...sort of like a cell phone or tablet or something.

    Yep - gotta have it - it will wear out - we will want something more modern.
    A cell phone is a good analagy!

    Then again, I have a '67 GTO parked and rising in value daily, so I
    guess I get the best of both worlds hehe.

    NICE! LOL



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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Derision on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 21:21:16
    Re: Cheap Cars
    By: Derision to Moondog on Wed Mar 11 2020 01:47 pm

    It's easy for most of us to sit back and say that, but for a lot of people, vehicle is required transportation, and the fuel efficiency isn't really tha important. Someone who is poor and needs to get to a job or travel to take c of a family member or something generally doesn't have the extra money -- or the credit -- to get something newer and more fuel efficient, so a cranky ol minivan or an Oldsmobile from the Carter administration is better than nothi even if they're running on a quarter tank of gas 90% of the time.


    yeah, only when i started making decent money did i think of getting a car that's more fuel efficient.

    before then i had a good used ford suv that is still serving me and before then i just got what i could afford.

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  • From Lupine Furmen@VERT/FURFOL to All on Thursday, March 12, 2020 01:53:57
    This right here. My first car was an awful '78 Buick Skylark that I got for a whopping $100 in 1995. It had problems but I'd seen peers with brand new Mustangs and Mercedes and such as their first cars, and they all inevitably get it banged up or something, so we wanted to go cheap yet reliable, with no worries if it got a little dinged up.

    Yeah, My first car was a 73 Mercury Comet GT that my dad bought me and paid like 4 or 500 for it. It needed work, but that was the whole point. My parents believed that both my sister and I should be able to do our own maintenance on our vehicles. So the semester after I got the car I took Auto-Shop in HS and learned how to make my own repairs. I really miss that car and wish I still had it, even though that little 302 V8 would probably be killing me with todays gas prices, especially considering that everytime I put gas in I would have to add a lead addative since it ran on REGULAR gas.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Lupine Furmen on Thursday, March 12, 2020 07:28:00
    Lupine Furmen wrote to All <=-

    Yeah, My first car was a 73 Mercury Comet GT that my dad bought me and paid like 4 or 500 for it. It needed work, but that was the whole
    point. My parents believed that both my sister and I should be able to
    do our own maintenance on our vehicles. So the semester after I got the car I took Auto-Shop in HS and learned how to make my own repairs.

    The two classes I wish I took in high school are auto shop and typing. They both were looked down upon in HS, but in retrospect, getting free shop time
    to fix your car was worth a lot!



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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to JIMMY ANDERSON on Friday, March 13, 2020 22:02:00
    Re: Re: Cheap Cars
    By: JIMMY ANDERSON to RYAN on Tue Mar 10 2020 09:59 am


    Yep - gotta have it - it will wear out - we will want something more modern. A cell phone is a good analagy!

    Then again, I have a '67 GTO parked and rising in value daily, so I guess I get the best of both worlds hehe.

    NICE! LOL



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    Recently in an off roading bog I read about a trend in truck buyers buying fairly clean 1970's era GM trucks from out west or down south, and stripping them down and rebuilding them frame up cheaper than buying a new truck.
    Loads of aftermarket and spare parts, and as long as you're not throwing old hoses, brake lines and other deadlined worn parts back in, you can put
    together a reliable everyday driver. Way too often builders get a bit silly a nd stray off the clasic daily driver concept and build something that is neither cost effective to run or wears out parts faster.

    I wonder if this formula can be carried over to the high mileage warrior cars such as Hondas and Toyotas? Will a builder get return of investment if they did a restore in order to sell it versus keeping it?

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  • From Derision@VERT/AMIGAC to Lupine Furmen on Sunday, March 15, 2020 00:14:19
    Re: Cheap Cars
    By: Lupine Furmen to All on Thu Mar 12 2020 01:53:57

    Yeah, My first car was a 73 Mercury Comet GT that my dad bought me and paid like 4 or 500 for it. It needed work, but that was the whole point. My parents believed that both my sister and I should be able to do our own maintenance on our vehicles. So the semester after I got the car I took Auto-Shop in HS and learned how to make my own repairs. I really miss that car and wish I still had it, even though that little 302 V8 would probably be killing me with todays gas prices, especially considering that everytime I put gas in I would have to add a lead addative since it ran on REGULAR gas.

    I learned so much about cars just trying to keep my old '78 Skylark going. There was so much wrong with it, and I swear I had the hood open at least twice a day. But now, swapping out a water pump on the side of the road or rigging up a temporary brake system at a rest stop doesn't phase me at all.

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  • From Derision@VERT/AMIGAC to Moondog on Sunday, March 15, 2020 00:19:03
    Re: Re: Cheap Cars
    By: Moondog to JIMMY ANDERSON on Fri Mar 13 2020 22:02:00

    Recently in an off roading bog I read about a trend in truck buyers buying fairly clean 1970's era GM trucks from out west or down south, and stripping them down and rebuilding them frame up cheaper than buying a new truck. Loads of aftermarket and spare parts, and as long as you're not throwing old hoses, brake lines and other deadlined worn parts back in, you can put together a reliable everyday driver. Way too often builders get a bit silly a nd stray off the clasic daily driver concept and build something that is neither cost effective to run or wears out parts faster.

    I wonder if this formula can be carried over to the high mileage warrior cars such as Hondas and Toyotas? Will a builder get return of investment if they did a restore in order to sell it versus keeping it?

    This reminds me of the old GM G-Body platform and later the S-10 trucks (when they discontinued the G-Body they switched the factories to producing S-10s, so they share a lot of the frame, attachment points, etc.). They had mounting points for just about every GM engine/trans combo you could think of, so getting an old V6 Monte Carlo or Blazer, and assuming that the frame and body aren't rotted out, throwing in new components is simple and often much cheaper than getting something new or trying to repair what's already in there.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Derision on Sunday, March 15, 2020 07:41:00
    Derision wrote to Lupine Furmen <=-

    I learned so much about cars just trying to keep my old '78 Skylark
    going. There was so much wrong with it, and I swear I had the hood open
    at least twice a day. But now, swapping out a water pump on the side of the road or rigging up a temporary brake system at a rest stop doesn't phase me at all.

    Cars were easier to work on back then - carbs, distributors, points, voltage regulators...spark plugs that last 50K or so. You had the hood open, but you could fix it without a $20K diagnostic computer.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Derision on Sunday, March 15, 2020 07:44:00
    Derision wrote to Moondog <=-

    combo you could think of, so getting an old V6 Monte Carlo or Blazer,
    and assuming that the frame and body aren't rotted out, throwing in new components is simple and often much cheaper than getting something new
    or trying to repair what's already in there.

    Preppers and ex-military keep talking about CUC-Vs, one model was an old Blazer with 24v electronics and a rock solid diesel V8. Sounds like a keeper if you can find one that's in good shape and don't mind driving a 4WD that looks like a military vehicle.


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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, March 15, 2020 22:50:00
    Re: Re: Cheap Cars
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Derision on Sun Mar 15 2020 07:44 am

    Derision wrote to Moondog <=-

    combo you could think of, so getting an old V6 Monte Carlo or Blazer, and assuming that the frame and body aren't rotted out, throwing in new components is simple and often much cheaper than getting something new or trying to repair what's already in there.

    Preppers and ex-military keep talking about CUC-Vs, one model was an old Blazer with 24v electronics and a rock solid diesel V8. Sounds like a keeper if you can find one that's in good shape and don't mind driving a 4WD that looks like a military vehicle.


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    You can always repaint them. Diesels have 2-3 times the lifespan of a
    gasoline engine. You can alos depend on the armed forces to pressure wash vehicles clean if they're in harsh environments.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Moondog on Monday, March 16, 2020 07:10:00
    Moondog wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    You can always repaint them. Diesels have 2-3 times the lifespan of a gasoline engine.

    I love diesels - Drove a Rabbit Diesel in college, probably put 200K on it,
    by just changing the oil, brakes and tires.

    Yep, keep the oil changed and they run forever - partly because, I'm told, they're made for such high compression ratios needed to ignite the diesel without using spark plugs, something like 23:1.


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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 23:01:00
    Re: Re: Cheap Cars
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Moondog on Mon Mar 16 2020 07:10 am

    Moondog wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    You can always repaint them. Diesels have 2-3 times the lifespan of a gasoline engine.

    I love diesels - Drove a Rabbit Diesel in college, probably put 200K on it, by just changing the oil, brakes and tires.

    Yep, keep the oil changed and they run forever - partly because, I'm told, they're made for such high compression ratios needed to ignite the diesel without using spark plugs, something like 23:1.


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    They're also built heavier to withstand the heavy compression. A new
    starter will also cost you much more than one for a gasoline engine. The
    USMC adopted a diesel motorcycle so it could drink from the same tap as
    every other vehicle, and there's no such thing as kick starting it.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Moondog on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 10:52:00
    Moondog wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    The USMC adopted a diesel motorcycle so it could drink from the same
    tap as every other vehicle, and there's no such thing as kick starting
    it.

    Ow! I remember kick-starting a Yamaha SR500, a big single-cylinder monster, Couldn't imagine a diesel Gold Wing. You'd have to get rolling down a hill
    and pop the clutch - and hold on for dear life!

    Looking back, the one repair I did on my Rabbit Diesel was the starter - the pinion gear stripped its teeth. Understandable, given the power it'd need to transfer to the engine to turn it over.


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