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From: Jon Berndt )
Subject: Announcement: pending book review
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Date: 2002-05-22 22:30:04 PST


I'll be providing my impressions of JTMs book: The Betrayal of Mission 51-L"
over the next days. An early impression: it's even worse than I expected it
would be. Sorry John. In those areas dealing with photo interpretation,
there's plenty of unsupported claims, personal opinions, and just plain old
inaccuracies.

Jon
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From: john_thomas_maxson )
Subject: Announcement: pending book review
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Date: 2002-05-23 06:22:22 PST


You've been providing your corrupt, biased, and false
impressions *without reading it* for about a year and
a half. Everybody already knows where you're coming
from -- straight from Hell!

Jon Berndt wrote in message
...
I'll be providing my impressions of JTMs book: The
Betrayal of Mission 51-L" over the next days. An early
impression: it's even worse than I expected it would be.

That's impossible. *Nothing* could be that bad.

Sorry John. In those areas dealing with photo interpretation,
there's plenty of unsupported claims, personal opinions, and
just plain old inaccuracies.

Jon

Save your apologies for your children, hypocrit. "Plenty?"
Show me an autobiography without personal opinions, etc.
When you have finished reading it (the second or third time)
you *still* will not have diligently reviewed all the reels and
rolls of optics which back it up -- as I have.

You've just gone to the top of my libel list.

JTM
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From: Jon Berndt )
Subject: Announcement: pending book review
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Date: 2002-05-23 07:15:20 PST


Save your apologies for your children, hypocrite. "Plenty?"
Show me an autobiography without personal opinions, etc.
When you have finished reading it (the second or third time)
you *still* will not have diligently reviewed all the reels and
rolls of optics which back it up -- as I have.

Wrong again. I also have two videotapes of the camera views for the ascent
of 51-L.

You've just gone to the top of my libel list.

Scared that the truth will come out?
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From: john_thomas_maxson )
Subject: Announcement: pending book review
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Date: 2002-05-23 07:48:28 PST


Huff and puff -- you're blowing your own house down.

Jon Berndt wrote in message
...

Save your apologies for your children, hypocrit. "Plenty?"
Show me an autobiography without personal opinions, etc.
When you have finished reading it (the second or third time)
you *still* will not have diligently reviewed all the reels and
rolls of optics which back it up -- as I have.

Wrong again. I also have two videotapes of the camera
views for the ascent of 51-L.

"The" camera views?

You've just gone to the top of my libel list.

Scared that the truth will come out?

It's been out -- for almost two years.
Why are you so afraid of it?

JTM
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From: Jon Berndt )
Subject: Announcement: pending book review
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Date: 2002-05-23 07:45:14 PST


"Jon Berndt" wrote in message

I'll be providing my impressions of JTMs book: The Betrayal of Mission
51-L"

One thing I find interesting. On page 50 JTM states (correctly): "The thrust
from the right booster had begun to tail off perilously, well below the
consistently low thrust from the left SRB." But, no explanation is offered.
No mention of the coincidentally timed RSRB lower aft attach flare.

Later, he states that "the right booster was beginning to swing outward ...
but there was no evidence of a pernicious 'burnthrough in the right
booster'". UP TO THAT POINT (if not in the remainder of the book) NO
pictures are supplied that clearly show the orange glow at the lower aft
attachment of the right SRB. Once again, it is completely ignored. This is a
total copout. If JTM were confident of his views he would have shown
pictures illustrating the "alleged" burnthrough and explain why they did not
show what has been claimed.

This is not a surprise, however, because it is so key to his argument. Once
he makes the jump to whackospace and claims the boosters switch places
in-the-cloud all further discussion assumes the boosters have switched
regardless of the wealth of information suggesting otherwise.

more to come ...

Jon
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From: john_thomas_maxson )
Subject: Announcement: pending book review
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Date: 2002-05-23 08:26:40 PST


You think "fair usage" permits misleadingly quoting
out of context, without the critical images. You
are in for a rude awakening!

"Whackospace?"

Maybe *that's* where that "orange glow" you're
looking for originated!

Jon Berndt wrote in message
...
"Jon Berndt" wrote in message

UP TO THAT POINT (if not in the remainder of the book) NO
pictures are supplied that clearly show the orange glow at the lower aft
attachment of the right SRB. Once again, it is completely ignored.
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From: Jon Berndt )
Subject: Announcement: pending book review
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Date: 2002-05-28 04:00:04 PST


"Julian Bordas" wrote in message

Jon Berndt wrote:

I'll be providing my impressions of JTMs book: The Betrayal of Mission
51-L"

You bought a copy?

No! I was loaned a copy.
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