"Jonathan Silverlight" wrote
in message ...
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| I'll just note that there's a reference in the Apollo Lunar Surface
| Journal to the engine being so quiet they could hear the fuel going
| into it.

Then Nathan will just claim we should be hearing the fuel flow in the LM
CVRs.

| I have this surreal image of a naked astronaut.

I would have selected another word besides "surreal".

| And I begin to see why Jay Windley maintains an interest. This is
| too much fun to ignore.

Wait until you spend hours re-reading several advanced propulsion texts and
then begging time with Apollo astronauts to have your notion confirmed, only
to have someone like Nathan Jones tell you he won't believe you because he
prefers the answers given by an unresponsive, largely anonymous guy on his
personal web site.

Then spend a couple dozen hours in the deep desert knee-deep in scorpions
with a heavy viewfinder-less Hasselblad shooting guess-focused and
guess-exposed pictures of a sweating, barely conscious actor in a space
suit. Then have someone like Nathan Jones, whose expertise probably doesn't
exceed "point lens away from you for best results," tell you exactly what
should and shouldn't be possible with your camera and film.

It's fun for a while until you realize just how little these people know,
just how little they care to know, just how little they care that they don't
know anything, but just how willing they are to pontificate for the
like-minded. I notice I've made several responses to Jones' most recent
statements. I've yet to see him address any of my comments, while he's
addressed those of several others. I rather suspect I'm being deliberately
ignored. But considering the other evidence and opinions he's had to ignore
in order to pretend to question the Apollo findings, I suppose I'm in
excellent company.

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