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originally posted by: wildespace
According to this BBC article, the thickness of the LM crew compartment was just 0.012 inches (or 0.3 mm), the equivalent of approximately three layers of kitchen foil. www.bbc.co.uk...
How did they even assemble this thing?
originally posted by: ProfessorPatternfish
a reply to: ignorant_ape
Sorry if I got the name of it wrong.
I typed Apollo Moon Lander 13 in Google and it gave me that image, so I guess it must be true?
Whatever its correct title is. NASA is convincing everyone it went to the moon.
if you STILL believe we didn't go, you are living completely in Fantasy Land.
originally posted by: Barcs
originally posted by: Bedlam
originally posted by: Barcs
Can't you just buy a telescope that would be able to zoom enough to see the landing site and the flag?
Actually, no. There's a maximum amount of detail any telescope can give you, based on its aperture and the wavelength of light you're looking with.
No matter what magnification or how perfect the lenses are, you can't get better resolution. Even lunar orbital telescopes would have trouble seeing the site in any detail, much less an Earth ground based scope.
Damn, that's a shame. I was hoping we could put it to bed once and for all.
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: ProfessorPatternfish
Lets face it rather a few of us would hazard the journey in one of these should it be capable of making it to the Moon.
Be a tight fit all the same.
originally posted by: Barcs
originally posted by: roadgravel
It seems that faking the video most likely wasn't possible at the time.
Strange, Mythbusters (not a big fan actually), came to the conclusion that it could have been faked, but there is no definitive proof so they ultimately ruled against the moon hoax just because they didn't think it was realistic. Good video!
originally posted by: reddragon2015
a reply to: 3danimator2014
ahem what? what are you talking about? They left a dude back there to pan the camera. Did you see that one? It's good, check it out.
originally posted by: theboarman
a reply to: butcherguy
there are some basic questions about the holocaust that aparently cant be asked because someone will call you a denier, even on a site whos saying is deny ignorance , just because you have questions about something doesnt make you a denier , but the op went about it all wrong.
originally posted by: wildespace
According to this BBC article, the thickness of the LM crew compartment was just 0.012 inches (or 0.3 mm), the equivalent of approximately three layers of kitchen foil. www.bbc.co.uk...
How did they even assemble this thing?
originally posted by: Saint Exupery
originally posted by: wildespace
According to this BBC article, the thickness of the LM crew compartment was just 0.012 inches (or 0.3 mm), the equivalent of approximately three layers of kitchen foil. www.bbc.co.uk...
How did they even assemble this thing?
Ingeniously!
When I first saw pictures like this, I thought that they had formed the skin to the right shape, and then added the ribs, or that they built the rib framework and the attached the inner skin to it, like you would build a ship.
The reality is far more interesting and clever (and stronger): The skin & ribs are a single block of aluminum! They milled-down the sections between the ribs to the desired skin thickness. They did this for each section of hull, then welded the sections together at strong edges.
Here are pictures of the pieces coming together with diagrams of where the sections fit.
Grumman went onto use the same technique to build the F-14 Tomcat.
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: butcherguy
Yes it does look rather minion shaped but no its a toy container you get with Kinder Surprise eggs.
originally posted by: PsychicCroMag
Armstrong said when the lander was ready to leave the moon he hit the toggle switch to start the engines and the switch broke off falling back inside the panel so he stuck in a ball point pen which ignited the motors!! "come on man"
originally posted by: 3danimator2014
FYI. This HAS been put to bed, tucked in, read a bedtime story and been given a kiss.
originally posted by: 3danimator2014
The Mythbusters were an entertainment program. There was a LOT of bad science on there. Dont take anything they concluded seriously.