Discovery Launches at 11:38 EDT. Expects to Reach and Dock With ISS in 44 Hours!, page 14

Originally posted by amigo
...couple of formulas does not make you an orbital science engineer.

Even if you were I would still doubt your numbers and your science because it really is your word against mine - there's no set in stone proof for anything

Oftentimes, a physics experiment is a pretty darn good proof of the validity of a particular theory. You see, if I tell you that my theory says that gravity will cause you to accelerate in the direction of the center of Earth, it's not my word against yours. You can prove me wrong by stepping off a tall building and slowly drifting sideways. I'll wager that you crater, though.

It's a crude example but I hope that it drives home the point that we can, in fact, have a pretty firm grasp of how the word around us really works. You can tell a person who calculates spacecraft orbits for living that you totally don't believe his/her math, but in the end it's he/she who can navigate a probe around Saturn and bring it back to crash into Mercury for the benefit of scientific observation. In the end, it is that kind of people who do wondrous things, like develop quantum mechanics that enables the construction of the computer that you are typing your messages at, and there is also the other kind, who diss the first kind because the other kind didn't do very well in math. The fact that I read the rather preposterous message of yours is in itself a proof that there is a lot of truth in quantum mechanics, but of course you can say the opposite because hey, it's your word against mine.

And let's not even dwell into current, or past couple of decades scientific principles (or lack there of), where wild theories have become accepted facts

Please explain to me the deplorable lack of scientific principles characterizing the past couple of decades (according to you, the dark times started in 1987). You could use detailed examples from two decades prior to that, 1967-1987, to illustrate your point. I can't wait to hear from you.

While at the same time the common folk has been totally desensitized to the real doctrines

I've been around a few Nobel Prize winners but I never heard from these distinguished folks that they possess un understanding of a "real doctrine" (as opposed to the myriad of false doctrines propagated by the forces of evil to "desensitize" the poor "common folk"). You apparently do, so pray tell.

of science and scientific principle of inquisitive and critical thinking, in favour or blind obedience, not disturbing the water and pushing on the status quo.

Were past days Nazis smarter than today's Nazis, at NAZA, that they cannot put a bucket into orbit without delays

I find this statement quite disingenious. You know quite well that shooting stuff up in the orbit in itself has become a routine procedure and they can do it in their sleep. Docking one complex machine with the other with a few inches precision while moving at exceedingly large speed does not equal placing stuff in orbit, and it almost seems that you willingly blind yourself to that fact. The Soviets almost lost the Mir station and their crew when they punctured one of the modules of that station in a failed docking, and they have done tons of that stuff prior to that.

yet they used to go to the Moon without a glitch (aside maybe from Apollo 13 being a glitch, if that story was true to begin with

I encourage you to read up on the history of the Apollo program and you'll see that it was hardly smooth. For starters, you forgot that fire on the launchpad that took the lives of three atronauts. Just please don't tell us that this was staged.