Why does NASA need to fake just about everything it does?
This writer now believes even low earth orbit flights (100-1000miles above the surface of the Earth), like those flown by the shuttle are impossible.
As an analogy take an F1 race .
With each completed lap a layer of rubber is left on the road which has been deposited there by all those smoking tyres.
With each lap around the sun, comets and asteroids leave huge trails of dust and debris as they are accelerated and heated up; zillions of particles of dust, frozen ice, rock and base metals break off from the body of the comet or asteroid and leave a trail of cosmic 'rubber' along the path of the comet/asteroid. These trails are millions of miles wide and are as long as the orbit of the comet/asteroid. They build up over millions of years. Meanwhile the Earth, traveling at 67,000 miles an hour, takes several days to pass through one of these enormous dust and debris clouds. Shooting stars are the resultant spectacle as the earth's atmosphere slows these particles traveling at incredible speeds and they are vaporized.
Spacecrafts are the ant attempting to cross the road after an F1 race only to get stuck and die in the still hot rubber left there by the cars.
The combined speed of the Earth and the meteors can be incredible fast.
The slowest speed is about 11 km per second while the fastest speed these things come in at is 72 km per sec(Leonids). Yes folks that is 162,000 miles per hour!!
Double dare any of you to be hit on the arse by a grain of sand traveling at that speed ! Now imagine something the size of a pebble?
The major meteor showers are the following (but the earth is continuously passing through loads of particle matter in space)
Jan 3-4 Quadrantids
Apr 21-22 April Lyrids
May 4-5 Eta Aquarids
Jul 28-29 Delta Aquarids
Aug 12-13 Perseids
Oct 21-22 Orionids
Nov 3-13 Taurids
Nov 16-17 Leonids
Dec 13-14 Geminids
Dec 21-22 Ursids
How can NASA or any other 'space' (vacuous) agency know that their tin can in the sky will not be struck?
They cannot.
They cannot model it.
They cannot predict it.
They cannot protect against it.
All NASA can do is lie about it and skirt the issue.
http://science1.nasa.gov/science-news/s ... ssmeteors/
Listen to this crock of shit from the NASA website.
"Millions of people saw the show, but only three of them -- the ones on board the space station -- saw it from above. "We had to look down to see the meteors," says Culbertson. "That's because the atmosphere (where comet dust burns up) is below the station."
"A typical Leonid disintegrates about 100 km above Earth's surface," explains NASA scientist Rob Suggs. "The ISS is much higher than that. The station (like the space shuttle) orbits our planet at an altitude of about 350 km." Suggs is the leader of the Space Environments group at the Marshall Space Flight Center; he helped organize the crew's observations of the Leonids.
"I had seen [meteors] on shuttle flights before," continued Culbertson, "but when the Leonids happened it was supposed to be one of the best showers in a long time, so we stayed up late to see them. Mikhail Tyurin and I were inside the Pirs docking compartment, which had the darkest windows." (Pirs is one of the Russian-built parts of the ISS; it serves as a docking port for visiting Progress supply ships and Soyuz crew capsules.)"
We are asked to believe that the ISS was safe from the Leonid particles because the particles disintegrate at a lower altitude than the orbiting ISS? The particles are only dangerous when they are actually glowing below ?
We are asked to believe that the 162,000 miles an hour particles diverted and went around the ISS, orbiting the Earth every hour, for the couple of days the earth (and ISS and any other space ships) passed through this millions of miles wide cloud?
A Rain of fire from the sky.....
"The appearance on November 17, 1966, provided the highest known rate of any meteor stream ever recorded. An approximate rate of 40 meteors per second (144,000 m/hour), was seen for about 1 hour as viewed from the western portion of North America, and the Pacific. Unfortunately, the east coast and Midwest were enveloped in clouds that night, disappointing a lot of amateurs and professionals alike."
http://www.amsmeteors.org/meteor-showers/meteor-faq/#7
Further we are asked to believe that sellotape and a paper substance is adequate protection from this cosmic rain of fire..(image is a detail from the group of images Simon linked to earlier from the STS 134 NASA website...http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/ima ... 7314.html)
A little homage perhaps to the Eagle's 'lets make shapes with teacher but be careful the scissors doesn't hurt you' look .
My guess is that this was all known in the early 60s. Pushed around and bullied by a sense of 'duty', astronauts were asked to go along with fakery as them playing their part in the winning of the cold war. Astros who didn't go along may have ended up on fire if the Apollo 1 story is to be believed.
Its funny also that Mr. Bart Sibrel, Mr. fanatical Moon truther, pushes the story of the capsule actually orbiting the earth to the nth degree. Thus, he buttresses this side of the story while playing with people's skepticism about the actual moon landings. Same tactics are employed all the time with the 911 story.
The same logic for shuttles and other spacecraft also goes for satellites. These are fake also. Big balloons with telecommunications equipment on them probably hover somehow, somewhere well below the point where meteorites burn up in the atmosphere.
Perhaps when Von B talked about spaceships going to the moon needing to be the size of Skyscrapers he was thinking about the following:
1. the shielding needed to protect the spacecraft from 72km per second meteor strikes
2. the shielding needed to protect real astronauts from cosmic radiation and being literally fried to death
3. the huge amounts of water needed to cool astronauts down while on the moon (there is no direct heat transfer in a vacuum) ..resulting in incredibly heavy spaceships needing oceans of fuel to get them out of the Earth's orbit.
Now imagine the American (and Russian etc.) tax payers asked NASA and the other 'space' agencies for all the money back spent on these hoaxes over the last 50 years?
In the 1960s in the US between 10 and 15% of GDP per year was spent on the Apollo missions - on Sellotape and Scissors.
