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Send the ISS To the Moon
jmichaelg writes "Michael Benson is proposing that NASA send the ISS to the moon instead of leaving it in low earth orbit. (While we're at it, we should re-brand it as the 'International Space Ship.') He points out that it's already designed to be moved periodically to higher orbits so instead of just boosting it a few miles, strap on some ion engines and put it in orbit around the moon instead of the earth. That would provide an initial base for the astronauts going to the moon and give the ISS a purpose other than performing yet more studies on the effect of micro gravity on humans. Benson concludes: 'Let's begin the process of turning the ISS from an Earth-orbiting caterpillar into an interplanetary butterfly.'"
I'm anxiously awaiting the novel you'll be writing on the subject. Should make nice amateur Sci-Fi. (A lot) more on the side of Fi than of Sci, but that's OK.
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There is no hope for science education in whatever country 'Moebius Loop' is from.
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The images returned by NASA were subject to speculation on a possible answer that none went to the moon, despite there being evidence that they already went to the moon earlier but wanted to spoof more photography not of the actual mission;
here are the facts:
(1) The moon-walking video was a recording of a recording; the imagery was displayed from a monitor/onto a wall in the mission control room where NBC (if I remember correctly) or whomever was allowed to direct their own cameras at the video (therefore the quality was diminished that none could be determined).
(2) When the astronaughts returned and were in a press room to publicize certain pre-arrainged questions that were screened from reporters on what they may actually answer (meaning, a staged press conference under the fraudulent auspices of international competition in the "Space Raaace"), some reporters were allowed to ask details about their visual acuity such are the impact of light from the stars, constelations, sun, etc; these were answered in acknowledgment by each "astronaught" that they "did not see any stars or corona" etc; which, after that press conference they never spoke on it again until now in their '70's and '80's of age they each wrote books documenting details that are impossible to remember.
(3) The then "president" John Fitzgerald KENNEDY was revealed to have thrown short of a billion U$ Dollars to private companies for contract on the space mission that does either not correlate or had no contribution of work to the amount they were payed (key word: kickbacks).
(4) When displayed actual video footage of the Landing Module, there were details about the interaction with debris and film-rate depreciation that suggested an environment similar to this planette when the film-rate was corrected; as well as conflicting unknown focused light-sources that the preparations of certain astronaughts simply could not explain or account on how such photographs were possible.
(5) Looking at the horizon of the moon, under even GIMP would reveal an imagery plane similar to even the fictional work DICK TRACY!
(6) A recent film reel from a NASA archivist misplaced to someone with clout on this matter, revealed a sequence of video in low-orbit that they never even went to the moon but put a curved-edge glass bubble to overlay a ship view-port to pretend the appearance of a shrinking planette out the back window as though they were in active flight towards the moon!
(7) In all responses by said "honourable employed asronaughts" of NASA on the origin of such prepared answeres, syncronized responses between their fellow employed astronaughts on details none of them would answer but by collusion or continual INSULT to whomever asking such documentation in the physics, spending of wealth for a "mission" of their theistic points of view inconsistent with the Laws of Nature that not even the Catholic Church could maintain in its scientific degredation; there is continual insult and humor espounded to strawmen of "conspiracy theorist" that was even never constructed or hypothesized by none other than the astronaughts and NASA.
PS: none can explain the Van Allen Belts, even in that year, yet...
without prejudice