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Today, 10:21 AM

Van Rijn replied to a thread Does anyone still believe that Apollo 11 landed on the moon after Chang'E-4 in Conspiracy Theories

Quite true. You also need to take care to use valid evidence based data, of course, but your bare assertions get you nowhere. What? Where...

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Today, 08:26 AM

Van Rijn replied to a thread Does anyone still believe that Apollo 11 landed on the moon after Chang'E-4 in Conspiracy Theories

No, we don’t know that a short time on a carefully chosen trajectory through the Van Allen belt, chosen to minimize radiation exposure would “raise...

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Today, 08:18 AM

Van Rijn replied to a thread Does anyone still believe that Apollo 11 landed on the moon after Chang'E-4 in Conspiracy Theories

Are you finally admitting the actual Apollo radiation figures were valid, then? Of course, the shielding issue needed to be considered with the...

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Today, 06:34 AM

Van Rijn replied to a thread SpaceX in Space Exploration

Something that just occurred to me, and no doubt already has to others: The Apollo LM landed twelve men on the moon, two at a time. The Starship...

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Today, 05:35 AM

Trebuchet replied to a thread Some Non-trivial Things That Annoy Me. in Off-Topic Babbling

I, on the other hand, keep digging my keys out of my pocket as I get into my wife's car!

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Today, 04:01 AM

Van Rijn replied to a thread SpaceX in Space Exploration

It doesn’t sound like Bezos actually wanted this very much. His company is sounding less impressive by the day. Too bad about Dynetics, I liked...

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Today, 03:49 AM

Van Rijn replied to a thread China is making headway with cooperation with other countries excluding US. in Space Exploration

Maybe, maybe not. I think we are seeing the beginning of a new technological and industrial revolution in space development. And right now the US...

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Today, 02:01 AM

Van Rijn replied to a thread Does anyone still believe that Apollo 11 landed on the moon after Chang'E-4 in Conspiracy Theories

I understand that you are desperately trying to ignore the shielding effect on GCR by being on or near the Moon, and that you don’t want to admit you...

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Today, 01:36 AM

cjameshuff replied to a thread SpaceX in Space Exploration

Lueders: "I do not have enough funding available to even attempt to negotiate a price from Blue Origin that could potentially enable a contract...

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Yesterday, 11:54 PM

Van Rijn replied to a thread SpaceX in Space Exploration

Well, they would need to completely self fund. Apparently a big reason SpaceX won out is they were willing to spend so much on development on their...

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Yesterday, 11:26 PM

KaiYeves replied to a thread SpaceX in Space Exploration

I wonder if one of the other candidates might continue simply as a backup just because of those unknowns?

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Yesterday, 10:40 PM

Van Rijn replied to a thread What are you watching? in Small Media at Large

If you like the first four seasons of Babylon 5, I still think the fifth season is well worth watching. For that matter, in my opinion, it took...

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Yesterday, 10:23 PM

Van Rijn replied to a thread SpaceX in Space Exploration

It will take awhile to process this. That was a nice surprise for the day.

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Yesterday, 10:20 PM

Van Rijn replied to a thread SpaceX in Space Exploration

WOW! I really am shocked. The SpaceX effort struck me as a long shot, at least in its current state of development, dependent on developing...

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Yesterday, 09:48 PM

Van Rijn replied to a thread Here It Comes...Again in Conspiracy Theories

That’s an important point. Every so often I mention my big UFO event where, after seeing something outside my bedroom window at night, I ran out to...

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Yesterday, 08:55 PM

Van Rijn replied to a thread Does anyone still believe that Apollo 11 landed on the moon after Chang'E-4 in Conspiracy Theories

Hello Clanger! Good to see you again. Thanks for the link, I’ll reserve my opinion of this discussion. However, that is a good point about the LRO...

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Yesterday, 08:46 PM

Noclevername replied to a thread Will we ever stop using paper? in Science and Technology

In some places in the world, TP has not broken big. There's bidets or istinja washing, for instance.

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Yesterday, 08:42 PM

Van Rijn replied to a thread Does anyone still believe that Apollo 11 landed on the moon after Chang'E-4 in Conspiracy Theories

Heck, just look at post #94 for an example of the importance of calculations on determining actual average dose and comparing it to the Apollo record.

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Yesterday, 08:42 PM

eburacum45 replied to a thread New ‘difficult to explain’ declassified Ufo lead to 'Fake Alien Invasion' theory in Conspiracy Theories

Here's a very good video from Mick West, explaining the triangular nightvision footage as bokeh. He was helped by the Metabunk contributor Jesse, who...

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Yesterday, 08:37 PM

Van Rijn replied to a thread Does anyone still believe that Apollo 11 landed on the moon after Chang'E-4 in Conspiracy Theories

Nonsense. You need both evidence (which you also haven’t shown) and the calculations to compare to Apollo 11 records, if you are going to claim a...

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Yesterday, 08:35 PM

Noclevername replied to a thread Does anyone still believe that Apollo 11 landed on the moon after Chang'E-4 in Conspiracy Theories

Please show that your data is correct. Which would best be done by ...calculations.

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Yesterday, 08:33 PM

Van Rijn replied to a thread Does anyone still believe that Apollo 11 landed on the moon after Chang'E-4 in Conspiracy Theories

No, I don’t believe you really have that much difficulty with basic comprehension, especially since you point out the key issue yourself, we had...

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Yesterday, 08:31 PM

Noclevername replied to a thread Some Non-trivial Things That Annoy Me. in Off-Topic Babbling

:rimshot:

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Yesterday, 08:26 PM

Noclevername replied to a thread What are you watching? in Small Media at Large

To explain it for casual viewers, the 4th season closer was supposed to be the big series finale, as the show had been Cancelled. The climax of the...

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Yesterday, 08:12 PM

Van Rijn replied to a thread Does anyone still believe that Apollo 11 landed on the moon after Chang'E-4 in Conspiracy Theories

No, we don’t, and we’ve been through this already. You were asked to show your calculations last night, and you admitted you couldn’t. You haven’t...

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Yesterday, 07:45 PM

tusenfem replied to a thread Does anyone still believe that Apollo 11 landed on the moon after Chang'E-4 in Conspiracy Theories

in 1970 was the maximum of solar cycle 20 in 2008 was the minimum at the end of solar cycle 23

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Yesterday, 07:28 PM

Swift replied to a thread Does anyone still believe that Apollo 11 landed on the moon after Chang'E-4 in Conspiracy Theories

A very interesting examination of "space weather" during the Apollo 11 mission, from a site run by the Royal Observatory of Belgium and the Belgium...

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Yesterday, 07:21 PM

Swift replied to a thread Does anyone still believe that Apollo 11 landed on the moon after Chang'E-4 in Conspiracy Theories

You just said you don't believe any human has ever left LEO. So how did Jack Schmitt get a nose full of lunar dust after his first EVA? Are you...

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Yesterday, 06:31 PM

Nicolas replied to a thread Really trivial stuff that amuses you... in Off-Topic Babbling

Any pictures of that? I can't remember seeing that one. Similar things were done though, such as Lucky Strike becoming Look Alike.

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