grant hutchison
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I guess so. My difficulty is in imagining myself in a situation in which I think, Oooooh, if only I had access to something I want to watch. My...

If anything, I watch less TV now than I did during the '70s and '80s, when we had just three, then four, channels in the UK. I do appreciate the...

That hill's getting tinier and tinier. Anyway, now that we're down to debating how many NASA scientists can dance on the head of a pin, there's...

Thanks for tracking that down. :) Grant Hutchison

Which is all one needs to do when reporting one's feelings. I've already shown you that your inference is wrong, by providing evidence that...

Oops. Should have stuck to the tiny hill. In what way is the moon "30% or 40% more radioactive" than expected? What measure of radioactivity...

R-i-i-ight. So now your entire case rests on this notion that when one scientist is quoted as using the phrase "a bit unexpected", it revealed that...

I've given you evidence that what you're choosing to infer from the Spence quote is incorrect. That is, people actually did expect that the lunar...

Given that everyone knew the limitations of the neutron dosimeters used by Apollo (it was discussed as early as 1972, in the Apollo XI radiation...

Nope. Not getting away with it. You arrived here with specific numerical claims which you've been completely unable to support. As your errors and...

But it wasn't unexpected at all: (My bold. There will be a prize for the person who correctly guesses which word the net-nanny software notice...

Nope. Not getting away with it. Your claim is pure handwavium if you can't answer my specific questions. Where is the contemporaneous cis-lunar...

1) There's no such thing as a "holzmann transfer". 2) The Apollo TLI trajectory was not a Hohmann transfer orbit. 3) The Apollo lunar transfer...

Nope, not getting away with that. I've pointed out repeatedly that you can't compare 1969 data to 2019 data. What I want from you is some 2019 data...

Read this. It explains the meaning of eccentricity, and how that is a completely independent orbital parameter from inclination. Here are my...

That's actually gibberish, in terms of celestial mechanics. You clearly don't understand the technical use of "inclination", or of "eccentricity", or...

Hmmm. You've suddenly developed an opinion of your own, I see, despite the earlier disclaimer that you are merely a conduit for unnamed experts. ...

And yet, when confronted by evidence that you've completely misunderstood the work of these experts, you suddenly decide that such "academic...

Memory is sometimes so odd. A couple of months ago I read a book about Wally Herbert's epic 464-day dog-sled crossing of the Arctic Ocean, Alaska to...

Yes, the evidence seems to support the "old friends" hypothesis (rather than the "hygiene hypothesis"), it's now said. We may be depriving children...

Yes, we know. People have referred to that limitation in-thread a couple of times. I first brought it up, supported by a reference, in post #8. It's...

Yes, the thing that has a genetic component is called atopy, the proclivity to develop allergic diseases. The word is a useful search term. Its...

Every aspect of this problem I've explored with you, I've caught you out in a fundamental gap or misapprehension in your knowledge--rocketry, orbital...

But what we can see quite clearly demonstrated, above, is that you don't actually understand the numbers you're playing with. And that you still...

The Altitude Factor calculation is given on the CRaTER algorithms pages, under the "Dose Rates" tab. The relevant page doesn't have a unique URL, so...

Removing the altitude correction simply shifts the reading back to about 100km above the moon's surface, the altitude of LRO's orbit. This shows the...

Nope. How many times do I need to point it out? Grant Hutchison