Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: BrianB6 on July 14, 2020, 01:44:32 am
Title: Changed your batteries lately?
Post by: BrianB6 on July 14, 2020, 01:44:32 am
Spare a thought for the astronauts changing batteries on the ISS
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-broadcasts-final-spacewalks-to-upgrade-space-station-power-system Not such a simple job and there are quite a few of them. Makes one realise what is involved in living in space and how complicated the ISS is when it sails serenely over you at night.
Title: Re: Changed your batteries lately?
Post by: justboatonic on July 15, 2020, 12:27:50 pm
But it's all done in a studio somewhere in Arizona! Or is it Utah?! Or is it in a big swimming pool? Well, according to the fruit cakes, it is!
:police:
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Post by: jaymac on July 15, 2020, 12:43:08 pm
How Primitive Simply CGI
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Post by: warspite on July 15, 2020, 12:45:53 pm
And definitely not a large swimming pool - Lithium-ion - not a good combination %%
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Post by: BrianB6 on July 16, 2020, 03:43:34 am
If it is fake then what is the thing that passes overhead at night? Pity the public camera has packed up. It gave some good pictures of earth. Can you see me waving %%
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Post by: Martin (Admin) on July 16, 2020, 06:55:46 am
Yes Brain! ..... I'm waving back! :}
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Post by: warspite on July 16, 2020, 09:22:06 am
Nah the cload was obscuring you - and Martin didn't seem to have is auto correct switched on, BRAIN indeed, technology is great init %)
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Post by: BrianB6 on July 16, 2020, 09:46:40 am
Not the first time I have been called that. %%
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Post by: jaymac on July 16, 2020, 07:10:06 pm
Not a compliment more likely dyslexia :D
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Post by: justboatonic on July 16, 2020, 07:51:31 pm
If it is fake then what is the thing that passes overhead at night? Pity the public camera has packed up. It gave some good pictures of earth. Can you see me waving %%
Let me introduce you to Bob. He's a leading light in the flat earth community. Here's him talking about the ISS and trying to debunk it. Video is from Sci man Dan's channel. https://youtu.be/TjDOZhqB2Fg?t=94
Title: Re: Changed your batteries lately?
Post by: jaymac on July 19, 2020, 12:25:05 pm
Gotta be a Con ;)
Time: Sun Jul 19 9:39 PM, Visible: 6 min, Max Height: 49°, Appears: 10° above SW, Disappears: 11° above E
Time: Sun Jul 19 11:15 PM, Visible: 6 min, Max Height: 85°, Appears: 10° above W, Disappears: 10° above E
Title: Re: Changed your batteries lately?
Post by: Plastic - RIP on July 19, 2020, 01:27:22 pm
I have an old school friend - a programmer - he thinks everything since the Mercury program is all fake - he truly believes Apollo was fake and ISS is really done on a film set. His 'evidence' is that it would be filthy inside by now and all their clothes would be like pit-stained boiler suits after a few weeks up there.
He searches the 'net for any crank websites which 'prove' his theories and keeps trying to argue the point via e-mail.
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Post by: Colin Bishop on July 19, 2020, 01:52:27 pm
So where does he think all the dirt would come from then - the flat Earth below?
Colin
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Post by: Plastic - RIP on July 19, 2020, 02:03:39 pm
He thinks all the dead skin and sweat from all the astronauts over all the years would have accumulated to make the ISS into a smelly, disgusting tin-can.
He sends me websites where some nut has analysed the speed of Saturn V shadows against clouds as it lifts off to prove that it never achieved orbital velocity so it never made it to space. Also that the F1 engines never had enough power to lift a real, fully fuelled 3rd stage, command module and lander. He also sends me fruitcake analysis of moon photos 'proving' they were faked.
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Post by: Martin (Admin) on July 19, 2020, 06:39:54 pm
... whilst talking about changing your batteries....
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Post by: SteveH on July 28, 2020, 10:07:41 pm
He thinks all the dead skin and sweat from all the astronauts over all the years would have accumulated to make the ISS into a smelly, disgusting tin-can.
They have an air conditioning system which recycles the air. It has filters. They change them. Simples!
But people believe what they want to believe, and sense and logic go out the window ( see also: "Religion")
Title: Re: Changed your batteries lately?
Post by: BrianB6 on July 29, 2020, 06:05:38 am
I see NASA is worried about Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule program. >>:-( Does not bode well for its future if its most prestigious venture does not work. 8) I will try and fly Airbus when we are allowed off the ground. %)
Title: Re: Changed your batteries lately?
Post by: BrianB6 on July 29, 2020, 06:10:52 am
I have an old school friend - a programmer - he thinks everything since the Mercury program is all fake - he truly believes Apollo was fake and ISS is really done on a film set. His 'evidence' is that it would be filthy inside by now and all their clothes would be like pit-stained boiler suits after a few weeks up there.
He searches the 'net for any crank websites which 'prove' his theories and keeps trying to argue the point via e-mail.
I want to know 1) what is on the other side of the flat earth. 2) how does the sea stop falling off the edge?
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Post by: Plastic - RIP on July 29, 2020, 08:14:23 am
I want to know 1) what is on the other side of the flat earth. 2) how does the sea stop falling off the edge?
The most obvious proof that the earth is not flat is that cats would have knocked everything off the edge by now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6QPOUgbS6c
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Post by: BrianB6 on July 29, 2020, 10:04:41 am
Except our daughters cat that never comes out of its blanket except to eat and.... :}
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Post by: jaymac on July 29, 2020, 04:13:35 pm
They just walk around upside down till they need the toilet then its back on top on anybody else's garden
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Post by: Colin Bishop on July 29, 2020, 05:04:23 pm
Maybe a flat Earth could be some sort of extra dimensional Mobius strip...
Colin
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Post by: derekwarner on July 29, 2020, 11:56:40 pm
That's not really a trick Colin, we all know that Subphylum[/size]Crustaceans [/color][/size]can walk upside down [/color] {-) .............Derek
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Post by: BrianB6 on July 30, 2020, 12:14:27 am
A Mobius strip does not look flat to me. It's all curved. :embarrassed:
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Post by: Plastic - RIP on July 31, 2020, 08:31:20 am
Why did the chicken cross the mobius loop? ..
To get to the same side! :embarrassed:
Title: Re: Changed your batteries lately?
Post by: Colin Bishop on July 31, 2020, 09:27:01 am
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A Mobius strip does not look flat to me. It's all curved.
Yes, but if it was big enough and you were small enough it would appear flat.
Colin
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Post by: warspite on July 31, 2020, 10:45:03 am
it would also mean you could fall off the edges as the loop is only flat in two directions ( if big enough to appear flat) therefore does this explain why the earth is a sphere, it doesn't matter which direction you travel in you can end up in the same place - eventually, and not fall onto possibly the head of the great turtle %) :-)) (I wonder what batteries it uses and where you insert them)
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Post by: Colin Bishop on July 31, 2020, 11:10:19 am
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it would also mean you could fall off the edges as the loop is only flat in two directions
That's why I described the Mobius strip as extra dimensional.... ok2