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Danope's avatar

Excellent as always Doc Strangelove III, The truth of these many lies in their absolute can’t be verified. Christ called us to live not by fear, in how many ways? Tyrannical fear is the tool of a liar. Employing this heuristic, I’m no longer persuaded by the stories of nukes. Sure, one might concentrate some metals and boil water. However, the exponential nature of this reaction thereby k-boom reads like all other offramps for enquiring minds- too big, too far away, too small, too dangerous to be near or even imagine. Virus, nukes, bangs, space- all at a scale imperceptible to our God given senses. Thankyou again for your continuing demolition of these perverted gods.

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My personal take is that Gregarin was not in the capsule, as they wanted a success, so they had to keep him alive.

Any MIG-21 pilot would not have a problem with 6-8 g's (I have 4 MIG-21 flights as pilot, including air combat maneuvering). No pilot skills required to be passenger in cannon ball space ship either. The MIG-21 I flew had a region right before landing where you were out of the ejection envelope, right when you needed to trust it the most. Was he murdered? I always thought so, but who knows. My landing parachute failed on my first flight. There is lots that can go wrong with that aircraft.

Nasa astronaut pilots do not need 5,000 hours minimum. Fighter pilots don't rack up that much time per year. A minimum of 1,500 hours for NASA pilots, and a minimum of much less for Russian pilots because Russian pilots got so little flight time, and always a graduate of Test Pilot School are the requirements. I could easily imagine a Russian cosmonaut with 700 or 800 hours, especially a MIG-21 pilot as each sortie lasts about an hour if you are maneuvering.

As for the moon landings, simple calculations reveal the BS of it all, not to mention transiting the Van Allen Belt at that time with that technology. Getting back would be near impossible at that time. Herman Kahn's "On Thermonuclear War" gives a pretty good understanding of the paranoia of the times; I find it very likely that in addition to graft there was much fear in the US of being nuked by the Russians, so they BS'd their way out of it by doing what we Americans do best; making a movie instead of the real deal. They assumed if they showed how technologically advance we were, that the Russians would be afraid to nuke us. Or something. Test pilots are very proud of stuff they do; yet you can watch the faces of those guys afterwards and see they are not proud but ashamed, as they should be.

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