I started skimmimg about halfway through, but one item I noticed was his comparison of the distance through space to the moon being so much farther than what we currently accomplish with contemporary launch vehicles.
His argument was asking how we could send a vehicle through thousands of miles of space in the 60s when we can only do a few hundred in 2020.
This argument is entirely naive of the concept of gravity wells and that the initial push away from a planet is the most difficult (energy intensive).
Ok. I mean believability is subjective, so while it seems reasonable to me, it might not to you.
But remember that acceleration due to gravity drops off as an inverse square from the center of the Earth. So it gets much, much easier to push away from Earth the farther out you get.
And moving more than 500 mi from Earth isn't because of a hard energetic limit. It's because nobody's wanted to sink the money into a modern manned moon mission.
Other countries have sent probes to the moon, so it's been proven physically possible by other parties. Unless those are hoaxes too?
Holy crap that's a rambling article with very little in the way of valid technical argument.
What do you disagree with?
I started skimmimg about halfway through, but one item I noticed was his comparison of the distance through space to the moon being so much farther than what we currently accomplish with contemporary launch vehicles.
His argument was asking how we could send a vehicle through thousands of miles of space in the 60s when we can only do a few hundred in 2020.
This argument is entirely naive of the concept of gravity wells and that the initial push away from a planet is the most difficult (energy intensive).
Ok. I mean believability is subjective, so while it seems reasonable to me, it might not to you.
But remember that acceleration due to gravity drops off as an inverse square from the center of the Earth. So it gets much, much easier to push away from Earth the farther out you get.
And moving more than 500 mi from Earth isn't because of a hard energetic limit. It's because nobody's wanted to sink the money into a modern manned moon mission.
Other countries have sent probes to the moon, so it's been proven physically possible by other parties. Unless those are hoaxes too?