by pkvi
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cyberrigger 1 point ago +2 / -1

IMO --- the obvious

He got mega rich a little too fast to be normal --- like Gates, Epstein, Pelosi

Buffet and Trump are more believable (even though Buffet is a goddamn liberal).

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cyberrigger 2 points ago +2 / -0

I would argue that using your logic, we 'fly' submarines under the water.

Small aerodynamic models are often tested in moving water because of the Reynolds number. A vacuum doesn't work.

There is a submarine that "flies down" in the water instead of using ballast.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/06/eod.luxury.submarines/index.html

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cyberrigger 1 point ago +1 / -0

calculator

There are XYZ coordinates

There are XYZ velocities

There are XYZ accelerations

There are XYZ rotational coordinates

There are XYZ rotational velocities

There are XYZ rotational accelerations

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cyberrigger 1 point ago +1 / -0

If we find that no one on the planet can recreate what Neil Armstrong did,

that would be a big fat red flag.

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cyberrigger 1 point ago +1 / -0

...and NASA wanted to shut down the LLRV/LLTV program....

WHY would NASA want to do that?

That just didn't make any sense if you were going to do a man guided moon landing.

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cyberrigger 1 point ago +1 / -0

actual physical simulations

The ones he crashed? --- using the same gravity he practiced with?

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cyberrigger 1 point ago +1 / -0

have only done that in video games.

Neil Armstrong did not have modern day video games

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cyberrigger 1 point ago +1 / -0

knowledge in orbital mechanic to use.

That was one of the very first simulations written, when ported to a pdp-11 led to the development of Unix

Spacewar

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cyberrigger 1 point ago +1 / -0

IMO it would be the ultimate test that would be easy to do.

settle it for all

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cyberrigger 1 point ago +1 / -0

Someone who could fly the Neil Armstrong Challenge

would give it plausibility.

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cyberrigger 2 points ago +2 / -0

I have a picture of bigfoot and elvis

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cyberrigger 1 point ago +1 / -0

I am still on the fence.

I have factored out things to make the landing possible

I have factored out things to make the hoax possible

It still comes down to the skill required to make the final approach and landing possible with what NASA had at the time.

Here's the rub --- It would be easy to simulate. The (easy version) simulators I have tried are next to impossible. I am a pilot. I have test flown experimental (never been built before) home-brew aircraft. I have landed some with control reversal. I consider myself an amateur test pilot.

...but fuck -- the lunar seat-of-your-pants landing is hard for me to believe.

So --- I present the Neil Armstrong lunar lander challenge --- still no takers

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cyberrigger -1 points ago +1 / -2

The simulators today are way advance to what Neil Armstrong had.

What is your point?

and you're calling people retarded?

Just prove it is do-able.

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cyberrigger -2 points ago +1 / -3

Recreate Neil Armstrong's landing.

None of the pussies complaining here will try it.

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cyberrigger 1 point ago +2 / -1

Now, flying is translating

One has air resistance lift/drag/turbulence.

Will a parachute open in a vacuum?

Can you autorotate a lunar lander?

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cyberrigger 1 point ago +2 / -1

OH GOD -- you should blow Neil Armstrong out of the window with this advantage that he did not have.

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cyberrigger 1 point ago +2 / -1

The lunar lander was not flying --- no dihedral stability, no terminal velocity limit

It was translating --- not flying.

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cyberrigger 1 point ago +3 / -2

Have you ever landed a real plane?

The lunar lander used no computers.

I think you maybe just do not understand just how robust the craft was and the suits.

The "suits" don't enter into it.

I am a pilot and have landed planes over 50 years.

easy mode craft like that?

You are funny -- go land a real airplane.

GO TRY A LUNAR LANDER

No one has taken this challenge yet.

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cyberrigger 3 points ago +4 / -1

They think this is bullshit (different they).

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cyberrigger 1 point ago +1 / -0

He's kind of late to the party.

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