Posted on 07/20/2019 4:13:03 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
“The focus on the negative, and demand we all obey them, as they, and only they, are the ones that can make everything perfect./s “
Your well deserved sarcasm is a very honest and serious article of the Leftists faith. To be of the Left is to be perfect, all knowing and unable to be wrong, even when they are definitely wrong - they cannot be.
Again, the guardian focuses on excrement.
Two thumbs up!
Exactly. And we have a perfect example of what happens when hard reality collides with their complete inability to even imagine being wrong: the election of Donald Trump. It really has driven them completely mad.
and Nixon’s signature
https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/publications/magazines/bulletin/bull12-1/12104700912.pdf
And they are stuffed with plutonium-238 !!!
We are all going to die!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_for_Nuclear_Auxiliary_Power
Who knew?
I got cho toxic waste right cheer...
“SNAP-7 was designed for marine applications such as lighthouses and buoys;[2] at least six units were deployed in the mid-1960s, with names SNAP-7A through SNAP-7F. SNAP-7D produced thirty watts of electricity[3] using 225 kilocuries (8.3 PBq)[2] (about four kilograms) of strontium-90 as SrTiO3. These were very large units, weighing between 1,870 and 6,000 pounds (850 and 2,720 kg).[1]”
“The dusty remains of five Saturn V rocket stages”
Huh? What would thay be. The lower landing pod of the lunar landers got left behind.. sure, but a stage of the Saturn V??? Did the Command module jettison something on the way back. Or is the Author liquored up?
Five SNAP-27 units provided electric power for the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Packages (ALSEP) left on the Moon by Apollo 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17. The SNAP-27 power supply weighed about 20 kilograms, was 46 cm long and 40.6 cm in diameter. It consisted of a central fuel capsule surrounded by concentric rings of thermocouples. Outside of the thermocouples was a set of fins to provide for heat rejection from the cold side of the thermocouple. Each of the SNAP devices produced approximately 75 W of electrical power at 30 VDC. The energy source for each device was a rod of plutonium-238 providing a thermal power of approximately 1250 W.[17] This fuel capsule, containing 3.8 kilograms (8.4 lb) of plutonium-238 in oxide form (44,500 Ci or 1.65 PBq), was carried to the Moon in a separate fuel cask attached to the side of the Lunar Module.
75W/20kg is not too bad.
The third stage of the Saturn Vs of Apollo’s 13-17 were deliberately impacted on the moon to create seismic waves that could be studied to reveal details of the moon’s interior structure.
Are they causing man made moon warming?
I guess the British press is warning British astronauts to try not to step in the poo when they finally get to the Moon.
Wow, interesting. I had no idea, OBVIOUSLY.
Yep, law of entropy says they aint nothin perfect in this old world. It’s easy to nitpick which is why the left has traction. Meanwhile it’s up to conservatives to carry out the hard slog of dealing with actual reality, imperfectly.
I believe the article was about retrieving it from the moon to analyze it.
So the next mission to the moon will be a hazmat team and an EPA clean up?
What possible Saturn V stage reached the moon? The descent stage of the Lunar Lander? Is that what this idiot is talking about?
See comment at 32 - the S-IVB stage (the third stage of the Saturn V) for Apollo’s 13 through 17 were deliberately impacted into the moon as part of experiments to examine the moon’s interior - they set up controlled predictable seismic waves that could be measured by the seismometers put in place previously.
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