Damage to Apollo 13
Credit: Apollo 13 Crew, NASA
Posted on 04/17/2010 5:26:12 AM PDT by sig226
Explanation: After an oxygen tank exploded and crippled their service module, the Apollo 13 astronauts were forced to abandon plans to make the third manned lunar landing. The extent of the damage is revealed in this grainy, grim photo, taken as the service module was drifting away, jettisoned only hours prior to the command module's reentry and splashdown. An entire panel on the side of the service module has been blown away and extensive internal damage is apparent. Visible below the gutted compartment is a radio antenna and the large, bell-shaped nozzle of the service module's rocket engine. On April 17, 1970 the three astronauts returned safely to Earth.
Perhaps you’d like to somehow manage some fair-minded consideration of our FELLOW FREEPER’S posts here:
Post #78;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2495385/posts?page=78#78
“Of course UFOs are real, and they are interplanetary. The cumulative evidence for the existence of UFOs is quite overwhelming and I accept the fact of their existence.” -Air Chief Marshall Lord Hugh Dowding, Commanding Officer of the Royal Air Force during WWII
“I can assure you that, given they exist, these flying saucers are made by no power on this Earth.” -President Harry S. Truman, 4 April 1950, at a press conference.
“We must insist upon full access to disks recovered. For instance, in the LA case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.” -J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director.
“I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.” -Senator Barry Goldwater (1965)
It was the darndest thing I’ve ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors and it was about the size of the Moon. We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. One thing’s for sure, I’ll never make fun of people who say they’ve seen unidentified objects in the sky. -President Jimmy Carter
“I looked out the window and saw this white light.It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said, Have you ever seen anything like that? He was shocked and he said, “Nope.” And I said to him: “Let’s follow it!” We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light. We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens. When I got off the plane I told Nancy all about it.” -President Ronald Reagan (Describing his 1974 UFO encounter to veteran newsman Norman C. Miller, then Washington bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal.)
“We have contact with alien cultures.” -Astronaut Dr. Brian O’Leary
“The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.” -Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev
“The UFO phenomenon being reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious” -General Nathan Twining, Chairman, Joint chiefs of staff, 1955-1958
“I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on Earth.” -Colonel L. Gordon Cooper (Mercury 9,Gemini-5 Astronaut)
“I’ve been asked about UFO’s and I’ve said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.” -Commander Eugene Cernan, Commanded the Apollo 17 Mission. (Los Angeles Times, 1973)
“In my official status, I cannot comment on ET contact. However, personally, I can assure you, we are not alone!” -Charles J. Camarda(Ph.D.) NASA Astronaut
“Of course it is possible that UFO’s really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the Government is hushing it up.” -Professor Stephen Hawking
“Let there be no doubt. Alien technology harvested from the infamous saucer crash in Roswell, N.Mex., in July 1947 led directly to the development of the integrated circuit chip, laser and fiber optic technologies, Particle beams, Electromagnetic propulsion systems, Depleted uranium projectiles, Stealth capabilities, and many others! How do I know? I was in charge! (A matter of public record)I think the kids on this planet are wise to the truth, and I think we ought to give it to them. I think they deserve it.” -Colonel Philip Corso, Army Intelligence officer, former head of the Foreign Technology at the U.S. Army’s Research and Development department at the Pentagon and former director of intelligence on President Eisenhower’s White House National Security Staff
“Extraterrestrial contact is a real phenomenon. The Vatican is receiving much information about extraterrestrials and their contacts with humans from its Nuncios (embassies) in various countries, such as Mexico, Chile and Venezuela.” -Monsignor Corrado Balducci, Vatican theologian insider close to the Pope. Monsignor Balducci is on a Vatican commission looking into extraterrestrial encounters, and how to cope with the emerging general realization of extraterrestrial contact.
78 posted on Sunday, April 18, 2010 7:25:37 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
and at #85 on that thread.
To: Quix
My own collection from many sources. Personally, probably a dozen or two. Information from classified sources? Hundreds, at least, including yours truly. My half-brother has had several sightings and more. Oh, and another thing: If you see a “futuristic” weapon or technology in a movie or TV show, we’ve already had it for decades.
85 posted on Sunday, April 18, 2010 7:43:41 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
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BTW, If anyone wants on or off the UFO ping list, please let Las Vegas Dave; and I know.
Cheers.
I however, was not fortunate enough to be alive to witness such bravery and fortitude. I often wonder what it was like to live in a time when having a spinal column was still a virtue.
It takes a day or two for every complete thought presented in this book (and I am only just beginning to make headway), but it presents an entirely new paradigm about the human brain.
I have, for example, just started the chapter on the Iliad.
Jaynes makes the point quite clearly that humans of that era (700-800 BC?) hear voices much the same as did Joan of Ark and schizophrenics of our day.
People of the ancient world don't just hear voices, they have vivid relationships with "other dimensional" beings.
BTW, Jaynes says that these beings (these "gods") are somehow bound by the usual laws of nature and are uncreative in the way that the Judeo/Christian GOD or G-d is.
These ancient gods are vocal...but they aren't GOD.
Long story, short...I am reminded that much of what humans perceive as reality may be wrong (in fact, we see that at least 1/2 of American voters are wrong about Obama...so the concept of incorrect perception should not be too strange).
Indeed, there may be a profound state of denial by humans of those--gods--who share this reality with us.
Put another way, what has been historically perceived to be "space ships," might be a ruse. In fact, it might be a historic ruse introduced to ancestors by extra-dimensional "gods"...with an eye to our current world of technology.
These space ships might be ancient man's gods trying to redefine themselves in ways that optimize their power to confound mankind (that mankind that is unBiblical, at least).
Anyway, just a tired thought on a Sunday night.
But then, you have heard all this stuff before.
Lots of plausible stuff there, for sure.
I do think the craft are ‘real’ . . . whatever ‘real’ is.
And that God who was angry with them for giving men war making technologies back in Genesis time . . . is even more angry with them for their repeat performances in such matters in our era
imho.
And I think that while God is angry with them, he is also using them to his own ends somehow (perhaps in culling those with tainted DNA from his flock).
Speaking of an angry God, I wouldn't want to be in Obama's shoes.;-)
INDEED.
On both counts.
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