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Watch the 1st clip again. They had just done a burn. (increasing their velocity). A quick test. After a burn, do objects you have separated from obtain the same velocity as the craft that just "burned"? This is an easy one...

Unfortunately, this report was LONG before the separation of the lunar & command modules. If you rewatch the 1st clip you'll notice that the 2nd stage was only 6k miles behind the astronauts. The separation & adjustment of the command & lunar takes place MUCH later in the mission. God, I...

Not the point. The point is that NO IR weapon targeting system uses that part of the IR band to target. So, it is useless for hiding from weapon attacks that relies on IR detection. This is the same part of the band that your TV remote works on. Your digital cam can record on these...

Not at all. The IR band that a Sidewinder missile uses (just one example) is not effected by the system shown.

This video shot by the astronauts has a very interesting shaped craft. Might design a ship based on it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlkV1ybBnHI My father-in-law (O6 USAF) who worked on all the Apollo projects 1st told me of this one years ago but I hadn't seen the film until recently...

Yes and, in addition, in the MRB the s/w can fire the weapons without a gunner at all. Putting a person hanging out there is therefore very unlikely. The only reason to do so is to maintain that 1940's feel to the rules.

I read it. I just couldn't make sense of the emotions when viewed in the context of the video I posted. Some people react that way. Actually, MANY do. One of the reasons the gov keeps this under wraps. I saw one scientists, after viewing a video shot from Sky lab, have to be sedated.

What ARE you going on about? Why won't you answer a simple q? Weird.

So, this has to do with what Cooper saw and reported how???

I guess one has to be a pilot to appreciate Gordie. :wink:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsHivFBLabQ&feature=related

No size for the animals OR movement abilities? Umm, any word whether or not this will get fixed?

Same here. I use the "socket" design as someone depicted above. The one ton designated at time of construction being the empty socket that simply has hull plating over it if no turret installed.

Nope, for non-capital ships read the MGT MRB

Yep. That's why IMTU, the Type S replacement I designed has a Model 4 computer.