In Sibrel’s mind, the claim that astronauts walked on the moon on the very first attempt with antiquated untried 1960s technology,
This is just patently absurd logic. The development of the SR-71 Blackbird, a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, began in the mid-1950s. The plane made its first flight on December 22, 1964.
The only reason to go into space is to get into orbit. Putting something into orbit is only possible or useful or feasible once you are fully outside of the Earth's atmosphere. That's it. That happens to be about 220 MI hi, just a few hours drive if you could drive straight up. That's it. There's no reason to be at 250 miles or 300 miles. The further you go, the less useful your satellite is because it's farther and farther away from earth. You're just wasting fuel. It doesn't really matter if the moon is $238,000 MI away, once you get out of Earth's orbit, you can float for as long as you've got food and water in the capsule, basically. There's no such thing as distance in space, there's only duration in terms of floating to your next objective.
the US can only send astronauts one-thousandth the distance to the Moon
Son, you truly don't understand how rockets get to orbit. Measuring things by "distance away" is irrelevant.
This is incredibly ignorant reasoning, man. Weak, weak stuff.
In Sibrel’s mind, the claim that astronauts walked on the moon on the very first attempt with antiquated untried 1960s technology,
This is just patently absurd logic. The development of the SR-71 Blackbird, a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, began in the mid-1950s. The plane made its first flight on December 22, 1964.
The only reason to go into space is to get into orbit. Putting something into orbit is only possible or useful or feasible once you are fully outside of the Earth's atmosphere. That's it. That happens to be about 220 MI hi, just a few hours drive if you could drive straight up. That's it. There's no reason to be at 250 miles or 300 miles. The further you go, the less useful your satellite is because it's farther and farther away from earth. You're just wasting fuel. It doesn't really matter if the moon is $238,000 MI away, once you get out of Earth's orbit, you can float for as long as you've got food and water in the capsule, basically. There's no such thing as distance in space, there's only duration in terms of floating to your next objective.
the US can only send astronauts one-thousandth the distance to the Moon
Son, you truly don't understand how rockets get to orbit. Measuring things by "distance away" is irrelevant. The only reason to go into space is to get into orbit. Putting something into orbit is only possible or useful or feasible once you are fully outside of the Earth's atmosphere. That's it. That happens to be about 220 MI high, just a few hours drive if you could drive straight up. That's it. There's no reason to be at 250 miles or 300 miles. You're geosynchronous at 37,500 miles. And that's it. There's no reason to go "further." The further you go, the less useful your satellite is because it's farther and farther away from earth. You're just wasting fuel. It doesn't really matter if the moon is $238,000 MI away, once you get out of Earth's orbit, you can float for as long as you've got food and water in the capsule, basically. There's no such thing as distance in space, there's only duration in terms of floating to your next objective.
This is incredibly ignorant reasoning, man. Weak, weak stuff.