For some reason, it is customary to call names on the Internet, in various forums and chats. Probably, anonymity affects. So, in the discussions about the US Lunar Program, those who do not believe in the possibility of such flights 50 years ago are called “non-glibs”. From the expression "could not fly." People say "could not!" and prove it.
So who and what else “could not”?
But just and COULD NOT fall and crumble into dust three, steel at its core, skyscrapers from being hit by two thin-walled aluminum aircraft! Well, you get the idea, I'm talking about "9/11". They could not, because everyone understands! It turns out not for everyone. People believe that they could …
The same trouble is with the Malaysian Boeing flight MH17, which crashed over the territory of Ukraine 6 years ago. It seems to be clear that the Buk operators COULD NOT confuse a huge civilian plane flying at an altitude of 10 km towards Rostov with any military aircraft. So it was an aimed shot, if it was a Buk at all. The Buk could NOT make an aimed shot without a guidance station, which the Donbass militias did not have. COULD NOT drag Beech on a trailer with missiles installed and unpainted numbers. Could not! But who cares?
With the "conquest" of the moon, the story is even more interesting. Dozens of “couldn't” are rejected from the doorway. "Nemogliks" do not remain in debt and call the Apollo believers "NASArogi" or "Witnesses of the ascension of St. Apollonius." I think this is also not beautiful and not ethical. Yes, just rude. But emotions can be understood. After all, you know for sure that you “couldn't”! And they say to you: "Well, what, we couldn't, but that was."
I will cite only one fact to which I myself drew attention. The height of the first person who supposedly set foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong, is 180 cm. His height in a spacesuit (in a helmet and in galoshes) is 195 cm. Antenna, a 40-centimeter rigid pin sticking out of a backpack, rises 15 centimeters above the helmet.
Photo from the Museum of Cosmonautics.
The red line in the center is the height from floor to ceiling - 195 cm. The antenna is highlighted in yellow. Behind the feet of people, below under the control panel there is a hatch 81x81 cm in size, opening inward.
Promotional video:
Total 210 cm. But the free space in the lunar module from floor to ceiling is a maximum of 195 cm. And how could two cosmonauts in spacesuits be in such tightness? Could not.
Layout made in Photoshop. It can be seen that the antennas do not fit at all. And it is not possible to be in this position for several days. They could not move, take off their helmets and spacesuits, send their physiological needs.
Also, they could not, in a sufficiently rigid spacesuit, under excess pressure, bend over and open the hatch, which is located under the control panel at foot level.
Photo from technical reference books.
And to bend so as to get out, having a high ledge in the module, covering the engine - they COULD NOT! I illustrated all this with the help of the simplest editing in Photoshop.
Layout made in Photoshop. The second astronaut is highlighted in green. Antennas are marked in red. The engine space under the floor and the control panel at the top is filled with gray.
Yes, keep in mind that the astronaut has a spacesuit control unit on his chest and another camera or movie camera.
While studying this issue, I discovered the book by Leonid Konovalov "Dolls on the Moon", which contains the chapter "Is it possible to get through the hatch of the lunar module?" So, and they COULD NOT!
You can call me "nemoglik" again, but this will not change the truth. I am offered to look at 17 thousand photographs allegedly brought by astronauts from the moon. But after not complicated calculations, I understand that during the time that 12 astronauts "spent" on the Moon, they simply COULD NOT have taken so many photos!
