Re: Real alien abduction
Hooooo boy!
Sorry, Paladius, just too much mythology in your post to let it lie. NASA is just as pourous, when it comes to keeping things under wraps, as is the US House of Representatives. All you need to do is read the website
NASAWatch for a couple months to see how poorly NASA keeps the "secrets" of their recent bungling in the rocket design business. I worked directly on NASA projects from 2003-2006. In contrast, there is the US military, which knows how to keep secrets. Now, I am sure that since this is a conspiracy theory forum, you will claim that really NASA is secretly in cahoots with the US Military. But it is just not so, especially when you consider that ALL NASA centers have resident aliens (non-US citizens) working on NASA projects.
They used a Titan V missle that was launched from a mobile island rocket launcher floating in the deep pacific ocean. Its not conspiracy, its called SeaLaunch.
Let's begin by debunking "Titan V". There is no such launch vehicle. There is, however, an ATLAS V, which is the heritage Lockheed-Martin designation for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle. See
HERE:
<font color="red"> "The Titan V was a proposed launch vehicle derived from the Titan IV, but with use of a cryogenic first stage (LOX/LH2). The proposal would have extended the lifespan of the Titan design into the 21st century; however the Atlas V EELV was selected for production instead.
A rocket called Titan V also appeared in the Star Trek film First Contact." [/COLOR]
Too much Star Trek, maybe? /ttiforum/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Second: The total "Delta V" (launch and orbital insertion energy) required to go anywhere beyond a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (which is where EELVs and the SeaLaunch Zenit 3SL launchers take payloads) is MUCH MUCH MUCH higher than these rockets can achieve. NONE of these rockets, by themselves, can achieve escape of the earth's gravitational influence. Just compare the Saturn V launch vehicle (which DID take astronauts and equipment to the moon) to any of the EELVs:
Sorry... you are just NOT going to get much of anything to the moon on ANY of the EELV launch vehicles. And before you say they did "multiple launches with rendezvous and docking in Low Earth Orbit", no they did not. I did some early studies on missions to Mars where we were considering on-orbit assembly for that mission... it would take so many launches of EELVs to get something to the moon that there is NO WAY it would be kept secret.
Try again?
RMT