Is your keyboard missing any of these letters: 'g' 'o' 'l' 'e'?
Quoting: Halcyon Dayz, FCD Unlike most, I don't believe everything returned from a Google search. I know you'd like that, cause than I'd believe we landed a friggin man on the moon now wouldn't I. I went to NASA.gov and scrubbed through that site for any bit of information that was more than superficial in nature regarding the LM. Instead I found a maze of disorganized information. If I came here posting facts from an invalid source, you'd be all over that like white on rice. I politely asked for pointers to resources of the LM. Capable payloads, dimensions for cargo, yet, true to form, the NASA site is a maze of everything but things like this.
This excuses you from being able to use search tools?
First you say you don't trust information which is too easily available. Then you moan that the information you wanted wasn't easily available.
It is out there. It just takes work to put it all together.
You couldn't.
You haven't managed to find a single fact so far.
I doubt you could find your behind without directions.
Quoting: Halcyon Dayz, FCD Are you suggesting that the LM designs were substituted for toilet paper at the NASA headquarters? Wouldn't surprise me with all of the original moon footage that was lost and subsequently taped over. That's analogous to Thomas Jefferson accidentally writing over the Constitution. NASA can put a man on the moon, but can't safeguard the original footage of it.
And after your cursory search, you decided it was all destroyed?
But there is a deeper problem here.
NASA didn't design the LM!
NASA designed the MISSION. GRUMMAN designed the LM. NASA never owned the construction blueprints, and those were retained by the contractor.
So not only are they not just waiting for a two-minute look-see, they also aren't all neatly stacked under the one acronym everyone seems to remember.
You've never heard of Tom Kelly?
Quoting: Halcyon Dayz, FCD OK. Thanks. Appreciate the sliver of information in your adhom sandwich. Perhaps, if you're so kind, you could point me towards a resource that has information about him prior the year 2000? Call me sceptical, but I find it suspicious that this guy appears in zero newspaper articles during that period of time when we defied a 0.0017 chance of landing a man on the moon in a lander he supposedly designed.
Call me skeptical that you can source that figure.
Oh, and how firm are you on "prior to 2000?" I can beat that by two years just by turning my head towards the DVD rack I have on the wall.
