How the Lunar Module REALLY worked. Apparently.

[Kiwi]

The following information is provided solely for the education and enlightenment of ApolloHoax members and visitors, and no responsibility is accepted for any medical misadventures that may ensue.

The Nazi Bell, Antigravity and the Secret Apollo Space Program. Published in Nexus magazine, October - November 2014, page 39.

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Excerpt:

There is no mathematics needed to explain the basic theory of gravity. You just need to teach it correctly. Unfortunately, the connection between plasma and gravity was not known until World War II. By then, it was classified as a military secret and kept locked up that way for over 70 years.

Researchers into nuclear plasma ball effects at Sandia National Laboratories and other laboratories have made great progress in this technology since it was first discovered during the testing phase of the atomic bomb in World War II.

During the war, this effect was first discovered by scientists while working on the German atomic bomb program, commonly known as the Nazi Bell Project. It was later weaponised and tested at the Peenemünde Army Research Centre for use in a potential spaceflight program by Dr Wernher von Braun and company. After the war, the technology was transferred to the USA under Operation Paperclip.

The early research into this technology was first assigned to Larry Bell of Bell Aircraft Corporation. After Bell's death, North American Aviation and Grumman took over the research. Both companies were the prime contractors for the Apollo Command/ Service Module (CSM) and Lunar Module (LM).

The very-high-voltage generator circuitry—called a Marx generator—that produced this effect was hidden in the upper section of the CSM within the emergency escape rocket and acted as the upper electrode for the system. The rocket body acted as the lower electrode. This was part of the so-called "Apollo weight reduction program".

Edward Leedskalnin of "Coral Castle" fame once said: "If you put my invention into the nose of a rocket, you will have no problem going to the Moon." Apparently he had no idea as to how correct he was.

With the LM, the entire system worked by charging its outer skin to an extremely high voltage in the millions of volts. The system could not be tested on Earth due to the capacitive plates shorting out—unless they were placed in a total vacuum chamber.

For this reason, NASA constructed an extremely large vacuum test chamber, called the "environmental test chamber" as its cover. To hide the system in full view, they came up with the story of covering the LM with a "micrometeorite shield". This was in fact the outer capacitive plates used for charging the LM up to the power levels needed in order to repel the magnetic lines of force and the electron cloud potential (charge) of the Moon.

It took over three minutes to fully charge up the LM before zero gravity was reached. The term used during the spaceflights was to "warm up the LM".

The very-high-voltage power supply, called a Wimshurst generator, was disguised as the central gyroscope for the spacecraft in order to ensure flight stability. This is why the LM and all UFOs can only move in an up–down, left–right, forward–backward motion while in flight.

It was centred directly over the 500-pound [~227 kilogram] kick motor that could run for only a maximum of 30 seconds before burnout. With both the kick motor and the on-board magnetic buoyancy system in operation, the LM had to be able to dock with the CSM within three orbits.

If the weight reduction system failed to work, the LM could not take off; weighing in at over 3,000 pounds [~1,361 kilograms] with only a 500-pound kick motor to lift it, it would be futile.

About the Author.

Jeff Smith has a degree in electrical engineering, applied science and physics. He is a former a nuclear weapons specialist with the US government and a former UN weapons inspector specialising in nuclear nonproliferation issues. He is now semi-retired and works for a private nonprofit research library as a cryptographic curator and historian, preserving restricted documents that are of historic and scientific value. Correspondence for Mr Smith can be emailed to [email protected].

[dwight]

Outstanding! Finally the whisper is becoming the watery belch.

[BazBear]

I'll leave the debunking of the pseudoscience/engineering in this gem of an article to our resident experts, but even this layman knows they jettisoned the LES rocket and tower at ~55 miles altitude!

[twik]

The article fails at:

There is no mathematics needed to explain the basic theory of gravity.

[raven]

The idea could make a fun sounding story if you made it about an original attempt to land on the moon rather than debasing Apollo. A lot of good science fiction takes the premise 'Yes, this is impossible, but what if it wasn't . . .?"

[Zakalwe]

The woo-woo is strong in this one....

So the LM DID go to the Moon, albeit using magic. I do wish that these people would make an effort to get their stories a little bit consistent.

[Noldi400]

This is why the LM and all UFOs can only move in an up–down, left–right, forward–backward motion while in flight.

Presuming that these can be taken in combinations, doesn't that pretty much cover all possible directions?

[Zakalwe]

This is why the LM and all UFOs can only move in an up–down, left–right, forward–backward motion while in flight.

Presuming that these can be taken in combinations, doesn't that pretty much cover all possible directions?

I was thinking that too.  It reminds me of the Monty Python sketch- ".. apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?"   

Rotation about an axis is the only thing that I could think of?

[dwight]

Oh man. It is scary to think that despite the numerous documents  and things like Scott Sullivan's books, these types of articles expect to be taken seriously.

[raven]

I am getting a little Poe-ed, because I am not 100% sure it *is*. It mentions several actual Apollo procedures and operations, it just lies through its little wooden teeth about what they were for.

[smartcooky]

This article read like a piss-take to me....

"Surely, you can't be serious!?"

"Yes I am, and don't call me Shirley!

[Echnaton]

I was hoping it was a gag by the cartoonist Jeff Smith.  Alas from the bio it appears this is the same as the Jeff Smith on the editorial board of Veterans Today.  A web site that bills itself as "the true voice of the worlds clandestine community." 

That explains the stupidity and conspiracy angle. 

[AstroBrant]

The woo-woo is strong in this one....

So the LM DID go to the Moon, albeit using magic. I do wish that these people would make an effort to get their stories a little bit consistent.

I've suggested a debate between the Apollo hoax-nuts and the NASA/alien/Apollo cover-up crowd. And let's throw in Mr. Smith, here, who believes we used alien technology to do Apollo. And then there are the ones who believe Apollo was fake, but humans secretly went to the moon way back in the 30's, using alien technology.

Such a debate would be a real treat, wouldn't it? I would love to moderate it, but I believe Adrian would be better, since he believes Apollo was faked and that it discovered alien artifacts on the moon. He probably believes the other two as well.

[Luke Pemberton]

The article fails at:

There is no mathematics needed to explain the basic theory of gravity.

Yes, it was at that point I thought there was no further benefit to be gained by reading the rest of the article. There's plenty of mathematics in the Einstein field equations, although not basic, they do describe gravity very well. They even reduce to Newton's equations for a weak field.

[sts60]

To borrow from Blazing Saddles, "That was a fine exanple of authentic [final] frontier gibberish."