XPost: sci.astro.amateur

On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 02:22:42 -0700 (PDT)
Quadibloc <[email protected]> wrote:

On Friday, August 4, 2023 at 12:14:02 AM UTC-6, RichA wrote:

The need to power a probe beyond Mars logically means
using RTGs or radio(active) thermal generators.

Risk involves unpredictable factors.

The inverse-square law is well-understood. Hence, sending a probe
to Pluto powered by huge solar panels may be inappropriate due to
being inefficient, but it doesn't need to imply an increased risk that
the probe will fail to function correctly.

John Savard

Unlike most 'internet astronomers' I was raised from eight years old
with a telescope. I actually observed the sky and celestial objects
regularly for the past forty years. I memorized all the tables of
celestial distances and planetary and star compositions. It wasn't
until later in life I actually started to do the math around those
figures to find out they are fictitious.

According to the inverse square law of light all the other planets and
stars would be completely invisible with the distances given by NASA.

It would also mean that to even see Mars, disregarding the inverse
square law, Mars would have to be glowing bright enough to burn out
your eye sockets from orbit for any visible amount of its light to reach
earth at an average of 140 million miles distance. For Mars to reflect
that much sunlight the earth would have to be a ball of superheated
magma with no atmosphere from all the solar energy reaching it. The
moon would also glow red hot even on its dark side.

It would also mean that Alpha Centauri at more than 4 light years
(24.7 trillion miles) away, would need to be more than a
million times brighter than the sun to see its light, if the inverse
square law weren't applicable. But because of the inverse square law,
even at a million times the brightness of the sun, Rigil would be
totally invisible both to the human eye and to telescopes, if the
distances provided by NASA were true, which they aren't. The distances
provided by NASA are false. Alpha Centauri is roughly 3,700 miles above
the surface of the earth, and its rapidly changing shape and plasma
discharge rings can be seen clearly with a 90-power telescope through a
clear sky.

This means that space believers are rubes who can't do simple maths.
The physicists who sell you this fake astronomy bullshit are so beholden
to the grift for their careers they will never expose it.

But you will cling to your fairy tales rather than admit that simple
math exposes the charade known as the 'space program'.

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