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Title: Yes, Apollo Flew Through the Van Allen Belts Going to the Moon
Source: [None]
URL Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLtgS2_qxJk
Published: Mar 14, 2017
Author: Vintage Space
Post Date: 2018-07-04 20:27:34 by BTP Holdings
Keywords: None
Views: 2481
Comments: 54

No, the van Allen radiation belts weren't deal breakers for the Apollo astronauts. They really did go to the Moon. Want weekly Vintage Space ? Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE! www.youtube.com/channel/UCw95T_TgbGHhTml4xZ9yIqg

The Apollo Experience Report on Radiation is here, if you're curious: www.youtube.com/redirect?...description&v=bLtgS2_qxJk

There's more about rockoons here:history.nasa.gov/SP-4401/ch4.htm

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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)

Look at the eentsy weentsy wobbly piece of equipment that blasted ferociously off from the moon please

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn1S- flYkaQ

And tell us why there are no jets of flame or exhaust under it. Do you honestly think it connected with the rocket orbiting earth at 4000 mph thru space for the return trip?

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NeoconsNailed  posted on  2018-07-04   21:14:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: NeoconsNailed (#1) (Edited)

Look at the eentsy weentsy wobbly piece of equipment that blasted ferociously off from the moon please

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn1S- flYkaQ

And tell us why there are no jets of flame or exhaust under it. Do you honestly think it connected with the rocket orbiting earth at 4000 mph thru space for the return trip?

I honestly can't say for certain.

But what about the observatory that shoots laser lights at the moon and gets them to bounce back from the mirrors the left up there?

They guy at the observatory said no one ever comes there to visit them. ;)

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BTP Holdings  posted on  2018-07-04   21:24:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: NeoconsNailed (#1)

And tell us why there are no jets of flame or exhaust under it.

No oxygen on the moon :)

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X-15  posted on  2018-07-04   21:30:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: BTP Holdings (#2)

I just watched that the other day. It's pitiful -- the guy even says what you're seeing is happening on the telescope lens, not on the moon. Note that they never show you the bloomin' reflectors.

There are too many gaping holes in the tale. We pulled this monumental feat off and simply stopped the program cold? Hope lots of you saw the various cases of present- day astronots etc. saying how we're working up to breaking out of earth orbit for the first time "as if" all that never even happened!

It's over for this big lie, and spreading the exciting truth will help greatly in showing the sheeple they can't trust a damn word the Beltway bastards and bitches say. Discrediting these arch-racketeers must be a top priority!

THEY LIE ABOUT EVERYTHING in direct proportion to its importance.

THEY ARE SWORN TO OUR EXTIRPATION OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH, kids.

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NeoconsNailed  posted on  2018-07-04   21:39:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: X-15 (#3)

Is it filmed in Supermarionation? ;-)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRP- q9MuwqY

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NeoconsNailed  posted on  2018-07-04   21:43:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: X-15 (#3)

And tell us why there are no jets of flame or exhaust under it.

No oxygen on the moon :)

if there is no oxygen then there can be no combustion thus no thrust.


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IRTorqued  posted on  2018-07-04   21:51:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: IRTorqued (#6)

Thank you. Have you, I trust, just busted up all the space probes?

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NeoconsNailed  posted on  2018-07-04   21:57:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: IRTorqued (#6)

if there is no oxygen then there can be no combustion thus no thrust.

While true, the difference between a jet and a rocket is precisely that a rocket carries it's own supply of oxygen, while a jet takes it from the environment.

The moon landing used rockets.

While the US government has lied about many things, I don't consider the moon landing to be one of them. All of the landing sites can be and have been photographed from earth and show signs of activity. The various claims of evidence of it was faked have been debunked, at least to my satisfaction.

Pinguinite  posted on  2018-07-04   22:12:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: NeoconsNailed (#1)

And tell us why there are no jets of flame or exhaust under it. Do you honestly think it connected with the rocket orbiting earth at 4000 mph thru space for the return trip?

The lack of an atmosphere (no aerodynamic drag), greatly reduced gravity, and much smaller ship all combine to reduce the amount of thrust needed for liftoff from the moon. I can't speak to the nature of the thruster used but I don't see it as a deal killer. Also, the orbiter wasn't orbiting as high of the moon as is typical on earth, due to the lack of an atmosphere.

I don't fault anyone for doubting the word of the US government, and the moon missions were an extraordinary achievement to have been done with 60's tech. Also, there was sufficient motive during the cold war with the USSR for the US to fake it. But having investigated the claims against it, I think the moon landings did happen, and the USSR would have certainly had plenty of motive to publicize proof to the contrary.

Pinguinite  posted on  2018-07-04   22:30:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Pinguinite (#8)

Why did they stop the moon walks, Ping, and why are astronots and other experts talking today as if they never happened?

www.renegadetribune.com/nasa-inadvertently-admits-we-never-went-to-the- moon/?

Donald Pettit says we "destroyed" the technology and it's too "painful" to recreated it. In other words the dog ate my homework?

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NeoconsNailed  posted on  2018-07-04   22:48:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Pinguinite (#9) (Edited)

Where is there room for enough rocket fuel (incl. comprest air) in the return unit, plus the gizmos to activate and control it? It was insanely tiny -- look where the door is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Module#/media/File:Apollo16LM.jpg/

The moon's gravity is 1/16 of earth's, but this glorified lunchbox was vastly less than 1/16 of what left the earth including propulsion.

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NeoconsNailed  posted on  2018-07-04   23:06:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: IRTorqued (#6)

Two places where rocket motors can't functtion: under water and in a vacuum. All they had was compressed air and momentum. I don't think they've been to the moon/Levan.

Obnoxicated  posted on  2018-07-04   23:11:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: NeoconsNailed (#10) (Edited)

Why did they stop the moon walks, Ping,

Because there's no financial reason to continue them. It's a rock. There are no natural resources there to be harvested. With no public will, there's no political will. It was and would be expensive to return, with little to no reward for doing so.

and why are astronots and other experts talking today as if they never happened?

That astronaut looks all of 27 years old, and while the context is unclear, it's probably nothing more than him embellishing the space hazards of the van allen radiation belts to impress his audience. There are 2 separate belts and the main one is donut shaped above the equator. The Apollo missions simply exited earth's orbit at a higher latitude to avoid the worst of it, and in any event, was through it in a short enough time to avoid significant exposure. Supposedly it would take a month to absorb a lethal amount of radiation in the belts.

As for electronics, 60's tech didn't used transistors which are everywhere today, but vacume tubes which are immune to radiation. I don't know how transistors hold up to radiation. Maybe they require shielding that the Apollo missions didn't require.

One could probably raise all kinds of similar claims about how internal combustion engines should not work because of heat, lubrication, timing and a myriad of other issues involved. But just because the common person doesn't understand everything about how the internal combustion engines work does not mean they are a hoax. Obviously they do work. By the same token, it's not fair to require one understand all issues involved with the Apollo space missions to conclude they were real.

Edit:

Photos of the moon from earth show the landing sites with prior activity consistent with the Apollo landings. It's there for everyone to see 2 weeks out of every month. Would that not be sufficient proof?

Looking this up, it appears the photos I've seen have been from NASA's lunar orbiter, not from earth, and one site argues that even the Hubble scope doesn't have the power to show the moon landing activity, much to my surprise.

The below are the images I referred to, but they are apparently from Lunar orbit, not earth, so could be suspect.

Pinguinite  posted on  2018-07-04   23:38:09 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Obnoxicated, NeoconsNailed (#12)

Two places where rocket motors can't functtion: under water and in a vacuum. All they had was compressed air and momentum. I don't think they've been to the moon/Levan.

Rockets can certainly work in a vacuum. Jet's cannot as they burn oxygen in the environment, but rockets mix both oxygen and fuel, both stored on board, to produce the thrust. In the vacuum of space, rockets are more efficient as there is no aerodynamic drag on the ship, which factors in favor of the lunar modules lift-off from the moon surface.

All they had was compressed air and momentum.

To be exact, not "compressed air" but compressed oxygen. Air is only about 20% oxygen, with most of it nitrogen. For space flight, they use pure oxygen, and the Apollo missions used oxygen so compressed it was a liquid, not a gas. And of course, it was more than oxygen but fuel as well.

Pinguinite  posted on  2018-07-04   23:48:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: Pinguinite (#13)

The rockets launched from S Florida, moon probes have continued (e.g. looking for water), they want to populate Mars now, "no telescope on Earth can see the leftover descent stages of the Apollo Lunar Modules or anything else Apollo-related"

www.skyandtelescope.com/o...pollo-moon-landing-sites/

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NeoconsNailed  posted on  2018-07-04   23:55:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: NeoconsNailed (#15)

Yes, I've edited my post with the correction.

Pinguinite  posted on  2018-07-04   23:59:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: Pinguinite (#13)

As for electronics, 60's tech didn't used transistors which are everywhere today, but vacume tubes which are immune to radiation. I don't know how transistors hold up to radiation. Maybe they require shielding that the Apollo missions didn't require.

The Apollo Guidance Computer used transistors, not vacuum tubes. The CPU was made from Resistor-Transistor Logic (RTL) integrated circuits. The RTL circuitry didn't rely on electric charge to maintain the state of its sequential circuits, so it was less susceptible to cosmic ray induced errors than more modern circuitry would be. The magnetic rope (read only) memory was probably pretty safe, and I would guess that the magnetic core (RAM) memory was also.

StraitGate  posted on  2018-07-05   2:54:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: Pinguinite (#14)

For space flight, they use pure oxygen

That has been changed. ;)

www.popsci.com.au/space/s...sa- still-use-pure-oxygen-after-the-apollo-1-fire,421337

Apollo went to the Moon with pure oxygen without any further serious incidents, and when the program was canceled NASA finally moved away from pure oxygen in space. The space shuttle and International Space Station programs both took a cue from the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, the workhorse that has been flying since the 1960s that has always used a mixed gas environment. All three environments are very air-like with 21 percent oxygen and 79 percent nitrogen at roughly sea level pressure.

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BTP Holdings  posted on  2018-07-05   5:42:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: Pinguinite (#14)

I've seen tests. Rockets can barely fizzle in a vacuum before going out.

Obnoxicated  posted on  2018-07-05   6:11:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: Obnoxicated (#19)

I still don't see how they could be guided thru space where there's nothing to push against. A paddle wheeler pushes water, an airplane air etc. I don't see how any earthly craft can travel to another heavenly body in the time alleged -- Pluto is 4598146822 miles from here, for crying out loud!

But I think if we all focus on the ridiculous puniness of the coffee can in which the astronots supposedly returned to earth from the moon, it answers "aye double-ell all" as Bro. Roloff used to say.

The fact that people were ever duped by this nonsense, much less for half a century, much less in the most advanced/educated/"enlightened" societies of all time, is not good.

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NeoconsNailed  posted on  2018-07-05   11:26:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: NeoconsNailed (#20)

I still don't see how they could be guided thru space where there's nothing to push against. A paddle wheeler pushes water, an airplane air etc.

Rocket propulsion and a riverboat paddle wheel operate on different principles. A rocket's thrust comes from its ejecting exhaust gas, which has mass, and as the rocket pushes against the gas the gas pushes back against the rocket in accordance with Newton's Third Law of Motion.

courses.lumenlearning.com...hapter/rocket-propulsion/

StraitGate  posted on  2018-07-05   13:59:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: StraitGate (#21)

Thanks. How much fuel does it take to send a present probe 4,598,146,822 miles to Pluto? I realize it only has to point it in a direction and it keeps going thither TFN, but I find it hard to believe present tech is capable of doing this across such distances in even the decade claimed for the Pluto probe. Do you? It's over a million miles a day.

Space is full of projectiles. A paint chip damaged the ISS, and "anything larger than 10 cm could shatter a satellite or spacecraft into pieces"

https://www.popsci.com/paint-chip-likely-caused-window-damage-on-space-station

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NeoconsNailed  posted on  2018-07-05   15:30:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: StraitGate (#17)

The Apollo Guidance Computer used transistors, not vacuum tubes. The CPU was made from Resistor-Transistor Logic (RTL) integrated circuits. The RTL circuitry didn't rely on electric charge to maintain the state of its sequential circuits, so it was less susceptible to cosmic ray induced errors than more modern circuitry would be. The magnetic rope (read only) memory was probably pretty safe, and I would guess that the magnetic core (RAM) memory was also.

Thanks. Sounds like it's your area of expertise.

I realized I was thinking of EMP bursts, not radiation, that would blow out transistors but would not affect vacuum tubes.

That according to my college engineering professor, at least.

Pinguinite  posted on  2018-07-05   15:33:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: BTP Holdings (#18)

All three environments are very air-like with 21 percent oxygen and 79 percent nitrogen at roughly sea level pressure.

That's for breathing, but not for fuel.

Pinguinite  posted on  2018-07-05   15:34:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: Obnoxicated (#19)

I've seen tests. Rockets can barely fizzle in a vacuum before going out.

This is the first time I've heard of such a thing. Rocket engines simply need fuel and oxygen to function, both of which are stored on board. Liquid fueled rockets typically carry liquid oxygen & liquid hydrogen, or perhaps kerosene or similar. Both are continuously piped to the exhaust chamber where they will burn and generate thrust. Solid rockets, like the shuttle boosters, have the oxidant and fuel mixed together into a solid material which burns away smoothly. The entire inside of booster is the burn chamber.

In neither case is any air from outside of the rocket required, so they will work in a vacuum.

If you post a reference to what you've seen....

Pinguinite  posted on  2018-07-05   15:43:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: Pinguinite, BTP Holdings (#25)

The coffee can, guys. The coffee can.

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NeoconsNailed  posted on  2018-07-05   15:50:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: NeoconsNailed (#20)

I still don't see how they could be guided thru space where there's nothing to push against. A paddle wheeler pushes water, an airplane air etc

There is a difference, yes. You are right that a rocket in space does indeed need something to push against, just as a paddle boat and airplane do. What it's pushing against is the expanding gas in the exhaust chamber. Or perhaps more accurately, it's the expanding gas that is pushing against the rocket.

In essence, the rocket has to bring it's own material to push against in order to accelerate, something which paddle boats and planes do not need to do.

The acceleration of the rocket is directly related to the amount of gas that it pushes out of it's exhaust nozzle, and the speed at which it is ejected. (As an aside, the enormous heat generated is a byproduct of the conversion of liquid or solid fuel to gas form and has nothing to do with the acceleration).

Pinguinite  posted on  2018-07-05   15:55:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: Pinguinite (#24)

That's for breathing, but not for fuel.

Exactly. ;)

www.space.com/18422-apoll...ket-nasa-infographic.html

The Saturn V rocket’s first stage carries 203,400 gallons (770,000 liters) of kerosene fuel and 318,000 gallons (1.2 million liters) of liquid oxygen needed for combustion. At liftoff, the stage’s five F-1 rocket engines ignite and produce 7.5 million pounds of thrust.

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BTP Holdings  posted on  2018-07-05   16:07:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: Pinguinite (#27)

And you honestly think we could get one of these things safely hurtling thru space at a million miles a day for 10 years, nudging it this way and that to fotograff different planets?

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NeoconsNailed  posted on  2018-07-05   16:10:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: NeoconsNailed (#29)

And you honestly think we could get one of these things safely hurtling thru space at a million miles a day for 10 years, nudging it this way and that to fotograff different planets?

In responding, I guess I would amend my prior post saying that rockets *need* something to push against to accelerate. That is one way, of course but once out of earth's orbit, these probes commonly take advantage of gravitational "slingshot" dynamics to accelerate even more. Much more. This involves passing near a planet as it moves on its orbit around the sun.

As the spacecraft approaches a planet, it accelerates just by virtue of the fact that it's feeling the gravity of the planet. By steering to the back side of the planet ("behind" it, in its path as it's moving on it's orbit about the sun) the course of the space craft will change to something somewhat closer to that of the planet itself, but also pick up a lot more speed. By steering the spacecraft near a lot of the internal planets, some more than once, a spacecraft can pick up a lot more speed than it had when it left earth's orbit under ordinary propulsion.

Where does the energy come from to accelerate the space craft as it passes by a planet? Answer: It slows the planet down in its orbit about the sun. It could be considered the ultimate eco-unfriendly thing one could do. But the amount it slows is so tiny it could only be calculated (with a lot of zeros), and not measured.

In any event, every time an asteroid passes near earth, earth orbit is also altered by a tiny amount, either accelerating, decelerating, and/or altering it's orbital path by a tiny amount.

Pinguinite  posted on  2018-07-05   16:35:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: Pinguinite (#23)

I realized I was thinking of EMP bursts, not radiation, that would blow out transistors but would not affect vacuum tubes.

That according to my college engineering professor, at least.

Flashback! I can vaguely remember an RTL based logic trainer in our high school electronics lab 40 years ago.

Yes, the old tubes (before my time!) were more tolerant of transient overvoltage events than semiconductors tend to be. I reckon NASA must have considered the probability of a catastrophic solar flare during the mission, and NASA and the designers at MIT probably took steps to reduce the system's vulnerability to EMP. Lots of variables -- not just the circuit design per se, but also shielding, cable routing, etc.

A tube based computer would probably not have been feasible for such a mission? -- too large, too power hungry, too slow, and too unreliable (for reasons other than EMP susceptibility).

StraitGate  posted on  2018-07-06   21:43:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: StraitGate, Pinguinite (#31) (Edited)

tubes ... were more tolerant of transient overvoltage events than semiconductors

Tubes are still being used in high power applications like radio transmitter towers. Can't play guitar, but when I mentioned trying to learn to my brother, 20 years ago, he set me up with a Danelectro and a little Silvertone amp. The smell of those tubes warming up is even better than the smell of money.

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Dakmar  posted on  2018-07-06   22:00:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: Dakmar (#32)

Radio tubes are still in use??? Fantastic -- I love old stuff, I hate "progress".

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NeoconsNailed  posted on  2018-07-06   22:36:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: NeoconsNailed (#33)

Anyone remember the old tube tester machines? They were pretty ubiquitous up to 1978 or so. Mostly in malls, drug stores, and TV shops.

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Dakmar  posted on  2018-07-06   22:43:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: Dakmar (#34)

I'd completely forgotten that. Fun!

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#36. To: NeoconsNailed (#33)

Radio tubes are still in use??? Fantastic -- I love old stuff, I hate "progress".

Vacuum tubes, to be precise.

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2018-07-06   22:46:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: StraitGate (#31)

A tube based computer would probably not have been feasible for such a mission? -- too large, too power hungry, too slow, and too unreliable (for reasons other than EMP susceptibility).

But it worked great for shooting the footage at Area 51.

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NeoconsNailed  posted on  2018-07-06   22:48:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: NeoconsNailed (#35)

I was stuck sorting tubes for an entire weekend when I was 14 or so. My Mom's cousin had bought from estate sale...it was actually kind of fun.

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2018-07-06   22:50:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: Dakmar (#32)

The smell of those tubes warming up is even better than the smell of money.

Whoa, another flashback. Our first TV after Wonder Woman and I married was a tube set that my big sister scored from a dumpster behind the Holiday Inn where she worked, after they upgraded all their sets en masse. The vertical hold was flaky, and I ended up leaving off the back cover so I could conveniently poke all the tubes with a wooden dowel rod as required frequently to get the picture back right.

StraitGate  posted on  2018-07-06   22:52:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: Dakmar (#38)

It sounds like it. I'd almost rather have tubes than transistors since the tradeoff seems to be that you can get electronics repaired anymore except mebbe TVs. I used to could get ANYTHING fixed -- they even replaced buttons for on old boom box!

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USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2018-07-06   22:54:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: StraitGate (#39)

lol, analog

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2018-07-06   22:55:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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