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Born on a Thursday ("Thor's Day") ... I'm a Process Controls Engineer (Pneumatics, PLCs, DCS Systems, UHF Comms) and Technical Author; with an MSc in A.I. (that dates back to the 1990s!) plus 30 yrs of accumulated overseas work experience, mostly with "big-named" companies. ******************** NOTE: You can't ZAP me inside Nostr becoz I don't use a Mobile Phone. If you want to Tip Me then you can send Satoshi's directly to my secure Lightning Wallet: writerfx@coincorner.io ******************** Thunor is the Brit. variant of "Thor" (Old English: Đunor). Thor — a prominent icon in Norse mythology — is a major inspiration for all Germanic and Nordic (and some Slavic) peoples. Thor is most commonly depicted (visualized) wielding his trusty hammer; a.k.a. Mjöllnir (“Lightning”), which my Avatar symbolically represents. Germanic / Nordic / Slavic mythology relies upon the art of story telling, to best express an invisible yet timeless (cyclical) reality against which our morta
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Thunor 6 months ago
I once visited the Houston Space Centre during some free-time while attending a technical course on Gas Turbine control systems, held on the outskirts of the City of Houston. As a result, I am one of the relatively few persons on this planet who has walked the full length of a horizontally laid Saturn V rocket. And to my eye, it looked far too small (both in length and diameter) to convince me it could have launched 3 men in suites, alongside a Space Buggy, food and water supply equipment, plus oxygen tanks to last several days ... not to mention several relatively heavy batteries, and a long list of other exotic equipment. And when I eventually made my way to the Lunar Module (i.e., the weird contraption glued together with aluminium foil, staplers, and a few metal struts) I stood just a few paces away from it ... and within a few breaths I just burst out laughing. "You got to be kidding me" said my mind's eye. The Apollo Program was (surely) mostly a hoax, that's all I can say. I can't prove it. But neither can NASA prove that all of it's camera work and telemetry [allegedly on/from the Lunar surface] were both authentic. image [Photo: "Moon Rise" taken from NASA's Space Shuttle, Columbia.]