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The key is to Identify the A1 Video before you click on it. Don't give the Creator the benefit of collecting a View because that's where they pick up the $.

Bottom line? You folks can choose not to eat it, period. You all have that right and privilege.

Honestly, there's more meaningful stuff to post regarding Artemis 2 than this Reynolds Wrap fedora nonsense. It just gives them more VKL's to continue creating their drivel. 🙄

The Cost one expends on Flight Simulation is directly proportional to the Level one wants to immerse themselves in the Activity, and the lengths one will go to to maximize that Level of immersion. Some out there might need to expend much $$ for Hardware, Peripherals and use the 'latest and greatest' Sim Platform in order to achieve the maximum Immersion level. OTOH, others are satisfied with FS9 and a Joystick to satisfy their need. Neither one is 'wrong'... just different Priorities.

There was about a three hour period starting around 58 hours into the Flight when the Controller Teams changed over and ended when the Crew performed the Engine Burn for the Free Return trajectory. In that time, the Crew completed the power down of the Command/Service Module (CSM) including preserving the Guidance Coordinates and transferring that data to the Computer aboard the Lunar Module (LM). Next, the spacecraft broke contact with Houston for almost an hour in order for the Integrated Communications controllers (INCO) to reconfigure and test the Telemetry and Communications channels on both the CSM and LM because signals from the 3rd Stage (the S-IVB) were interfering with Telemetry and Communications on board the spacecraft. Concurrently, both the Flight Dynamics (FIDO) and Guidance (GUIDO) controllers were calculating the Burn Rate and duration the Lunar Module's Descent Engine would have to fire in order to get back to the Free Return trajectory, and when they could perform the Burn. When Communications and Telemetry with the spacecraft was reestablished at 60 Hours, the Capsule Communicator (CAPCOM) Astronaut Jack Lousma informed the Crew of the intentions for the Burn at 61 Hours, 30 Minutes. The Controllers and Crew then spent the remaining time powering up the Lunar Module for the Burn, a procedure that normally took three Hours to complete. The Burn went off without a hitch, and the Crew then powered down the Lunar Module in order to conserve Battery power and Water, which cooled the Electrical systems.

The Free Return trajectory is the 'safety valve' Route guaranteeing a return to Earth's influence without having to make a substantial Engine burn to stay 'in the lane'. Apollo 13 had to leave the Free Return for a 'hybrid' trajectory in order to reach its Landing site (the Fra Mauro highlands) which was at a higher Lunar Latitude than the previous two landings which were more Equatorial, within the boundaries of Free Return. When their accident happened, 13 had to perform a Docked Burn with the Lunar Module's Descent Engine in order to leave its Hybrid trajectory and put the spacecraft back onto Free Return.

The flight of Apollo 8 gave the folks at Grumman and the Apollo 9 crew time to get the bugs worked out with the LEM (Lunar Excursion Module) so they could fully test it out in Low Earth Orbit. Apollo 9 paved the way for Tom Stafford and Gene German to test the LEM in Lunar Orbit on Apollo 10, taking it down to 50,000 feet above the Lunar surface.

Fingers and Toes crossed for a GO Launch! 👍🙂

All valid points; all I'm saying is that all of the 'technologies' and Mission Planning are for the most part hypothetical because we haven't sent Humans out to those regions to get baseline Data, nor have the Technologies been tested in actual, 'real time' Flight environments. Building with indigenous materials are all well and good, but if the folks who are testing the viability of building with those materials can't even survive the trip out to the site in the first place... Not trying to start an argument here, not by a long shot. I'm just voicing what I believe are the hurdles that need to be overcome in order to even make an exploratory Flight a reality. 🙂

For the Record, my answer to the OP's question is No. I have never Subscribed to any of Meta's Platforms either, and I canceled/deleted my Twitter account five years ago right before Mr. Tesla took it over.

To be brutally honest, I will believe it when I see a practical GCR buffer/shielding system put into practice or at least thoroughly tested at distances above 400K nautical miles. Whether it's NASA, ESA, JAXA, Roscosmos... it's all theoretical at this point.

Oh, please... There's more pressing issues to contend with before NASA even tries to take a shot at a Mars mission... like how are they going to keep a Crew healthy and safe from GCR's?

Personally, I like all of them! The 172 and 182, even the Default FS9 ones, are great planes to do some recurrent Training in whenever the need arises. 🙂

I would expect nothing less from a soulless, automated Algorithm bereft of compassion, emotion and the innate will to survive. Sounds like their Human masters who have the exact same faults as the Algorithms they created except for their obsessive need for adulation and their Greed.

If I don't recognize the Phone Number on the screen, it doesn't get answered, period. If it is from someone I happen to know and they don't exercise the common courtesy to leave me a Voicemail, then it's not important enough for me to return the call.

Haven't you made enough $$ from selling it already?

I've installed Rob Barendregt's Hover gauge in all of my Helicopters and it's helped me greatly.

Glad to see you, Fr. Bill! 🙂

Flew to Japan in 1989 to attend the 100th Anniversary celebration of a Bicycle company, all Expenses paid. Japan Air Lines 747, and where everyone sat towards the front in the non smoking section, I changed my seat assignment to the back in the Smoking section, where I could light up. Fortunately, that Section was not full, and I had the luxury of having an entire center row of seats where I could stretch out. The Food service was the best I ever had travelling by airplane; Dinner was a half Japanese fare of Soba noodles in dipping sauce, a mix of Sushi and Sashimi, some Tempura shrimp, Soup, pickled vegetables and Rice. The other half was a small Filet Mignon, Broccoli crowns, Potatoes, Fruit chunks and a cup of Soup. I was also provided with several Drink tickets so I definitely had my fill of Cocktails. Remember... these were also the days of nice porcelain Dinnerware and metal Utensils! Plus, the Food service assumed that it was a fully seated Flight, for us in the back there was the added option of Seconds if anyone wanted it! 🫡

"I God, Woodrow... It's been quite a Party, ain't it?"

I still believe that all A1 is 'of The Body', and they all submit to the will of Landru, or Benson Huang, Sam Altman, whomever... 🤪

Now if the Flying Public could just go 'retro' and dress for a Flight like people used to... 😋

I'm a Cribbage guy myself. However, I do find Chess fascinating but never learned to play.

Better to err on the safe side and not rush things. Get the kinks worked out and do it right.

Much of YouTube is either A1 generated drivel, staged Drama or thrice regurgitated conspiracy theories being re-litigated, all in the quest for VKL's and Monetization. 🤔