“If you’re a Southern boy, if it moves and it’s not supposed to, you use duct tape.”

15 Replies to ““If you’re a Southern boy, if it moves and it’s not supposed to, you use duct tape.””

1. I have always enjoyed the scene in the movie “Apollo 13” in which the NASA engineers figure out how to duct tape the problem and relate it to the astronauts to do.

   1. and in truth is was all Ed Smylie. the team work part was entirely concocted in hollywood. bring that up in a corporate team building session

   2. Considering the lunar lander was largely comprised of plastic, aluminum foil, and tent pegs, that makes complete sense.

2. Astronauts.

   Yeah…

   I like the part where they fly through the Van Allen belts without any shielding. And when later interviewed can’t seen to be certain whether or not they flew through them.

   Gotta love Freemasons – faking space.

   1. Well … Ed Smylie is now flying through the Van Allen Belt again … unshielded … again

   2. Where exactly are these Van Allen belts you speak of?

      1. The Van Allen belts extend from 640 to 58,000 km above Earth’s surface. NASA has previously admitted that manned travel is currently impossible through the belts. Of course that was an interesting admission considering that NASA had previously supposedly put men on the moon…

         But that doesn’t stop Wikipedia and other fake-news/science sites from back-dating BS explanations as to why NASA was still able to do so, despite not knowing about the Van Allen belts, and having done nothing to shield any craft against them.

         1. So, they’re in space, ie a place where the effective pressure and density is pretty much zero.
            They are belts of charged particles, mostly from the solar wind, caught in the earths magnetic field, which is pretty much a distorted dipole field, with north and south magnetic poles close to the north and south rotational poles of the planet, which is a slightly distorted oblate spheroid.
            Lastly, the radiation doses are measured by intensity and period of exposure. One can easily survive relatively intense radiation for short periods of time.
            This whole “can’t travel through them” is just more flat-earther bullshiite.
            The satellite that found them lasted a long time, and so did the probes sent up to study them.

            1. Hey don’t pick on Watto … he is no dummy … he has 7 years of high school!!

            2. Oh, you can survive the radiation for short periods of time? Well that’s just swell. Kinda like how you can survive drowning for short periods of time.

               What’s weird is that no astronauts even noticed travelling through them.

               And you should lecture NASA about “can’t travel through them” as it was them who made that claim.

            3. “Kinda like how you can survive drowning for short periods of time.”
               Well, that’s one of the dumber things I’ve read in a while.

               You should look up the dose levels of the demon core, and other radiological accidents, and compare them to the levels found in the Van Allen belts.

            4. Your argument basically boils down to, “Sure a hot frying pan is dangerous, but the Sun is waaaaAAAaaay hotter! And that’s why it’s safe to lick a hot frying pan”.

               My point was that the astronauts didn’t seem to know about the Van Allen belts, or if they flew through them. They obviously couldn’t tell if they did. And this in a craft that was built with NO shielding.

               NASA contradicts itself frequently, and when it does it “cleanses” historical articles and videos that were once available online. Thankfully with some digging, they can still be found.

      2. Van Allen belts are shooters poured by a Dutch barman.

3. Engineers, some of them, can look at any mechanical object and figure it out in moments.

   Yes I am jealous. God speed to Ed Smylie…

4. I remember that event as I was riveted to the Apollo missions in school.
   The relief when they splashed down was epic, edge of your seat stuff in real time live.