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: Edgar Mitchell

 http://www.pinkraygun.com/2008/08/14/ask-an-amateur-scientist%e2%80%a8-edgar-mitchell%e2%80%a8%e2%80%a8/ "Is this an example of your bedside manner, doctor?" - Becky, Invasion of the Body Snatchers Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:40:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hoobajoobah http://www.pinkraygun.com/2008/08/14/ask-an-amateur-scientist%e2%80%a8-edgar-mitchell%e2%80%a8%e2%80%a8/comment-page-1/#comment-16189 Hoobajoobah Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:38:59 +0000 http://www.pinkraygun.com/?p=2915#comment-16189 Happy to be of service. Happy to be of service.

]]> By: Alpha-Girl http://www.pinkraygun.com/2008/08/14/ask-an-amateur-scientist%e2%80%a8-edgar-mitchell%e2%80%a8%e2%80%a8/comment-page-1/#comment-16186 Alpha-Girl Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:17:44 +0000 http://www.pinkraygun.com/?p=2915#comment-16186 It's all part of my evil plot to make myself feel like the smartest person on the internets. It’s all part of my evil plot to make myself feel like the smartest person on the internets.

]]> By: AmateurScientist http://www.pinkraygun.com/2008/08/14/ask-an-amateur-scientist%e2%80%a8-edgar-mitchell%e2%80%a8%e2%80%a8/comment-page-1/#comment-16144 AmateurScientist Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:33:03 +0000 http://www.pinkraygun.com/?p=2915#comment-16144 And by that second "to lazy", I meant "too lazy"! Damn you Pink Raygun for disallowing edits! How else can I make myself sound resmarted? And by that second “to lazy”, I meant “too lazy”! Damn you Pink Raygun for disallowing edits! How else can I make myself sound resmarted?

]]> By: AmateurScientist http://www.pinkraygun.com/2008/08/14/ask-an-amateur-scientist%e2%80%a8-edgar-mitchell%e2%80%a8%e2%80%a8/comment-page-1/#comment-16143 AmateurScientist Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:31:00 +0000 http://www.pinkraygun.com/?p=2915#comment-16143 Damn you for providing relevant information that I was too neglectful and/or to lazy to include in my original column! Damn you straight to hell! Damn you for providing relevant information that I was too neglectful and/or to lazy to include in my original column! Damn you straight to hell!

]]> By: Hoobajoobah http://www.pinkraygun.com/2008/08/14/ask-an-amateur-scientist%e2%80%a8-edgar-mitchell%e2%80%a8%e2%80%a8/comment-page-1/#comment-16137 Hoobajoobah Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:06:20 +0000 http://www.pinkraygun.com/?p=2915#comment-16137 Damn. I've killed another one. I was even relevant and on-topic this time. Well, I guess I rambled a bit w/ Buzz at the end, but *mostly* relevant, *mostly.* Damn. Damn. I’ve killed another one. I was even relevant and on-topic this time. Well, I guess I rambled a bit w/ Buzz at the end, but *mostly* relevant, *mostly.*

Damn.

]]> By: Hoobajoobah http://www.pinkraygun.com/2008/08/14/ask-an-amateur-scientist%e2%80%a8-edgar-mitchell%e2%80%a8%e2%80%a8/comment-page-1/#comment-16096 Hoobajoobah Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:56:36 +0000 http://www.pinkraygun.com/?p=2915#comment-16096 The idea that a guy who spent 9 hours on the moon would automatically know all about aliens makes as much sense as a guy who went scuba diving for 9 hours automatically knowing all about Atlantis (Which is every bit as fake as this Alien nonsense.) Mitchell's Apollo 14 Psychic Experiments were unofficial and completely off the books. Basically Ed had some "Telepathic" friends in different parts of the world, and they worked out a schedule to go outdoors at certain times of the day, look at the moon, and think messages at him. Likewise at set times he'd beam certain telepathic messages at earth. The actual messages wouldn't be revealed until they got home - a guy in Germany might be thinking "It isn't my opinion that the people are intentind" and a guy in New York might be thinking "China Clipper Calling Halameda" and Ed on the moon might be thinking "Zilch" - but they didn't tell each other what their 'messages' were until after the mission was over, so as to eliminate the possibility of faking it. Ed admits - or at least he did in the 70s - that the experiments didn't work. For their part NASA didn't find out about this lunacy (no pun intended) until after the A-14 mission was over and Ed started talking about them in the media, whereupon they were publicly embarassed and privately extremely pissed off. Ed was given an extremely rigorous psyche profile (Though he'd passed earlier such screening), ruled to be damaged goods, and that's why he never flew again despite being a senior astronaut. (He would have been elligiable for the Apollo 20 mission, which got scrapped, at which point he would have become elligiable for the 3rd Skylab flight) Neither here nor there, but Buzz Aldrin is a manic depressive. He was able to conceal this after his Gemini flight, and even use it to his advantage, but after the Apollo 11 flight, he became massively depressed for a very long time, and NASA realized they couldn't risk him on another mission. (He would have been elligiable for the Apollo 17 mission, taking Jack Schmidt's seat). So evidently NASA's psych screaning wasn't all that good back in the day. Or now, as the invention of the "Diaper Drive" proves... The idea that a guy who spent 9 hours on the moon would automatically know all about aliens makes as much sense as a guy who went scuba diving for 9 hours automatically knowing all about Atlantis (Which is every bit as fake as this Alien nonsense.)

Mitchell’s Apollo 14 Psychic Experiments were unofficial and completely off the books. Basically Ed had some “Telepathic” friends in different parts of the world, and they worked out a schedule to go outdoors at certain times of the day, look at the moon, and think messages at him. Likewise at set times he’d beam certain telepathic messages at earth. The actual messages wouldn’t be revealed until they got home – a guy in Germany might be thinking “It isn’t my opinion that the people are intentind” and a guy in New York might be thinking “China Clipper Calling Halameda” and Ed on the moon might be thinking “Zilch” – but they didn’t tell each other what their ‘messages’ were until after the mission was over, so as to eliminate the possibility of faking it. Ed admits – or at least he did in the 70s – that the experiments didn’t work. For their part NASA didn’t find out about this lunacy (no pun intended) until after the A-14 mission was over and Ed started talking about them in the media, whereupon they were publicly embarassed and privately extremely pissed off. Ed was given an extremely rigorous psyche profile (Though he’d passed earlier such screening), ruled to be damaged goods, and that’s why he never flew again despite being a senior astronaut. (He would have been elligiable for the Apollo 20 mission, which got scrapped, at which point he would have become elligiable for the 3rd Skylab flight)

Neither here nor there, but Buzz Aldrin is a manic depressive. He was able to conceal this after his Gemini flight, and even use it to his advantage, but after the Apollo 11 flight, he became massively depressed for a very long time, and NASA realized they couldn’t risk him on another mission. (He would have been elligiable for the Apollo 17 mission, taking Jack Schmidt’s seat). So evidently NASA’s psych screaning wasn’t all that good back in the day.

Or now, as the invention of the “Diaper Drive” proves…

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