Lack of Cislunar Sanitation Proves Once and for all Apollo Bogus
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GENESIS!!!!!!!
VIRTUAL FLATUS!!!!!!
THE PROBLEM WITH CISLUNAR SANITATION
Kid Eager asked back at post #228 to provide some helpful facts about the poop in space controversy. Was it, or was it not the case, that those legendary episodes of Apollo 8 cislunar sanitary indiscretion could be, can be, equated with fraud ? Well Kid, I received in the mail yesterday a book from my wife, and I will be happy to provide you now with the smelly facts, every stench steeped detail.
TOM HANKS, FART VENTRILOQUIST EXTRAORDINAIRE’
I once heard Tom Hanks interviewed about his love for all things Apollo. He said he wished he could be an astronaut. "Were only acting skills of use on an Apollo mission", mused Hanks with not insignificant sad resignation.
Little did Hanks know, on the Apollo 8 Mission, the actor’s legendary abilities as a fart ventriloquist may have come in a bit more than handy. It seems our boys had gotten themselves into a bit of a fetid bind by claiming Borman's feces took flight somewhere between the time of trans lunar injection and lunar orbital insertion. At least with Tommy on board, he could have "thrown the scent", made it seem like the unpleasant aroma was materializing outside the confines of the command capsule itself, much like the "virtual farts" now being studied with ever increasing enthusiasm at FERMI LAB and CERN these days. Methane conjured from nothing more than the vacuum of space? You betcha'! Too bad we never completed our supercollider in Texas, the whole "virtual fart" thing would have been worked out by now. But I digress! Let's leave the aroma theoretic for later, and move on to the substance of the Frank F. Borman floating feces in space issue.
Legendary fart ventriloquist Tom Hanks. His services would have come in mighty handy aboard the ill fated Apollo 8 command module.
COUNTDOWN TO A VIRTUAL IMPLOSION
In Frank Borman's book, COUNTDOWN, coauthored by Robert J Serling and subtitled, "Oh what Glorious Relief!!!", the commander of Apollo 8 recounts some details of his infamous medical problem on page 205, the commander if you will;
"I became feverish and nauseated, vomited twice and then got diarrhea. I didn't know why. All three of us had been inoculated against the Hong Kong flu and at first I suspected it was that sleeping pill. I seldom take pills of any kind. Unhappily, I remembered spending two weeks in Gemini 7 and never getting sick. Apollo 8 was only 14 hours into its mission and here was its commander feeling like a wet floor mop. It also may well have been the weightless environment. Lovell had experienced nausea earlier and was to feel queasy again later; Anders was affected briefly too. The symptoms disappeared as we got accustomed to weightless motion.
I finally managed to doze off, and about 6 A.M. earth time I told Jim and Bill to get some sleep-they had been up for almost 24 hours. We were 100,000 miles from from earth and I was feeling a little better. I told CapCom I thought I had a case of the 24 hour flu, but I am not sure this amateur diagnosis was right-quite a few astronauts and cosmonauts have been afflicted with what might be called space sickness".
Before we subject Frank's turds to chemical and microbiologic analysis, lets take a look at another accounting of the "Apollo 8, Commander's Poopies in Space Affair".
As we all know, Andrew Chaikin is viewed by many as the most highly regarded of the popular Apollo journalists. He's interviewed 23 of the 24 astronauts and has/had strong well established contacts with many. Gene Cernan of Apollo 10 and 17 infamy wrote;
"I've been there. Chaikin took me back."
(took him back to dressing room A, but we'll get to more of the fraud details in later posts.)
Chaikin wrote in, A MAN ON THE MOON, Penguin Books, 1994, 2007, with Fart Ventriloquist Tom Hanks' Forward copyrighted 1998, page 96, if you will(this is a long quote, but the subject matter, all kidding aside, is so very important, a quote that "treats" much of the episode is warranted);
"Sunday December 22
1 AM Houston time
18 hours Mission Elapsed Time
"Borman awoke after five hours of fitful sleep. He didn't feel well. He told Lovell and Anders that he had a headache and took a couple of aspirin, then just floated on his couch and watched the instrument panel. A few minutes went by, and the next thing Lovell and Anders knew he was retching. Anders handed him a plastic bag and Borman went down into the lower equipment bay and threw up. Lovell flashed Anders a knowing look: Borman must be motion sick.
The episode was beginning to make Anders feel a bit sick himself, when suddenly he spotted a greenish sphere about the size of a tennis ball, ascending slowly out of the equipment bay in a flurry of tiny bits and globules. The sight of it made him want to gag. But when it drifted closer he noticed that the blob was shimmering and pulsating in three directions at once in some kind of complex fluid vibration made possible in zero gravity. At that moment the scientist in him took over. He was about to go for a camera when suddenly the blob split in two. As if to affirm Newton's laws of motion, the twin spawns headed away from each other in exactly opposite directions, giving Anders a flash of recognition: Conservation of momentum! One scooted away whence it had come and the other headed right for Lovell. The man was cornered. The blob hit him on the chest and then, overcome by the forces of surface tension, spread out on his coveralls as flat as a fried egg.
By now a horrible stench had rolled out of the equipment bay. Anders left Lovell to his predicament and reached for an oxygen bottle on the wall of the cabin, meant to be used in case there was a fire. "To hell with that", Anders thought: he slapped the mask on his face and turned it on full. Meanwhile, Borman's trouble weren't over; now he was struck with diarrhea. What a mess-Lovell and Anders had to help chase down the stray bits of vomit and feces with paper towels. In a strange, detached way, Anders was reminded of hunting butterflies…..
Anders was bouncing around inside it(his sleeping bag) like a lone pea in a pod. He steadied himself and tried to lay still. Every now and then a residual bit of vomit drifted by and he cowered….
8 A.M., Houston time
1 day, 1 hour Mission Elapsed Time
120,000 miles out
When Anders awoke-he did manage a few hours of fitful sleep-he found Borman much recovered, blaming his illness on a 24 hour virus. Anders suggested he reveal the incident to mission control., but Borman replied, “I’m going to be damned if I am going to tell the whole world I had the flu.” Anders finally convinced his commander to put a short summary on tape; the message could be sent to earth via a special telemetry channel. That way, no one would hear except the few managers who listened to the tape....
Hours went by with no word from earth about the message. Eventually Anders found out why: it was hours before the flight controllers even had a chance to hear it. (So much for putting messages on tape, Anders thought.) Finally, at 1 day, 4 hours Mission Elapsed Time, Mike Collins called up on a special frequency;
“Apollo 8, this is Houston. We’re on a private loop right now, and we’d like to get some amplifying details on your medical problems. Could you go back to the beginning....”
“Mike, this is Frank. I am feeling a lot better now. I think I had a case of the 24 hour flu...” Borman recapped the whole episode for Collins, and, to Borman’s surprise, Chuck Berry came on the line to talk to him directly; that almost never happened. Unbeknownst to Borman, the episode triggered serious talk of of canceling the mission. Berry worried that Borman had a virus, and that it was only a matter of time before his crewmates caught it. But Borman told the earthbound flight surgeon that he felt much better, and that neither Lovell nor Andrews had been affected. “We’re all fine” he said.
Minutes later, in consultation with Berry and other managers, Apollo Program Director Sam Phillips decided to let the flight continue. Even if Phillips had decided otherwise, Apollo 8 was too far away for SPS to manage a swift about-face maneuver. Borman, Lovell, and Anders were committed now: even if they had to abort their mission, they were going to go around the moon.”
Before we asked the question, “Did this really happen?, Did Frank Borman really have a bad case of diarrhea while flying to the moon? Was he really flying to the moon?” Before we ask and answer the question, let’s first take a look at Charlie Duke’s account of how it is an astronaut goes about pooping in space. From Duke’s book MOONWALKER, coauthored by his wife Dotty;
“It was an even bigger challenge to defecate. All we had for that was a plastic bag, cylindrical in shape and about 12 inches long. It looked like a chef’s hat, except for a narrow 1 and 1/2 inch rim.
To defecate, you got to the lower right side of the spacecraft, and the other two guys floated as far away as they could to the other side. You wanted as much distance between you as possible. Then you unrolled one of the bags and removed the toilet paper and some tablets, which were used as a disinfectant and gas neutralizer. These you stowed in a small pocket on the side of the cabin until needed.
Next you got completely naked-clothes, rings , watches, everything-because you really didn’t what was going to happen when you tried to use the bag. You then took the bag, put it in the right position, stuck it to your bottom, and as you floated around on the right side of the spacecraft, you hoped everything went into the bag.
The big problem, though, was that nothing went to the bottom of the bag. You are floating, the bag is floating, and everything else is floating! It was a real mess getting cleaned up. Anything you can imagine, happened! You can see why the other two guys floated as far away as they could; they didn’t want to be around if everything wasn’t in the bag. We had a lot of laughs with the old waste management system.”
Bet you did ol’ Charlie. Good thing it was all fake as heck. Let’s look at a few details/facts as Kid Eager likes to call them, and we’ll see why.
How would a physician view an individual like Frank Borman, a relatively young man with acute diarrhea. Generally, contemporary physicians view most cases of acute diarrhea as being due to infection of one type or the other, viral or bacterial. Acute refers to diarrhea of 2 weeks duration or less. Borman with his sour tummy, fell into this category "en route to the moon". Acute diarrhea, he’d had it for a day, if that. As a diarrheal illness goes on for a longer period of time, 2 weeks or more, a noninfectious etiology becomes more likely.
Most cases of acute infectious gastroenteritis are viral in origin. Bacterial infections constitute roughly 5% of acute infectious diarrheal episodes and are typically viewed as more serious by physicians. So for starters, we can say, most docs would hear Borman’s story and think of many things, but a viral infection would be viewed as the most likely cause of acute(infectious) diarrhea in an astronaut of Borman’s age, or anyone of that age for that matter. Let’s move on and take an even closer look.
Being particularly interested in this issue, I wanted to be sure I did not bias my analysis given my medical training is relatively recent and ongoing. With this in mind, I sent away for a highly regarded, though brief, gastroenterology textbook from 1969. It is J. Ned Smith Jr.’s ESSENTIALS OF GASTROENTEROLOGY. The book was published by C.V. Mosby.
Dr. Smith’s Chapter 11 is dedicated to astronaut Borman’s problem. On page 167 we read viral infections account for the majority of acute infectious diarrheal cases. Dr. Smith also discusses Shigella and Salmonella as pathogens to be considered in the case of acute diarrhea and suspected infectious gastroenteritis. Staphlococcal food poisoning, pseudomembranous colitis and amebiasis are also listed as common etiologies of acute diarrheal illness.
So according to Dr. Smith, an aerospace physician, a 1969 vintage flight surgeon would more or less be considering the same etiologies for acute diarrheal illness that a “modern physician” would be considering. In addition, Charles Berry and colleagues would of course be looking at the secanol sleeping medication as perhaps responsible and the space environment itself. Though keep in mind, secanol, barbituates in general, would not be viewed as likely responsible. This is because people don't get diarrhea with these drugs typically. Diarrhea is not typically associated with secanol, even in a remote sense. Not a lot was known about space sickness in those days, but problems were anticipated such as motion sickness, and certainly a physician charged with Borman’s care would be considering the zero G environment as a possible culprit, that is space sickness per se. So that is our "differential". That is the term doctors use for possibilities. Infection number ONE!, virus more likely than bacterial, food poisoning/staph, pseudomembranous colitis, amebiasis, secanol effect, space sickness, simple "nerves" or irritable bowel.
So Andrew Chaikin wrote in his book A MAN ON THE MOON that Dr. Berry believed astronaut Borman was infected with a virus, our number 1 choice above, and this assessment is also found in the Apollo 8 Mission Report. a quote from that document, page 177, section 8.3 Medical Observations;
“Inflight illness.- After the Commander's symptoms of motion sickness dissipated, he experienced additional symptoms of an inflight illness believed to be unrelated to motion sickness. When the Commander was unable to fall asleep 2 hours into his initial rest period at ii:00:00, he took a 100-mg sleeping tablet, which induced approximately 5 hours of sleep described as "fitful." Upon awakening, the Commander felt nauseated and had a moderate occipital headache. He took two 5-grain aspirin tablets and then went from the sleep station to his couch to rest. The nausea, however, became progressively worse, retching occurred, and vomiting happened twice. After termination of his first sleep period, the Commander also became aware of some increased gastrointestinal distress and was concerned that diarrhea might occur.
As the mission progressed, the medical flight controller had the impression that the Commander was experiencing acute viral gastroenteritis. This tentative diagnosis was based upon the delayed transmission of a recorded voice report that the Commander had a headache, a sore throat, loose bowels, and had vomited twice. A conversation between the
chief medical flight controller and the Commander verified that the previous report was correct, but that the Commander was feeling much better. The Commander also stated that he had not taken any medication for his illness, which he described as a "24-hour intestinal flu." Just prior
to the Apollo 8 launch, an epidemic of acute viral gastroenteritis lasting 24 hours was present in the Cape Kennedy area.
The Commander's temperature was 97.5 ° F on two occasions subsequent to his nausea and vomiting. The Commander was advised to take one Lomotil tablet and to use the Marezine if the nausea should return; however, the Commander did not take this medication because his inflight illness soon remitted completely, and no further treatment was required.
In the postflight medical debriefing, the Commander reported that his symptoms may have been a side effect of the sleeping tablet. It was
disclosed that during his preflight trial of this drug, he had experienced a mild "hangover" and an uncomfortable feeling bordering on nausea. When
he used this same drug on two occasions during the flight, he experienced symptoms identical to those encountered in the drug trial. During the debriefing, his vomitus was described as liquid in character and presented no difficulty to aspiration.”
So a lot of preliminary work, but as you will see, it really will ultimately pay off, pay off extraordinarily well. As a matter of fact, in one fell swoop, of nothing more or less than Borman's virtual poop, we shall momentarily indeed, prove all of Apollo, Missions 8 through 17, fraudulent. Pretty exciting dontcha‘ think?! I do!
This is from the US Department of Health and Human Services. When reading this, assume astronaut Borman has viral gastroenteritis, that Berry’s diagnosis is correct as presented in Chaikin’s book and in the apollo 8 Mission Report. And as you read, ask yourself if you think the astronauts are “safe” and if the situation has been evaluated appropriately and appropriate actions have been taken to clean the spacecraft, or at least educate the astronauts as to the danger posed. A quote from the US Health Boys and Girls;
“How is viral gastroenteritis transmitted?
Viral gastroenteritis is transmitted from person to person. Viruses are present in the stool and vomit of people who are infected. Infected people may contaminate surfaces, objects, food, and drinks with viruses, especially if they do not wash their hands thoroughly after using the bathroom. When an infected person with unwashed hands shakes hands with or touches another person, the virus can spread. When an infected person vomits, the virus can become airborne.
People may be infected with viruses by
touching contaminated surfaces or objects and then touching their mouths
sharing food, drink, or eating utensils with infected people
eating foods that are contaminated with the virus, such as oysters from contaminated waters
swallowing airborne particles that contain viruses
Norovirus is especially contagious. Norovirus can survive for months on surfaces that are not thoroughly disinfected with a bleach solution. Hard surfaces should be cleaned with a mixture of 2 cups of bleach and 1 gallon of water.
Infected people who do not have symptoms can still transmit viruses. Viruses may be present in the stool up to 2 weeks after a person recovers from gastroenteritis.
Outbreaks of viral gastroenteritis can occur in households, childcare settings, schools, nursing homes, cruise ships, camps, dormitories, restaurants, and other places where people gather in groups. People who suspect they were exposed to a virus in one of these settings may want to contact a local health department that tracks viral gastroenteritis outbreaks.
What are the symptoms of viral gastroenteritis?
The main symptoms of viral gastroenteritis are
watery diarrhea
vomiting
Other symptoms include
headache
fever
chills
abdominal pain
Symptoms usually appear within 12 to 48 hours after exposure to a gastroenteritis-causing virus and last for 1 to 3 days. Some viruses cause symptoms that last longer.
So if Borman does have viral gastroenteritis. It is now everywhere in the spaceship and given the robust contagiousness of Norovirus, Lovell and Anders would be sure to get sick as well. Keep in mind, if this thing were real, just because Borman got off the hook easy, wouldn’t mean Lovell would when he got sick in short order, or Anders for that matter. The other two could easily be sick for 5 days, this is not uncommon. Dehydrated, electrolyte problems, aseptic meningitis with headache and problems concentrating, all common with viral infection of this type.
So in the Apollo 8 Voice Transcript, the Chaikin tape/transcripts from the “back line” , the Mission Report description of the evaluation , one never reads, hears about this being assessed as any doctor would assess the situation, contaminated cabin, zero G environment with infectious virus AND possibly bacteria floating everywhere. No bleach to clean surfaces and NO INSTRUCTIONS TO THOROUGHLY AND REPEATEDLY WASH THEIR HANDS!!!!!!!! No attempt to assess for the possibility of contaminated food, and this refers to food they “ate on the earth” as well. No ongoing follow up to monitor risk, brewing, not brewing. This is a joke!!!!!! If it was a virus doctors would EXPECT! all 3 to be sick because of the environment. More serious still, bacterial infections were never discussed. A new grad medical intern would have considered all of this stuff in 20 minutes. They do it every day, several times a day, not for astronauts, but for people sick in this very way.
So Charles Berry is not real, like Borman's virtual poop, Berry is not real. Well he went to medical school, but he is not real in the sense that he is not practicing medicine here. He is pretending to do something. He is very much in on the fraud.
If this isn’t ridiculous enough to begin with, the bogus story about viral gastroenteritis and the lack of appropriately addressing the “virtual problem”, need I remind the reader yet again about FRANK BORMAN’S OWN ESSAY? From the Life magazine article, January 17 1969, in Frank Borman’s own words and inimitable style “A Science Fiction World-Awesome, Forlorn Beauty", take it away Franky;
"I did something on the flight that I had stated pretty firmly I would never do: I took a sleeping pill. We had a little difficulty keeping out of the way of the spent third stage of our rocket on the way out, and that made me two hours late getting down for my sleep period. I knew we all had to be rested when we got to the moon, so I took a pill. It worked, but I woke up about five hours later with a headache and nausea. I actually threw up a couple of times, and I thought I should tell the ground. Now, one of the difficulties of communication with the ground is that everything we say is broadcast so that anyone can hear, and sometimes little hints of illnesses are overplayed. So I informed the ground about my problem only reluctantly. It turned out not to be serious, and I still don't know what it was, but I personally think it was a reaction to that pill. On the way home I took half of another pill, just to test it, and again I had a slight headache and faint nausea. "
Back at post 2129, I wrote after first quoting this nonsense;
“Diarrhea said to be floating everywhere in the zero-G command module, profuse diarrhea of unknown cause, infection risk for his colleagues high as the moon, no evidence for appropriate follow up with Borman or the other astronauts with regard to the medical risks, no evidence for an appropriate clean up having been attempted let alone carried out, AND WHAT DOES BORMAN DO?!!! WHY QUITE LOGICALLY, HE TAKES ANOTHER SECANOL, ALBEIT 1/2 A PILL.
Of all the Apollo nonsense I have ever been exposed to, this takes the moon cake. This man is without question not an astronaut. This man without question is not under a doctor's supervision. This man without question was 240,000 miles from the moon when he and cohorts pulled that ridiculous Genesis reading stunt.
It's enough to make me nauseated. God help us. Science fiction? You betcha'!!!”
As much of a bust as this is, it really is only a tease. So they faked the Borman diarrhea thing to make the Apollo 8 trip seem more “realistic”, first episode of phony “space sickness” backfired in a sense. Remember, its the rank and file Houston flight officer who is most in need of being fooled. If Borman is “ill” and the docs are wringing their hands and what not, the flight officers of course buy in more and more that this is all real. And the more they buy in, the more we all do. BUT! THINK ABOUT THIS!
Take a look again at Charlie Duke’s description of how the astronauts allegedly pooped. Even when someone doesn’t have diarrhea, in the zero G environment, virus(including hepatitis and other serious oral-fecal route transmitted viral pathogens), bacteria, even parasites(less likely) have free access to the cabin and the innards of any and all “astronauts”. The system is so incomprehensibly unsanitary, it could never have been approved or utilized.
In all seriousness now, all kidding aside, we may with utter confidence conclude, with some surprise given our stumbling upon this courtesy of astronauts Duke and Borman, that not a one astronaut ever pooped in cislunar space. It never would have been allowed, not that way by any competent environmental officer. It never would have been allowed by any thoughtful and competent physician.
ALL OF APOLLO MUST BE FRAUDULENT! A GENUINE ENVIRONMENTAL OFFICER WOULD NEVER APPROVE THE APOLLO TOILET. WAY WAY WAY TOO MUCH RISK! RISK FOR GASTROENTERITIS OF ALL TYPES, ON ALL FLIGHTS. RISK FOR VIRAL HEPATITIS. APOLLO CANNOT BE REAL SIMPLY BASED ON DUKE'S DESCRIPTION OF HOW THEY DEFECATED.
Physicians would not approve the Apollo cislunar can in a million years. Armstrong with hepatitis courtesy of Aldrin? Never! The whole thing is fake my friends, right there, just based on the poopie jar, or more appropriately, lack thereof, Apollo has been proven phony. Collins never pooped in space, not into that little bag, a physician never would have approved of that, nor a competent environmental flight officer. IT MUST BE FAKE. IT CANNOT BE OTHERWISE GIVEN THIS REVELATION.
Thanks.
