The astronuats/Houston regularly checked to be sure there was no drift....
I think it is because everyone other than Patrick understands that when a spacecraft is in an orbit you don't have to continually navigate it, that once you have you placed it in an appropriate orbit, unless you have a good reason to change that orbit, you leave it alone and let it do its thing. I get the feeling that Patrick thinks that you have to fly a spacecraft like you fly a plane and that means that you need to be constantly making small corrections all the time and keeping it under control. Thus if you leave it alone for 3 or 4 minutes you are likely to crash.
Of course this is totally incorrect when talking spaceflight and the astronauts rarely had to do platform corrections, mostly shortly before they were due to do a burn, or if they needed to change the array that was being used to transmit/recieve. The fact that the CMP could have happily circled about the back of the moon in the darkness and out of radio contact for a whole 55 minutes without any need to change the orientation of the platform, or even having to actually touch the controls, seems slightly beyond Patrick's ability to fathom.
According to the Apollo 11 narrative, the astronauts/Houston, though relatively infrequently, nevertheless regularly, checked to be sure there was no platform drift, and if there was, the platform alignment was said to have been corrected.
The Apollo Guidance Computer does not "know" one way or the other if there is or is not drift. This is the whole point of checking the alignment. An element of the alleged protocol for determining as to whether drift has or has not occurred features the astronauts marking stars, sighting them, and then CONFIRMING THE STARS' IDENTITIES in the context of a platform alignment check by way of pressing a button. The astronaut is the one hitting the button, and in so doing confirms the star as Menkent, or Rigel, or Nunki as in the Collins examples above taken from CARRYING THE FIRE.
My point is that the narrative as presented with reference to these star sightings must be bogus. The AGC has 37 stars in its memory. These stars are sighted and their identities confirmed by the astronauts, not the computer itself, by virtue of the stars' geometric relationships to other stars, groups of stars, the earth, the sun and the moon. A star can ONLY be confirmed/identified in the context of its relation to other celestial objects. A star floating isolated in the cislunar sky is NOT something Collins could identify as Menkent, Nunki, or any one of the other primary navigational stars.
When traveling through cislunar space, around the moon's back side and what not, the star count would vary, assuming any of this were real. There would be times when there would be more stars than one could see from the surface of the earth, and there would be times when the count would be fewer. So the "constellations" would not appear as they do here on earth, not consistently anyway. There would be times wherein any given constellation pattern would become unreadable due to the presence of too many stars, other times unreadable due to there being too few; here a half as many, there a a third as many, next time a fourth as many, not to mention at times a fifth as many, sometimes a jillion stars, sometimes handfuls, and EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN! So how do you find/identify/confirm stars if the constellation patterns are not consistently present, complete and recognizable? Answer, you don't find/identify and confirm the stars, and so you most decidedly do not navigate with this now patently bogus and made up joke of a system.
Note that most of the MIT guys would have bought in. this is tricky and they would not have readily been fooled. What do the MIT AGC designers know about star variable visibility conditions in cislunar and perilunar space? Less than NOTHING! Sure they load the computer memory with 37 stars, no one at NASA is going to tell them that it hardly makes any sense, and hardly would help if any of this had even remote contact with reality.
The point is that when Collins checks to be sure if the platform is aligned or not aligned in the Apollo 11 narrative, HE, COLLINS, MUST DECIDE, and confirm the stars' identities. How does he know Menkent is Menkent, Rigel Rigel, Nunki Nunki and so forth given that the only way to know stars is to recognize the company they keep? With the earth gone, there would be absolutely no helpful sense of north/south/east/west/up/down. With variable numbers of stars present, too few to recognize a particular star in a constellation on some occasions, too many to recognize a particular star in a constellation on other occasions, how would Collins know anything? Answer......Collins doesn't know anything......
Collins could not reliably identify stars under these circumstances, nor could Armstrong, nor could Aldrin. Star identities could NOT be reliably determined by this less than laughable system PERIOD!, AGC with astronaut. The view of the firmament would be inconsistent, the stellar patterns would be inconsistent, and as such, not recognizable. With regard to identifying stars, everything depends on consistency.
This whole thing is way fake and this is so easy to see now, so so so easy to see.....
