This is the standard excuse used by conspiracy theorists to attempt to explain away illogical behavior by their purported conspirators. Fail.
Was there an explosion aboard the spacecraft or not, Patrick? If there was, why didn't "they" report the actual details of the problem? If there wasn't, why didn't "they" script a realistic scenario?
As has been noted several times, you are not qualified to critique either the accident report or the initial news stories, and your assertions about both are flat-out wrong.
No, you're absolutely wrong about this. A meteor the size of a 5.56 mm (.223 in) bullet, impacting with a relative velocity of 20,000 m/s could have easily penetrated the service module's skin and ruptured an oxygen tank. For comparison, such a meteor would have
400 times the kinetic energy of an M-16 round striking at point-blank range. Photos of the damage would be indistinguishable from those of damage caused by a tank rupture due to overpressure, especially if the panel penetrated by the meteor had been blown off the spacecraft, which it likely would have been.
No, you're just making this claim because it's the only way you can attempt to paper over this huge hole in your theory. If you disagree, then give some
real reasons why a meteor strike couldn't have been faked.
And yet again,
you are not qualified to critique the report, and you are demonstrating an astounding ignorance of forensic engineering.
Why do you keep parroting the thoroughly debunked "0.13 pounds of Teflon" claim, and why do you keep ignoring the fire-weakened fittings failure scenario?
First, you're the one who seems to be squirming uncomfortably, and you appear to be attempting to cover that up with your histrionics and bluster. Second, you are begging the question of whether ordinary aluminum would somehow have to be altered in order to burn in an atmosphere with a concentration of oxygen 270 times normal. Third, as has been pointed out to you several times, the heat of combustion of the amounts of Teflon and aluminum are given in the report. Fourth, I gave you all the information you need to calculate how much Teflon and aluminum would have needed to have burned in order to have overpressured the tank. Finally, again, you are ignoring the failure mode where the fittings were weakened by fire, reducing the burst pressure of the tank.
Rather than pontificating, why don't you show us some calculations that actually prove that the electrical short did not provide sufficient energy to ignite the Teflon?
No. Yet again, you've misread and/or misinterpreted the report.
Appendix F, p. F-3:
Note that "10" is probably a typo; I think it's supposed to be "100". I'll do the calculation to check that when I have time later today.
The point, however, which you clearly missed, is that this amount of Teflon combustion is explained as being able to account for the initial pressure increase before the tank's instrumentation dropped out. The report does
not state that this energy was sufficient to overpressure the tank.
No. You are unnecessarily overcomplicating the problem. As I mentioned up-thread, only 1-2% of the available oxygen would have been consumed by the combustion of all of the available Teflon and aluminum. Further, the heat leak from the tanks was negligible. The calculation of the increase in pressure due to combustion is therefore straightforward, and I've given you all the information you need to do it. So what are you waiting for?
Here is the National Transportatation Safety Board's
report on the crash of TWA Flight 800.
Please indicate the sections where the level of detail allowing the experiments conducted by the Board to be replicated may be found; also, please tell us exactly how many actual 747 fuel tanks the board destroyed during its tests. If the answers are "there aren't any," and "zero," then please explain whether this report is "a complete joke."
Again, you are not the least qualified to make any such determination, as your numerous errors and misconceptions amply demonstrate.