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Just in case you missed my last post Tomblvd, I'll direct this one right at ya' as you seem to like the medical stuff well enough. This point clearly changes Apollo forever, not really sure how any one can respond to it but with concession on your side and celebration on ours. That said, I'll toss it up as a garden variety question.
Take a look at this;
http://www.oxygen-review.com/carbon-dioxide.html
An average sized person, you or I, would "make" a little over 2 pounds of CO2 in a day, a kilogram.
300 feet of fresh air needs to ventilate the environment of each person EACH HOUR. Here on earth, we need not worry too much about this. Even indoors, fresh air reaches us.
In the Apollo 13 space capsule, the crew cabin volume was 218 cu ft (6.2 m3) living space and pressurized 366 cu ft (10,3 m3).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Command/Service_Module
In the Apollo 13 LM/Aquarius one finds the crew cabin volume to be 235 cu ft (6.7 m3).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_module
Let's call the living space into which the astronauts were expiring 500 cubic feet.
The alleged explosion occurred April 14, 1970, 03:07:53 UTC (April 13, 21:07:53 CST, 55:54:53 Ground Elapsed time.)
Splash was April 17, 1970, 18:07:41 UTC (142:54:47 Ground Elapsed Time). Crew was on board the Iwo Jima 45 minutes later.
So from the time of explosion 'til splash one finds 3 days and 15 hours passed. As they allegedly had power for a couple hours from the time of the alleged explosion, just to give myself some good ballpark numbers to work with, I'll use 3 days and 13 hours as the time the astronauts produced CO2 without power. This gives 3 days X 3 kg per day, plus an additional 13/24 X 3 = 1.625.
So Tomblvd, one is looking at 10.625 kilograms or equivalently, 23.375 pounds of carbon dioxide that must be scrubbed from the imagined Aquarius/Odyssey joint 500 cubic foot cabin.
This cannot be done passively. The CO2 does not float through the scrubbing apparatus, it must be cycled through, ACTIVELY MOVED. If this is not done, the astronauts' blood would become acidic. The hypercapnea would narcotize them and they would die.
So here really is our GRAND MOMENT OF TRUTH Tomblvd, 10 months of work in a nutshell, in a capsule. One sees Apollo, all of Apollo as fraudulent as there was no power to operate the ventilating system.
Worth a quick look;
http://www.apollosaturn.com/facts_figs.htm
http://www.apollosaturn.com/facts_figs.htm
This little blurb makes a great point. The kids playing around with this use their own lung power to push the CO2 through the scrubber;
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081027070352AAWTnit
In space, this is done by the environmental system dedicated to scrubbing at a relatively high energy cost.
This system was not operating during the fantasy Apollo 13 Mission. As such, one concludes with unmitigated metaphysical certitude that Apollo, all of Apollo is full on , flat out, over the top bogus.
How was CO2 removed before the accident?
How was CO2 removed in all the other missions?
Did Apollo 13 take enough equipment to scrub CO2 throughout the entire full length mission?
Were the CO2 scrubbers passive devices waiting for air to just waft over them, or was air circulated through them?
What air pressure was Apollo 13 operating at? Would this have any bearing on CO2 production, particularly with reference to your 1 Kg a day production figure?
