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300 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
and why not After all, the 100 percent oxygen environment we used in
space was at least at a reduced pressure of five pounds per square inch,
but on the launch pad the pressure was slightly above atmospheric, or
nearly 16 psi. Light a cigarette in pure oxygen at 16 psi and you will get
the surprise of your life as you watch it turn to ash in about two seconds.
With all those oxygen molecules packed in there at that pressure, any
material generally considered "combustible" would instead be almost
explosive.
Here Collins reported that the pressure was 16 psi. Other authors went
higher. A staff meeting at 6 P.M. on Friday night Do you have a feeling
that this Friday night staff meeting was the first and last in the long history
of our government bureaucracies
THE FIKE
At 6:31:03 P.M., one of the astronauts smelled smoke and yelled fire. The
capsule had suddenly turned into a Calorimeter Bomb. They tried their
best to open the hatch. Without panic the triple hatch that sealed them in
usually took about nine minutes to open. They didn't have nine minutes.
In fact, they barely had ninety seconds before their suits burned through
and the deadly poisonous gasses released from the plastics silenced them
forever.
The capsule's internal pressure soared from the great quantity of hot
gasses created by the quasi-explosive burning of all the combustible material.
This short term fire was so intense that it melted a silver soldered joint
on the oxygen feed pipe pouring even more oxygen into the conflagration.
At 6:31:17, fourteen seconds from the first smell of smoke, the pressure
reached 29 pounds and the capsule ruptured, effectively releasing the heat
and damping the fire. But it was too late. They were already dead.
Let me put in some additional questions here. If this was not murder
and just an example of extreme stupidity in governmental slow motion
why did government agents in rapid action, raid Grissom's home before
anyone knew about the fire Why did they remove all his personal papers
and his diary Why didn't they bring his diary, or any other paper with the
word "Apollo" on it back, when they returned some of his personal papers
to his widow And if it really took 29 psi to blow the cabin why didn't
they use regular air at higher pressure
Also was it really the vicissitudes of life that the outward opening hatch
was coincidentally changed that very morning to one that opened inward
An inward opening hatch meant that any inside pressure, acting outward,
would prevent it from being opened—even if someone was standing by,
which they weren't. It was also boiled up from the outside and lacked
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