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Technology, Science & Alt Science / Re: I won Heiwa's €1,000,000 challenge
« on: August 10, 2015, 05:34:17 PM »About a week ago, Heiwa informed me of his €1,000,000 challenge on his website, not the one about proving that the 9/11 incident was done by terrorists but the second one at the bottom of the page about the Apollo missions. This is it:QuoteThe Anders Björkman Challenge 2 is first to calculate using first principles the amount of fuel (or energy) required to complete a manned Moon and/or planet Mars return trip after being ejected into space from Earth towards the Moon and/or planet Mars by external rockets, second to describe the space ship incl. its masses before/after the various maneuvers of the trip, any heat shield(s), if fitted, the engines and fuel tanks that can carry the amount of fuel using 1960 or 2015 technology, the accommodation for the persons aboard and finally to show that it is actually feasable to do the trip. Please do not present dreams and fantasies.How I won was I showed him a simulator that when paired with a mod can simulate the Apollo missions, and I even offered to check the config files for realism. As for the reentry part, I drew a diagram that illustrates how reentry capsules control their orientation and trajectory. I have been presenting all this to Heiwa via PM's and he has not responded in almost a day now after I said "If I'm not mistaken, you owe me some money", so I figured that I might as well mention this on the forum to get the word out and to force him to not make the trademark flat earther move of ignoring my victory.
I understand that this is a long thread and this may have already been discussed, but I just wanted to chime in. I'm a RE, and I think that it's absolutely possible to complete the challenge, (whether Heiwa pays or not), but I think it is absurd that you think that you can declare yourself a winner and force Heiwa to pay you. That's not how this sort of challenge works. Heiwa accepts submissions, and without any other specifying language, it is clear that it is up to him to determine the viability of the submission. Ideally, if it were more serious, an independent body would judge submissions and Heiwa would provide evidence of availability of funds, but without that, the most obvious person to judge submissions would be Heiwa himself, not you. I can't think of any context in the entire set of social constructs in the world where merely by your own declaration of victory in a contest you have a valid claim to that victory, except perhaps declaring "shotgun", or "calling it", etc. This obviously doesn't fall into that category.
And if you really did refer him to a set of softwares with supplemental explanations and and an offer to "check the source code", I don't think you even completed a submission in the spirit of the challenge. He was clearly asking for a thorough report. How would Heiwa be reasonably expected to validate that you checked the source code, for example? Are you a software expert? Do you have credentials? Is Heiwa expected to run these simulations for himself? You could certainly use a simulator to validate your own results but the report should be complete, self contained, valid without external dependencies or conditions. And then, even when you submit the report, it's not only premature but presumptuous to declare yourself a winner. That's obvious to me as an observer, and I feel like I should call you out for it.
This doesn't absolve Heiwa if he does actually move the goal posts, but my opinion is that you haven't met them anyway, based on the limited dialogue I've read here.
My two cents. Apologies if this is already covered.