As you asked last time:
The landings took place on a part of the moon that was in daytime. You can tell because the ground is lit.
There is no evidence or proof for something that didn’t happen.
Sure Apollo 11 was a Hoax, we are all going to die in 2012, Bigfoot is in my backyard, Nessie stopped by yesterday, and the UFO is going to drop in any moment now……Why are so many people convined by this garbage? Perhaps the attraction is that logically it is very hard to prove a negative; so just about any ridiculous thing can be argued, the chip placed firmly on shoulder, followed by a challenge to prove the speaker a liar.
The lunar landings happened because there is an abundance of evidence that it did happen? Could all of it have been faked? Nothing is impossible, but given the volumes of things that have to be overcome to do that, and the number of years that such a lie would have had to stand, the chances that it was faked are infinitely small, and growing smaller with every passing minute.
It is amazing to me how fantastic theories abound. Bigfoot, Nessi, the Loch Ness Monster, UFOs and alien encounters, denying the Holocaust, denying global warming and denying the moon landing.
The first three are harmless. Yet, the rest are some of the most profound events in human existence. To deny them is to remove their importance from human history.
Denying the Holocaust is to guarantee a repeat possibly on a much, much larger scale. Denying global warming is to guarantee almost unimaginable havoc and suffering in the not too distance future.
Denying the moon landing is to remove the heroism and engineering skill of a generation of space pioneers. Why haven’t we gone back? Money and purpose. We learned what we came to learn. The cost of repeated visits was and is too high.
Why are we considering returning? Only one reason is- as a jumping off point to go to Mars. Will we do it? Of course we will. The only question is- when? Will people in the furure deny it happened – sure they will.
Will we colonize Mars? Of course we will. The only question is- when?
It is easy to deny human achievement. Usually the “first” at something accomplishes the feat with what seems like impossibly inadequate tools. That is why Ripley’s Believe It Or Not is so popular..
I listened to the transmissions to and from the moon (as everybody did who had a TV) and there was a delay of about three seconds – just what it should be.
The astronauts were chosen to be people who weren’t excitable but cool and deliberate.
I worked for a company that made a fire extinguisher for the LM (lunar module). Those things were tested to death. The stack of testing paperwork was about 6 feet high. And, yet, the actual units that went to the moon weren’t tested at all. That is so they wouldn’t be tested too much and be near failure.
It is amazing what a simple computer CAN DO. And it is amazing how bogged down and slow the super computer you have on your desk IS TODAY.
The Van Allen radiation belts were known and provided for.
I hope you realize when YOUR generation goes to Mars – and it will – that 30 or 40 years later people will deny it ever happened. I hope you remember.
it was mid-morning on teh moon. look at the angle of teh sun in the pictures. look also at teh moon phase on 20 july 1969 (waxing crescent).
the moon hoax stuff is bs, and an insult to the half million ppl who worked their butts off on apollo.
January 17th, 2010 - 04:16
As you asked last time:
The landings took place on a part of the moon that was in daytime. You can tell because the ground is lit.
There is no evidence or proof for something that didn’t happen.
January 17th, 2010 - 04:57
Sure Apollo 11 was a Hoax, we are all going to die in 2012, Bigfoot is in my backyard, Nessie stopped by yesterday, and the UFO is going to drop in any moment now……Why are so many people convined by this garbage? Perhaps the attraction is that logically it is very hard to prove a negative; so just about any ridiculous thing can be argued, the chip placed firmly on shoulder, followed by a challenge to prove the speaker a liar.
The lunar landings happened because there is an abundance of evidence that it did happen? Could all of it have been faked? Nothing is impossible, but given the volumes of things that have to be overcome to do that, and the number of years that such a lie would have had to stand, the chances that it was faked are infinitely small, and growing smaller with every passing minute.
January 17th, 2010 - 04:57
It is amazing to me how fantastic theories abound. Bigfoot, Nessi, the Loch Ness Monster, UFOs and alien encounters, denying the Holocaust, denying global warming and denying the moon landing.
The first three are harmless. Yet, the rest are some of the most profound events in human existence. To deny them is to remove their importance from human history.
Denying the Holocaust is to guarantee a repeat possibly on a much, much larger scale. Denying global warming is to guarantee almost unimaginable havoc and suffering in the not too distance future.
Denying the moon landing is to remove the heroism and engineering skill of a generation of space pioneers. Why haven’t we gone back? Money and purpose. We learned what we came to learn. The cost of repeated visits was and is too high.
Why are we considering returning? Only one reason is- as a jumping off point to go to Mars. Will we do it? Of course we will. The only question is- when? Will people in the furure deny it happened – sure they will.
Will we colonize Mars? Of course we will. The only question is- when?
It is easy to deny human achievement. Usually the “first” at something accomplishes the feat with what seems like impossibly inadequate tools. That is why Ripley’s Believe It Or Not is so popular..
I listened to the transmissions to and from the moon (as everybody did who had a TV) and there was a delay of about three seconds – just what it should be.
The astronauts were chosen to be people who weren’t excitable but cool and deliberate.
I worked for a company that made a fire extinguisher for the LM (lunar module). Those things were tested to death. The stack of testing paperwork was about 6 feet high. And, yet, the actual units that went to the moon weren’t tested at all. That is so they wouldn’t be tested too much and be near failure.
It is amazing what a simple computer CAN DO. And it is amazing how bogged down and slow the super computer you have on your desk IS TODAY.
The Van Allen radiation belts were known and provided for.
I hope you realize when YOUR generation goes to Mars – and it will – that 30 or 40 years later people will deny it ever happened. I hope you remember.
January 17th, 2010 - 05:14
it was mid-morning on teh moon. look at the angle of teh sun in the pictures. look also at teh moon phase on 20 july 1969 (waxing crescent).
the moon hoax stuff is bs, and an insult to the half million ppl who worked their butts off on apollo.
January 17th, 2010 - 06:07
It wasn’t a hoax. I hear Google works.