I'll give these a shot, in order.
Originally posted by canadiancatfoodforcrocadi
reply to post by samstone11
I do know this, if you look at the capsule leaving the moons surface, why is there no heat or flame
Most of the visible plume you see from a launch at Cape Kennedy is steam (from the sound / shock suppression system) and smoke from the solid rocket
boosters (this last obviously applies only to missions that *use* solid boosters). The actual exhaust plume from a liquid-fuel engine isn't that
distinct even in atmosphere. Watch a video of the Gemini 6 launch, and notice how pale and small the visible plume from a Titan missile is, once it
clears the liftoff cloud (see comment about sound suppression, above). The ascent engine on the LEM did have a plume (it's faintly visible on a couple
of the flights, IIRC), but most of the time, it's too faint to be easily seen.
and no dust even flies around at all.
I split the 'dust' comment off. Listen to the audio from the Apollo 11 landing, and you'll hear Neil Armstrong's comment shortly before touchdown
"Kicking up dust.". Remember, there isn't an atmosphere on the Moon (more correctly, no significant atmosphere). This has two effects where dust is
concerned. It means that a dust particle that gets blown away has no air resistance to stop it from going a fair distance, and also means that once
the descent engine had 'swept' the area where the LEM landed (remember the "kicking up dust" comment?), no new dust would be blown back into the area
for the ascent engine to stir up.
And what about the fact that theres no stars in the background of any photos or vid,
This one's been done to death, and you can even see for yourself why they don't show. Go outside at night with a camera, and take a picture of the
night sky on a moonless night. Now, have a friend shine a nice, bright flashlight toward your camera and take the same picture....you'll see the
flashlight glare, but no stars. Remember, the surface of the moon is a surprisingly bright reflector (we've *all* seen how bright moonlight can be),
and that can play merry hell with photography.
no dust from the lunar vehicle, they only jump 18 inches off the ground in all footage, the legs of the lunar capsule had no debris on them after it
landed on the moon they were perfectly clean,
Re dust / debris, see above. Most of the light debris was removed from the landing site by the exhaust plume of the LEM descent engine. As for only
jumping 18 inches, I'm surprised they could jump that far. The suits used on the Lunar surface tipped the scales at about 170-180 lbs on earth. Even
in 1/6g, that's a pretty hefty load. Add in the fact that the joints were somewhat stiff, and jumping *at all* is quite a trick.
no good shots of earth from moon,
There are several from orbit. The men on the surface had a fair amount to do, and limited time to do it. That might explain the lack of Earth
photos.
even the fact that niel armstrong has only given 1 interview since the one he gave when they just got back.
What does his lack of speaking engagements have to do with whether or not the moon landings were real?
Just do some digging and you will find audio of one astronauts talking about not tripping over the cables,
Later Apollo missions placed groups of instruments on the lunar surface, some of which were linked with magical hairs from the manes of
unicorns....errr...I mean, cables, if you can imagine such a thing. Given that falling was dangerous to both the astronauts and the equipment, and
spare parts were a LONG way away, reminding each other to be careful around the cables seems prudent, not conspiratorial.
youtube footage where you can see wires or check out Bill Cooper he was a researcher on this
Those strange 'wires' at the top of the suit backpack aren't mysterious at all...there's a communications antenna back there. It's visible in a lot of
shots....it's also fairly easy to see that it ends less than a foot above the pack. Technically, that's a wire...but it's not a suspension rig. Try
looking at still shots in addition to video.
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