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Originally posted by Illustronic
reply to post by Detergent
I see the tire tracks behind the rover, but you obviously don't want to see them.
Originally posted by PuterMan
reply to post by Frira
I am with you 100% on that. I remember the moon landings being on TV. I also remember IBM 360 computers and tray of punch cards. Unfortunately youngsters have absolutely no concept of what things were like then.
The IBM I worked on took up a complete floor of the building it was in, and yes it was programmed with punch cards. Try cracking that code when you have dropped the tray!! Graphics? - nope!
reply to post by patternfinder
Tell me. Were you even alive then?edit on 5/9/2011 by PuterMan because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by DerekJR321
reply to post by patternfinder
Could you clarify your post a little? Are you saying they faked 6 moon landings because they got money for it? Or are you referring to a specific youtube poster?
If your saying that they faked the moon due to them getting money... well sorry I just don't buy that. No pun intended.
Every single argument trying to prove the moon landings a hoax can be refuted. So now it seems people are arguing over radiation levels. But I take little value in armchair physicists hypothesis.
Originally posted by WeekendWarrior
I think that only the first moon landing was fake. Since then they definetly went to moon, but not the first time at least..
Originally posted by Athin
Originally posted by DerekJR321
reply to post by patternfinder
Could you clarify your post a little? Are you saying they faked 6 moon landings because they got money for it? Or are you referring to a specific youtube poster?
If your saying that they faked the moon due to them getting money... well sorry I just don't buy that. No pun intended.
Every single argument trying to prove the moon landings a hoax can be refuted. So now it seems people are arguing over radiation levels. But I take little value in armchair physicists hypothesis.
It was a race between the Russians and the U.S. to get to space. You don't think we would fake the first one just to say we got there first?
If everyone of the theories can be refuted can you explain the 'wire' theory to me?
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I don't see any way around the video where the guy is laying on the "moon surface" trying to get up... then an invisible force just lifts him to his feet.
Originally posted by ATS23
Originally posted by WeekendWarrior
I think that only the first moon landing was fake. Since then they definetly went to moon, but not the first time at least..
I'd be interested to know why you think this?
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by Athin
It's called an antenna, not a wire.
www.hq.nasa.gov...
www.xmission.com...
lsda.jsc.nasa.gov...edit on 9/6/2011 by Phage because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Ex_CT2
I was an adult (19 years old), and in the Navy, when man first set foot on the moon. Having lived and breathed the heady atmosphere of American know-how of that time; the extreme exaltation and the heartbreaking tragedies of the astronauts; the excitement of the news coverage of every launch and recovery--back when the "MSM" meant "Uncle" Walter Cronkite--no one can tell me we didn't send men to the moon. And brought them all back alive.
Now I'm just an old guy wishing someone would *finally* get some high-def photos of the landing sites, so we can at last get some closure on this. And shut these annoying little ####s up!
Originally posted by blah yada
While I believe that moon landings took place, I don't believe all if any of the footage was real , especially the first landing.
Originally posted by Illustronic
reply to post by patternfinder
It's called momentum, and 1/6th earth gravity assist. *rolls eyes*
Originally posted by Ellis1234
Just contributing something i was reading before, i don't have much knowledge on moon landings but thought this was relevant
Source: www.bbc.co.uk...
The lunar body is constantly bombarded by micrometeorites
Micrometeoroids are very small pieces of rock or metal broken off from larger chunks of rock and debris often dating back to the birth of the solar system. Micrometeoroids are extremely common in space.
Tiny particles are a major contributor to space weathering processes. When they hit the surface of the Moon, or any airless body (Mercury, the asteroids, etc.), the resulting melting and vaporization causes darkening and other optical changes in the regolith. In order to understand the micrometeoroid population better, a number of spacecraft (including Lunar Orbiter 1, Luna 3, Mars 1 and Pioneer 5) have carried micrometeoroid detectors..
Wiki
Micrometeoroids pose a significant threat to space exploration. Their velocities relative to a spacecraft in orbit can be on the order of kilometers per second, and resistance to micrometeoroid impact is a significant design challenge for spacecraft and space suit designers (See Thermal Micrometeoroid Garment). While the tiny sizes of most micrometeoroids limits the damage incurred, the high velocity impacts will constantly degrade the outer casing of spacecraft in a manner analogous to sandblasting. Long term exposure can threaten the functionality of spacecraft systems.
Impacts by small objects with extremely high velocity are a current area of research in terminal ballistics. Accelerating objects up to such velocities is difficult; current techniques include linear motors and shaped charges. The risk is especially high for objects in space for long periods of time, such as satellites. They also pose major engineering challenges in theoretical low-cost lift systems such as rotovators, space elevators, and orbital airships.