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Originally posted by mrwiffler
And sayonarajupiter, can you please explain what the hell you are going on about? Von Braun was a Nazi. We know that. Simply, what is your point?
Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter
Maybe you weren't fully aware of Richard Nixon's role in Operation Paperclip, he was setting up captured Nazi's in the United States by expediting the paperwork through the official channels, making it easier for the OSS/CIA to bring former war criminals into the country. Nixon also did some creative banking for Nazi industrialists so he did by moving their assets and paying out government money to them in the form of "damages" to certain factory owners,, etc and other gangster payback deals.
In January 1945, he was transferred to the Bureau of Aeronautics office in Philadelphia to help negotiate the termination of war contracts, and he received another letter of commendation for his work there.[41] Later, Nixon was transferred to other offices to work on contracts and finally to Baltimore.[42] In October 1945, he was promoted to lieutenant commander.[41] He resigned his commission on New Year's Day 1946.[43]
thats all super fascinating and all.. but you still dont have a point. this is what i hear you trying to say "NASA fake moon landing because von Braun NAZI"
Originally posted by Zaphod58
Originally posted by turbonium1
Why do you think they're spending a fortune to study the VA Belts with probes? Any idea?, , ,
Because they eat satellites for one reason. And to learn how they interact with cosmic rays for another. They need to understand space radiation better for long term stays in space, and on other planets.
Originally posted by captainpudding
Originally posted by turbonium1
Do you think it's a little odd that scientists and engineers have never expressed any doubts on Apollo, at least in public? For over 40 years, not one of them having a shred of doubt?
By that logic that means everything that has ever happened, never happened. Nobody expresses doubt that the sky is blue, nobody doubts that water is made of hydrogen and oxygen. Maybe the reason they don't express doubt in it having happened, is because it happened?
Satellites have existed many years now, and few orbit within the VA Belts anyway. Strike One.
To learn the interactions before any manned flight to the moon - that makes sense. No reason if Apollo did it - foul ball makes the count Strike Two.
It isn't about long-term flights - they don't plan on long-term human visits within the VA Belts. Moon or Mars or whatever, they still go through the same Belts. Strike Three, You're OUT
A blue sky is not doubted because everyone can see that it is, indeed, a blue sky above us.
Water is not doubted as being H2O because ievery analysis shows us that.
A moon mission is very different, can't be tested independently to verify it, etc.
It's never been done in 40+ years since then.
The LM was never tested on Earth in final form, yet was capable of some amazing,feats.
But of course, nobody doubted it in the least - oh, I'm sure!.
Solar cells, integrated circuits, and sensors can be damaged by radiation. Geomagnetic storms occasionally damage electronic components on spacecraft. Miniaturization and digitization of electronics and logic circuits have made satellites more vulnerable to radiation, as the total charge in these circuits is now small enough so as to be comparable with the charge of incoming ions. Electronics on satellites must be hardened against radiation to operate reliably. The Hubble Space Telescope, among other satellites, often has its sensors turned off when passing through regions of intense radiation.[22] A satellite shielded by 3 mm of aluminium in an elliptic orbit (200 by 20,000 miles (320 by 32,000 km)) passing the radiation belts will receive about 2,500 rem (25 Sv) per year. Almost all radiation will be received while passing the inner belt.[23]
Originally posted by turbonium1
The LM was never tested on Earth in final form, yet was capable of some amazing,feats.
But of course, nobody doubted it in the least - oh, I'm sure!.
Originally posted by mrwiffler
reply to post by turbonium1
Van Allen's original data was - and still is - valid, accurate data.
Can you please supply some references for this statement. Without any reference it is just feeble rhetoric.
edit on 29-3-2013 by mrwiffler because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by DJW001
Some of the most important satellites are in geostationary orbit, about 36,000 kilometers above sea level. The Van Allen belts extend from about 1,000 to 60,000 kilometers above sea level. In other words, the satellite you get your TV from is smack dab in the middle of the belts. Strike one.
Originally posted by DJW001
But NASA not only studied and mapped the Van Allen belts, they surveyed the entire radiation environment in space to the best of anyone's ability at the time. They also studied the effects of the radiation environment on living cells. Strike two.
Originally posted by DJW001
Correct, they don't plan on spending much time in the belts. The principle concern in long term missions outside of the belts is the lack of protection offered by the Earth's magnetosphere from solar and cosmic radiation. Strike three, YOU'RE out!
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by turbonium1
A blue sky is not doubted because everyone can see that it is, indeed, a blue sky above us.
I can assure you the sky outside my window is not blue at the moment. Your belief that everyone can see that it is blue is not founded on actual observation, it is a projection of your own beliefs.
Water is not doubted as being H2O because ievery analysis shows us that.
Originally posted by DJW001
Really? Why do you place such blind trust on anything as silly as the Atomic Theory of Matter? Have you ever actually seen an atom with your own eyes?
A moon mission is very different, can't be tested independently to verify it, etc.
Originally posted by DJW001
A Moon Landing is not some sort of generalized principle that needs to be confirmed by repeated experiment; it is an historical event. As such, it is subject not to scientific standards of evidence, but historical standards of evidence. As it is, both the scientific data collected and the historical documentation support each other.
It's never been done in 40+ years since then.
Originally posted by DJW001
But it was done every few months over a period of three years! In any event, your premise is completely fallacious. No-one has built the Eiffel Tower in 100+ years, therefore the Eiffel Tower cannot exist.
The LM was never tested on Earth in final form, yet was capable of some amazing,feats.
Originally posted by DJW001
The LM was not designed to function on Earth. Nevertheless, all of its parts and systems were tested on Earth, and they all worked fine. Why shouldn't they work just as well in the environment they were designed to function in? And yes, the feats were amazing. Is that why you resent the whole idea? That some people are competent? Why do you find that threatening, Doc?
Originally posted by seabhac-rua
reply to post by MarioOnTheFly
Maybe I am.
I've debated and researched this subject in depth on here for the last couple of years or more and you always come up against people who simply want to believe the landings were faked. You can show them where there are errors in their arguments, you can show them data, you can debunk the pseudo-science behind their half baked theories and they will continually ignore and ignore and ignore what you are saying. This subject particularly usually attracts the kind of person to whom 'research' means watching a youtube video.
No moon hoax theories hold any water period.
edit on 26-11-2012 by seabhac-rua because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter
Last week on March 23, 1912 was Werner von Braun's birthday. So this week was a good time to remember him and review the facts and to discuss the things we understand about his role in the Apollo story, the asteroids, the E.T. story - in due course - the disclosure of the moon landing hoax plus the TV mind control experiments which produced the mass hallucinations in millions of unsuspecting 1960's people.
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by Elvis Hendrix
"When Apollo 11 landed on the moon in the summer of 1969, video images streamed to Earth, first to NASA tracking stations in California and Australia, and from there via Houston to an eager television audience. This moon-landing storey is decidedly less flattering to the space agency's image--it turns out that NASA can't find the original tapes of the unprecedented event."oh thats handy.
You miss the point. The TV images were broadcast live. You can find all of the Apollo TV transmissions in a format compatible with your TV. The original slow scan equipment probably doesn't even exist any more.
And what about Clementine? how many million images were taken? and weve seen 700 ish.
So your a wanker. Got that so far in your posts. So you will know of the testing of the lunar module, and the very real threat the manufactures made when testing that the module would fall into it's on crater on landing on the moon. But the pictures of the lunar module look like a 70's movie set, with not a spec of dust on the module.
You do realise that the TV networks at the time kicked up a HUGE fuss, as they were not allowed to plug into NASA's live feed and take a clean crystal clear video feed, but had to setup camera's and film a second generation video broadcast onto a wall.