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Title: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on April 30, 2018, 08:52:34 AM
One of the more priceless bits of information concerning the A11 mission is the Jodrell Bank tracking of the mission as it landed.

One source of many

http://www.jodrellbank.net/20-july-1969-lovell-telescope-tracked-eagle-lander-onto-surface-moon/
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: smartcooky on May 01, 2018, 04:24:10 AM
One of the more priceless bits of information concerning the A11 mission is the Jodrell Bank tracking of the mission as it landed.

One source of many

http://www.jodrellbank.net/20-july-1969-lovell-telescope-tracked-eagle-lander-onto-surface-moon/

I notice the audio player doesn't work on that site (well at least it doesn't for me), but no matter.

Here it is for anyone who wants to download it and listen

https://www.dropbox.com/s/chwtsiyzm544w6u/Luna15-Apollo11.mp3?dl=1
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Luke Pemberton on May 01, 2018, 12:38:47 PM
Here it is for anyone who wants to download it and listen

On the role of Jodrell bank, it was discussed that Doppler shift is evidence of Apollo's veracity. ka9q explained that it would be theoretically possible to fake the Doppler shift, but not possible to fool the operators at the DSN (??? if I recall). I cannot find his post. Does anyone remember exactly what he said on this point? I may have this completely incorrect.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on May 01, 2018, 01:26:40 PM
Here it is for anyone who wants to download it and listen

On the role of Jodrell bank, it was discussed that Doppler shift is evidence of Apollo's veracity. ka9q explained that it would be theoretically possible to fake the Doppler shift, but not possible to fool the operators at the DSN (??? if I recall). I cannot find his post. Does anyone remember exactly what he said on this point? I may have this completely incorrect.

That sounds like one of the Blunder's claims, along with as I recall, The Russians could not tune their DSN to Apollo's frequency.  In his mind the Russians could track nor listen in .  But I do remember a video of Leonov discussing how they were listening in on the landing live.   So much for the Grandson's ability to research facts.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on May 01, 2018, 01:49:07 PM
On the role of Jodrell bank, it was discussed that Doppler shift is evidence of Apollo's veracity. ka9q explained that it would be theoretically possible to fake the Doppler shift, but not possible to fool the operators at the DSN (??? if I recall). I cannot find his post. Does anyone remember exactly what he said on this point? I may have this completely incorrect.
As you add in more and more, and yet more pieces of evidence to collection of knowledge, it gets to the stage where there would have to have been a vast army of people working on it, and a hidden budget waaay more than the Apollo programme actually cost, to do all of it.  And you'd have to keep it all covered up for a very long time.

As often mentioned, it would be cheaper and easier to actually send people to the Moon...  ;D
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on May 01, 2018, 05:47:58 PM
And as I've said, it is literally not possible, even with today's technology, to fake the footage.  Tim thinks I believe that because I don't know enough about movies (my fifth column on the movie site I write for debuts today), but I could tell you in exacting detail what's wrong with, for example, the segment in Apollo 13 where Jim Lovell daydreams about walking on the Moon.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Luke Pemberton on May 01, 2018, 06:12:48 PM
...but I could tell you in exacting detail what's wrong with, for example, the segment in Apollo 13 where Jim Lovell daydreams about walking on the Moon.

Oooo... please do. I've heard you and others talk about 2001: A Space Odyssey, and how that film provides evidence for the difficulty of filming Apollo on Earth. It would be interesting to hear your detailing of such a small segment from a film, let alone large portions from films such as 2001.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nomuse on May 02, 2018, 03:18:22 AM
Apollo 13 -- and From the Earth to the Moon -- are instructional in how they actually approached filming. It is in almost every detail entirely different from how the hoaxies describe it being done.

(Indirectly; the hoaxies can't be tasked to provide an actual narrative, but you can reconstruct the slapdash affair they appear to be imagining from the various "telling details" they believe they have discovered.)

Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on May 02, 2018, 04:30:08 AM
And as I've said, it is literally not possible, even with today's technology, to fake the footage.  Tim thinks I believe that because I don't know enough about movies (my fifth column on the movie site I write for debuts today), but I could tell you in exacting detail what's wrong with, for example, the segment in Apollo 13 where Jim Lovell daydreams about walking on the Moon.

I would love to hear that. I know that the billowing dust clouds are a problem but I'm sure there are others.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: jfb on May 02, 2018, 11:49:55 AM
And as I've said, it is literally not possible, even with today's technology, to fake the footage.  Tim thinks I believe that because I don't know enough about movies (my fifth column on the movie site I write for debuts today), but I could tell you in exacting detail what's wrong with, for example, the segment in Apollo 13 where Jim Lovell daydreams about walking on the Moon.

I would love to hear that. I know that the billowing dust clouds are a problem but I'm sure there are others.

There are issues with how the suits move around.  Mythbusters did a segment where they showed that both overcranking and wire rigs resulted in movement of suit elements (helmet, hoses, camera harness, lanyards, flaps, etc.) that didn't match up with Apollo footage.  The only thing that resulted in matching movement?  Using a Vomit Comet to simulate 1/6 Earth gravity. 

In the "That's All There Is" episode of FTETTM, there's a shot of Dave Foley as Al Bean futzing with the TV camera with the "sun" directly behind him, and you see all kinds of dust floating around.   That's the clearest example, but there are others where you see dust floating in the air.  And, of course, every shot of a LM landing had huge billowing dust clouds. 
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on May 02, 2018, 12:32:08 PM
Give me time to do some research (as in, rewatch From the Earth to the Moon and Apollo 13), and I'll do a column about it for the film site I write for.  But the short version is, yeah, dust and movement.  I suppose you could CGI the dust, though it's awfully expensive and time consuming for something only a handful of people care about.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Abaddon on May 02, 2018, 01:24:52 PM
Here it is for anyone who wants to download it and listen

On the role of Jodrell bank, it was discussed that Doppler shift is evidence of Apollo's veracity. ka9q explained that it would be theoretically possible to fake the Doppler shift, but not possible to fool the operators at the DSN (??? if I recall). I cannot find his post. Does anyone remember exactly what he said on this point? I may have this completely incorrect.
Vaguely rings a bell. Did you search the archive?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on May 02, 2018, 02:09:31 PM
Give me time to do some research (as in, rewatch From the Earth to the Moon and Apollo 13), and I'll do a column about it for the film site I write for.  But the short version is, yeah, dust and movement.
Thanks! If you do, it would make interesting reading.

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I suppose you could CGI the dust, though it's awfully expensive and time consuming for something only a handful of people care about.
By the time "From the Earth to the Moon" was made, CGI technology was just about capable of effects like that, although as you say, they would be very expensive and time consuming.  There was nothing even vaguely up to the job at the time of Apollo.

I think I mentioned, either here or on CQ, that I spent many years working on graphics system software, and if anything remotely capable of those effects had been available in the 1960's, it wouldn't have stayed a secret for long, since the movie industry would have leapt on it (much as they did in the 1990's).

People who believe that the Apollo films, videos and photographs were faked seem to have done no research into what tools were available at the time, and apparently think Photoshop was developed in the 19th Century, probably running on Babbage's Analytical Engine...  :D
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Abaddon on May 02, 2018, 03:01:33 PM
Here it is for anyone who wants to download it and listen

On the role of Jodrell bank, it was discussed that Doppler shift is evidence of Apollo's veracity. ka9q explained that it would be theoretically possible to fake the Doppler shift, but not possible to fool the operators at the DSN (??? if I recall). I cannot find his post. Does anyone remember exactly what he said on this point? I may have this completely incorrect.
This the one?

http://www.apollohoax.net/forum/index.php?topic=998.msg34356#msg34356
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on May 02, 2018, 03:40:37 PM
Here it is for anyone who wants to download it and listen

On the role of Jodrell bank, it was discussed that Doppler shift is evidence of Apollo's veracity. ka9q explained that it would be theoretically possible to fake the Doppler shift, but not possible to fool the operators at the DSN (??? if I recall). I cannot find his post. Does anyone remember exactly what he said on this point? I may have this completely incorrect.
This the one?

http://www.apollohoax.net/forum/index.php?topic=998.msg34356#msg34356

And in that thread was the video of Leonov discussing listening in on the landing.


Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Zakalwe on May 02, 2018, 03:48:24 PM
There was nothing even vaguely up to the job at the time of Apollo.

I think I mentioned, either here or on CQ, that I spent many years working on graphics system software, and if anything remotely capable of those effects had been available in the 1960's, it wouldn't have stayed a secret for long, since the movie industry would have leapt on it (much as they did in the 1990's).

People who believe that the Apollo films, videos and photographs were faked seem to have done no research into what tools were available at the time, and apparently think Photoshop was developed in the 19th Century, probably running on Babbage's Analytical Engine...  :D

The state of the art at the time was so limited that they couldn't even generate solid lines to separate the columns of numbers on the controllers screens. The idea of a graphics manipulation package similar to Photoshop in the 1960s is completely hilarious.

"The System/360 mainframes generated the requested data on a CRT screen using dedicated digital-to-television display generators; positioned over the CRT in turn was a video camera, watching the screen. For the oxygen status display example above, the mainframe would produce a series of numerical columns and print them on the CRT.

The numbers were just that, though. No column headings, no labels, no descriptive text, no formatting, no cell outlines, no nothing—bare, unadorned columns of numbers. In order to make them more understandable, an automated mechanical system would retrieve an actual physical slide containing printed column headings and other formatting reference information from a huge bank of such slides, and place the slide over a light source and project it through a series of lenses into the video camera positioned above the CRT. The mixed image, made up of the CRT's bare columns and the slide containing the formatting, was then transmitted to the controller's console screen as a single video stream.

This process was necessary to dress up and clarify the mainframes' sparse output, since the modern concept of a single unified graphical display consisting of mixed static and dynamic elements was impossible with the era's technology."


https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/going-boldly-what-it-was-like-to-be-an-apollo-flight-controller/2/
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: jfb on May 02, 2018, 04:00:00 PM
There was nothing even vaguely up to the job at the time of Apollo.

I think I mentioned, either here or on CQ, that I spent many years working on graphics system software, and if anything remotely capable of those effects had been available in the 1960's, it wouldn't have stayed a secret for long, since the movie industry would have leapt on it (much as they did in the 1990's).

People who believe that the Apollo films, videos and photographs were faked seem to have done no research into what tools were available at the time, and apparently think Photoshop was developed in the 19th Century, probably running on Babbage's Analytical Engine...  :D

The state of the art at the time was so limited that they couldn't even generate solid lines to separate the columns of numbers on the controllers screens. The idea of a graphics manipulation package similar to Photoshop in the 1960s is completely hilarious.

"The System/360 mainframes generated the requested data on a CRT screen using dedicated digital-to-television display generators; positioned over the CRT in turn was a video camera, watching the screen. For the oxygen status display example above, the mainframe would produce a series of numerical columns and print them on the CRT.

The numbers were just that, though. No column headings, no labels, no descriptive text, no formatting, no cell outlines, no nothing—bare, unadorned columns of numbers. In order to make them more understandable, an automated mechanical system would retrieve an actual physical slide containing printed column headings and other formatting reference information from a huge bank of such slides, and place the slide over a light source and project it through a series of lenses into the video camera positioned above the CRT. The mixed image, made up of the CRT's bare columns and the slide containing the formatting, was then transmitted to the controller's console screen as a single video stream.

This process was necessary to dress up and clarify the mainframes' sparse output, since the modern concept of a single unified graphical display consisting of mixed static and dynamic elements was impossible with the era's technology."


https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/going-boldly-what-it-was-like-to-be-an-apollo-flight-controller/2/

Sure, that's just what they want you to think...

/s
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on May 02, 2018, 04:56:20 PM
You don’t need sophisticated graphics software to take a picture or video of a man in a space suit on a movie set.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on May 02, 2018, 05:03:41 PM
You don’t need sophisticated graphics software to take a picture or video of a man in a space suit on a movie set.

You also don't need it to broadcast live footage of Earth from space. Just a TV camera being pointed by a person in space.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on May 02, 2018, 05:25:44 PM
And I’m sure they will do it one day.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on May 02, 2018, 06:19:05 PM
And I’m sure they will do it one day.

NASA already did it 6 times or do you not aree?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Peter B on May 02, 2018, 06:33:49 PM
And I’m sure they will do it one day.
Do what? Broadcast live footage of the Earth from space?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 02, 2018, 06:34:53 PM
You don’t need sophisticated graphics software to take a picture or video of a man in a space suit on a movie set.

Movie sets require a lot of production personnel, prop makers and logistics people. How come none of them have ever spilled the beans?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on May 02, 2018, 06:45:26 PM
"Movie sets require a lot of production personnel, prop makers and logistics people. How come none of them have ever spilled the beans?"

MONEY!
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 02, 2018, 06:52:31 PM
"Movie sets require a lot of production personnel, prop makers and logistics people. How come none of them have ever spilled the beans?"

MONEY!

And how much money could a movie technician make selling his proof of the hoax to the media?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on May 02, 2018, 09:15:24 PM
"Movie sets require a lot of production personnel, prop makers and logistics people. How come none of them have ever spilled the beans?"

MONEY!
"OK, I take the money and make a deathbed confession to be read when I croak; that way any bad effects don't screw me over." said none of them . . . why?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Abaddon on May 02, 2018, 09:23:22 PM
"Movie sets require a lot of production personnel, prop makers and logistics people. How come none of them have ever spilled the beans?"

MONEY!
How much money would it take to silence one person? How many of those payments would be required?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on May 02, 2018, 09:50:52 PM
"Movie sets require a lot of production personnel, prop makers and logistics people. How come none of them have ever spilled the beans?"

MONEY!
How much money would it take to silence one person? How many of those payments would be required?
And where is this money coming from. Let's say you paid 1,000,000 a year to everyone involved who knew. If only less than a 10th of people involved in Apollo got paid, not to mention however many were directly involved in faking,  that's 40 BILLION dollars a YEAR, which is over  twice NASA's current annual budget.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 02, 2018, 10:14:26 PM
"Movie sets require a lot of production personnel, prop makers and logistics people. How come none of them have ever spilled the beans?"

MONEY!
How much money would it take to silence one person? How many of those payments would be required?
And where is this money coming from. Let's say you paid 1,000,000 a year to everyone involved who knew. If only less than a 10th of people involved in Apollo got paid, not to mention however many were directly involved in faking,  that's 40 BILLION dollars a YEAR, which is over  twice NASA's current annual budget.

And if you say that the NASA Death Squads keep the Apollo people from talking, those Squads have to be kept on salary for 50 years, they have to be let in on the hoax so they know what the people they are monitoring are NOT supposed to be talking about, and since those Squad members now know about the Moon Hoax, other Squad members now have to watch THEM to make sure that THEY are not tempted to cash in on revealing the Moon Hoax.

And of course, THEY have to know WHY they are watching their fellow Death Squad buddies, and now THEY have to be let in on the Biggest Secret Ever, and to keep THEM silent...
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on May 02, 2018, 11:13:03 PM
And if you say that the NASA Death Squads keep the Apollo people from talking, those Squads have to be kept on salary for 50 years, they have to be let in on the hoax so they know what the people they are monitoring are NOT supposed to be talking about, and since those Squad members now know about the Moon Hoax, other Squad members now have to watch THEM to make sure that THEY are not tempted to cash in on revealing the Moon Hoax.

And of course, THEY have to know WHY they are watching their fellow Death Squad buddies, and now THEY have to be let in on the Biggest Secret Ever, and to keep THEM silent...
Great A'Tuin, it's death squads all the way down! :o
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on May 03, 2018, 12:41:33 AM
And I’m sure they will do it one day.

They did. I can prove it. Can you do the same for your claim?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on May 03, 2018, 12:56:28 AM
You don’t need sophisticated graphics software to take a picture or video of a man in a space suit on a movie set.

No, you don't.  However, to make it look like the footage we have is considerably more than "a man in a space suit on a movie set."
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Peter B on May 03, 2018, 08:16:37 AM
"Movie sets require a lot of production personnel, prop makers and logistics people. How come none of them have ever spilled the beans?"

MONEY!

*smack forehead*

Of course!

Because no one has ever been motivated by a sense of honour to reveal national secrets - if only Daniel Ellsberg, Christopher Boyce, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden had been paid MONEY! then they'd have never released any secret documents...

Obviously MONEY! is some form of extra-attractive, extra-powerful currency.

[/sarcasm]
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Peter B on May 03, 2018, 08:36:18 AM
You don’t need sophisticated graphics software to take a picture or video of a man in a space suit on a movie set.

You don't for some footage, maybe.

But how was this footage faked:

Please watch all of it and explain how the footage includes evidence of low gravity and a vacuum, all recorded in a single cut.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on May 03, 2018, 08:51:38 AM
You don’t need sophisticated graphics software to take a picture or video of a man in a space suit on a movie set.

You don't for some footage, maybe.

But how was this footage faked: <snip>

Please watch all of it and explain how the footage includes evidence of low gravity and a vacuum, all recorded in a single cut.
And also explain how it could be faked using only early 1970's technology...
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: jfb on May 03, 2018, 09:38:48 AM
"Movie sets require a lot of production personnel, prop makers and logistics people. How come none of them have ever spilled the beans?"

MONEY!

Money from where?  How much?  Where's the paper trail for those payments?  Who approved those payments?  Show me in the annual federal budget where that money comes from, because it would be a lot, too much to hide behind a black program.  Literally thousands of people were involved with Apollo, from the astronauts all the way down to the machinists who fabricated the tools to build the spacecraft. 

You believe the landings were filmed on a sound stage, then find me evidence for that sound stage.  Not just "this digital image that's been repeatedly rescaled and reprocessed and cropped and converted between image formats to the point where the compression artifacts dominate looks funny to me, therefore it was shot on a stage." 

Who built the stage?  Where was it built?  Who worked the cameras?  Lighting?  Electrical?  People were contracted to work, money changed hands, there would be a paper trail somewhere.  Find that paper trail and we'll talk.  Until then it's fantasy.

To repeat myself again, some more - there's an old saying, "three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead." 

There's been some discussion toward the end of the Radiation (http://www.apollohoax.net/forum/index.php?topic=1444.0) thread about how it's impossible to accurately replicate Apollo footage on a sound stage.  The movement of the astronauts cannot be accurately replicated either by overcranking or using wire rigs.  The behavior of the dust cannot be replicated outside of a vacuum chamber. 

The only way to accurately replicate the Apollo footage would be to a) build a vacuum chamber the size of a football field, b) build a set of the Lunar surface inside of it, complete with dirt, c) put it on an airplane that can do a parabolic dive to simulate 1/6 g, and d) maintain that dive for several minutes at a time.   

It wasn't faked. 
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: twik on May 03, 2018, 11:07:51 AM
And I’m sure they will do it one day.
If it's doable, why would you doubt they've already done so?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on May 03, 2018, 04:11:08 PM
“If it's doable, why would you doubt they've already done so?”
It’s called sarcasm.

I hate to have to point out something that is so obvious to all other people on this planet, but everything is about money.

I’ve seen that footage several times, but I decided to humour you and watch it again. Every time I see one of these videos, it becomes more apparent just how fake they really are. You are seeing things that just aren’t there, while blocking out the obvious fakery. First of all, it is definitely played back in slow motion. Played at 2x speed, it looks normal, although if I was being picky, I’d say it needs to be played back slightly slower. Secondly, I can see the obvious line where the stage ends and the fake scenery begins and towards the end when they disappear over the alleged hill, they are obviously walking around in a pit at the back of the stage. If you bother to open your eyes, you will notice you don’t see the astronaut’s feet. Go on, show me another, this is easy.

And as for jfb, there are things living at the bottom of ponds with more intelligence than some of you. This is my take on things, that is all, so why don’t you prove it wasn’t motivated by money. Can’t you see how ridiculous you sound? As for the dust you mention, it’s more than likely sand, as when you kick sand in the air, it doesn’t cloud or hang in the air. It comes straight back down again, exactly like you see in the alleged Rover footage. I say again, you lot only see what you’ve been told to see.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Luke Pemberton on May 03, 2018, 04:29:16 PM
I’ve seen that footage several times, but I decided to humour you and watch it again.

That's so very kind of you to humour us in this way.

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Go on, show me another, this is easy.

See below.

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And as for jfb, there are things living at the bottom of ponds with more intelligence than some of you.

If all you have are insults then your argument is weak.

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As for the dust you mention, it’s more than likely sand, as when you kick sand in the air, it doesn’t cloud or hang in the air. It comes straight back down again, exactly like you see in the alleged Rover footage.

What, you mean the grey dust in the footage behaves as though it was filmed in a vacuum. I wonder why?  ???

Unlike the sand in this footage that billowed and held up in the atmosphere.



...and this footage



Go on, tell me another, this is easy.

 
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: LunarOrbit on May 03, 2018, 04:36:31 PM
...there are things living at the bottom of ponds with more intelligence than some of you.

Stop it with the insults and attitude or you won't last long.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 03, 2018, 04:42:14 PM



I hate to have to point out something that is so obvious to all other people on this planet, but everything is about money.


So I repeat my question: why don't the people who worked on the hoax cash in on their knowledge by revealing it? A tell - all book "I Worked on the Moon Hoax" with proof (secret photos, work orders, pay stubs) would make the author a lot of MONEY!
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 03, 2018, 04:47:56 PM
As a matter of fact, cambo, why don't you write your proof of the moon hoax into a book and have a best seller? Don't you want to make a lot of MONEY!?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on May 03, 2018, 05:14:08 PM
Let's test that claim, canbo. Any youtube video let's you alter the speed of the video to adegree, so here's some film of the LRV been driven from Apollo 16. Let's speed it up x2. I don't know about you, but that sure fudge does not look like how it would on Earth. For one, dust lingers when thrown into the air thanks to the drag from its high surface area, while the moon has no air, as I hope you are aware, so it falls back to ground much more quickly.

You'd need some video altering software to test whatever your exact value for 'slightly lower' is, but I'll leave that to you.
But wait, there's more!
Apollo 14 filmed an inadvertent pendulum that resulted from a hanging lanyard. Now, a pendulum's swing depends on local gravity and how long it swings depends on drag. One source of drag is air.
Not only would it speeding the video up so that the pendulum's motion match what it'd be in Earth gravity result in the astronauts  moving like we should be playing Yakety Sax, but, again, the length of time it swings is strong evidence there's  no atmosphere.

The difference in quality is because the former is actual film, while the latter is live, colour video being transmitted to Earth from the moon.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: jfb on May 03, 2018, 05:46:29 PM
And as for jfb, there are things living at the bottom of ponds with more intelligence than some of you.

True, but you really don't want to disturb the Old Ones.  They get ... cranky

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This is my take on things, that is all, so why don’t you prove it wasn’t motivated by money. Can’t you see how ridiculous you sound?

Why don't you prove it was?  That's how this works, you take a position, and then you supply evidence to support your position.  You don't take a position and demand we prove you wrong, especially when you've signaled that you don't believe anything we have to say anyway. 

Serious question - how much money would it take to buy your silence for the rest of your life?  Think about it for more than a couple of minutes.  A hundred bucks?  A thousand?  A million?  A million a year?

There were literally thousands of people involved with the Apollo program.  How much would it cost to buy everyone's silence over the course of several decades?  What's to stop people from demanding ever more money over time? 

Where does that money come from?  How would you hide those payments in the federal budget so that they aren't immediately obvious to any second-year accounting student?  How do you convince subsequent Congresses to continue those payments over time?  You think the current Republican Congress wouldn't leap at the chance to discredit Kennedy and Johnson?     

How would you explain those payments to the IRS? 

How much money would the first person who could credibly expose the Apollo missions as a hoax make by comparison? 

Work the numbers, then get back to us.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: LunarOrbit on May 03, 2018, 06:11:09 PM
There were literally thousands of people involved with the Apollo program.

And countless more who didn't work for NASA at the time of Apollo, but still have (or will have) the capability to expose the hoax. I'm not sure cambo has thought this through. The secret of the hoax would have to be protected for the rest of time or eventually someone will expose it. NASA can't afford to bribe this problem away.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 03, 2018, 06:52:01 PM
There were literally thousands of people involved with the Apollo program.

And countless more who didn't work for NASA at the time of Apollo, but still have (or will have) the capability to expose the hoax. I'm not sure cambo has thought this through. The secret of the hoax would have to be protected for the rest of time or eventually someone will expose it. NASA can't afford to bribe this problem away.

And this means that to continue to protect the hoax, new generations have to be made privy to the secret as older generations die off; so continues the possibility of exposure.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: inconceivable on May 03, 2018, 06:59:00 PM
The one that gets me is the one about Muana Kea.  Those old pictures of the terrain and cinder cones from back in the day look just like the supposed backdrop photos most notably Apollo 15.   That is just uncanny!  After a road was built the Air Force purchased the land south of the summit ridge.  Nasa astronauts were training there also and returned to Hawaii after splashdown.  Weren't the HBs calculating if a light source were projected down into the park from this Air Force plot?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: smartcooky on May 03, 2018, 06:59:43 PM
You don’t need sophisticated graphics software to take a picture or video of a man in a space suit on a movie set.

You do if you don't want a First Year photography student to immediately recognize that you have taken a picture or video of a man in a space suit on a movie set, on the earth.

This is one of the first things that I picked up on waaay back when HBs were bleating on about the sky not being full of stars in the photos taken on the Lunar surface. As someone who makes his living as a photographer and in dealing with image manipulation, I can say with certainty that if the sky had been full of stars in those photos, I would immediately recognise fakery.


(https://www.dropbox.com/s/pprt6oom2kxt4g7/LunarStars.png?raw=1)
This would be a clear and obvious fake purely because if the stars to even
a first year photography student



Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on May 03, 2018, 07:26:04 PM
The one that gets me is the one about Muana Kea.  Those old pictures of the terrain and cinder cones from back in the day look just like the supposed backdrop photos most notably Apollo 15.   That is just uncanny!  After a road was built the Air Force purchased the land south of the summit ridge.  Nasa astronauts were training there also and returned to Hawaii after splashdown.  Weren't the HBs calculating if a light source were projected down into the park from this Air Force plot?
Show me an example of it being 'exactly' the same. I have yet to see one. Besides, don't conspiracy theorists usually just  claim it was some kind of backdrop and the lack of change in the background of the image is somehow  proof of that as opposed to the lack of changes when the objects in the background are far away. You don't know how to keep your stories consistent do you? You can't even agree where it was filmed.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nomuse on May 03, 2018, 07:47:21 PM
The one that gets me is the one about Muana Kea.  Those old pictures of the terrain and cinder cones from back in the day look just like the supposed backdrop photos most notably Apollo 15.   That is just uncanny!  After a road was built the Air Force purchased the land south of the summit ridge.  Nasa astronauts were training there also and returned to Hawaii after splashdown.  Weren't the HBs calculating if a light source were projected down into the park from this Air Force plot?

They also trained in Meteor Crater, Arizona. Why isn't that suspicious?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on May 03, 2018, 07:56:12 PM
They also trained in Meteor Crater, Arizona. Why isn't that suspicious?
Wow, it's almost like training in environments that have certain analogies to the one being trained for is actually kind of smart idea. :o
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 03, 2018, 08:02:04 PM
The one that gets me is the one about Muana Kea.  Those old pictures of the terrain and cinder cones from back in the day look just like the supposed backdrop photos most notably Apollo 15.   That is just uncanny!  After a road was built the Air Force purchased the land south of the summit ridge.  Nasa astronauts were training there also and returned to Hawaii after splashdown.  Weren't the HBs calculating if a light source were projected down into the park from this Air Force plot?

Why would NASA publish photos of astronauts training at a site and then turn around and use the EXACT SAME SITE to film the hoax footage? That is beyond all kinds of stupid.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: jfb on May 03, 2018, 10:16:40 PM
The one that gets me is the one about Muana Kea.  Those old pictures of the terrain and cinder cones from back in the day look just like the supposed backdrop photos most notably Apollo 15.

Except for, you know, all the plants.

I've been to Mauna Kea.  Parts of it are pretty barren, but even in the most inhospitable parts you will find some plant doing its damndest to grow, even in the bare rock.   

Something I regret not getting a picture of is a small vent spewing steam - on the upwind side, hardy grasses and scrub brush.  On the downwind side, lush green ferns and mosses and other jungle-type vegetation.  Distance between the two environments?  On the order of a couple of feet. 
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on May 03, 2018, 11:35:04 PM
The one that gets me is the one about Muana Kea.  Those old pictures of the terrain and cinder cones from back in the day look just like the supposed backdrop photos most notably Apollo 15.   That is just uncanny!  After a road was built the Air Force purchased the land south of the summit ridge.  Nasa astronauts were training there also and returned to Hawaii after splashdown.  Weren't the HBs calculating if a light source were projected down into the park from this Air Force plot?

What gets me about the photographs and footage of the Apollo 15 landing site is how they look exactly like Mons Hadley, the lunar Apennines and Hadley Rille - down to the last tiny rock and crater, as demonstrated in photos taken by the LRO, Kaguya, Chang'e-2 and Chandrayaan. It's just uncanny. Almost as if they were there.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nomuse on May 04, 2018, 01:15:35 AM
A fun one to think about as well is the NewWho episode "Planet of the Dead." Untouched desert, completely bare of all plant life, footprints, anything. How did they do it? Sent a huge crew out to clear everything within camera view. And swept it again and again, after every take and after anyone, actor or crew, had stepped on it. A ridiculous amount of work the hoaxies are simply ignoring with their "they just filmed it on the slopes."

BTW that's a fun episode for a couple reasons, both showing how the art we get arises as much from constraints as from intent. First, while the principle photography was in Dubai the inside of the crashed alien ship was filmed at a steelworks in Newport during one of the coldest winters on record. With everyone's breath visibly fogging they had to add a line explaining why the inside of the ship was so cold, but that doesn't matter; what was lovely was the contrast; it made the ship more alien and it really sold the heat of the desert.

The original artistic vision was of a pristine and very British double-decker bus suddenly appearing in the middle of an alien desert. Unfortunately someone dropped the shipping container and it arrived in Dubai looking much the worse for wear. Which was great; the condition of the bus underlined why they needed the bus to survive going back through the wormhole. (They did some repairs of the dockside damage then went over it to add scorch marks and other fun stuff. Then did the same to the identical bus they had left home for studio filming.)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Bryanpoprobson on May 04, 2018, 01:21:26 AM
Let's test that claim, canbo
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Apollo 14 filmed an inadvertent pendulum that resulted from a hanging lanyard. Now, a pendulum's swing depends on local gravity and how long it swings depends on drag. One source of drag is air.
Not only would it speeding the video up so that the pendulum's motion match what it'd be in Earth gravity result in the astronauts  moving like we should be playing Yakety Sax, but, again, the length of time it swings is strong evidence there's  no atmosphere.

The difference in quality is because the former is actual film, while the latter is live, colour video being transmitted to Earth from the moon.

Or my little effort regarding pendulums..


Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on May 04, 2018, 02:30:14 AM
And countless more who didn't work for NASA at the time of Apollo, but still have (or will have) the capability to expose the hoax. I'm not sure cambo has thought this through. The secret of the hoax would have to be protected for the rest of time or eventually someone will expose it. NASA can't afford to bribe this problem away.
Adding to the problem, a lot of these people weren't in the USA, or American (see Cambo's "worldwide conspiracy" idea) and you have the same problem multiplied enormously.  Also, this includes countries where governments aren't as likely to want to keep paying to hide a US "hoax" for centuries, or where economic problems might mean they just can't pay their "conspirators".

The whole idea gets more and more preposterous with every wrinkle you add to it.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on May 04, 2018, 03:29:45 AM
Or my little effort regarding pendulums..


Also a very educational video on the subject. Mind you, cambo probably counts gravity to be under the heading of 'NASA-science'.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Peter B on May 04, 2018, 05:33:39 AM
I hate to have to point out something that is so obvious to all other people on this planet, but everything is about money.

Or that hyper-powered alternative, MONEY!.

And of course, as already pointed out, money was the main reason why Apollo was stopped. Then, in the aftermath, thousands of NASA employees were laid off...and not one of them was cranky enough about that to spill the Apollo hoax to the media. I wonder why?

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I’ve seen that footage several times, but I decided to humour you and watch it again. Every time I see one of these videos, it becomes more apparent just how fake they really are. You are seeing things that just aren’t there, while blocking out the obvious fakery. First of all, it is definitely played back in slow motion. Played at 2x speed, it looks normal, although if I was being picky, I’d say it needs to be played back slightly slower. Secondly, I can see the obvious line where the stage ends and the fake scenery begins and towards the end when they disappear over the alleged hill, they are obviously walking around in a pit at the back of the stage. If you bother to open your eyes, you will notice you don’t see the astronaut’s feet. Go on, show me another, this is easy.

Okay, so it's your contention that the video of the astronauts was faked on a stage by being recorded at roughly half speed. That means it  (a) had to be recorded beforehand, and (b) must have been used for all the footage. For point (a) how is it that Mission Control and the astronauts are occasionally heard talking about events of that day such as live sports results? Plus, even if the conversation was recorded live over pre-recorded actions, how is it that sound and action synch so perfectly?  And for point (b) are you seriously going to tell me that this video of Dave Scott tripping over a rock, flailing arms and all, works at roughly double speed?



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And as for jfb, there are things living at the bottom of ponds with more intelligence than some of you. This is my take on things, that is all, so why don’t you prove it wasn’t motivated by money. Can’t you see how ridiculous you sound? As for the dust you mention, it’s more than likely sand, as when you kick sand in the air, it doesn’t cloud or hang in the air. It comes straight back down again, exactly like you see in the alleged Rover footage. I say again, you lot only see what you’ve been told to see.

Because there are some people who are motivated by things other than money. The Apollo workforce, including contractors, was around 400,000 at its peak. Even if money - or MONEY! - was good enough for 99.99% of those people, that still means there'd be 40 noble patriots who'd refuse the money and speak out. So far we're waiting for one credible person to step forward with evidence of Apollo being faked.

And as for the dusty sand, would you care to explain why the material on the ground looks and behaves like a cohesive powder - similar to flour or talcum powder? And would you care to explain how you create dust-free sand, especially when this stage of yours is going to require hundreds of tons?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on May 04, 2018, 06:40:34 AM
The one Another one that gets me, but not enough to bother actually returning to defend this absurd accusation because I'm just here for a laugh and to wind you lot up is the one about Muana Kea.

Fixed that for you...

Zero out of ten for originality, inconceivable. Another one I have to ask, why are you even here?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on May 04, 2018, 12:34:54 PM
Serious question - how much money would it take to buy your silence for the rest of your life?  Think about it for more than a couple of minutes.  A hundred bucks?  A thousand?  A million?  A million a year?

They never believe me when I say this, but there literally is not enough money in the world to buy my silence.  It's not just that I have a bit of a reputation as a talker; it's that I consider the kind of lying I'd have to do in order to keep Apollo secret if I had faked it to be a sin.  It would eventually weigh on my conscience so much that I would come forward.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: jfb on May 04, 2018, 01:02:10 PM
Serious question - how much money would it take to buy your silence for the rest of your life?  Think about it for more than a couple of minutes.  A hundred bucks?  A thousand?  A million?  A million a year?

They never believe me when I say this, but there literally is not enough money in the world to buy my silence.  It's not just that I have a bit of a reputation as a talker; it's that I consider the kind of lying I'd have to do in order to keep Apollo secret if I had faked it to be a sin.  It would eventually weigh on my conscience so much that I would come forward.

And you are not unique in that respect. 

I like to say I can be rented rather than bought outright, but even so, I occasionally get drunk, or stay up too late, or otherwise am in a position to where I may just blab any damned thing out loud.  After 50+ years, at least one person who could credibly expose a hoax would have done so. 
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: inconceivable on May 04, 2018, 02:09:47 PM
The one thing about the moon landings that I was thinking about the other day was that time and time again I read that NASA didn't discover inertia until walking on the moon.  The astronauts were 1/6 weight on the moon but still carried around 310 lbs of mass so to speak.  So we have the bunny hop explanation?  But what about the LRV and its mass with two occupants?  Was there a scramble to use this new found inertial knowledge on the LRVs already in testing?  I don't recall reading anything about inertial affects on the LRV.  I'll go looks through some more Youtubes.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on May 04, 2018, 02:33:42 PM
The one thing about the moon landings that I was thinking about the other day was that time and time again I read that NASA didn't discover inertia until walking on the moon...
NASA discovered inertia?!?!  Well, that puts right centuries of scientific misunderstanding on the concept.

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I'll go looks through some more Youtubes.
... because, as everyone knows, that's where all the real knowledge is kept  ;D
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 04, 2018, 02:33:58 PM
The one thing about the moon landings that I was thinking about the other day was that time and time again I read that NASA didn't discover inertia until walking on the moon.  The astronauts were 1/6 weight on the moon but still carried around 310 lbs of mass so to speak.  So we have the bunny hop explanation?  But what about the LRV and its mass with two occupants?  Was there a scramble to use this new found inertial knowledge on the LRVs already in testing?  I don't recall reading anything about inertial affects on the LRV.  I'll go looks through some more Youtubes.

Science fiction writers knew about low gravity inertia in stories they wrote in the 1940s and 50s. I'm quite sure that the avid readers of these stories remembered them when they were planning Project Apollo.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on May 04, 2018, 02:41:19 PM
The one thing about the moon landings that I was thinking about the other day was that time and time again I read that NASA didn't discover inertia until walking on the moon.  The astronauts were 1/6 weight on the moon but still carried around 310 lbs of mass so to speak.  So we have the bunny hop explanation?  But what about the LRV and its mass with two occupants?  Was there a scramble to use this new found inertial knowledge on the LRVs already in testing?  I don't recall reading anything about inertial affects on the LRV.  I'll go looks through some more Youtubes.

Do feel free to give us those quotes you have read 'time and time again'.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: jfb on May 04, 2018, 03:08:38 PM
The one thing about the moon landings that I was thinking about the other day was that time and time again I read that NASA didn't discover inertia until walking on the moon. 

Horseshit.  You read no such thing.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Luke Pemberton on May 04, 2018, 03:28:23 PM
The one thing about the moon landings that I was thinking about the other day was that time and time again I read that NASA didn't discover inertia until walking on the moon.

I rarely pay attention to your posts inconceivable, but even by your standards this is lamentable. NASA didn't discover inertia until walking on the moon.

Erm... so the astronauts walked on the moon then? That's what you are telling us.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on May 04, 2018, 04:07:00 PM
“Unlike the sand in this footage that billowed and held up in the atmosphere”

Thanks for those, there are a few seconds near the start of both those clips, when the buggies are moving slow, which look identical to the faked Rover footage, plus you do realise those things were outdoors and not on an enclosed movie set, right?

“Stop it with the insults and attitude or you won't last long”

Noted.

“A tell - all book "I Worked on the Moon Hoax" with proof (secret photos, work orders, pay stubs) would make the author a lot of MONEY!”

You’ve been given a ton of money to stay quiet, where is your logic?

“As a matter of fact, cambo, why don't you write your proof of the moon hoax into a book and have a best seller? Don't you want to make a lot of MONEY!?”

What proof?

The Apollo 16 Lunar rover video looks perfect at 1.5x speed and as for the pendulum video, the film, from what I can make out looks like 1x speed. The quality is so bad, that I don’t see how you would see this as evidence, as there could be a mechanical device doing the work and we wouldn’t be any the wiser.

“Serious question - how much money would it take to buy your silence for the rest of your life?  Think about it for more than a couple of minutes.  A hundred bucks?  A thousand?  A million?  A million a year?”

A couple of hundred grand would do me at my time of life, but for someone a lot younger, maybe five million.

“There were literally thousands of people involved with the Apollo program.  How much would it cost to buy everyone's silence over the course of several decades?  What's to stop people from demanding ever more money over time?”

Well let’s say there were a hundred people actually in on Apollo, which would be half a billion in English terms. And you don’t blackmail the government.

“Where does that money come from?”

NASA’s multibillion dollar budget of course. We are talking the American government here, if they want to hide something, it’s gone.

 “How much money would the first person who could credibly expose the Apollo missions as a hoax make by comparison?”

What good is money if you are dead?

“And countless more who didn't work for NASA at the time of Apollo, but still have (or will have) the capability to expose the hoax.”

You know the answer to that one, but I’ll humour you. The people making the nuts and bolts weren’t present on the movie set.

“And this means that to continue to protect the hoax, new generations have to be made privy to the secret as older generations die off; so continues the possibility of exposure.”

By new generations, do you mean the sons, grandchildren and great grandchildren of the film crew and NASA’s top brass? Surely only the CIA would need to know, as they are probably running NASA, and I’m sure some of them will be trained in special effects. Let the original hoaxers go to their graves, which would just leave those crafty CIA agents. It wouldn’t surprise me if the president himself wasn’t aware.

“Or my little effort regarding pendulums”

To me it looks like there is a drought causing the bag to continue swinging, and the little maths lesson at the end doesn’t disprove this.

“Mind you, cambo probably counts gravity to be under the heading of 'NASA-science”

In a way it is, not because it’s fake science, but because it’s bad science. Take the dark matter theory, it’s possible they just got gravity wrong, and if that turns out to be the case, then Apollo and any other missions involving planetary orbits, sling shots and the likes, all go in the hoax bin.

“how is it that Mission Control and the astronauts are occasionally heard talking about events of that day such as live sports results? Plus, even if the conversation was recorded live over pre-recorded actions, how is it that sound and action synch so perfectly?”

Only the voices needed to be live, although instances of other sounds were few and far between, and lip-sync wasn’t a problem for obvious reasons.

 “are you seriously going to tell me that this video of Dave Scott tripping over a rock, flailing arms and all, works at roughly double speed?”

So you think all the video would have to be played back at the same speed? This one is bang on at 1.5x speed.

“And as for the dusty sand, would you care to explain why the material on the ground looks and behaves like a cohesive powder - similar to flour or talcum powder?”

No it doesn’t, it looks like sand, you are only seeing what you want to see.

“And would you care to explain how you create dust-free sand, especially when this stage of yours is going to require hundreds of tons?”

I can’t, where did I say I could? But that’s irrelevant, as I already pointed out earlier in my post, that it can be simulated perfectly outdoors, thanks so much to whoever posted those priceless videos.

“They never believe me when I say this”

I wonder why?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Luke Pemberton on May 04, 2018, 04:20:44 PM
In a way it is, not because it’s fake science, but because it’s bad science. Take the dark matter theory, it’s possible they just got gravity wrong, and if that turns out to be the case, then Apollo and any other missions involving planetary orbits, sling shots and the likes, all go in the hoax bin.

They got gravity wrong? Really? Do you actually understand the reason for the proposal of dark matter and its relationship to the cosmological model?

I've pigeon holed you now. All we learned at school and college is wrong, those that use main stream science are sheeple and cannot possibly attain your mastery of critical thinking to overturn centuries of advancement in science, engineering and medicine. We're all establishment types here, unlike you with your superior knowledge.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 04, 2018, 04:49:23 PM

“A tell - all book "I Worked on the Moon Hoax" with proof (secret photos, work orders, pay stubs) would make the author a lot of MONEY!”

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You've been given a ton of money to stay quiet, where is your logic?


I blew it all in Vegas, and I'm broke. But I know this secret that I can parley into millions of dollars. That's my logic.



“As a matter of fact, cambo, why don't you write your proof of the moon hoax into a book and have a best seller? Don't you want to make a lot of MONEY!?”

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What proof?

So you don't have any proof of what you're saying, and you're just yanking our chain. Well, we knew that.



 “How much money would the first person who could credibly expose the Apollo missions as a hoax make by comparison?”

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  What good is money if you are dead?

Here we go with the NASA Death Squads.



“And this means that to continue to protect the hoax, new generations have to be made privy to the secret as older generations die off; so continues the possibility of exposure.”

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By new generations, do you mean the sons, grandchildren and great grandchildren of the film crew and NASA’s top brass? Surely only the CIA would need to know, as they are probably running NASA, and I’m sure some of them will be trained in special effects. Let the original hoaxers go to their graves, which would just leave those crafty CIA agents. It wouldn’t surprise me if the president himself wasn’t aware.

Correction: CIA Death Squads. Although, since they only handle external affairs, shouldn't that be the FBI Death Squads? No, I mean the descendants of the Death Squads. They have to know the secrets they are protecting, and we are well aware that Government agents have been caught selling secrets for MONEY! The threat of death has not stopped CIA agents from selling out their country;  what is stopping them from revealing the Moon Hoax for MONEY!?
And what stops the President from making himself a hero in the eyes of the nation by revealing the hoax?



Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on May 04, 2018, 05:17:07 PM
Well let’s say there were a hundred people actually in on Apollo...
Have you really spent any time thinking this through?  You'd need more than that just for the supposed filming!!  I guess you've never had anything to do with movie or TV production though.  Take a look at the credits for even a low budget production, and count how many people are involved.  (And generally, there are a lot of people who don't make it into the credits as well.)

Then you have layer upon layer of people working on other parts of the "hoax".  Making sure the multiple teams designing, building and launching the spacecraft did their jobs well enough, but somehow didn't realise it was faked.  Managing the communications by some black magic means to fool everyone listening in.  Faking the tracking data, telemetry, video and audio feeds.  Secret teams developing the robotic probes that launched unseen to set up the experiments, and returned kilogrammes of rock samples.

The list goes on and on, and you have to pay these people a lot of money for a long time to ensure silence.  (If it was me, I'd be looking for something like $250,000 a year for life, and at least $100,000 a year for each child for life, otherwise the lawyers open the envelope!  That seems reasonable to me...)


And for Cthulhu's sake, learn to use the quote reply feature.  It'll make your responses much easier to follow (or is that deliberate ploy as well?) .
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on May 04, 2018, 05:18:11 PM
i liked the comment 'the people making the nuts a bolts wernt present on the set' lol. would it not have occurred to all these people that something dodgy was going on if they were asked to build a movie set and a huge vacuum chamber
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 04, 2018, 05:18:19 PM
CIA Agent Smith, fresh out of the Academy,  meets with his supervisor to get his first assignment:

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Supervisor Jones hands Smith a dossier. "Smith,  here's the file on Professor Stein. If he threatens to reveal the secret...take care of him."

"You mean kill him, right? I'm still trying to get the hang of CIA slang."

Jones looks exasperated. "Yes, I mean kill him. You sure you're up to it.?"

"Yeah, I was head of my class in assassination." Smith leafs through the folder. "Something's missing here."

"What?"

"What's the secret he can't reveal?"

"I can't tell you."

"So how am I supposed to know when to kill him?"

"Look, Smith, you just..." Jones stops. "Maybe I didn't think this through. "I guess I'll have to tell you." He leans over and whispers in Smith's ear.

Smith's eyes get big. "Wow!" He thinks of his meager CIA salary. He then thinks of his car payments and the girlfriend that his fiancee doesn't know about, and how they both have expensive tastes. He smiles and says "you can count on me, sir."

Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Luke Pemberton on May 04, 2018, 05:21:16 PM
i liked the comment 'the people making the nuts a bolts wernt present on the set' lol. would it not have occurred to all these people that something dodgy was going on if they were asked to build a movie set and a huge vacuum chamber

There's also a good point that Jason made. We have evidence that a rocket was launched. We have evidence of a space ship operating in LEO. If you ask a bunch of engineers to build a space rocket, they are going to build a space rocket that works. If they can't, they're going to tell you they can't and then they are part of the hoax too.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on May 04, 2018, 05:25:43 PM
i liked the comment 'the people making the nuts a bolts wernt present on the set' lol. would it not have occurred to all these people that something dodgy was going on if they were asked to build a movie set and a huge vacuum chamber

There's also a good point that Jason made. We have evidence that a rocket was launched. We have evidence of a space ship operating in LEO. If you ask a bunch of engineers to build a space rocket, they are going to build a space rocket that works. If they can't, they're going to tell you they can't and then they are part of the hoax too.
And before long you have 400,000 people (plus the CIA death squads watching all of them) who want something like $100,000 a year each for life (conservative estimate).

That comes to something like 2 trillion dollars spent so far on covering up the "hoax".  It would definitely have been cheaper just to go to the Moon  ;D
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Luke Pemberton on May 04, 2018, 05:28:30 PM
That comes to something like 2 trillion dollars spent so far on covering up the "hoax".  It would definitely have been cheaper just to go to the Moon  ;D

Before I am beaten to it this time...  ;D

Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 04, 2018, 05:39:01 PM
God, I love British humor!

Sorry, I meant humour!
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Count Zero on May 04, 2018, 05:56:13 PM
Give me time to do some research (as in, rewatch From the Earth to the Moon and Apollo 13), and I'll do a column about it for the film site I write for.  But the short version is, yeah, dust and movement.  I suppose you could CGI the dust, though it's awfully expensive and time consuming for something only a handful of people care about.

(Sorry I'm late)  They actually tried this in the IMAX movie "Magnificent Desolation - Walking on the Moon in 3D".  They used a hard floor sculpted to look like an uneven surface, and CGIed the dust kicked by the actors' boots and their footprints.  "A" for effort, but "C-" for results - They couldn't produce anywhere near the number of particles required for each step, and the footprints lacked resolution, especially in the spray of ejecta around them.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Bryanpoprobson on May 05, 2018, 12:30:41 AM


“Or my little effort regarding pendulums”

To me it looks like there is a drought causing the bag to continue swinging, and the little maths lesson at the end doesn’t disprove this.


“Drought?” Taking account of the fact there is no atmosphere on the moon, let’s humour you and pretend there is. If there was a “draught” the bag would still have a periodicity closer to 1 swing per second in Earths gravity field. It is the period of the bag that proves it is in a reduced gravity field something that would be very hard to duplicate on Earth. Plus the lack of atmospheric drag is the reason the motion is not damped, which is indicative of it being in a vacuum.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Obviousman on May 05, 2018, 01:32:47 AM
Stop interrupting Cambo's fantasies with annoying facts!
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: smartcooky on May 05, 2018, 02:16:02 AM
i liked the comment 'the people making the nuts a bolts wernt present on the set' lol. would it not have occurred to all these people that something dodgy was going on if they were asked to build a movie set and a huge vacuum chamber

There's also a good point that Jason made. We have evidence that a rocket was launched. We have evidence of a space ship operating in LEO. If you ask a bunch of engineers to build a space rocket, they are going to build a space rocket that works. If they can't, they're going to tell you they can't and then they are part of the hoax too.
And before long you have 400,000 people (plus the CIA death squads watching all of them) who want something like $100,000 a year each for life (conservative estimate).

That comes to something like 2 trillion dollars spent so far on covering up the "hoax".  It would definitely have been cheaper just to go to the Moon  ;D

It would be much, much cheaper to just send the CIA hit squads to take out all the high profile Hoax Believers. After all, the Deep State Alphabet Soup Military Industrial Complex can do anything, right? How hard could it be to have The Blunder and his ilk meet with a series of unfortunate accidents?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Abaddon on May 05, 2018, 05:29:56 AM
i liked the comment 'the people making the nuts a bolts wernt present on the set' lol. would it not have occurred to all these people that something dodgy was going on if they were asked to build a movie set and a huge vacuum chamber
And there is a massive hole in CTist thinking, if such it can be called.

There were some 400,000 people directly involved in the Apollo project. They would have to all be in on the hoax.

No, the CT nutter claims, only a few at the top would have to be in on it. (50-100 is the usual guess).

Really? Well in that case, the other 399,900 were also deceived and thus built the Apollo vehicles to spec, right? And if they built the Apollo hardware to go to the moon then what the hell was to stop them going to the moon?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on May 05, 2018, 08:25:10 AM
I'm not even going to bother addressing cambo's Apollo stuff because he has already stated nothing from NASA or a third party is admissible as proof, and all of science is wrong. However:

In a way it is, not because it’s fake science, but because it’s bad science. Take the dark matter theory, it’s possible they just got gravity wrong, and if that turns out to be the case, then Apollo and any other missions involving planetary orbits, sling shots and the likes, all go in the hoax bin.

This is absolutely not how science works. If gravity is 'wrong' in relation to dark matter, invoked to explain the apparent 'missing mass' on a galactic scale, that makes no difference to the equations (Newtonian or Einsteinian) used to determine the observed behaviour of objects on a planetary system scale. Having to redefine gravity to better explain the apparent missing mass in galaxies doesn't stop it from working on this scale, and certainly doesn't confine all of spaceflight beyond LEO to the 'hoax' bin.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on May 05, 2018, 08:39:05 AM
This is absolutely not how science works. If gravity is 'wrong' in relation to dark matter, invoked to explain the apparent 'missing mass' on a galactic scale, that makes no difference to the equations (Newtonian or Einsteinian) used to determine the observed behaviour of objects on a planetary system scale. Having to redefine gravity to better explain the apparent missing mass in galaxies doesn't stop it from working on this scale, and certainly doesn't confine all of spaceflight beyond LEO to the 'hoax' bin.
Don't you understand - all of science is wrong!!  Apparently the Illuminati / lizard people / aliens have controlled all of human knowledge for millennia, convincing us with their wily equations that the Earth is a sphere, that gravity pulls things down, and that the Moon isn't made of cheese.

This ancient conspiracy was put in place to control the populace, and keep us from finding out the truth, since that would be a bad thing, because... erm... ah...  No, it's to keep us in our place and away from their precious MONEY!  Or something...

It's simple really :
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Bryanpoprobson on May 05, 2018, 08:45:39 AM


In a way it is, not because it’s fake science, but because it’s bad science. Take the dark matter theory, it’s possible they just got gravity wrong, and if that turns out to be the case, then Apollo and any other missions involving planetary orbits, sling shots and the likes, all go in the hoax bin.

This is absolutely not how science works. If gravity is 'wrong' in relation to dark matter, invoked to explain the apparent 'missing mass' on a galactic scale, that makes no difference to the equations (Newtonian or Einsteinian) used to determine the observed behaviour of objects on a planetary system scale. Having to redefine gravity to better explain the apparent missing mass in galaxies doesn't stop it from working on this scale, and certainly doesn't confine all of spaceflight beyond LEO to the 'hoax' bin.

Absolutely, the two theories you mention being a case in point, relativity does not say that Newtonian physics or equations derived from Newton’s theories are wrong, but it does show why some observations of the universe are not exactly what you would expect from Newtonian physics in isolation.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on May 05, 2018, 08:58:13 AM
Absolutely, the two theories you mention being a case in point, relativity does not say that Newtonian physics or equations derived from Newton’s theories are wrong, but it does show why some observations of the universe are not exactly what you would expect from Newtonian physics in isolation.

This is something many HBs fail to understand. 'Science' is not some weird stuff done by men in white coats with nothing to do with the 'everyman' on the street. Newton's and Einstein's equations are not some obscure technobabble. You can literally apply them to anything you want to observe on a scale we can see without significant optical aid and see them work. I can use Newton's equations of motion to tell me how long a hammer will take to fall if I drop it, what path a ball will take if I throw it, how the Moon moves it its orbit, and when I should expect to see Mars in the sky. Whatever new theories may emerge from cosmology in regards to gravity on universal scale, it makes no odds to the methods used to calculate the trajectories of spacecraft.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: LunarOrbit on May 05, 2018, 11:54:03 AM
“Stop it with the insults and attitude or you won't last long”

Noted.

I also want you to start using the quote feature, please. It makes your posts easier to read, and it also let's us know who you're talking to. It's pretty easy to do, you just wrap the quoted text inside opening and closing quote tags. Like this:

Code: [Select]

[quote]
Quoted text goes here.
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You can cite the person you're quoting by adding "author=username" to the opening quote tag, like this:

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There is even a button in the post editor to simplify it for you so that you don't have to manually type the quote tags. It looks like this: (http://www.apollohoax.net/forum/Themes/ApolloHoax/images/bbc/quote.gif)

Just highlight the text you want to turn into a quote and then click that button.

Quote from: cambo
“A tell - all book "I Worked on the Moon Hoax" with proof (secret photos, work orders, pay stubs) would make the author a lot of MONEY!”

You’ve been given a ton of money to stay quiet, where is your logic?

I hate to bring current day politics into this, but Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal were given a ton of money to stay quiet, but they exposed their affairs with President Trump any way. Bribery doesn't guaranty silence if someone with more money comes along to entice you to speak.

You can deny or ignore all of the facts if you want, but you don't have logic on your side. If going to the Moon is impossible for some reason, NASA could have saved themselves a lot of money (and embarrassment) by just coming right out and saying so. Why was it necessary to fake it? To fool the Russians? But I thought the Russians were in on it too?

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“As a matter of fact, cambo, why don't you write your proof of the moon hoax into a book and have a best seller? Don't you want to make a lot of MONEY!?”

What proof?

Exactly. You have no proof, so why should we take you, or your logically flawed argument, seriously? NASA says they went to the Moon, and they provided thousands of photos, hours of video and audio, and physical evidence like unflown spacecraft and Moon rocks to back up their claims. You have nothing but the greatest hits of Jarrah White that have been debunked for years.

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“Serious question - how much money would it take to buy your silence for the rest of your life?  Think about it for more than a couple of minutes.  A hundred bucks?  A thousand?  A million?  A million a year?”

A couple of hundred grand would do me at my time of life, but for someone a lot younger, maybe five million.

And what if someone offered you $10 million to break your silence? Or what if, at the end of your life, you decided "hell, I don't need money anymore, so I'm going to throw a wrench in the machine and expose the hoax!"?

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“How much money would the first person who could credibly expose the Apollo missions as a hoax make by comparison?”

What good is money if you are dead?

See my comment above regarding death bed confessions.

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“And countless more who didn't work for NASA at the time of Apollo, but still have (or will have) the capability to expose the hoax.”

You know the answer to that one, but I’ll humour you. The people making the nuts and bolts weren’t present on the movie set.

Do you really think only the people present on the movie set would be capable of exposing a hoax like that?

If, for example, NASA claimed the Van Allen radiation didn't pose a risk when it really did, that would be a lie they can't control. They can't stop someone else 5 years, 10 years, 50 years, 100 years, or 500 years later from studying the radiation and discovering that NASA lied about it. They can't stop someone else from going to the alleged Apollo landing sites and discovering there are no footprints.

The hoax would be 100% guaranteed to fail eventually, and NASA would know that... so why do it? This is why the hoax theory fails the logic test, even if you ignore all of the other evidence that the Moon landings really happened.

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“And this means that to continue to protect the hoax, new generations have to be made privy to the secret as older generations die off; so continues the possibility of exposure.”

By new generations, do you mean the sons, grandchildren and great grandchildren of the film crew and NASA’s top brass?

You're not thinking big enough. Why limit it to just the "friends & family" of people who worked for NASA? Why are they the only ones that you believe could expose the hoax?

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Let the original hoaxers go to their graves...

Again, why do you believe the hoax would die with them? How do you stop other people with scientific curiosity, or commercial endeavors, from discovering the truth? And remember, the lie would have to be protected for the rest of time. It doesn't go away just because the original perpetrators have died.

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“And as for the dusty sand, would you care to explain why the material on the ground looks and behaves like a cohesive powder - similar to flour or talcum powder?”

No it doesn’t, it looks like sand, you are only seeing what you want to see.

Have you never driven down a dirt road and left a mile long dust cloud behind you? That doesn't happen in the Apollo footage.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nomuse on May 05, 2018, 01:00:04 PM
Did Magic Sand just come back?

Quick, someone prep the Special Radiation Ovens, let them know they're up next.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on May 05, 2018, 01:17:15 PM
As it happens, I agree that 400,000 people wouldn't have had knowledge when making the Apollo missions that they were helping a fake, since those figures include people like "the people who made mission patches."  Mission patches for a fake mission would be exactly the same as mission patches for a real one!  On the other hand, I think about 100,000 people would have had the knowledge to be sure the missions they were working on were fake.  That's a lot of people to keep quiet.  I also agree that the alleged hundred people doesn't even include the people required to even approximate the Apollo footage, especially with 1969 technology.  Much less however many people it takes to fake all the other physical evidence, like rocks and soil samples and physical effects of space travel on astronauts.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on May 05, 2018, 02:43:51 PM
As it happens, I agree that 400,000 people wouldn't have had knowledge when making the Apollo missions that they were helping a fake, since those figures include people like "the people who made mission patches."  Mission patches for a fake mission would be exactly the same as mission patches for a real one!
Fair point.  A large percentage of the people working on it could have done their jobs very well without knowing they were contributing to a fake mission.

They would still, as has also been mentioned, have built a spacecraft and launch system capable of taking people to the Moon  :)

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On the other hand, I think about 100,000 people would have had the knowledge to be sure the missions they were working on were fake.  That's a lot of people to keep quiet.  I also agree that the alleged hundred people doesn't even include the people required to even approximate the Apollo footage, especially with 1969 technology.  Much less however many people it takes to fake all the other physical evidence, like rocks and soil samples and physical effects of space travel on astronauts.
There is a huge amount of evidence that can't be explained away, and even if it was "only" 100,000 people (which I'd say was a conservative estimate) that's an awful lot of people to keep paying for their silence, and yet not one person in 50 years has ever even hinted at revealing the secret...
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: mako88sb on May 05, 2018, 04:37:50 PM

There is a huge amount of evidence that can't be explained away, and even if it was "only" 100,000 people (which I'd say was a conservative estimate) that's an awful lot of people to keep paying for their silence, and yet not one person in 50 years has ever even hinted at revealing the secret...

Plus there's how many hundreds of thousands of people from numerous countries around the world who for the past 45+ years would have been educated and worked in all the relevant fields of science and engineering involved with Apollo who would be able to look at all the scientific evidence and know whether or not it stands up to scrutiny. I find it pretty amazing that hb's really don't comprehend what would be involved to pull off a hoax of this magnitude never mind being able to keep it going for so long.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 05, 2018, 04:46:16 PM
Anyone, anywhere on earth who works in, on, or studies space exploration would be knowledgable enough to expose Apollo as a hoax. That's a lot of MONEY! to be paid out yearly, and every one of them would need a Death Squadder following them around  24/7 to keep them quiet.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Allan F on May 05, 2018, 11:54:20 PM
That's a lot of deathsquadders, when you take 8-hour shifts and weekends and holidays into account. You'd need around 8 deathsquadders for each scientist, to ensure total coverage.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Abaddon on May 06, 2018, 02:31:14 AM
That's a lot of deathsquadders, when you take 8-hour shifts and weekends and holidays into account. You'd need around 8 deathsquadders for each scientist, to ensure total coverage.
Yet somehow all these death squads evade the CTists. Odd that.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: jfb on May 06, 2018, 08:24:51 AM

There is a huge amount of evidence that can't be explained away, and even if it was "only" 100,000 people (which I'd say was a conservative estimate) that's an awful lot of people to keep paying for their silence, and yet not one person in 50 years has ever even hinted at revealing the secret...

Plus there's how many hundreds of thousands of people from numerous countries around the world who for the past 45+ years would have been educated and worked in all the relevant fields of science and engineering involved with Apollo who would be able to look at all the scientific evidence and know whether or not it stands up to scrutiny. I find it pretty amazing that hb's really don't comprehend what would be involved to pull off a hoax of this magnitude never mind being able to keep it going for so long.

Lunar samples are being analyzed to this day.  I wonder how incoming researchers are informed that everything they’re studying is fake, and how they get their cut of the hush money pie.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on May 06, 2018, 09:38:19 AM
Ok, first go with that quote button thingy, so if I’ve messed up, I promise I will keep going till I get it right, rather than giving up and faking it.

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They got gravity wrong? Really? Do you actually understand the reason for the proposal of dark matter and its relationship to the cosmological model?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter

Here’s a sentence from the first paragraph. “Gravitational effects that cannot be explained unless more matter is present than can be seen”

https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-is-dark-energy

And here’s an extract from the second link. “Maybe there is something wrong with Einstein's theory of gravity and a new theory could include some kind of field that creates this cosmic acceleration. Theorists still don't know what the correct explanation is” Do me a favour and go argue with who ever made those statements.

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what is stopping them from revealing the Moon Hoax for MONEY!?
And what stops the President from making himself a hero in the eyes of the nation by revealing the hoax?

How do you reveal a secret to another party that already knows? Strange! You would not see your president as a hero, you little fibber, you’d label him a liar and then go and find a rope. Anyway, he would have to run it by those other countries first, to get their approval, but as he probably doesn’t know anyway, your comment is moot.

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You'd need more than that just for the supposed filming

If I shoot a film with two people in it, that makes three people in total. Yes, I am oversimplifying it, but you are deliberately overcomplicating it. I’ll stick with my original figure. And as for the hundreds of thousands working on the project, a lot of those will be hoax believers themselves. One in four people asked in the street, that have an opinion will tell you they don’t believe, so do the maths.

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robotic probes that launched unseen to set up the experiments, and returned kilogrammes of rock samples

 No need, everything they needed could be found on earth. Hang on, what experiments?

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If it was me, I'd be looking for something like $250,000 a year for life, and at least $100,000 a year for each child for life, otherwise the lawyers open the envelope!

These people were under intense pressure to meet Kennedy’s goal, and when they realised they couldn’t do it, which was probably pretty early on in the programme, they knew they had no choice but to fake it, and money may not have been there main motivation, as they were duty bound to deliver at all costs. All they needed was a skilled film maker with knowledge of the latest film making techniques. This film maker may have seen this as the biggest challenge of his career, to make a movie that would fool the world. But unfortunately, because of this, he would never get the fame, he would truly deserve for his masterpiece. He may then have come up with the idea of placing clues within his later movie productions that the more intelligent people among us would be able to decipher. That’s one possible scenario anyway.

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build a movie set and a huge vacuum chamber

Am I missing something? What would a vacuum chamber be in aid of?

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We have evidence that a rocket was launched

I think you’re wrong, I reckon there is actual proof of that and I’m almost sure they could get stuff into orbit, not people though.

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Drought? It is the period of the bag that proves it is in a reduced gravity field something that would be very hard to duplicate on Earth. Plus the lack of atmospheric drag is the reason the motion is not damped, which is indicative of it being in a vacuum.

Drought? I had to laugh at myself on that one, bloody dementia! Anyway, this is another example of people interpreting something the way they want to see it. Put the draught source behind the bag, pointing down toward the bottom of the bag. The motion of the bag would not be damped, as you put it, and simply alter the strength of the air flow and its angle to change the period of the motion. This is something you can try without going to the moon.

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It would be much, much cheaper to just send the CIA hit squads to take out all the high profile Hoax Believers

You mean the people who post on YouTube? And the people who have dared to post their thoughts on sites such as this, only to be frightened off by the verbal abuse they receive? If it wasn’t for the deliberate ridicule, designed to fend off these people, there would be a hell of a lot of people needing slaughtered.

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And if they built the Apollo hardware to go to the moon then what the hell was to stop them going to the moon?

 They built the Apollo hardware to fool people into thinking they were going to the moon, and what stopped them going was because it didn’t work. You think the components were all manufactured in the same place, or even assembled in the same place? Do you think the people doing the final assembly would have to know whether the finished article would work or not? It would just be a case of getting a few thousand people to assemble a very complex Airfix model with millions of parts, rather than a few dozen, following instructions from the designers, who knew it wouldn’t work.

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Having to redefine gravity to better explain the apparent missing mass in galaxies doesn't stop it from working on this scale

If it’s wrong, then surely it has to be scrapped and rebuilt from the bottom up? If one part is wrong, surely we can’t just remove it and replace it with a different set of equations and expect it to fit? I’ve just realised, I’m actually asking a question here, rather than telling you you’re wrong. I must be getting soft in my old age.

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Don't you understand - all of science is wrong!!  Apparently the Illuminati / lizard people / aliens have controlled all of human knowledge for millennia, convincing us with their wily equations that the Earth is a sphere, that gravity pulls things down, and that the Moon isn't made of cheese.

This ancient conspiracy was put in place to control the populace, and keep us from finding out the truth, since that would be a bad thing, because... erm... ah...  No, it's to keep us in our place and away from their precious MONEY!  Or something

Now you’re just being silly, unless you’ve managed to get your head around the concept of sarcasm. Surely not!

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I can use Newton's equations of motion to tell me how long a hammer will take to fall if I drop it, what path a ball will take if I throw it, how the Moon moves it its orbit

It’s a big leap from dropping a hammer, to the moon orbiting the earth and another big leap from there to the rest of the universe, so I ask, what is the difference between our own solar system to the rest of the stars and planets? If there was a difference, we would have to categorise every single solar system inside every single galaxy with its own set of rules.

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Anyone, anywhere on earth who works in, on, or studies space exploration would be knowledgable enough to expose Apollo as a hoax

I suspect like me, they would if they could prove it, but unlike me, they have a living and reputation to think about, so until someone gets there hands on that proof, they stay quiet. Out of the millions of scientists in the world, how many of them have spoken publicly in support of Apollo not being a hoax? I’ll give you a clue, you won’t need to take your socks off.

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I wonder how incoming researchers are informed that everything they’re studying is fake

The rocks, for instance, possess the same qualities as what is perceived to be a moon rock.

 



 
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on May 06, 2018, 10:30:41 AM
If it’s wrong, then surely it has to be scrapped and rebuilt from the bottom up? If one part is wrong, surely we can’t just remove it and replace it with a different set of equations and expect it to fit?

No. As with Einstein's equations, we replaced Newton's and made sure the Einsteinian ones worked just as well for everything Newton's worked for (which is pretty well everything in the solar system unless it's really close to the Sun), and explained the bits where Newton's theories fell down (like the precession of Mercury's orbit). Then it was tested with other observations (like the bending of light near the Sun during an eclipse) to make sure it worked. It did. But in terms of everything on Earth and in most of the solar system (including sending probes to the planets), Newton's equations work well enough, and are a lot simpler, so they are still taught and still used. If we have to have a new theory of gravity to explain the missing mass, that theory still has to fit the observed behaviour of everything else as well. It doesn't invalidate everything that went before it because the objects in the solar system aren't behaving any differently, so equations derived from literally centuries of observation don't get thrown in the bin.

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It’s a big leap from dropping a hammer, to the moon orbiting the earth

Literally the entire premise of Newton's theory of universal gravitation is that it is not a big leap, and centuries of observation and experiment since then has confirmed this.

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so I ask, what is the difference between our own solar system to the rest of the stars and planets?

Almost certainly nothing. Dark matter, or the possible need to redefine gravity to eliminate it, has nothing to do with stuff on a planetary system scale and everything to do with the galactic and universal scale.

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If there was a difference, we would have to categorise every single solar system inside every single galaxy with its own set of rules.

Again, entirely wrong. Because we know how things work on a planetary and stellar scale, but things get uncertain when dealing with galaxies and clusters of galaxies.

All of which still comes back to the basic point: redefining gravity to eliminate the dark matter or missing mass problem makes no odds on the scale of a solar system, because we have centuries of experience observing on that scale and demonstrating the equations used are adequate, and any new theory will have to fit that observation just as well as Einstein's or Newton's did.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Luke Pemberton on May 06, 2018, 11:30:38 AM
Theorists still don't know what the correct explanation is” Do me a favour and go argue with who ever made those statements.

No, you don't get to shift your claim that gravity is wrong so all other missions can go in the hoax bin because you don't understand gravity and its equations.

When Einstein published a set of field equations that described gravity, he realised that solutions to his equations gave a model for the universe that expanded and he was uncomfortable with this idea as the view at the time was that universe was static. He introduced a cosmological constant so that his equations produced solutions that give a static universe. Shortly after Einstein produced his equations, Hubble showed that the universe was indeed expanding, which led Einstein to remark that the cosmological constant was his 'greatest mistake.'

Scientists use Einstein's field equations to develop cosmological models. The problem faced by theorists is that Einstein's equations to not provide solutions to the nature of the Universe, they provide a set of possible solutions. Scientists have to produce a metric that describes trajectories on a manifold. They then need to ensure that manifold and actions on that manifold, which are constrained by boundary conditions,  satisfy the general solutions to the field equations.

The cosmological model of an expanding universe, and manifolds to describe that universe are well known, well understood; and fit the observable universe. However, there is discrepancy between theory, the inflationary period of the universe and the current expansion of the universe that cannot be accounted by the observable matter. Discrepancies between theory and observable are not unique to the theory of gravity, after all, what is physics but a set of mathematical constructs that provide conceptual models to explain the observable.

Scientists believe the percentage of normal matter in the universe cannot account for its expansion and propose that dark matter may exist to overcome this discrepancy. There is also a proposal that as the universe expands, dark energy is created. This is linked to the interpretation of the cosmological constant and the vacuum potential. Dark matter has been proposed to explain why observations do not fit with the model, not that the theory is incorrect.

In fact, Einstein's general relativity successfully accounts for the precession of Mercury's perihelion, enables us to understand the corrections need to make to clock in GPS satellites, explains the bending of light by stars, explains the stability of rapidly rotating neutron stars and gravitational lensing.

Einstein's theories reduce to Newton's theories in weak local gravitational fields, so there is nothing wrong with the description of gravity under those conditions. If you notice, in Einstein's field equations and Newton's equations, there is letter a G. This is the gravitational constant. The gravitational constant is exactly that, a constant that defines the strength of the field according to the mass that produces the field. Any new theory has to incorporate this constant into its framework, and also reduce to Newton's equations.

So no, you don't get to throw away centuries of understanding because you don't understand the subtle nature of the theories, their history and how they have been tested and validated.

Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Bryanpoprobson on May 06, 2018, 11:59:43 AM

rought? I had to laugh at myself on that one, bloody dementia! Anyway, this is another example of people interpreting something the way they want to see it. Put the draught source behind the bag, pointing down toward the bottom of the bag. The motion of the bag would not be damped, as you put it, and simply alter the strength of the air flow and its angle to change the period of the motion. This is something you can try without going to the moon.
 

It will not work like that the duration of the swing is dependent on the gravity field no amount of draught will make it swing quicker.

As for the dark matter argument, it is still nonsense to presume that refinements of theories negates all that has been theorised before. If a new theory of gravity is produced redefining our ideas of dark matter, it doesn’t mean that planes will suddenly fall out of the sky. The very idea of postulating, that this proves Apollo was faked, is just ridiculous.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on May 06, 2018, 12:19:30 PM
Cambo, pick out your favourite movie.  Watch the credits.  How many people are in them?  Which ones can you eliminate for a technically complicated shoot like faking the Moon footage?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on May 06, 2018, 12:25:52 PM
Cambo, let's see if this analogy works for you.
Let's say you're watching friends place a game moving little figures on a black and white board. You don't know the rules, but you're working them out as you watch from observation, like, ah, that row of pieces in the front, they move one space. Suddenly, you see one of them move two spaces on its first move. Does that invalidate what you knew before? Does the rule 'those pieces only move one space' have to be 'thrown out'.
No. Under most circumstances, a pawn can indeed only move one space. Just in some circumstances, they can move two, namely, their first move. Likewise, as we discover additional edge cases that require additional rules or even new explanations entirely while having the old rules work well enough as not to have any noticeable effect in the old circumstances. Newton's laws usually work well enough on the relatively small and slow scale of spaceships orbiting most moons and planets.
Only when we get to a very large scale, like galaxies, does dark matter start to, well, matter.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nomuse on May 06, 2018, 01:29:23 PM

rought? I had to laugh at myself on that one, bloody dementia! Anyway, this is another example of people interpreting something the way they want to see it. Put the draught source behind the bag, pointing down toward the bottom of the bag. The motion of the bag would not be damped, as you put it, and simply alter the strength of the air flow and its angle to change the period of the motion. This is something you can try without going to the moon.
 

It will not work like that the duration of the swing is dependent on the gravity field no amount of draught will make it swing quicker.

As for the dark matter argument, it is still nonsense to presume that refinements of theories negates all that has been theorised before. If a new theory of gravity is produced redefining our ideas of dark matter, it doesn’t mean that planes will suddenly fall out of the sky. The very idea of postulating, that this proves Apollo was faked, is just ridiculous.

To be fair, you could modulate by giving a timed series of hard pushes. Except then the swing wouldn't be natural. And you'd probably notice if you were firing off an air cannon at regular intervals into the dirt around the set.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Bryanpoprobson on May 06, 2018, 01:37:27 PM

To be fair, you could modulate by giving a timed series of hard pushes. Except then the swing wouldn't be natural. And you'd probably notice if you were firing off an air cannon at regular intervals into the dirt around the set.

True, but as you say that would have to be deliberate intent to make the swing period faster, which excludes a bag caught in a draft. It would be a simpler exercise not to allow any motion like this to be shown. Besides this is only one example of a pendulum the one highlighted by the ALSJ is probaby a better example.

https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/a14pendulum.html
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 06, 2018, 01:44:02 PM

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what is stopping them from revealing the Moon Hoax for MONEY!?
And what stops the President from making himself a hero in the eyes of the nation by revealing the hoax?


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How do you reveal a secret to another party that already knows?

There are dozens of publications that would pay handsomely for an Apollo-Era scientist or technician coming forward with airtight proof of a Moon Hoax.

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Strange! You would not see your president as a hero, you little fibber, you’d label him a liar and then go and find a rope. Anyway, he would have to run it by those other countries first, to get their approval, but as he probably doesn’t know anyway, your comment is moot.


I see that you have problems remembering your own words:

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By new generations, do you mean the sons, grandchildren and great grandchildren of the film crew and NASA’s top brass? Surely only the CIA would need to know, as they are probably running NASA, and I’m sure some of them will be trained in special effects. Let the original hoaxers go to their graves, which would just leave those crafty CIA agents. it wouldn’t surprise me if the president himself wasn’t aware.

You're the one who brought up the President knowing about the hoax, not me. Make up your mind.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nomuse on May 06, 2018, 01:50:57 PM
Meh. I think by the time someone has drunk enough of the koolaid they think it's worth focusing on one tiny moment out of the surface video record in hopes their efforts with a crappy YouTube copy and a hand-held stopwatch will reveal an error in gravity...

I say just back out one step, and ask how an entire unbroken ten-minute clip in which astronauts are moving fifty meters or more from the camera and all of it consistent with low gravity can possibly be explained.

There can always be some reason why one tiny bit in isolation looks weird or behaves paradoxically. A stray sound. A corner flap or a sleeve moving. A broken shadow, a kicked-over track.

I wish these idiots would spend more time on IMDB. Movies with 70 million dollar budgets, and there are long long lists of errors and screw-ups, of crews caught in a mirror, buttons getting re-buttoned during a cut, boom mics in shot (to be fair...I've played with a wee fishpole boom and my hat is off to the guys and gals who do that professionally!)

Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nomuse on May 06, 2018, 01:59:47 PM

To be fair, you could modulate by giving a timed series of hard pushes. Except then the swing wouldn't be natural. And you'd probably notice if you were firing off an air cannon at regular intervals into the dirt around the set.

True, but as you say that would have to be deliberate intent to make the swing period faster, which excludes a bag caught in a draft. It would be a simpler exercise not to allow any motion like this to be shown. Besides this is only one example of a pendulum the one highlighted by the ALSJ is probaby a better example.

https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/a14pendulum.html

There's another rant buried here.

The hoaxies generally come on with an assumption that there is no appropriate expertise. The cambot has made it more explicit than most; he appears to assume there is some special "NASA Science" that both is constrained to and contains all of the science necessary to understand Apollo. With this in mind, the hoaxies are able to approach the clues they think they've discovered as if on a level playing field; that all are equally skilled as an observer.

Now take this board. Outside of specific specialist expertise in aerospace (which should by itself close the argument, but leave that aside for now) we aren't generic observers, equipped with only the same common sense and common life experience as the hoaxie. We have people who study and who work professionally with photography, with history, with film lighting, with astronomical observation, with thermal engineering, with radio...

So when a hoaxie comes up and says the motions of astronauts in the surface video is completely compatible with just "slowing the film down," they don't get that they are in discussion with people who dance professionally, who are skilled gymnasts, who have done animation and film editing; all people who frequently have to analyze human movements in a professional capacity.

Cue the Dara Ó Briain quote.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on May 06, 2018, 03:03:56 PM
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build a movie set and a huge vacuum chamber
Am I missing something? What would a vacuum chamber be in aid of?
Really?  You  don't think a vacuum chamber would be required??

It becomes more obvious with every post that you haven't thought this through at all...
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on May 06, 2018, 03:12:12 PM
Cue the Dara Ó Briain quote.

Ask and ye shall receive...
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on May 07, 2018, 11:02:21 AM
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It will not work like that the duration of the swing is dependent on the gravity field no amount of draught will make it swing quicker.

I’ve seen it happening, it will slow down slightly quicker on the back swing, due to the flow of air, but each swing is exactly the same, and since we are seeing the bag from the front, rather than the side, and in very poor quality, it wouldn’t be noticeable. Cranking up the air and adjusting the angle to catch the bag at the end of its back swing, will lengthen the swing and its duration.

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pick out your favourite movie.  Watch the credits.  How many people are in them?  Which ones can you eliminate for a technically complicated shoot like faking the Moon footage?

The people setting it up, such as laying the sand, and bringing in the equipment and props, would think it was for training purposes, look at the lengths they went to at the Langley Research Centre, and more recently the NBL, which is also allegedly for training purposes. All in the full view of the public, they must be laughing their tits off.

There is no big epic script to write, as it was just a series of situations, they probably dreamed up overnight. Then there’s the film producer, working with a handful of NASA/CIA staff, trained in the use of his new state of the art equipment, and that’s about it. Twenty people tops. Comparing it with a full length movie with an actual storyline, with dozens of actors, and many locations, as appose to two actors in one location, isn’t really a fair comparison.

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“but as he probably doesn’t know anyway”

“ it wouldn’t surprise me if the president himself wasn’t aware.”

How do these two sentences contradict each other? They both point to my assumption that the president may not know. You are just being over critical.

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I say just back out one step, and ask how an entire unbroken ten-minute clip in which astronauts are moving fifty meters or more from the camera and all of it consistent with low gravity can possibly be explained.

I stated earlier, after watching the short clip, when they were just standing in one spot, I thought it looked like 1x speed. However, after watching the full footage, it becomes obvious it is being played back at around 2x speed, with the aid of wires to produce that floating effect. Also, the end of the stage, or should I say horizon, is only a few yards away. Contrary to popular belief, Apollo wasn’t all rocket science.

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So when a hoaxie comes up and says the motions of astronauts in the surface video is completely compatible with just "slowing the film down

You forgot the wires.

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Really?  You  don't think a vacuum chamber would be required??

Correct.

And finally, regarding dark matter, as you all know, I do not possess the knowledge to discuss that particular subject, as all I have are my own assumptions. This is not an admission of defeat, but rather, as I can’t find any evidence to back up my assumptions, I begrudgingly have to back down and accept your arguments.



Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Luke Pemberton on May 07, 2018, 11:38:53 AM
I stated earlier, after watching the short clip, when they were just standing in one spot, I thought it looked like 1x speed. However, after watching the full footage, it becomes obvious it is being played back at around 2x speed, with the aid of wires to produce that floating effect. Also, the end of the stage, or should I say horizon, is only a few yards away. Contrary to popular belief, Apollo wasn’t all rocket science.

What do you mean around? Provide a precise number please. Is it 2 x, 1.98 x? 1.95 x? Please be exact.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on May 07, 2018, 11:45:17 AM
I stated earlier, after watching the short clip, when they were just standing in one spot, I thought it looked like 1x speed. However, after watching the full footage, it becomes obvious it is being played back at around 2x speed, with the aid of wires to produce that floating effect. Also, the end of the stage, or should I say horizon, is only a few yards away. Contrary to popular belief, Apollo wasn’t all rocket science.

Your first problem there is that a 10 minute unbroken clip is really just a short segment. EVA footage goes on for hours. Your next problem is telling us where the wires were attached. Who was operating the pulleys? How did they coordinate that when astronauts repeatedly crossed paths?

You said you'd consider any solid proof. You're still ignoring mine.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on May 07, 2018, 12:36:06 PM
The people setting it up, such as laying the sand, and bringing in the equipment and props, would think it was for training purposes, look at the lengths they went to at the Langley Research Centre, and more recently the NBL, which is also allegedly for training purposes. All in the full view of the public, they must be laughing their tits off.

There is no big epic script to write, as it was just a series of situations, they probably dreamed up overnight. Then there’s the film producer, working with a handful of NASA/CIA staff, trained in the use of his new state of the art equipment, and that’s about it. Twenty people tops. Comparing it with a full length movie with an actual storyline, with dozens of actors, and many locations, as appose to two actors in one location, isn’t really a fair comparison.

No, it isn't--most full-length movies are shorter than the Apollo EVAs and take place on Earth, with Earth gravity.  They don't range over several miles.  So either you have to build an enormous soundstage or you have to worry about weather.  Either of which comes with its own problems.  Even the simplest film shoot requires at least twenty people, and you've got wiring involved.  So you have to factor in the people in charge of the wiring.  You've got the lighting people--they don't need to have the lights set up for training, but you'd certainly notice if the light were wrong in the footage, if you knew anything about lighting.  So by having them do their job at all, you've let them in on the hoax.  You've only got to have one cameraperson, it's true, for large amounts of it.  Or you can do what Apollo did and set it up without a human running it, though I wouldn't want to risk that, honestly.  It was one thing on Apollo, but in your hoax scenario, the camera falling over or whatever could show the stuff you aren't meaning to film.

You cannot simply say, "Oh, the people doing the work will just think they're building another training center."  There are several problems with that scenario, and not just how many people you'll need on the shoot itself, which is more than you think it is.  Another is that people recognize their work.  I grew up in LA and notice when places I knew are in movies, and I've never worked in the industry--though several of my friends do.  But my Ren faire boss makes jewelry that has been used in a few movies, and I notice his work.  So if you're the guy who made a specific rock, you may not need to be in on the hoax, but you'll certainly notice when a rock exactly like the one you made just happens to be on the Apollo footage.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on May 07, 2018, 01:08:15 PM
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Really?  You  don't think a vacuum chamber would be required??

Correct.
So you think the effects we see which indicate the whole setup was in a vacuum were done with the amazing, but somehow secret, 1960's / 1970's CGI?

You've still to respond to the question of what you think the state of the art in CGI was in 1969.  Believe me, it wasn't up to creating effects at that level...
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on May 07, 2018, 01:33:40 PM
Here's an example of some state of the art computer graphics from shortly after Apollo ended.

It's stunning for the time, but it's decades too primitive to fake Apollo even half-convincingly.
And let's pretend for a moment that some  engineers managed to pull off such a feat of completely impossible computer animation. After Apollo was over, they'd be out of work. Naturally, some of them would return to their original work in the computer imagery. After all, it was their area of expertise. Even with massive bribes to keep silent, would they be able to resist the temptation to use some of the techniques learned in their own animation? Instead, a decade after the above, we get animation like this.

A massive improvement (thank you Moore's law) but no Apollo.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: jfb on May 07, 2018, 01:56:15 PM
Here's an example of some state of the art computer graphics from shortly after Apollo ended.

snip examples

A massive improvement (thank you Moore's law) but no Apollo.

Ah, but see, here's the genius - they were in on the hoax too.  They deliberately used suboptimal equipment and algorithms to make it look like the state of the art was far more primitive than it really was. 

Because of all the MONEY.  The unlimited amounts of money that comes from nowhere, is not tracked by anybody, and magically winds up in the bank accounts of hundreds of thousands of people, all without leaving a trace anywhere at all. 
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on May 07, 2018, 02:03:58 PM
Here's an example of some state of the art computer graphics from shortly after Apollo ended.

snip examples

A massive improvement (thank you Moore's law) but no Apollo.

Ah, but see, here's the genius - they were in on the hoax too.  They deliberately used suboptimal equipment and algorithms to make it look like the state of the art was far more primitive than it really was. 

Because of all the MONEY.  The unlimited amounts of money that comes from nowhere, is not tracked by anybody, and magically winds up in the bank accounts of hundreds of thousands of people, all without leaving a trace anywhere at all.
Oh, and which they don't spend, invest, or pass on in wills, because that would make it clear something was afoot.
I don't know about you, but a bribe I can't use would have as much weight as photon to me.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 07, 2018, 02:48:18 PM
Here's an example of some state of the art computer graphics from shortly after Apollo ended.

snip examples

A massive improvement (thank you Moore's law) but no Apollo.

Ah, but see, here's the genius - they were in on the hoax too.  They deliberately used suboptimal equipment and algorithms to make it look like the state of the art was far more primitive than it really was. 

Because of all the MONEY.  The unlimited amounts of money that comes from nowhere, is not tracked by anybody, and magically winds up in the bank accounts of hundreds of thousands of people, all without leaving a trace anywhere at all.
Oh, and which they don't spend, invest, or pass on in wills, because that would make it clear something was afoot.
I don't know about you, but a bribe I can't use would have as much weight as photon to me.

As a though experiment, (purely as a fantasy!) I have wondered, if I happened upon a million dollars cash, (from an untraceable source, like falling out of a drug courier's plane while I was hiking in the wilderness) how could I keep it from the attention of the IRS. My conclusion is that it is hard as hell to spend gobs of MONEY! without garnering unwanted attention, official or otherwise. And if I can't spend it, what good is it?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on May 07, 2018, 02:58:55 PM
As a though experiment, (purely as a fantasy!) I have wondered, if I happened upon a million dollars cash, (from an untraceable source, like falling out of a drug courier's plane while I was hiking in the wilderness) how could I keep it from the attention of the IRS. My conclusion is that it is hard as hell to spend gobs of MONEY! without garnering unwanted attention, official or otherwise. And if I can't spend it, what good is it?
Which comes back to my comment about the missing hordes of NASA people who live in the Bahamas, drive Ferraris etc.   :D

The fact is, there's no trace of these very rich, bribed to stay silent, people, and despite Cambo's assertions that there would be very few, in reality there would have to be thousands spread through all areas of the project.  The whole idea is completely ludicrous...
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Bryanpoprobson on May 07, 2018, 03:08:26 PM
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It will not work like that the duration of the swing is dependent on the gravity field no amount of draught will make it swing quicker.

I’ve seen it happening, it will slow down slightly quicker on the back swing, due to the flow of air, but each swing is exactly the same, and since we are seeing the bag from the front, rather than the side, and in very poor quality, it wouldn’t be noticeable. Cranking up the air and adjusting the angle to catch the bag at the end of its back swing, will lengthen the swing and its duration.


Make a video and show this then. :)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: jfb on May 07, 2018, 03:42:04 PM
Here's an example of some state of the art computer graphics from shortly after Apollo ended.

snip examples

A massive improvement (thank you Moore's law) but no Apollo.

Ah, but see, here's the genius - they were in on the hoax too.  They deliberately used suboptimal equipment and algorithms to make it look like the state of the art was far more primitive than it really was. 

Because of all the MONEY.  The unlimited amounts of money that comes from nowhere, is not tracked by anybody, and magically winds up in the bank accounts of hundreds of thousands of people, all without leaving a trace anywhere at all.
Oh, and which they don't spend, invest, or pass on in wills, because that would make it clear something was afoot.
I don't know about you, but a bribe I can't use would have as much weight as photon to me.

As a though experiment, (purely as a fantasy!) I have wondered, if I happened upon a million dollars cash, (from an untraceable source, like falling out of a drug courier's plane while I was hiking in the wilderness) how could I keep it from the attention of the IRS. My conclusion is that it is hard as hell to spend gobs of MONEY! without garnering unwanted attention, official or otherwise. And if I can't spend it, what good is it?

For me, it would be going-out money - fancy dinners, top-shelf booze, that sort of thing.  No, you probably wouldn't be able to spend all of it (unless you were buying 30 year old single malts by the case every week, in which case your liver would be the limiting factor), but that's basically how I'd task it.  Travel, cars, and other stuff draws too much attention. 

This of course assumes that the bills aren't marked or otherwise traced.  And there's really no good way to know that.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on May 08, 2018, 03:47:52 AM
This is not an admission of defeat, but rather, as I can’t find any evidence to back up my assumptions, I begrudgingly have to back down and accept your arguments.

Semantics. Trying to weasel out of a discussion you started with no sound footing, finding out you can't actually bluff your way through it here, and backing down without losing face. I don't care how 'begrudgingly' you accept the arguments, if you don't have the necessary knowledge don't try and debate the issue with a bunch of scientists.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Abaddon on May 08, 2018, 05:42:52 AM
And finally, regarding dark matter, as you all know, I do not possess the knowledge to discuss that particular subject, as all I have are my own assumptions. This is not an admission of defeat, but rather, as I can’t find any evidence to back up my assumptions, I begrudgingly have to back down and accept your arguments.
Right. You have wild uninformed assumptions for which you have zero evidence at all, nor can you find any evidence, but you are going to stick to those no matter what because...why? How exactly would you describe a person who clings to a crank belief despite all evidence?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on May 08, 2018, 07:06:32 PM
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“What do you mean around? Provide a precise number please. Is it 2 x, 1.98 x? 1.95 x? Please be exact”

You want a precise figure? Ok, I downloaded the file and played around with different frame rates and came to this figure. 1.84135784213333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333. Ask a silly question aye!

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“You said you'd consider any solid proof. You're still ignoring mine.”

Stop playing games sonny, you haven’t presented anything on this thread, which you claim is proof. Either tell me or butt out.

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“How did they coordinate that when astronauts repeatedly crossed paths?”

You obviously think the gantries would be side by side, pointing in the direction of the camera. The gantries would be on either side, and coupled with some well-rehearsed choreography from the wire men, I can’t really see a problem. If Stanley Kubrick were alive, he could probably have explained it better, but he died only hours after submitting his final print for his final film “Eyes Wide Shut” which was released on the 16th of July 1999. Does the 16th of July ring any bells?

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“Even the simplest film shoot requires at least twenty people, and you've got wiring involved”

And you know that for a fact? Ever heard of multitasking?

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“but in your hoax scenario, the camera falling over or whatever could show the stuff you aren't meaning to film.”

That would be true if it were filmed live.

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“Another is that people recognize their work”

I definitely wouldn’t, from that poor quality black and white footage. The footage from Apollo 11 is deliberately very low quality and yet still looks fake. If they could have involved more people, they may have done a better job.

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“So you think the effects we see which indicate the whole setup was in a vacuum were done with the amazing, but somehow secret, 1960's / 1970's CGI?”

No, what gave you the idea CGI existed back then?

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“You've still to respond to the question of what you think the state of the art in CGI was in 1969.  Believe me, it wasn't up to creating effects at that level...”

It looks like you’re getting your threads mixed up. YAWN!

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“Make a video and show this then”

This is one of those things you should know without seeing it in action, it would be as easy to imagine, as holding a ball out in front of you and imagining which way it would travel if you released it. You are being incredibly awkward, and I thought we would be onto the juicy stuff by now, but I can wait.

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“if you don't have the necessary knowledge don't try and debate the issue with a bunch of scientists”

Sorry, I didn’t realise you lot were scientists, and I’m sorry you think I am trying to weasel out, as you put it, so we’ll continue for as long as it takes, if it makes you happy, so here goes. NASA can’t even put a man on the moon, so how will they ever work out where all this theoretical matter is coming from? To me, they got gravity wrong, and gravity is gravity, whether on a planetary or a cosmic scale, so you prove me wrong without using theories from those liars at NASA.

Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on May 08, 2018, 07:51:47 PM
NASA can’t even put a man on the moon, so how will they ever work out where all this theoretical matter is coming from?

What makes you think NASA has a monopoly on research into gravity and dark matter? WHy don't you go off and do some basic research into this before you even try arguing it? Dark matter was theorised to exist as a result of cosmological observation before NASA even existed, and the scientists who published the research that cemented it as a real problem in cosmology were not NASA scientists.

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To me, they got gravity wrong,

Since you clearly haven't actually grasped any of the basics of gravity, your interpretation is irrelevant.

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and gravity is gravity, whether on a planetary or a cosmic scale,

Funny, earlier on you argued that it was a big leap from small scale to planetary scale to cosmic scale...

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so you prove me wrong without using theories from those liars at NASA.

Newton and Einstein have nothing to do with NASA, and we have already explained why their theories are still useful, even if we may have to modify them to apply on a galactic scale somehow.

NASA is not the only entity that has anything to do with space. Centuries of observation on a planetary system scale confirm the calculations used to predict the behaviour of objects in gravity fields work on those scales well enough, and that was before NASA even existed.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nomuse on May 08, 2018, 08:08:21 PM
So the twelve-person film crew is running cranes, too. With that other free hand. (After already doing the job of three or four people. Pity Hollywood has never thought of multitasking. Think of how much cheaper catering would be!)

Someone should tell Broadway, too, where the minimum crew for a single-track flight is two, plus spotters. Of course you can always go the Cirque route...but in 1968?

Hella cranes, too...or has the bot missed seeing shots like House Rock, or the Grand Prix?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nomuse on May 08, 2018, 08:24:06 PM
Oh, of course. I totally forgot they already had at least one crane; for lowering the Rover on to the set!

Funny, thing, though. About how those "missing tracks" are on high detail, near-IMAX quality still frames that can be matched moment to moment, angle to angle, item to item with the video record, and can with minimum effort be linked to exact moments in the transmitted audio which was intercepted live by amateur radio enthusiasts.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cos on May 08, 2018, 09:06:59 PM
Well the EVA's on J missions would require 6 hrs of continuous live wire work (as it has been pointed out amateur radio ham's listened in). Funnily enough the 360 degree pans from the rover camera never showed the studio and how do you get the dust from the rovers wheels to follow a parabolic curve if not in a vacuum? And coincidentally the photographic record exactly matches the radar topography from the Selene satellite sent decades later (not a Nasa mission I believe). How did they get that right without actually being there? You'll need to wave your hands especially fast to dismiss these questions because you sure as hell can't explain any of it.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nickrulercreator on May 08, 2018, 10:55:40 PM
There's no way 12 people could've faked the entire thing. It would have taken hundreds at the very least.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nomuse on May 09, 2018, 12:43:12 AM
I just want to re-visit the "nobody is an expert so my opinion is as good as yours rant" to point out both Jay and I have done wire-work for the stage. I have to humbly admit I never got to run a rig myself, but I was rigging assistant to at least one Foy and the people from the other major company in the business (whose name escapes me on this long night). Jay I believe has an even better connection.

Cool story from one of those productions. The Foy walks in to meet with the director. "So, you need this, this, and this. Single point rig for Dorothy in the tornado. Double point for start of Scene 3, which gets re-used in Act II. Now how many monkeys do you have?"

Director is just standing there agape. "What happens in Scene 3?" he starts off.

"Glinda's entrance. I have the hoop in my truck."

Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Obviousman on May 09, 2018, 05:10:32 AM
My, my - there is so much handwaving going on by cambo that I think I'll have to issue a gale warning!
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on May 09, 2018, 07:47:34 AM
My, my - there is so much handwaving going on by cambo that I think I'll have to issue a gale warning!

Of course, that's what trolls do. I hope when I reach his apparently advanced age I can find better things to do with my time than post to online forums just to wind people up. He has no genuine interest, as is clear from the fact that any and all evidence that disagrees with him is either from NASA (liars) or from a third party supporting NASA (also liars). That's why I'm not bothering with any pictures or video, despite the obvious wrongness of his statements regarding them.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: inconceivable on May 09, 2018, 09:42:17 AM
Maybe they filmed some of this in New Mexico around Los Alamos Canyon area.  They built Los Alamos National Laboratory on a conspicuous gravity low.  Maybe this gravitational anomaly had a role to play in all these discrepancies.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 09, 2018, 09:48:44 AM
Maybe they filmed some of this in New Mexico around Los Alamos Canyon area.  They built Los Alamos National Laboratory on a conspicuous gravity low.  Maybe this gravitational anomaly had a role to play in all these discrepancies.

Wait, what?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on May 09, 2018, 10:05:41 AM
Maybe they filmed some of this in New Mexico around Los Alamos Canyon area.  They built Los Alamos National Laboratory on a conspicuous gravity low.  Maybe this gravitational anomaly had a role to play in all these discrepancies.

Wait, what?

lol i thought the same. why do people engage with people like inconceivable.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nomuse on May 09, 2018, 10:36:04 AM
Maybe they filmed some of this in New Mexico around Los Alamos Canyon area.  They built Los Alamos National Laboratory on a conspicuous gravity low.  Maybe this gravitational anomaly had a role to play in all these discrepancies.

Wait, what?

Of course!  That was to make the black hole less dangerous if it escaped.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Luke Pemberton on May 09, 2018, 10:58:12 AM
You want a precise figure? Ok, I downloaded the file and played around with different frame rates and came to this figure. 1.84135784213333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333.

So, not the 2x  Dave Percy proposes, or indeed the 1.67x Jarrah White proposes, but a a completely different number? Why do different theorists offer different numbers for the film speed argument? Please explain the inconsistencies.

How does the process below warrant proof of the film speed claim?

1) Speed up film A to 1.5 x original speed.
2) Render the sped up film and call this B.
3) Slow down B by 2/3.
4) Compare A and 2/3 x B side by side.
5) Say compared films look the same
6) Conclude the film was slowed down by 2/3

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Ask a silly question aye!

You initially arrived at this board claiming we were dealing with the serious accusation of a hoax. OK, you want to be dealt with in a serious manner, then we'll do that. I'm fine with that. That also means we get the chance to ask serious questions. The question was not silly, as explained above, it's central to the claim. If you cannot be consistent between claimants, then you have no claim. I'm going to ask more questions, and I want answer to all of them.

1   The radiation claim is central to the hoax, why was travel through the VABs prohibitive? Please cite integrated flux and discuss
      the issues of secondary radiation in your answer.
2   How problematic were SPEs for the Apollo missions?
3   What is the difference between an H-alpha flare and SPEs events?
4   What do the H-alpha indexes quantify?
5   Why was GCR prohibitive to the Apollo missions? Again, cite integrated fluxes.
6   Why do you think the LM was a cardboard box? Do you understand how foils, insulation and tapes are used in the aerospace
      industry?
7   Why do we need blueprints of the Saturn V when we have video evidence and witnesses of its launch?
8   Why should there be a blast crater under the LM? Cite the properties of the regolith and underlying bedrock?
9   How did they fake the moon rocks, including evidence of space weathering, their age and difference to isotope composition.
10 What radiation shielding did the CM offer?
11 Why do objects in free fall or undergoing SHM show g = 1.67 m s-2 (approx)?
12 In view of question 12, what should the correct rate of film speed be to achieve lunar g (provide calculations)?
13 Is the C-rock evidence of props, and explain how this can be the case.
14 Explain how HAM radio witness accounts are waved away.
15 Do you believe the waving flag is evidence of fakery?
16 Are all shadows parallel in nature?
17 How did the regolith produce the famous bootprint if dry sand was used?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Luke Pemberton on May 09, 2018, 11:02:36 AM
Maybe... snip

Maybe my mother was the grip for the shoot. Maybe my father ran the wire wig. Maybe if my grandma had male genitals, she would have been my grandfather. Maybe doesn't cut the mustard. It's called speculation. Proof dear boy, proof. We demand proof, not maybes.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: jfb on May 09, 2018, 12:08:55 PM
Maybe they filmed some of this in New Mexico around Los Alamos Canyon area.  They built Los Alamos National Laboratory on a conspicuous gravity low.  Maybe this gravitational anomaly had a role to play in all these discrepancies.

No.  Just...no. 

Yes, g is not constant over the Earth's surface; however, it varies by less than 1%.  Not enough to account for your "discrepancies". 

And, as I pointed out in your comment about Mauna Kea, even places like Los Alamos have plants growing all over the place, which you don't see in any of the Apollo footage. 
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on May 09, 2018, 12:58:26 PM
You obviously think the gantries would be side by side, pointing in the direction of the camera. The gantries would be on either side, and coupled with some well-rehearsed choreography from the wire men, I can’t really see a problem. If Stanley Kubrick were alive, he could probably have explained it better, but he died only hours after submitting his final print for his final film “Eyes Wide Shut” which was released on the 16th of July 1999. Does the 16th of July ring any bells?

Oh, great, another idiot who doesn't know anything about Stanley Kubrick.

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And you know that for a fact? Ever heard of multitasking?

Actually, yes, I do know that for a fact.  You cannot "multitask" certain jobs on a set, because they all take full concentration.  Anyone who knows even very little about filmmaking knows that, so your insistence that "multitasking," ye Gods, is sufficient to resolve that is merely proof that you don't know anything about filmmaking, either.

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That would be true if it were filmed live.

Which it must have been, given that they were discussing live events.  Seriously, watch the footage.  Not just clips of Apollo 11 but the full footage of multiple missions.

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I definitely wouldn’t, from that poor quality black and white footage. The footage from Apollo 11 is deliberately very low quality and yet still looks fake. If they could have involved more people, they may have done a better job.

Which merely proves you haven't done anything worth recognizing.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 09, 2018, 01:14:29 PM
I love 2001:A Space Odyssey, but it is so full of technical inaccuracies that they pull me out of the movie. For example: the Earth is NOT on the lunar horizon as seen from Clavius. Kubrick was not an astronomer.

(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/2001/images/3/3d/2001-Clavius-Astronauts-714391.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100829162455)

If you told me that image was supposed to be taken at Grimaldi, I might believe it. Clavius? No way.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Geordie on May 09, 2018, 04:01:16 PM
That's a lot of deathsquadders, when you take 8-hour shifts and weekends and holidays into account. You'd need around 8 deathsquadders for each scientist, to ensure total coverage.
  You'd also need supervisory and management teams, and an entire infrastructure (ordnance, training and skills upgrading, HR, payroll, pension administration, etc.)

  I would put USMC Lt. Col. Oliver North (ret'd) in charge of it all, or maybe G. Gordon "I am not subject to coercion" Liddy.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 09, 2018, 11:54:35 PM
I love 2001:A Space Odyssey, but it is so full of technical inaccuracies that they pull me out of the movie. For example: the Earth is NOT on the lunar horizon as seen from Clavius. Kubrick was not an astronomer.

(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/2001/images/3/3d/2001-Clavius-Astronauts-714391.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100829162455)

If you told me that image was supposed to be taken at Grimaldi, I might believe it. Clavius? No way.

Sorry about the poor quality of the photo. Here's a better one:
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/headhuntersholosuite/images/d/d1/Clavius_Base.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100724181234)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on May 10, 2018, 12:59:38 PM
And I've said for years, you couldn't have had Buzz Aldrin and Stanley Kubrick working on the same project without major personality conflict.  All other considerations aside.  (And there are a lot of other considerations.)  Kubrick's directorial style would have driven Aldrin up the wall.  At about take seventy-five, he would have lost it.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Ranb on May 10, 2018, 02:39:38 PM
Well maybe when he was younger.  :)  Didn't Buzz lose it on take two when director/producer Bart Sibrel was trying to tell him (you're a fraud....) how to act?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on May 11, 2018, 12:15:38 PM
I mean, all speculations about Buzz's actions require him to be the sort of person who would be willing to fake a Moon landing, which I don't believe he was.  But supposing he was, nowhere in the narrative did he suffer fools.  Since Kubrick's style was to antagonize his stars as much as possible--emotionally abusing Shelley Duvall, deliberately triggering Malcolm McDowell's ophidophobia--and to do take after take, not because he was a perfectionist but because he wanted to drive all emotion out of the performance, I can't see Buzz putting up with it.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on May 11, 2018, 12:40:32 PM
I mean, all speculations about Buzz's actions require him to be the sort of person who would be willing to fake a Moon landing, which I don't believe he was.  But supposing he was, nowhere in the narrative did he suffer fools.  Since Kubrick's style was to antagonize his stars as much as possible--emotionally abusing Shelley Duvall, deliberately triggering Malcolm McDowell's ophidophobia--and to do take after take, not because he was a perfectionist but because he wanted to drive all emotion out of the performance, I can't see Buzz putting up with it.

When did this happen?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on May 11, 2018, 01:55:09 PM
A Clockwork Orange.  Alex doesn't have a snake in the book, but he does in the movie because Kubrick found out somehow that McDowell's scared of them.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Luke Pemberton on May 11, 2018, 02:00:53 PM
A Clockwork Orange.  Alex doesn't have a snake in the book, but he does in the movie because Kubrick found out somehow that McDowell's scared of them.

He would have had a field day with my lepidopterophobia. I was once persuaded to go in a butterfly house. The results were hilarious. The worst moment? Lowering my camera after taking a photo... to find a butterfly nestled on the lens.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on May 11, 2018, 02:08:04 PM
I mean, all speculations about Buzz's actions require him to be the sort of person who would be willing to fake a Moon landing, which I don't believe he was.  But supposing he was, nowhere in the narrative did he suffer fools.  Since Kubrick's style was to antagonize his stars as much as possible--emotionally abusing Shelley Duvall, deliberately triggering Malcolm McDowell's ophidophobia--and to do take after take, not because he was a perfectionist but because he wanted to drive all emotion out of the performance, I can't see Buzz putting up with it.

All those retakes where he makes him say "No Neil, after you..."
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on May 11, 2018, 05:15:04 PM
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“the scientists who published the research that cemented it as a real problem in cosmology were not NASA scientists”

Point taken.

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“To me, they got gravity wrong”

“Since you clearly haven't actually grasped any of the basics of gravity, your interpretation is irrelevant”

Gravity is a fact, but how it works, is only theoretical, as it cannot be fully explained. Here’s a few quotes from the link below, from people who think they know what they are talking about.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-gravity-still-technically-just-a-theory

“We have no evidence whatsoever for dark matter, other than otherwise inexplicable gravitational; effects, but these are only inexplicable if gravity follows the law we have written.”

“As others have noted, the law relates to observations, not explanations, and that requires a theory. Whether our theory is correct remains to be seen”

“For gravitation, General Relativity is a theory that tries to explain how gravitation arises and works.”

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“Funny, earlier on you argued that it was a big leap from small scale to planetary scale to cosmic scale”

It certainly is, what’s your point?

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“Centuries of observation on a planetary system scale confirm the calculations used to predict the behaviour of objects in gravity fields work on those scales well enough

Ok so you assume, knowing it well enough would be good enough to put men on the moon. And I know you will also presume, it was close enough to be able to launch a probe, and by using multiple sling shots around various celestial bodies, it would be able to rendezvous with an object travelling at 34,000mph, ten years from launch and 300,000,000 miles away, and then remotely perform complicated manoeuvres to achieve orbit around the said object, while taking pictures, before deliberately crashing part of it into the object, with a delay in transmission of around fifty minutes there and back. Apollo was one thing, but the ESA totally lost the plot with that one.

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“Hella cranes, too...or has the bot missed seeing shots like House Rock, or the Grand Prix?”

Oh I’ve seen them, so what makes them stand out for you?.

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“Oh, of course. I totally forgot they already had at least one crane; for lowering the Rover on to the set”

It had wheels, what the hell are you on?

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“Funny, thing, though. About how those "missing tracks" are on high detail, near-IMAX quality still frames that can be matched moment to moment, angle to angle, item to item with the video record, and can with minimum effort be linked to exact moments in the transmitted audio which was intercepted live by amateur radio enthusiasts”

If you say so, but again, what is your point?

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“Funnily enough the 360 degree pans from the rover camera never showed the studio

The studio? The stage including backdrop scenery is no more than a hundred yards across, and that scaled down model of the LEM is pathetic. It’s not even obvious, that the camera is panning, as it may just be moving sideways across the stage in front of a false panoramic backdrop. Either way, it’s fake.

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“how do you get the dust from the rovers wheels to follow a parabolic curve if not in a vacuum”

Ah, so that’s where you’re coming from, with the vacuum chamber argument. I just assumed we’d covered that, so in a nutshell, it is sand we are seeing, you are seeing only what you’ve been told to see.

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“the photographic record exactly matches the radar topography from the Selene satellite sent decades later (not a Nasa mission I believe)”

So another space agency allegedly confirmed NASA’s depiction of the lunar terrain, so what?

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“any and all evidence that disagrees with him is either from NASA (liars) or from a third party supporting NASA (also liars)”

So find a way around it and think for yourselves for once.

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“That's why I'm not bothering with any pictures or video, despite the obvious wrongness of his statements regarding them.”

Please specify, and we’ll discuss it.

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“Why do different theorists offer different numbers for the film speed argument? Please explain the inconsistencies”

It is all down to what each individual perceives it to be. Give a few people a slow motion video and ask them to speed it up until it looks right, and they will all come up with different framerates. And yet again, you fail to see the sarcasm in the figure I gave you, I’ll take my intellect over that dodgy education of yours any day.

And so to the rest of your post. I can only see four, maybe five of your questions, that I would feel I had an obligation to answer, as the rest of your questions seem to be aimed at HB’s in general, rather than me personally. You think we all share the same thoughts, as you people do, but unlike you, we have our own individual minds. So ask those questions again, and this time, give a reason for each one, as to why you think I need to justify you with an answer.

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“Oh, great, another idiot who doesn't know anything about Stanley Kubrick”

Which bit did I get wrong, oh clever one.

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“Which it must have been, given that they were discussing live events.”

And which live events were these, which they wouldn’t have known the day before? Were they TV transmissions or just sound broadcasts? Get a grip!

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“You cannot "multitask" certain jobs on a set, because they all take full concentration.”

Explain what twenty people couldn’t manage to do, taking into account the obvious simplicity of the footage. What do you mean by “full concentration”? If a mistake was made, they would just reshoot.

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“For example: the Earth is NOT on the lunar horizon as seen from Clavius. Kubrick was not an astronomer”

He didn’t have guidance from those people at NASA on that one. Do any of you actually put any thought into this drivel you are spouting?

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“And I've said for years, you couldn't have had Buzz Aldrin and Stanley Kubrick working on the same project without major personality conflict”

Is that a fact, or are you just making your own assumptions? So you think that actor in the space suit was Buzz Aldrin?

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“all speculations about Buzz's actions require him to be the sort of person who would be willing to fake a Moon landing, which I don't believe he was.  But supposing he was, nowhere in the narrative did he suffer fools”

It was Buzz Aldrin who was the fool. The rest of his life was wrecked by his foolish decision to take part in this huge fraud.


Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Luke Pemberton on May 11, 2018, 05:53:33 PM
Gravity is a fact, but how it works, is only theoretical, as it cannot be fully explained. Here’s a few quotes from the link below, from people who think they know what they are talking about.

That views in that link are an assemblage of nonsense written by the lay person.

Of course how gravity it works is only a theory, not one disputes this point. However, as explained, the theories fit observation accurately, and have been tested and verified to high degrees of certainty. The Michelson Morley experiment that provided the foundation for SR and the leap to GR has been tested to high levels of precision. Inertial mass and gravitational mass are considered equivalent in recent tests to extremely high precision.

There are also aspects of Einstein's theories that fall over in highly curved space time. We also don't have a theory of a force carrying particle for gravity in the standard model. Gravity does not fit well into that model as it is extremely weak compared to the other fundamental forces, yet acts over much longer distance.

I raise this quote:

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We have no evidence whatsoever for dark matter, other than otherwise inexplicable gravitational; effects, but these are only inexplicable if gravity follows the law we have written.

This is nonsense, it's a case of the cart leading the horse. As explained, Einstein's equations are field equations. They adequately describe the fields produced by gravity at a local scale. However, they do not provide solutions or boundary conditions to the universe. The metrics that cosmologists use are based on theoretical ideas, and the metric has to obey a set of boundary conditions that are consistent with the field equations. Dark matter is proposed to explain inconsistencies between the observed expansion of the universe and the theoretical expansion.

It may be the case that GR has to be modified if dark matter proves to be a dead end, but a new GR or theory for gravity must also be consistent with Newton's laws and Einstein's equations for local gravity. This would not mean that LEO missions and deep space probes are consigned to the hoax bin because there are issues of representing gravity at the galactic scale. Throughout history there are many examples of theories that have bee refined, but they still have to incorporate the previous theory that has held  true in the limit.  In the early 20th century, physics was turned upside down by quantum mechanics. This didn't consign Newton's equations to the bin.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on May 11, 2018, 06:00:09 PM
Ok so you assume, knowing it well enough would be good enough to put men on the moon. And I know you will also presume, it was close enough to be able to launch a probe, and by using multiple sling shots around various celestial bodies, it would be able to rendezvous with an object travelling at 34,000mph, ten years from launch and 300,000,000 miles away, and then remotely perform complicated manoeuvres to achieve orbit around the said object, while taking pictures, before deliberately crashing part of it into the object, with a delay in transmission of around fifty minutes there and back. Apollo was one thing, but the ESA totally lost the plot with that one.
I presume you're referring to the Rosetta mission here?  (A mission I took a great deal of interest in for several reasons, and which is still producing a lot of very interesting science.)

What exactly is so unbelievable about being able to compute the effects of close passes to planets, and use that information to manoeuvre a spacecraft to its final destination?  It's basically an extension of simple ballistics, which was developed for figuring out how to fire cannons to hit targets several hundred years ago...

If you're going to dismiss such fundamental maths and science, then there's really no way to explain anything to you...
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on May 11, 2018, 06:05:12 PM
Picking a nit...  ;)

Dark matter is proposed to explain inconsistencies between the observed expansion of the universe and the theoretical expansion.
Isn't it dark energy that's proposed as an explanation of the peculiarities in the expansion rate?

I thought dark matter was initially proposed to explain anomalies in galactic rotation curves, although there's now lots of additional evidence for it.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: MBDK on May 11, 2018, 06:09:16 PM
Ok so you assume, knowing it well enough would be good enough to put men on the moon. And I know you will also presume, it was close enough to be able to launch a probe, and by using multiple sling shots around various celestial bodies, it would be able to rendezvous with an object travelling at 34,000mph, ten years from launch and 300,000,000 miles away, and then remotely perform complicated manoeuvres to achieve orbit around the said object, while taking pictures, before deliberately crashing part of it into the object, with a delay in transmission of around fifty minutes there and back. Apollo was one thing, but the ESA totally lost the plot with that one.

Your logical fallacy of an Argument from Ignorance is duly noted.  This site does not provide a course for you  in celestial mechanics, nor would it necessarily prove to be anything you could understand, anyway.  The step-by-step successes and failures of every space program were all caused by the unbending physical laws of the universe.  With each of those successes and failures, lessons were learned, understandings made, and verifiable calculations rigidly proven.  Minor course corrections and other contingency maneuvers are also part of the plan for every mission.  The macro-cosmic scale gravitational mysteries have yet to be seen to influence our micro-cosmic journeys through the solar system.  Just because you don't understand how the math and science works does not mean other people don't, or more accurately, that MANY other people don't.  Other than the fact that the math is too hard for you to comprehend in the slightest, you have no argument here.  You just don't know enough to explain your claim in realistic numbers.  I say that confidently, because if you DID have such knowledge, you wouldn't make such a ridiculous claim, unless you were flat-out lying.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Luke Pemberton on May 11, 2018, 06:25:38 PM
It is all down to what each individual perceives it to be.

If your argument comes down to perception then you have no argument.

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Give a few people a slow motion video and ask them to speed it up until it looks right, and they will all come up with different framerates.

Except Percy offered 2x rate based on perception and the 1.67x rate was worked out following a complete blunder. You are aware of that right? You are aware that Jarrah White claimed the 2x speed, made a complete and utter fool of himself, and then was forced to perform a monumental u-turn with the 1.67x speed.

So, I ask again, do you think that speeding up the jump salute video to 1.67x speed, rendering that video, reducing it's speed by 2/3 and then comparing it with the original is a valid approach? This process is not based on perceptions, but an attempt to formally apply science. My question about consistency is not simply about perception, but the circular logic of this particular claim.

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And yet again, you fail to see the sarcasm in the figure I gave you, I’ll take my intellect over that dodgy education of yours any day.

I saw the sarcasm. Don't make assumptions about my failure to interpret your writing, I refused to respond in kind to your obvious and transparent attempts at sarcasm. As explained, you came to board on the pretext that we were addressing the seriousness of a hoax, so I addressed your seriousness in honesty and good spirit. Keep up will you? If you want to engage in verbal jousting and patronising remarks about my education then I'll sure enough post a moderator report. Be warned, I've acted in good faith so far.

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And so to the rest of your post. I can only see four, maybe five of your questions, that I would feel I had an obligation to answer, as the rest of your questions seem to be aimed at HB’s in general, rather than me personally. You think we all share the same thoughts, as you people do, but unlike you, we have our own individual minds. So ask those questions again, and this time, give a reason for each one, as to why you think I need to justify you with an answer.

You are a member of the board, you claim the landings were hoaxed. I am interrogating your claims, your expertise and the your credentials by asking you a series of questions that are relevant to your claims. My justification is based on forum rules and the spirit of your claim. I have a right ask to ask questions that are pertinent and relevant to the Apollo hoax. That is the topic addressed at this forum. Please answer the questions. If LO does not judge the questions justified and relevant, then I'll retract them.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 11, 2018, 06:46:35 PM
Quote from: AtomicDog
“For example: the Earth is NOT on the lunar horizon as seen from Clavius. Kubrick was not an astronomer”

Quote from: cambo
He didn’t have guidance from those people at NASA on that one. Do any of you actually put any thought into this drivel you are spouting?


What in blazes are you talking about? You don't need NASA to tell you that the Earth is not on the lunar horizon from Clavius crater! All you need are a pair of eyes!  Any Moon map will show you that Clavius is 30 degrees latitude and 70 degrees longitude from the lunar limb and that the Earth is not going to get near the horizon from that location.  Do YOU think that NASA is the be-all and end-all of all astronomical knowledge? Any amateur astronomer alive knows where the Earth can be seen from the Moon!
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Luke Pemberton on May 11, 2018, 06:48:45 PM
I thought dark matter was initially proposed to explain anomalies in galactic rotation curves, although there's now lots of additional evidence for it.

That is correct, although some scientists believe that the existence of brown dwarfs which are difficult to detect might offer an insight into the extra mass. Further, as you know, there are regions in space where gravitational lensing occurs but there is an abscence of 'normal matter' to account for the lensing.

This was my previous discussion earlier in the thread.

Scientists believe the percentage of normal matter in the universe cannot account for its expansion and propose that dark matter may exist to overcome this discrepancy. There is also a proposal that as the universe expands, dark energy is created. This is linked to the interpretation of the cosmological constant and the vacuum potential. Dark matter has been proposed to explain why observations do not fit with the model, not that the theory is incorrect.

In this post, although not clear, my understanding is dark matter decays into the dark energy field which drives the expansion (I cannot find my reference, but I do recall reading about this). So dark matter and energy are intrinsically linked in this sense. I was writing in the context of cambo's discussion of dark matter which would imply some rethink of GR at the cosmological level, although this might already be there as the cosmological constant which could be derived from the dark energy field. So yes, I've not been clear. Thanks  ;)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 11, 2018, 06:58:54 PM
Cambo, do you still think that you need blueprints to to show that the Lunar Rover could be carried on the LM and unfolded? If so, why?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on May 11, 2018, 07:02:17 PM
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“the scientists who published the research that cemented it as a real problem in cosmology were not NASA scientists”

Point taken.

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“To me, they got gravity wrong”

“Since you clearly haven't actually grasped any of the basics of gravity, your interpretation is irrelevant”

Gravity is a fact, but how it works, is only theoretical, as it cannot be fully explained. Here’s a few quotes from the link below, from people who think they know what they are talking about.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-gravity-still-technically-just-a-theory

“We have no evidence whatsoever for dark matter, other than otherwise inexplicable gravitational; effects, but these are only inexplicable if gravity follows the law we have written.”

“As others have noted, the law relates to observations, not explanations, and that requires a theory. Whether our theory is correct remains to be seen”

“For gravitation, General Relativity is a theory that tries to explain how gravitation arises and works.”

Quote
“Funny, earlier on you argued that it was a big leap from small scale to planetary scale to cosmic scale”

It certainly is, what’s your point?

Quote
“Centuries of observation on a planetary system scale confirm the calculations used to predict the behaviour of objects in gravity fields work on those scales well enough

Ok so you assume, knowing it well enough would be good enough to put men on the moon. And I know you will also presume, it was close enough to be able to launch a probe, and by using multiple sling shots around various celestial bodies, it would be able to rendezvous with an object travelling at 34,000mph, ten years from launch and 300,000,000 miles away, and then remotely perform complicated manoeuvres to achieve orbit around the said object, while taking pictures, before deliberately crashing part of it into the object, with a delay in transmission of around fifty minutes there and back. Apollo was one thing, but the ESA totally lost the plot with that one.

Quote
“Hella cranes, too...or has the bot missed seeing shots like House Rock, or the Grand Prix?”

Oh I’ve seen them, so what makes them stand out for you?.

Quote
“Oh, of course. I totally forgot they already had at least one crane; for lowering the Rover on to the set”

It had wheels, what the hell are you on?

Quote
“Funny, thing, though. About how those "missing tracks" are on high detail, near-IMAX quality still frames that can be matched moment to moment, angle to angle, item to item with the video record, and can with minimum effort be linked to exact moments in the transmitted audio which was intercepted live by amateur radio enthusiasts”

If you say so, but again, what is your point?

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“Funnily enough the 360 degree pans from the rover camera never showed the studio

The studio? The stage including backdrop scenery is no more than a hundred yards across, and that scaled down model of the LEM is pathetic. It’s not even obvious, that the camera is panning, as it may just be moving sideways across the stage in front of a false panoramic backdrop. Either way, it’s fake.

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“how do you get the dust from the rovers wheels to follow a parabolic curve if not in a vacuum”

Ah, so that’s where you’re coming from, with the vacuum chamber argument. I just assumed we’d covered that, so in a nutshell, it is sand we are seeing, you are seeing only what you’ve been told to see.

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“the photographic record exactly matches the radar topography from the Selene satellite sent decades later (not a Nasa mission I believe)”

So another space agency allegedly confirmed NASA’s depiction of the lunar terrain, so what?

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“any and all evidence that disagrees with him is either from NASA (liars) or from a third party supporting NASA (also liars)”

So find a way around it and think for yourselves for once.

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“That's why I'm not bothering with any pictures or video, despite the obvious wrongness of his statements regarding them.”

Please specify, and we’ll discuss it.

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“Why do different theorists offer different numbers for the film speed argument? Please explain the inconsistencies”

It is all down to what each individual perceives it to be. Give a few people a slow motion video and ask them to speed it up until it looks right, and they will all come up with different framerates. And yet again, you fail to see the sarcasm in the figure I gave you, I’ll take my intellect over that dodgy education of yours any day.

And so to the rest of your post. I can only see four, maybe five of your questions, that I would feel I had an obligation to answer, as the rest of your questions seem to be aimed at HB’s in general, rather than me personally. You think we all share the same thoughts, as you people do, but unlike you, we have our own individual minds. So ask those questions again, and this time, give a reason for each one, as to why you think I need to justify you with an answer.

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“Oh, great, another idiot who doesn't know anything about Stanley Kubrick”

Which bit did I get wrong, oh clever one.

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“Which it must have been, given that they were discussing live events.”

And which live events were these, which they wouldn’t have known the day before? Were they TV transmissions or just sound broadcasts? Get a grip!

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“You cannot "multitask" certain jobs on a set, because they all take full concentration.”

Explain what twenty people couldn’t manage to do, taking into account the obvious simplicity of the footage. What do you mean by “full concentration”? If a mistake was made, they would just reshoot.

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“For example: the Earth is NOT on the lunar horizon as seen from Clavius. Kubrick was not an astronomer”

He didn’t have guidance from those people at NASA on that one. Do any of you actually put any thought into this drivel you are spouting?

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“And I've said for years, you couldn't have had Buzz Aldrin and Stanley Kubrick working on the same project without major personality conflict”

Is that a fact, or are you just making your own assumptions? So you think that actor in the space suit was Buzz Aldrin?

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“all speculations about Buzz's actions require him to be the sort of person who would be willing to fake a Moon landing, which I don't believe he was.  But supposing he was, nowhere in the narrative did he suffer fools”

It was Buzz Aldrin who was the fool. The rest of his life was wrecked by his foolish decision to take part in this huge fraud.

If you think that gravity is only a theory, jump off your roof and report back to us.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on May 11, 2018, 07:06:33 PM
Gravity is a fact, but how it works, is only theoretical, as it cannot be fully explained. Here’s a few quotes from the link below, from people who think they know what they are talking about.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-gravity-still-technically-just-a-theory

“We have no evidence whatsoever for dark matter, other than otherwise inexplicable gravitational; effects, but these are only inexplicable if gravity follows the law we have written.”

“As others have noted, the law relates to observations, not explanations, and that requires a theory. Whether our theory is correct remains to be seen”

“For gravitation, General Relativity is a theory that tries to explain how gravitation arises and works.”
Well, reading through that Quora page gave me a completely different impression than your very selectively cherry-picked quotes above.  Did you actually read, or more importantly, understand, the point being made repeatedly about the nature of a scientific "theory" as opposed to the use of the word in common parlance?

If all you got from those answers, most of which are very carefully thought out and well presented, is that "gravity's just a theory and we've no idea if it works the same everywhere" then I think you really need to spend a bit of time learning the basics of science, the scientific method, and exactly what is meant by words like "theory", "hypothesis" etc.

And to provide perspective, we can be pretty certain that we don't know, and likely will never know, all of the details of how gravity works.  Just as Einstein advanced on Newton's ideas (although Newtonian theories are fine for landing on the Moon or rendezvousing with a comet) we can expect further refinements in the future.  That's an essential part of doing science - new ideas supersede older ones, new theories expand and refine older ones, and nothing is ever "set in stone".

And relevant to the debate - I live quite close to St Andrews, which is a bit of a hotbed for research into alternative theories of gravity, such as MOND.  At the local astronomy club we've regularly had speakers visiting to explain their work, and to discuss the implications.  These however are people taking a careful and scientific approach to their research, not just going "I don't think the theory's right, so I'll make up some weird nonsense to replace it." but developing mathematical frameworks and models, running simulations, making observations of what's happening on large scales in the universe.  And they must, at every step, look at whether their ideas match observed reality - to paraphrase Feynman "If your theory doesn't match observed reality, it's wrong!"...
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on May 11, 2018, 07:12:06 PM
In this post, although not clear, my understanding is dark matter decays into the dark energy field which drives the expansion (I cannot find my reference, but I do recall reading about this). So dark matter and energy are intrinsically linked in this sense. I was writing in the context of cambo's discussion of dark matter which would imply some rethink of GR at the cosmological level, although this might already be there as the cosmological constant which could be derived from the dark energy field. So yes, I've not been clear. Thanks  ;)
Ah, I haven't heard about this, hence my confusion.  It's a bit late to start now, but I can see me spending some time on Sunday looking into the latest dark matter / dark energy research  :D
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Luke Pemberton on May 11, 2018, 07:18:18 PM
In this post, although not clear, my understanding is dark matter decays into the dark energy field which drives the expansion (I cannot find my reference, but I do recall reading about this). So dark matter and energy are intrinsically linked in this sense. I was writing in the context of cambo's discussion of dark matter which would imply some rethink of GR at the cosmological level, although this might already be there as the cosmological constant which could be derived from the dark energy field. So yes, I've not been clear. Thanks  ;)
Ah, I haven't heard about this, hence my confusion.  It's a bit late to start now, but I can see me spending some time on Sunday looking into the latest dark matter / dark energy research  :D

It's known as the dark fluid. It's a minefield with proposals that dark energy is connected to the Higg's field, dark matter are super symmetric particles, dark matter are neutrinos, WIMPs...  I'm no expert, but if the Higg's field was the connection between the standard model and GR, that would be mind blowing!
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cos on May 11, 2018, 09:27:40 PM
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“how do you get the dust from the rovers wheels to follow a parabolic curve if not in a vacuum”

Ah, so that’s where you’re coming from, with the vacuum chamber argument. I just assumed we’d covered that, so in a nutshell, it is sand we are seeing, you are seeing only what you’ve been told to see.

How are we "told to see"? I can see that the dust describes a parabolic path. It is unlike anything you can observe in an atmosphere (such as on planet Earth). I KNOW (as a result of my education NOT faith) that this can only be in a vacuum. You say it is sand. Please show me an experiment where sand/dust in an atmosphere behaves like this and I'll believe everything you claim. Now that is a very low bar. Go on, break the HB tradition, do an actual experiment to prove your hypothesis and bring the whole house of Apollo tumbling down.

I won't be holding my breath.

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“the photographic record exactly matches the radar topography from the Selene satellite sent decades later (not a Nasa mission I believe)”

So another space agency allegedly confirmed NASA’s depiction of the lunar terrain, so what?

So you are saying that they launched the probe to fake the topography of the moon? Hmmm.. how did the funding proposal for that go? "We'd like to launch a probe to map the moon. Only we are going to have to fake it in order to match terrain shown by the Apollo missions". "Great idea! Here's $100M".   Simpler to not bother, perhaps?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nomuse on May 11, 2018, 09:37:27 PM
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“For example: the Earth is NOT on the lunar horizon as seen from Clavius. Kubrick was not an astronomer”

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He didn’t have guidance from those people at NASA on that one. Do any of you actually put any thought into this drivel you are spouting?


What in blazes are you talking about? You don't need NASA to tell you that the Earth is not on the lunar horizon from Clavius crater! All you need are a pair of eyes!  Any Moon map will show you that Clavius is 30 degrees latitude and 70 degrees longitude from the lunar limb and that the Earth is not going to get near the horizon from that location.  Do YOU think that NASA is the be-all and end-all of all astronomical knowledge? Any amateur astronomer alive knows where the Earth can be seen from the Moon!

Plus he had PLENTY of support. If Kubrick was anything, it was meticulous. There's lots of documentation about the consulting he did with technical experts (and futurists). The visible Earth in the Clavius shot is obviously an intentional error made for dramatic effect, just as he asked for a craggier, more dramatic moonscape than the very good information and skilled depictions (such as Chesly Bonestall) described.

Oh, yeah. And Kubrick would let, "...small step for man..." get into the final cut?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on May 11, 2018, 10:34:49 PM
Oh, yes.  No, Kubrick was such a perfectionist that, if he had faked the Moon landing, there would be no room for flubbed lines.  (There also obviously would've been even more takes than Cambo realizes.  Can you imagine how long it would take to film a Kubrick-approved landing, given how long some of the uncut sequences are?)  I'll admit to not being sure how certain visuals would meet with expectations--because, as mentioned, he was quite capable of going against what he knew to be accurate because he didn't like it.

It also would have been shot in the UK.  This is a minor detail that HBs never get.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on May 12, 2018, 03:32:29 AM

The studio? The stage including backdrop scenery is no more than a hundred yards across, and that scaled down model of the LEM is pathetic. It’s not even obvious, that the camera is panning, as it may just be moving sideways across the stage in front of a false panoramic backdrop. Either way, it’s fake.

And you base this on...? How would you explain a rover driving towards that scenery for quite some time and never apparently getting any nearer? If it's panning sideways how do you explain the changes in view that are consistent with a rotation, not a lateral motion? How do you explain views of Earth in those pans entirely consistent with the day's meteorological observations?

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Ah, so that’s where you’re coming from, with the vacuum chamber argument. I just assumed we’d covered that, so in a nutshell, it is sand we are seeing, you are seeing only what you’ve been told to see.

No. The particle size distribution is clearly not just sand, an even if it was it would still be subject to Earth gravity. You have obviously never done any soil sample grading to get to specific size fractions, you would know how how long it would take to get the amount of "sand" required.

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So another space agency allegedly confirmed NASA’s depiction of the lunar terrain, so what?

The fact is that the Apollo photographic, video and live TV record reveal details that were not known about prior to the landings. The lunar orbiter probes that preceded the missions were very good but not good enough to reveal the level of information shown in the surface photography (or indeed orbital photographs) taken by astronauts.

The fact is that probes sent by India, Japan and China all corroborate Apollo's imagery, and the 3D models you can create using their data also corroborate the views shown in Apollo photographs.

The probes from those three nations also confirm evidence of human activity on the lunar surface exactly as shown by th LRO and by images taken by Apollo.

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So find a way around it and think for yourselves for once.

Some of us already do - I don't know, for example, that the live TV broadcast made by Apollo 11 on July 16th shows Hurricane Bernice in a unique configuration for that day because someone told me, I know because I discovered it myself. I don't know that India, China and Japan photographed human activity on the surface because they told me it did, I downloaded the images and processed them myself. Exactly what efforts have you gone to to prove your point?

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And which live events were these, which they wouldn’t have known the day before? Were they TV transmissions or just sound broadcasts? Get a grip!

Football scores, weather reports, news headlines. Read the transcripts. The astronauts in turn provided descriptions of the view of Earth that they could not possibly have known about in advance.


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He didn’t have guidance from those people at NASA on that one. Do any of you actually put any thought into this drivel you are spouting?p

I think you need to read that comment back to yourself and take it on board. There are other technical errors about the view of Earth - particularly the one where he can't make up his mind which way round Earth should be in two different shots from the same place.


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Is that a fact, or are you just making your own assumptions? So you think that actor in the space suit was Buzz Aldrin?

The photographs and TV say yes.

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It was Buzz Aldrin who was the fool. The rest of his life was wrecked by his foolish decision to take part in this huge fraud.

If you followed him on social media, you would know that Buzz Aldrin has not had his life wrecked at all - quite the opposite. Have some words of wisdom from him:

“I personally don't waste very much of my time on what is so obvious to a really thinking person.”
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on May 12, 2018, 04:02:30 AM
Gravity is a fact, but how it works, is only theoretical, as it cannot be fully explained.

Not in dispute, but if you think 'just a theory' means the same in science as it does to anyone else you really don't know what you're talking about. A scientific theory has to a) fit the available evidence, and b) survive rigorous testing. Newton's theories fit observation remarkably well in all but deep gravity wells, Einstein's cover everything that newton's cover and a few more bits. It's a refinement, not a complete re-writing that means everything done using Newton's equations is wrong.

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“We have no evidence whatsoever for dark matter, other than otherwise inexplicable gravitational; effects, but these are only inexplicable if gravity follows the law we have written.”

“As others have noted, the law relates to observations, not explanations, and that requires a theory. Whether our theory is correct remains to be seen”

“For gravitation, General Relativity is a theory that tries to explain how gravitation arises and works.”

And once again, none of this is in dispute. The point you are failing (or refusing) to grasp is that whatever refinements to our theory of gravity that are required to explain the galactic scale problems will not affect the theories and equations used on the scale of anything within our solar system to any significant degree.

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“Funny, earlier on you argued that it was a big leap from small scale to planetary scale to cosmic scale”

It certainly is, what’s your point?

Can't you even follow your own arguments? I point out that Newton's theories allow me to predict the behaviour of everything from a dropped hammer to a planetary orbit and you say it's a big leap, now you're arguing that gravity is gravity. Make up your mind, or present your arguments more coherently.

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“Centuries of observation on a planetary system scale confirm the calculations used to predict the behaviour of objects in gravity fields work on those scales well enough

Ok so you assume, knowing it well enough would be good enough to put men on the moon. And I know you will also presume, it was close enough to be able to launch a probe, and by using multiple sling shots around various celestial bodies, it would be able to rendezvous with an object travelling at 34,000mph, ten years from launch and 300,000,000 miles away, and then remotely perform complicated manoeuvres to achieve orbit around the said object, while taking pictures, before deliberately crashing part of it into the object, with a delay in transmission of around fifty minutes there and back. Apollo was one thing, but the ESA totally lost the plot with that one.

I presume or assume nothing. I conclude based on my own observations and understanding. Your incredulity that some specialists could pull off such a mission is irrelevant to the reality of the situation. If you can't figure out how observing the behaviour of literally thousands or even millions of objects within and beyond the solar system over centuries using ever more precise and accurate techniques provides a solid foundation for calculating the trajectory to launch a spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet that is really your problem, and no-one else's.

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that scaled down model of the LEM is pathetic.

Thank you for demonstrating how little of the record you have actually seen. That would be the 'scaled down' model that every TV broadcast from every mission includes footage of the astronauts working next to, climbing up and into or out and down from, yes?

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It’s not even obvious, that the camera is panning, as it may just be moving sideways

If you can't tell the difference between a tracking and panning shot, again, not our problem. But again, as always, everything is fake that might possibly contradict you.

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“any and all evidence that disagrees with him is either from NASA (liars) or from a third party supporting NASA (also liars)”

So find a way around it and think for yourselves for once.

I did, and I do. You, on the other hand, are parrotting practically verbatim some long-debunked crap.

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And which live events were these, which they wouldn’t have known the day before?

For someone who claims to have drawn their own conclusions, you consistently demonstrate the (sadly expacted and all-too-familiar) near total lack of familiarity with the record. I'm pretty comfortable in saying that everyone on this discussion has seen and heard more of the record for Apollo than you even know exists.

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“For example: the Earth is NOT on the lunar horizon as seen from Clavius. Kubrick was not an astronomer”

He didn’t have guidance from those people at NASA on that one. Do any of you actually put any thought into this drivel you are spouting?

I'm also going to assume you've never taken the time to look at the Moon yourself and figure out where Clavius is, or had sufficient grasp of geometry to figure out the implications for what anyone standing there would see. Input from NASA is not required.

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So you think that actor in the space suit was Buzz Aldrin?

Further ignorance of the record noted.

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It was Buzz Aldrin who was the fool. The rest of his life was wrecked by his foolish decision to take part in this huge fraud.

Ever met the man? I have. His life sure as hell isn't wrecked.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on May 12, 2018, 04:43:06 AM
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So another space agency allegedly confirmed NASA’s depiction of the lunar terrain, so what?

So you are saying that they launched the probe to fake the topography of the moon? Hmmm.. how did the funding proposal for that go? "We'd like to launch a probe to map the moon. Only we are going to have to fake it in order to match terrain shown by the Apollo missions". "Great idea! Here's $100M".   Simpler to not bother, perhaps?

Which would also mean yet more people who have to be added to the pay-off-payroll.  You need to buy the silence of the people getting the initial data from the probes, since they'll see when things are changed, then the team of artists doing the image modifications, terrain modelling, rendering etc.  And keep paying them.  And persuade multiple governments to pay for the hoax and keep paying them for decades.  And hope none of them get a better offer, or new incoming governments don't change their minds about paying.

It soon gets into the silly territory...

As an afterthought - have any amateurs done any work on receiving imagery from e.g. lunar orbiting spacecraft?  I know there were plenty listening in on Apollo audio transmissions, and there was some recent work by amateurs to get a defunct satellite back into action again, so it might, in theory be possible.  (I've just bought a cheap SDR dongle to make a weather satellite receiver, so technically it could be possible.)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: smartcooky on May 12, 2018, 08:29:31 AM
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So another space agency allegedly confirmed NASA’s depiction of the lunar terrain, so what?

So you are saying that they launched the probe to fake the topography of the moon? Hmmm.. how did the funding proposal for that go? "We'd like to launch a probe to map the moon. Only we are going to have to fake it in order to match terrain shown by the Apollo missions". "Great idea! Here's $100M".   Simpler to not bother, perhaps?

Which would also mean yet more people who have to be added to the pay-off-payroll. You need to buy the silence of the people getting the initial data from the probes, since they'll see when things are changed, then the team of artists doing the image modifications, terrain modelling, rendering etc.  And keep paying them.  And persuade multiple governments to pay for the hoax and keep paying them for decades.  And hope none of them get a better offer, or new incoming governments don't change their minds about paying.

It soon gets into the silly territory...

As an afterthought - have any amateurs done any work on receiving imagery from e.g. lunar orbiting spacecraft?  I know there were plenty listening in on Apollo audio transmissions, and there was some recent work by amateurs to get a defunct satellite back into action again, so it might, in theory be possible.  (I've just bought a cheap SDR dongle to make a weather satellite receiver, so technically it could be possible.)

And then you have to add employees of ESA (Europe), Roscosmos (Russia), CNSA (China) and JAXA (Japan) to the pay-off list too... they have all sent mapping missions to the Moon.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Abaddon on May 12, 2018, 10:09:39 AM
Don't forget ISRO (India)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on May 12, 2018, 01:17:12 PM
[snip]

Ever met the man? I have. His life sure as hell isn't wrecked.
I am envious of both you and Jay who have met any of the Lunar landing crews(maybe sts60 also)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: VQ on May 12, 2018, 01:18:57 PM
Ok so you assume, knowing it well enough would be good enough to put men on the moon. And I know you will also presume, it was close enough to be able to launch a probe, and by using multiple sling shots around various celestial bodies, it would be able to rendezvous with an object travelling at 34,000mph, ten years from launch and 300,000,000 miles away, and then remotely perform complicated manoeuvres to achieve orbit around the said object, while taking pictures, before deliberately crashing part of it into the object, with a delay in transmission of around fifty minutes there and back. Apollo was one thing, but the ESA totally lost the plot with that one.

So you believe interplanetary probes are all faked, too, because you believe we don't understand gravity?

You do understand that the first observational evidence of dark matter occurs on scales ~10,000 LY, right? Neptune's orbit is 0.0005 LY from the sun, so you are obsessing about an effect that is insignificant by more than 7 orders of magnitude.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on May 12, 2018, 02:58:04 PM
I am envious of both you and Jay who have met any of the Lunar landing crews(maybe sts60 also)

Buzz Aldrin and Alan Bean a couple of years ago, Jim Lovell, Al Worden and Fred Haise a few years prior. Only briefly, but enough to know these guys are not pulling some huge hoax off.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 12, 2018, 05:30:40 PM
I am envious of both you and Jay who have met any of the Lunar landing crews(maybe sts60 also)

Buzz Aldrin and Alan Bean a couple of years ago, Jim Lovell, Al Worden and Fred Haise a few years prior. Only briefly, but enough to know these guys are not pulling some huge hoax off.

My wife and I met Al Shepard at a book signing. I was in awe meeting someone who had walked on the moon. I'm more confident than ever that we will have more Moonwalkers (and Marswalkers) soon.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: mako88sb on May 12, 2018, 07:01:37 PM

My wife and I met Al Shepard at a book signing. I was in awe meeting someone who had walked on the moon. I'm more confident than ever that we will have more Moonwalkers (and Marswalkers) soon.

There's a guy who was well off and certainly didn't need money for playing along with a hoax. Plus there's no way in hell he would go along with any kind of script that had him and Mitchell failing to find cone crater. If he could make accomplished individuals such as fellow test pilots and astronauts feel uncomfortable merely by locking that icy stare of his on them, I can't imagine anybody going up and telling him "Yeah Al, we're going to have you guys stumbling around looking for cone crater but in the end you give up. Okay?"
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on May 13, 2018, 02:51:58 AM
It has been my privilege to hear speak, and shake the hands of, Charlie Duke, Alan Bean, James Lovell, Gene Cernan, Fred Haise, Al Worden, Ken Mattingly and Tom Stafford.

All of them remarkable people, and while for some of them their recall over mission details can get confused, the depth of technical knowledge they still have about their machines and equipment is incredible. Not one of them showed guilt, or shame, or showed any evidence of mendacity or evasiveness - all the things HBs claim they are riddled with.

The impugning of their reputation by fraudsters, scoundrels and the intellectually deficient is an absolute disgrace.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: BertieSlack on May 13, 2018, 02:54:33 AM
There's a guy who was well off and certainly didn't need money for playing along with a hoax. Plus there's no way in hell he would go along with any kind of script that had him and Mitchell failing to find cone crater. If he could make accomplished individuals such as fellow test pilots and astronauts feel uncomfortable merely by locking that icy stare of his on them, I can't imagine anybody going up and telling him "Yeah Al, we're going to have you guys stumbling around looking for cone crater but in the end you give up. Okay?"

Also, Shepard didn't get his flight status back until May 1969. He was already a national hero. If Apollo was fake, why would he fight hard to get back in the program when he must have known it was fake? Why was he given more time to train so he ended up commanding Apollo 14 instead of Apollo 13? Why was Gordon Cooper (back-up commander for Apollo 10 and should have rotated to command Apollo 13) swept aside just so Shepard could fake a moon mission?

And poor Jim Lovell. Had to fake two missions but didn't even get to fake walking on the moon...……….
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on May 13, 2018, 03:01:53 AM
Speaking of Cone, the 3D models I made showed exactly why they never saw it:

(https://i.imgur.com/5WOJr2Z.jpg)

The red dot is as far as they got, and as they looked across towards where they thought it should be the crater was sloping downhill away from them - effectively invisible behind it's own ri. The green dot is the LM.

All this is passing the time nicely while cambo fails to answer the questions I put to him.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on May 13, 2018, 08:24:50 AM
Weren't they getting really fatigued when they stopped?  I have never looked but their consumables might have been running toward the low end.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on May 13, 2018, 08:27:15 AM
Speaking of Cone, the 3D models I made showed exactly why they never saw it:

(https://i.imgur.com/5WOJr2Z.jpg)

The red dot is as far as they got, and as they looked across towards where they thought it should be the crater was sloping downhill away from them - effectively invisible behind it's own ri. The green dot is the LM.

All this is passing the time nicely while cambo fails to answer the questions I put to him.

Nice model, so what was the distance to the edge both in  vertical and horizontal?  If the model can identify.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on May 13, 2018, 09:06:58 AM
Speaking of Cone, the 3D models I made showed exactly why they never saw it:

(https://i.imgur.com/5WOJr2Z.jpg)

The red dot is as far as they got, and as they looked across towards where they thought it should be the crater was sloping downhill away from them - effectively invisible behind it's own ri. The green dot is the LM.

All this is passing the time nicely while cambo fails to answer the questions I put to him.

Nice model, so what was the distance to the edge both in  vertical and horizontal?  If the model can identify.

Difficult to tell without rebuilding the model in GIS, but measuring on the LRO map puts the distance at around 40m, with hardly any vertical change.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Peter B on May 14, 2018, 08:52:50 AM
The people setting it up, such as laying the sand...

Just checking, this is the magic sand is it? You pour out a few hundred tons of it on the set where the faking is done, and yet there's no dust particles mixed in with it - and no dust created when you actually pour the sand out onto the set. And magic in the sense that it's sand until you stick a boot in it, when it suddenly starts behaving like a cohesive powder and produces crisp boot prints and allows the astronauts to dig trenches with vertical sides.

Truly, this is sand that only MONEY! can buy.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Peter B on May 14, 2018, 09:52:18 AM
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what is stopping them from revealing the Moon Hoax for MONEY!?
And what stops the President from making himself a hero in the eyes of the nation by revealing the hoax?

How do you reveal a secret to another party that already knows? Strange! You would not see your president as a hero, you little fibber, you’d label him a liar and then go and find a rope. Anyway, he would have to run it by those other countries first, to get their approval, but as he probably doesn’t know anyway, your comment is moot.

??

According to you the Cold War was faked. So who knew it was faked? The Presidents of the USA? (And who else - as I asked before, at what rank did military types find out the Cold War was faked?)

According to you Apollo was faked. So who knew it was faked? Not the Presidents of the USA?

Care to explain this?

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robotic probes that launched unseen to set up the experiments, and returned kilogrammes of rock samples

 No need, everything they needed could be found on earth. Hang on, what experiments?

So on top of magic sand, now we have magic rocks that come from the Earth but have geological, physical and chemical characteristics that show they could only have formed on the Moon. Care to explain this?

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And if they built the Apollo hardware to go to the moon then what the hell was to stop them going to the moon?

 They built the Apollo hardware to fool people into thinking they were going to the moon, and what stopped them going was because it didn’t work.

So what didn't work? The rocket engines? The life support system? Guidance? Navigation? What specifically was it that made Apollo fail?

And what about the unmanned spacecraft? As I asked before: Are the Voyager spacecraft fakes? What about Galileo, Cassini or Juno? What about Viking or Sojourner/Pathfinder? What about Magellan or the Soviet Veneras? What about geosynchronous satellites? Where do you draw the line on what spacecraft are real, and why do you draw it there?

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Anyone, anywhere on earth who works in, on, or studies space exploration would be knowledgable enough to expose Apollo as a hoax

I suspect like me, they would if they could prove it, but unlike me, they have a living and reputation to think about, so until someone gets there hands on that proof, they stay quiet. Out of the millions of scientists in the world, how many of them have spoken publicly in support of Apollo not being a hoax? I’ll give you a clue, you won’t need to take your socks off.

Then you must be some sort of mutant. Go to this site: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/samples/

Pick a sample at random and click on it. Scroll down to the bottom and count the number of academic articles written about that one sample. Count up the number of unique individuals who wrote those articles. Then consider that there are hundreds of other samples with similar numbers of academic articles on each.

Are you seriously suggesting you have that many toes?

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I wonder how incoming researchers are informed that everything they’re studying is fake

The rocks, for instance, possess the same qualities as what is perceived to be a moon rock.

Yeah, no. The Apollo rocks have characteristics that are different from Earth rocks in ways which simply can't be faked. They simply can't be Earth rocks. There are too many of them to have been collected by unmanned sample retriever missions. And they show no signs of having passed through the Earth's atmosphere as meteorites. So unless you want to claim that NASA faked the Moon landings on Mars, the only other explanation is that they were collected from the Moon by humans.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: inconceivable on May 15, 2018, 09:56:40 AM
Maybe they did use trimethylsilanol for moon soil.  The thing that gets me about the hammer and feather trick is that feather.  Sure Galileo and all, but what about that feather.  The extreme temps of the moon soil, the sun. The radiative heat transfers from even the gloves to the feather, nothing. The feather is in sunlight, then in shade, then in sunlight.  Then it hits the scorching soil with its static discharge.   The Falcon feather being biological with oxygen and oils inside.  Am I missing something here?  Why was there nothing to observe?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on May 15, 2018, 10:17:13 AM
Maybe they did use trimethylsilanol for moon soil.

Since trimethylsilanol is a volatile liquid that would seem unlikely. Not even trying any more, are you?

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The thing that gets me about the hammer and feather trick is that feather.  Sure Galileo and all, but what about that feather.  The extreme temps of the moon soil, the sun. The radiative heat transfers from even the gloves to the feather, nothing. The feather is in sunlight, then in shade, then in sunlight.  Then it hits the scorching soil with its static discharge.

Exactly what would you expect an anhydrous keratin scaffold (which is what a feather is) to do in sunlight? The surface isn't 'scorching', it's about 250 degrees Fahrenheit. Find a feather, stick it in your oven at 250 Fahrenheit and see what happens. I can already tell you what will happen, because I have done it to answer this precise question several years ago. The answer is, absolutely nothing. You have to heat a feather up a lot more than 250 Fahrenheit for anything notable to happen to it.

And the static discharge business was covered the last time you mentioned it. What exactly would it be discharging to, given that feathers are non-conductive?

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The Falcon feather being biological with oxygen and oils inside.  Am I missing something here?

Very basic biochemistry, for one thing....
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Luke Pemberton on May 15, 2018, 10:51:10 AM
Maybe they did use trimethylsilanol for moon soil.

You read that somewhere, believed it at face, and are now parroting it as sounding scientific. That tells us everything about you.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: jfb on May 15, 2018, 11:09:07 AM
Am I missing something here? 

Yes.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on May 15, 2018, 12:21:01 PM
Maybe they did use trimethylsilanol for moon soil.  The thing that gets me about the hammer and feather trick is that feather.  Sure Galileo and all, but what about that feather.  The extreme temps of the moon soil, the sun. The radiative heat transfers from even the gloves to the feather, nothing. The feather is in sunlight, then in shade, then in sunlight.  Then it hits the scorching soil with its static discharge.   The Falcon feather being biological with oxygen and oils inside.  Am I missing something here?  Why was there nothing to observe?
On what basis are you saying the moon's surface is 'scorching'. Even a non-expert like myself can pull out more'n enough problems with that little spiel, but, given your distrust of NASA and science in general, what are you basing this on?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on May 15, 2018, 02:20:32 PM
Trimethylsilanol is hydrophobic, and it seems it's a substance you can coat sand grains with to prevent them becoming cohesive in the presence of water. You can use it to make actual magic sand:

https://www.eso.org/public/archives/schools/pdf/sis_0032.pdf

So now on top of the whole sieving thousands of tonnes of soil to grade it to a specific size we now need to add the supply of a large amount of a specific chemical and then apply to the sand. So that doesn't make it any more ridiculous now does it?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on May 15, 2018, 03:11:40 PM
Trimethylsilanol is hydrophobic, and it seems it's a substance you can coat sand grains with to prevent them becoming cohesive in the presence of water. You can use it to make actual magic sand:

Ah yes, I had fprgotten that. Still, prevting it becoming cohesive in water is a world away from making it dust free out of water...
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: smartcooky on May 15, 2018, 04:19:32 PM
HBs who think Kubrick helped fake the Apollo Lunar Landings do not understand what a complete fail this idea is on a number of fronts

Firstly, Kubrick himself was critical of both left and right (see "A Clockwork Orange" for an example of his views regarding "the system"). He would be philosophically opposed to taking part in a ruse to fool the public and then cover it up.

Secondly, even if he could have been somehow convinced to take part, Kubrick was a bloody perfectionist. The amount of construction required to build the sound stages and sets for the interiors and the lunar surface would have been enormous. Faking a lunar surface that would have to stand up to close scrutiny years later involves a lot more than just trucking in a few truckloads of gravel into a hangar and dressing the actors in spacesuits.

Thirdly, I think most of the HBs have never actually seen 2001. His Moon sequences had mistakes and sequences that screamed fake.... dust billowing on landings, the way the astronauts walked during their EVA at TMA-1, some of the head on sequences of Bowman  jogging around the gravity ring on Discovery, the sequence in which Heywood Floyd is walking around the inside of the main ring of the Space Station (he is obviously leaning backwards as he walks down the curved floor of the sound stage). Lastly, the weightless sequences in the Pan Am Shuttle are obviously fake.

Lastly, the special effects simply to do stand up to modern scrutiny. When you watch the movie on an old CRT or on a YouTube player it looks passable. However, when you try playing it on a big HDTV say 42", the special effects look primitive. You can clearly see the matting and the  edges where rotoscoping has been used in the space sequences. It is quite easy to spot the transition from sets to background where Kubrick used front projection in the "Dawn of Man".

Don't get me wrong, it was a great movie for its time, the special effects were groundbreaking for the 1960's, but they simply do not pass muster now, and any attempt to fake Apollo at that time would have been limited to the techniques and technology of the time. NASA would have known for sure that any attempt to fake it would need to be future-proof. And that is impossible even now, let alone attempting to do so with what was achievable in the 1960's.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on May 15, 2018, 05:35:15 PM
Secondly, even if he could have been somehow convinced to take part, Kubrick was a bloody perfectionist.

Fun fact: this perfectonism didn't stop at film production but extended to film presentation as well. My wife's grandfather, a cinema manager, once spent weeks working with Kubrick in the cinema to provide the best possible cinematic experience for presentation of his films there.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on May 16, 2018, 03:19:35 AM
Far be it for me to comment as i am a nobody lol but why on earth do any of you engage with inconceivable. they are clearly wasting your time lol
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: inconceivable on May 16, 2018, 02:21:11 PM
Exactly!  Nasa would not have let them take a feather onboard.  That's correct!  The feather would have been saturated with pure oxygen.  The LEM was a pure oxygen atmosphere.  Even at 5psi still posed a fire hazard.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 16, 2018, 03:46:41 PM
Exactly!  Nasa would not have let them take a feather onboard.  That's correct!  The feather would have been saturated with pure oxygen.  The LEM was a pure oxygen atmosphere.  Even at 5psi still posed a fire hazard.

Pure oxygen at 5 psi is the same oxygen pressure as air at 15 psi.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Geordie on May 16, 2018, 04:51:52 PM
Exactly!  Nasa would not have let them take a feather onboard.  That's correct!  The feather would have been saturated with pure oxygen.  The LEM was a pure oxygen atmosphere.  Even at 5psi still posed a fire hazard.
  I suggest that the feather was stored properly i.e. safely until it was needed. It's not like they were having zero g pillow fights all the way to the moon.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on May 16, 2018, 05:44:46 PM
Exactly!  Nasa would not have let them take a feather onboard.  That's correct!  The feather would have been saturated with pure oxygen.  The LEM was a pure oxygen atmosphere.  Even at 5psi still posed a fire hazard.
  I suggest that the feather was stored properly i.e. safely until it was needed. It's not like they were having zero g pillow fights all the way to the moon.
imagines that. it is glorious.
Besides, it's made as the same basic stuff as human hair, and the astronauts were not bald.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nomuse on May 16, 2018, 06:04:40 PM
Oh.....is that why the Moonbase crew had to wear those purple wigs?

(Wait...the guys still had hair. Crewcuts. With mod sideburns. Oh well....)

I was gonna ask if Inconceivable had ever tried to burn fingernail clippings. (Err, no, I haven't either. Not intentionally. I can confirm it smells very, very bad.)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on May 16, 2018, 07:00:50 PM
Oh.....is that why the Moonbase crew had to wear those purple wigs?

(Wait...the guys still had hair. Crewcuts. With mod sideburns. Oh well....)

I was gonna ask if Inconceivable had ever tried to burn fingernail clippings. (Err, no, I haven't either. Not intentionally. I can confirm it smells very, very bad.)
You get a very similar smell when using Nair and related products, which makes sense, in both cases you're breaking down keratin, just one involves combustion. Yeah, it tends to reek.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Willoughby on May 17, 2018, 09:47:06 AM
Just want to point out the fact that if something was to be filmed in Earth gravity and then slowed down to simulate lunar gravity, if you wanted to speed this back up to the original speed, there is a factor by which you should speed it up that can be easily calculated.  That factor is about 2.48x.  Not 1.67.  Not 2.  Not 1.84.....  Not..."played with the frame rates until it looked right".  The factor is about 2.48X.  Playing with the frame rate until it "looks right" is circular.  The entire point is to speed it up the appropriate amount and THEN observe if it "looks right".  Not play with the frame rates until you get something that you think works and then assert what the factor is.  The factor is based on pure math and physics.  And the factor is 2.48.  Period.  (it won't look right at this speed, nor should it - because it wasn't filmed on Earth and slowed down - go figure).

The actual factor is the square root of the factor by which the acceleration is different.  For Earth (as compared to the moon), the rate of acceleration is about 6.125 times higher (9.8 m/s² / 1.6 m/s²), so the factor by which you speed up the lunar footage to match Earth gravity would be √6.125 or about 2.48 times. 

For further calculation, you can simply calculate how long it takes something to fall in Earth gravity from a given height vs how long it would take in lunar gravity from the same height.  This difference in time is your factor.  So, for something dropped from 1.5 meters high, in Earth gravity, that would take :

t = √(2d/g) = √((2 * 1.5 m) / 9.8 m/s² = √0.306 = 0.553 seconds

In lunar gravity :

t = √(2d/g) = √((2 * 1.5 m) / 1.6 m/s² = √1.875 = 1.369 seconds

1.369 / 0.553 = 2.48 = the factor by which you must speed up lunar footage.

What is happening with the "test frame rate until it looks right" is that what looks wrong is everything OTHER than gravity.  Someone isn't paying attention to the actual gravity, but rather they are looking at other movements.  1.84 is probably too fast, but the person making that claim is clearly acknowledging that even at 2X speed, things look too fast - yet he actually hasn't sped it up ENOUGH; not too much.  He needed to slow it down because all those motions unassociated with gravity look too jerky and unnatural when sped up (because it wasn't filmed on Earth and slowed down).  These people just pluck arbitrary figures out of thin air.  On the moon, the ONLY thing different is the downward acceleration due to gravity.  All other motions (waving hands, swinging arms, banging hammers, basically anything that is not in free fall) would be no different on the moon than they are on Earth, so slowing down the footage only addresses the gravity and literally nothing else.  This is why 2X looks too fast - because it IS.  Because all those motions other than gravity are twice the speed they should be.  Again - even this Cambo or whatever his name is acknowledges this.  And even still, he needs to go faster if the gravity is to match because speeding up the lunar footage by a mere 2X is not enough to bring it up to the acceleration due to Earth gravity.  This entire line of argument fails miserably for this reason.

Another huge problem with the slowed down footage theory is that this was live.  If it were slowed down, it would necessarily have to have been prerecorded on some medium that could be played back at a slower frame rate, and that medium is film - which would have to be developed, etc.  So, it's not like it was merely delayed by a few minutes.  It would have had to have been prerecorded days or weeks in advance - because we are talking about hours upon hours of uncut live footage.  There would have been a lot of film to develop.  Then this playback would have to fool many technicians and pass as a live broadcast.  Again - hours upon hours of playback - uncut.  Kinda hard to do with film.  Not to mention the fact that as this Cambo guy says, there was no script; they just sorta went with the situation.  Yet, there are numerous times where the astronauts are referencing current events.  Things that were happening AT THAT MOMENT, such as specific and unique weather events (hurricanes, etc), the scores of live sporting events, political happenings, and many many other examples of this nature.  Since this entire "slowing down" theory hinges on the fact that it would have all have to be prerecorded, I find it amazing that they were able to accurately predict so many things in a broad spectrum of subjects and goings on in the world that would have been happening during the "live" broadcast that wasn't actually live, but recorded days or weeks earlier.     
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nomuse on May 17, 2018, 10:45:42 AM
Oh My. I just thought about it in terms of editing. Sure, film MOS because why point microphones at what is supposed to be vacuum. Then what?

You need to have a script because despite what the HB's think after they've seen a 1:30 clip on YouTube each EVA is actually a coherent story. Equipment is unpacked progressively, experiments set up. The soil is visibly more churned over their evolution. They are even visibly taking pictures, which they comment on...and we have the matching pictures!

(Which is why my version of trying to film the damn thing is a huge soundstage, no moving lights, no crew, just verite the heck out of what is actually there, real film in the Hassies and all.)

But...you've overcranked all the shots. So you've got to re-time the entire thing and THEN get your guys into ADR. What a nightmare that's gotta be to line up again!

Sure, you could do it. But not with six people, a super-8, and a week to work.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: MBDK on May 17, 2018, 03:31:35 PM
What is happening with the "test frame rate until it looks right" is that what looks wrong is everything OTHER than gravity.  Someone isn't paying attention to the actual gravity, but rather they are looking at other movements.  1.84 is probably too fast, but the person making that claim is clearly acknowledging that even at 2X speed, things look too fast - yet he actually hasn't sped it up ENOUGH; not too much.  He needed to slow it down because all those motions unassociated with gravity look too jerky and unnatural when sped up (because it wasn't filmed on Earth and slowed down).  These people just pluck arbitrary figures out of thin air.  On the moon, the ONLY thing different is the downward acceleration due to gravity.  All other motions (waving hands, swinging arms, banging hammers, basically anything that is not in free fall) would be no different on the moon than they are on Earth, so slowing down the footage only addresses the gravity and literally nothing else.  This is why 2X looks too fast - because it IS.  Because all those motions other than gravity are twice the speed they should be.

Very good synopsis of the whole "slo-mo" argument's major deficiencies.  If you don't mind, I may want to post (with credit to you, of course) this on one or more other threads on YouTube, or the like.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Allan F on May 17, 2018, 05:45:13 PM
Exactly!  Nasa would not have let them take a feather onboard.  That's correct!  The feather would have been saturated with pure oxygen.  The LEM was a pure oxygen atmosphere.  Even at 5psi still posed a fire hazard.

Pure oxygen at 5 psi is the same oxygen pressure as air at 15 psi.

Actually, it's more than 150% relative to Earth atmosphere.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Willoughby on May 17, 2018, 09:50:07 PM
Very good synopsis of the whole "slo-mo" argument's major deficiencies.  If you don't mind, I may want to post (with credit to you, of course) this on one or more other threads on YouTube, or the like.

Of course you may use any part of my comment, though you need not credit me.  Credit knowledge if you feel credit is due.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: ineluki on May 18, 2018, 08:08:28 AM
That's correct! 

Yawn... you aren't even trying to pretend to be more than a troll anymore...
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: dwight on May 18, 2018, 02:11:54 PM
Imagine the sociological impact that would occur if hoax believers the world over unanimously decided to call the LM the “LM” and not the “LEM”.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Luke Pemberton on May 19, 2018, 10:29:33 AM
Imagine the sociological impact that would occur if hoax believers the world over unanimously decided to call the LM the “LM” and not the “LEM”.

... and they simply looked around them, realised shadows don't need to be parallel, and that their ideological demagogues such as Ralph Rene were spouting crap all that time.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on May 20, 2018, 04:01:48 PM
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“a new GR or theory for gravity must also be consistent with Newton's laws”

If they ever work out a new set of rules, part of it may indeed be consistent with Newton’s laws, but until then, we can’t say for certain. Newton’s laws were based on observations made on earth.

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“If you're going to dismiss such fundamental maths and science, then there's really no way to explain anything to you...”

You haven’t explained anything. Where is the source of your information coming from?

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“if you DID have such knowledge, you wouldn't make such a ridiculous claim, unless you were flat-out lying”

And that’s where we have a problem, you have been fed lies in order to explain away the impossible. This knowledge, as you refer to it would only work in a Sci-Fi movie. I watched a documentary on the Rosetta mission and all they said was, we launched it, we caught up with the comet, took some photos and crashed into it, and they managed to make that information last 45 minutes. It was either made for ten year olds, or they just hadn’t come up with a feasible explanation at the time of production.

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“do you think that speeding up the jump salute video to 1.67x speed, rendering that video, reducing it's speed by 2/3 and then comparing it with the original is a valid approach?”

A valid approach to make it look as it would on earth? The way I read the question, it would leave me with a slower speed than I started with, so either reword the question or give it to me in English. The scene you mention was aided by the use of wires, as are many other scenes regarding the astronaut’s activities, while allegedly on the moon, so we will always see that floating effect, no matter what speed we play the video.

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“If you want to engage in verbal jousting and patronising remarks about my education then I'll sure enough post a moderator report. Be warned, I've acted in good faith so far.”

Oh, have I hurt your feelings? It’s obvious that the members on here, don’t take kindly to us non-academics, who have the audacity to question your knowledge. I am criticising the education you have received, and it is not meant as an insult to you personally, so if you can’t handle one HB crashing your party, then by all means, post that report. The title of this site suggests it is a place to debate the hoax theory from both sides of the fence, but I now see that is not the case, as I seem to be the only HB here, and I’m probably in the wrong place. I doubt I’ll be here much longer, whether you post that report or not.

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“I am interrogating your claims, your expertise and the your credentials by asking you a series of questions that are relevant to your claims.”

 Why is a question on radiation relevant to me personally? Why would I need to be an expert on the subject of cosmic radiation to support any of my claims? Point to an instance where I have said that radiation in space is restrictive to humans. You do realise, Mr Einstein, you are not the only one with internet access, and I would be able to answer your radiation questions with a few clicks of my mouse, so stop being a clever arse.

And the cardboard box thing? In future, I may put the word “sarcasm” in brackets to avoid confusion.

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“What in blazes are you talking about? You don't need NASA to tell you that the Earth is not on the lunar horizon from Clavius crater! All you need are a pair of eyes!  Any Moon map will show you that Clavius is 30 degrees latitude and 70 degrees longitude from the lunar limb and that the Earth is not going to get near the horizon from that location.  Do YOU think that NASA is the be-all and end-all of all astronomical knowledge? Any amateur astronomer alive knows where the Earth can be seen from the Moon!”

 Wow, that’s me told. Although Mr Kubrick put a lot of work into his films, the movie in question was science fiction and was probably only intended as a showcase for the latest special effects. It was not a documentary, so take a chill pill and I’ll try not to upset you in future.

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“Cambo, do you still think that you need blueprints to to show that the Lunar Rover could be carried on the LM and unfolded? If so, why?”

Of course not, although it would have been yet another big challenge to fly and land for the first time, with the extra weight on one side.

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“If you think that gravity is only a theory, jump off your roof and report back to us”

Gravity is real, how it works is the theory part. Did you by any chance attend the same school as me?

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“exactly what is meant by words like "theory", "hypothesis" etc.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothesis

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/etc.

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“Please show me an experiment where sand/dust in an atmosphere behaves like this and I'll believe everything you claim”

If you are told you are seeing dust, then you will see dust, and then logically assume it is in a vacuum. If you look at it as being sand, then it becomes obvious, the footage is fake.





As for doing an experiment, go find a sandpit and do it yourself, I’ve only just worked out how to use the insert image button.

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“We'd like to launch a probe to map the moon. Only we are going to have to fake it in order to match terrain shown by the Apollo missions”

If they are going to fake all or part of their own missions, then it has to tie in with all the other fakery.

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“It also would have been shot in the UK.  This is a minor detail that HBs never get”

Although I can’t see a reason why he wouldn’t go over to America, what would stop them filming it in the UK? He would have filmed the moon walks, and the fake landings and take-offs would be filmed at Langley, which could be why those scenes are the most obviously faked.

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“How would you explain a rover driving towards that scenery for quite some time and never apparently getting any nearer?”

That’s because it isn’t going anywhere. It’s done in front of a projected screen, notice how washed out the scenery is, and its shadow should be rippling like hell, over the undulating terrain.



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“How do you explain views of Earth in those pans entirely consistent with the day's meteorological observations?”

You need to give up on this weather pattern crap, as I can see one tiny flaw in your argument. Namely, it’s b@ll?cks.

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“The particle size distribution is clearly not just sand”

And you can tell this, just by watching that poor quality film?

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“it would still be subject to Earth gravity”

Yes it would.

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“you would know how how long it would take to get the amount of "sand" required.”

Nope, but since you’ve obviously worked out the area of the movie set, and the logistics involved in delivering the amount of sand, which you have also calculated, then why don’t you tell me?

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“The fact is that probes sent by India, Japan and China all corroborate Apollo's imagery, and the 3D models you can create using their data also corroborate the views shown in Apollo photographs.”

“The probes from those three nations also confirm evidence of human activity on the lunar surface exactly as shown by th LRO and by images taken by Apollo.”

Of course they would, but I think, using the word “fact” is a bit of an exaggeration.

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“ I don't know, for example, that the live TV broadcast made by Apollo 11 on July 16th shows Hurricane Bernice in a unique configuration for that day because someone told me, I know because I discovered it myself”

The internet told you, as it did me.

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“Exactly what efforts have you gone to to prove your point?”

Mainly, the use of my eyes and ears, rather than taking someone else’s word for it.

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“Football scores, weather reports, news headlines. Read the transcripts”

Transcripts? So there is no actual alleged video footage of them discussing football scores, for example?

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“If you followed him on social media, you would know that Buzz Aldrin has not had his life wrecked at all”

He suffered from alcoholism and depression for years, and the internet is full of articles on the subject.

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“Thank you for demonstrating how little of the record you have actually seen. That would be the 'scaled down' model that every TV broadcast from every mission includes footage of the astronauts working next to, climbing up and into or out and down from, yes?”

Where is your logic? Scaled down models to give the illusion of distance, and full size mock-ups for scenes including the alleged astronauts.

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“If you can't tell the difference between a tracking and panning shot, again, not our problem”

I said either way, it’s fake, meaning whether panning or scrolling.

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“Ever met the man? I have. His life sure as hell isn't wrecked”

He apparently came off the booze in 1978, so you are probably correct, but just because he didn’t break down in tears in front of you, doesn’t prove the man wasn’t a wreck.

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“he probably doesn’t know anyway”

“According to you Apollo was faked. So who knew it was faked? Not the Presidents of the USA?

Care to explain this?”

You misread what I said. I used the words “does not” as appose to the words “did not”

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“we have magic rocks that come from the Earth but have geological, physical and chemical characteristics that show they could only have formed on the Moon. Care to explain this?”

I answered this question some time back, but just for your benefit, they could have been meteorites, which everyone agrees, probably came from the moon, but with the fusion layer removed.

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“So what didn't work? The rocket engines? The life support system? Guidance? Navigation? What specifically was it that made Apollo fail?”

The hardware that got it into the air, were probably the only functional parts.

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“Where do you draw the line on what spacecraft are real, and why do you draw it there?”

I can only comment on missions, I am familiar with, in particular, Apollo, which is the reason I came here.

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“Pick a sample at random and click on it. Scroll down to the bottom and count the number of academic articles written about that one sample. Count up the number of unique individuals who wrote those articles. Then consider that there are hundreds of other samples with similar numbers of academic articles on each”

These are people who’ve studied the alleged samples from the moon, right? They are only confirming their belief that the samples have the same properties as they would expect to see in a moon rock, so I ask again, where are the public testimonies from scientists, declaring that Apollo was not a hoax, and why? I’ll keep my socks on for now until you’ve finished counting them all.

Here’s some thoughts from some clever people, who are sceptical of Apollo. They draw their evidence from their expertise in their own fields.

Colin Rourke, Professor of Mathematics

http://www.aulis.com/pdf%20folder/hadley_study.pdf

Gennady Ivchenkov, PhD

http://www.aulis.com/saturn_v_evaluation.htm

Dr Stanislav Georgievich Pokrovsky

http://www.aulis.com/saturn_v.htm

Dr Alexander Ivanovich Popov

http://www.aulis.com/apollo11saturn_v.htm

Yuri Ignatievich Mukhin

http://www.abodia.com/hoax/moon-landing-hoax/articles/moon-landings-conspiracy-theories.htm

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“I think most of the HBs have never actually seen 2001. His Moon sequences had mistakes and sequences that screamed fake”

Your brain is wired to only see what you expect to see, therefore you will spot fakery in a film that we all know is fake. You know in your own mind that Apollo was real, so you fail to spot the obvious flaws in this incredible hoax, which even the most casual observer can see.

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“Just want to point out the fact that if something was to be filmed in Earth gravity and then slowed down to simulate lunar gravity, if you wanted to speed this back up to the original speed, there is a factor by which you should speed it up that can be easily calculated.  That factor is about 2.48x.  Not 1.67.  Not 2.  Not 1.84.....  Not..."played with the frame rates until it looked right".  The factor is about 2.48X.”

You fail to take into account the use of wires, so as to hold them in the “air” for longer. Other movements are exactly as you would see on earth at 1.67x speed, so whatever equation you used, to come to your conclusion, means nothing.

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“there are numerous times where the astronauts are referencing current events”

Show me some video footage, where they mention something they couldn’t have known in advance.  Although they could have just talked live over the pre-recorded footage, which just shows how gullible you are.

As for it having to stand up to future scrutiny, well according to you, it has, but the vast majority of people who’ve taken the time to view the visual evidence, will tell you, you are bonkers. They must have known they wouldn’t fool future generations, but I would say their hands were tied after Kennedy went and made that foolhardy prediction.




Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on May 20, 2018, 05:20:07 PM
I'll make apologies to the others for discussing Rosetta rather than Apollo, but the depth of your ignorance, and the extent of your arrogance, are astounding!
And that’s where we have a problem, you have been fed lies in order to explain away the impossible. This knowledge, as you refer to it would only work in a Sci-Fi movie.
If you're going to claim that "gravitational slingshots" (gravitational assist manoeuvres) don't work, then you'll need to do more than just make vague statements like "I don't believe they work" or "I don't think gravity works the same in space" - or whatever nonsense it is you're proposing.  You need to show the flaw in the mathematics and physics.  You need to show your calculations of what happens when a spacecraft passes close to a planet.  Until you can do those things, you're just another random person who doesn't "believe in science" and who isn't prepared to learn enough about it to argue their point coherently.

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I watched a documentary on the Rosetta mission and all they said was, we launched it, we caught up with the comet, took some photos and crashed into it, and they managed to make that information last 45 minutes. It was either made for ten year olds, or they just hadn’t come up with a feasible explanation at the time of production.
Wow!  You sat through a whole 45 minutes of a documentary!!

If that's the extent of your knowledge about the mission, then there's probably no point in referring you to the huge collection of images, science data, telemetry data, and the many, many published papers analysing the results.  People are still working on this, and likely will be for decades to come.

And yes, TV documentaries generally are very much simplified for the general public.  I've also met ten-year-olds who'd have a better understanding of how Rosetta got to the comet than you apparently do.

And finally, to explain why Rosetta is of such interest to me, we have one of the ground test versions of the spacecraft's main processor board in the "trophy cabinet" where I work - or is that just a fake too?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on May 20, 2018, 07:23:56 PM
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“a new GR or theory for gravity must also be consistent with Newton's laws”

If they ever work out a new set of rules, part of it may indeed be consistent with Newton’s laws, but until then, we can’t say for certain. Newton’s laws were based on observations made on earth.

Where they were made is irrelevant. What the observations were of is the key. Newton's laws were derived using observations of anything from a falling apple to distant planets. Are you aware of how Neptune was discovered, for example?

No matter how many times you try to say we are uncertain about the exact mechanism of gravity, it won't alter the fact that whatever new theories arise will not affect how objects within the solar system behave, nor will it affect the calculations necessary to send a spacecraft to the Moon.

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I watched a documentary on the Rosetta mission and all they said was, we launched it, we caught up with the comet, took some photos and crashed into it, and they managed to make that information last 45 minutes. It was either made for ten year olds, or they just hadn’t come up with a feasible explanation at the time of production.

Or maybe they figured that since the physics of gravitational slignshots was well known by that time, but a little too arcane for a TV audience, they didn't go into that detail for the documentary. Have you tried doing any actual research into how these things work? If you're expecting to get your knowledge from TV dcumentaries it's little wonder you're so unable to fathom how things are done.


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“Thank you for demonstrating how little of the record you have actually seen. That would be the 'scaled down' model that every TV broadcast from every mission includes footage of the astronauts working next to, climbing up and into or out and down from, yes?”

Where is your logic? Scaled down models to give the illusion of distance, and full size mock-ups for scenes including the alleged astronauts.

My logic comes from having seen all (and I do mean all) the footage from the lunar surface TV and film. Just because all you have seen is a few clips on YouTube don't assume they give you anything like the full picture.

Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: MBDK on May 20, 2018, 07:31:20 PM
Here’s some thoughts from some clever people, who are sceptical of Apollo. They draw their evidence from their expertise in their own fields.

Colin Rourke, Professor of Mathematics

http://www.aulis.com/pdf%20folder/hadley_study.pdf

Gennady Ivchenkov, PhD

http://www.aulis.com/saturn_v_evaluation.htm

Dr Stanislav Georgievich Pokrovsky

http://www.aulis.com/saturn_v.htm

Dr Alexander Ivanovich Popov

http://www.aulis.com/apollo11saturn_v.htm

Yuri Ignatievich Mukhin

http://www.abodia.com/hoax/moon-landing-hoax/articles/moon-landings-conspiracy-theories.htm

Let's see, Colin Rourke is indeed a mathematics professor, however he hasn't acknowledged publishing anything since 1998, so forgery is most suspect.  An e-mail has been sent with hopes he will respond with clarification.

Gennady Ivchenkov, PhD and Dr Stanislav Georgievich Pokrovsky only seem to exist within the domains of conspiracy websites, as no other references for their names seem be available.

Dr Alexander Ivanovich Popov seems to fall in line with the previous two, with this tidbit added (from http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Alexander_Ivanovich_Popov):
"The truthfulness of this article has been questioned. It is believed that some or all of its content might constitute a hoax."

And finally, Yuri Ignatievich Mukhin is merely a political activist, and nothing more.

So, when you said, "They draw their evidence from their expertise in their own fields", you are only correct, because those fields are BS, fraud and lies.  All par for the course.  And YOU put them on a pedestal.  Now, THAT's funny!
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 20, 2018, 09:51:00 PM
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“What in blazes are you talking about? You don't need NASA to tell you that the Earth is not on the lunar horizon from Clavius crater! All you need are a pair of eyes!  Any Moon map will show you that Clavius is 30 degrees latitude and 70 degrees longitude from the lunar limb and that the Earth is not going to get near the horizon from that location.  Do YOU think that NASA is the be-all and end-all of all astronomical knowledge? Any amateur astronomer alive knows where the Earth can be seen from the Moon!”

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Wow, that’s me told. Although Mr Kubrick put a lot of work into his films, the movie in question was science fiction and was probably only intended as a showcase for the latest special effects. It was not a documentary, so take a chill pill and I’ll try not to upset you in future.

Way to change the subject. Your contention was that NASA was needed to determine the position of earth as seen from the moon. I said that anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of astronomy doesn't need NASA. If that doesn't include you, that's not my fault.

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“Cambo, do you still think that you need blueprints to to show that the Lunar Rover could be carried on the LM and unfolded? If so, why?”


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Of course not, although it would have been yet another big challenge to fly and land for the first time, with the extra weight on one side.

Likewise, if you can't do center of mass calculations, that's no one's fault but yours.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on May 20, 2018, 11:58:44 PM
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“a new GR or theory for gravity must also be consistent with Newton's laws”

If they ever work out a new set of rules, part of it may indeed be consistent with Newton’s laws, but until then, we can’t say for certain. Newton’s laws were based on observations made on earth.

and have been successfully applied throughout the solar system.


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“do you think that speeding up the jump salute video to 1.67x speed, rendering that video, reducing it's speed by 2/3 and then comparing it with the original is a valid approach?”

A valid approach to make it look as it would on earth? The way I read the question, it would leave me with a slower speed than I started with, so either reword the question or give it to me in English. The scene you mention was aided by the use of wires, as are many other scenes regarding the astronaut’s activities, while allegedly on the moon, so we will always see that floating effect, no matter what speed we play the video.

Oh dear, this old crap again. Who operated the wires? Where was the harness attached? How did the wires somehow manage never to get tangled up with each other as astronauts crossed paths multiple times?

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“If you want to engage in verbal jousting and patronising remarks about my education then I'll sure enough post a moderator report. Be warned, I've acted in good faith so far.”

Oh, have I hurt your feelings? It’s obvious that the members on here, don’t take kindly to us non-academics, who have the audacity to question your knowledge. I am criticising the education you have received, and it is not meant as an insult to you personally, so if you can’t handle one HB crashing your party, then by all means, post that report. The title of this site suggests it is a place to debate the hoax theory from both sides of the fence, but I now see that is not the case, as I seem to be the only HB here, and I’m probably in the wrong place. I doubt I’ll be here much longer, whether you post that report or not.

People here have no problem with non-academics. You might find that some people here are not academics. What we take issue with is people claiming expertise they plainly do not have and have no intention of acquiring, and who clearly have a problem with those people who have actually bothered to do that.

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“I am interrogating your claims, your expertise and the your credentials by asking you a series of questions that are relevant to your claims.”

 Why is a question on radiation relevant to me personally? Why would I need to be an expert on the subject of cosmic radiation to support any of my claims? Point to an instance where I have said that radiation in space is restrictive to humans. You do realise, Mr Einstein, you are not the only one with internet access, and I would be able to answer your radiation questions with a few clicks of my mouse, so stop being a clever arse.

Being able to copy and paste is not the same as understanding something.

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“Cambo, do you still think that you need blueprints to to show that the Lunar Rover could be carried on the LM and unfolded? If so, why?”

Of course not, although it would have been yet another big challenge to fly and land for the first time, with the extra weight on one side.

Gee, do you think they might have thought of that? You demanded blueprints for one reason only: you think no-one has them. That's why you aren't happy with visual documentation of the rover being packed and unpacked.

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“If you think that gravity is only a theory, jump off your roof and report back to us”

Gravity is real, how it works is the theory part. Did you by any chance attend the same school as me?

The invitation to check out the theory still stands.

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“Please show me an experiment where sand/dust in an atmosphere behaves like this and I'll believe everything you claim”

If you are told you are seeing dust, then you will see dust, and then logically assume it is in a vacuum. If you look at it as being sand, then it becomes obvious, the footage is fake.

So you're happy to concede that your preconceptions are prejudicing your understanding and defining you answers.

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“How do you explain views of Earth in those pans entirely consistent with the day's meteorological observations?”

You need to give up on this weather pattern crap, as I can see one tiny flaw in your argument. Namely, it’s b@ll?cks.

Nope, wrong again. You clearly have no response to the fact that every single image of Earth, whether it be still image, 16mm film or live TV, contains a unique meteorological fingerprint that is verified by images from meteorological satellites. The configuration of landmasses, and the position and shape of the terminator, in those images are exact matches for the time and date they were taken, as are the details referenced in them during the missions themselves. There is no explanation for those matches other than the images were taken when and where historical fact says they were taken. Prove otherwise.

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“The particle size distribution is clearly not just sand”

And you can tell this, just by watching that poor quality film?

Yes, it's funny that you can't work out how.

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“you would know how how long it would take to get the amount of "sand" required.”

Nope, but since you’ve obviously worked out the area of the movie set, and the logistics involved in delivering the amount of sand, which you have also calculated, then why don’t you tell me?

I for one have spent more time than I care to remember processing and sieving soil samples in to standard size fractions. If you want to know yourself, try it.

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“The fact is that probes sent by India, Japan and China all corroborate Apollo's imagery, and the 3D models you can create using their data also corroborate the views shown in Apollo photographs.”

“The probes from those three nations also confirm evidence of human activity on the lunar surface exactly as shown by th LRO and by images taken by Apollo.”

Of course they would, but I think, using the word “fact” is a bit of an exaggeration.

Nope, it's a fact. I downloaded the raw images and processed them myself, so I know exactly what's in them even if Japan, India and China don't. Not only do the landing sites show evidence of human activity, you can take any image taken from lunar orbit by Apollo and the tiniest details are an exact match for subsequent probes.

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“ I don't know, for example, that the live TV broadcast made by Apollo 11 on July 16th shows Hurricane Bernice in a unique configuration for that day because someone told me, I know because I discovered it myself”

The internet told you, as it did me.

That's the second time you have tried to imply that I have somehow not spent years trawling archives for data, checking the transcripts and video, buying contemporary books and documentation and verifying that the conclusions I have drawn are correct. The work is mine, no-one else's.

This is also an ongoing project - I updated it yesterday to include much higher resolution versions of Apollo 15 and 16's ultra-violet images of Earth than I had previously seen. Guess what - they show exactly what they should.

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“Exactly what efforts have you gone to to prove your point?”

Mainly, the use of my eyes and ears, rather than taking someone else’s word for it.

When do you plan on starting this? So far all you've done is blown a lot of hot air at it and puked up some Aulis and Sibrel garbage. I have a whole website full of my own research into this, I have taken no-one's work as gospel. What I have done is listen to people who know what they are talking about and critically examined the work of those who plainly don't.

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“Football scores, weather reports, news headlines. Read the transcripts”

Transcripts? So there is no actual alleged video footage of them discussing football scores, for example?

Yes.

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“If you followed him on social media, you would know that Buzz Aldrin has not had his life wrecked at all”

He suffered from alcoholism and depression for years, and the internet is full of articles on the subject.

Well done. Shame you don't bother following his media appearances world wide and the rather nice life he leads since he got his act together.

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“we have magic rocks that come from the Earth but have geological, physical and chemical characteristics that show they could only have formed on the Moon. Care to explain this?”

I answered this question some time back, but just for your benefit, they could have been meteorites, which everyone agrees, probably came from the moon, but with the fusion layer removed.

And how do you think they know they are from the moon?

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“Where do you draw the line on what spacecraft are real, and why do you draw it there?”

I can only comment on missions, I am familiar with, in particular, Apollo, which is the reason I came here.

You are not demonstrating that familiarity very well.

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“Pick a sample at random and click on it. Scroll down to the bottom and count the number of academic articles written about that one sample. Count up the number of unique individuals who wrote those articles. Then consider that there are hundreds of other samples with similar numbers of academic articles on each”

These are people who’ve studied the alleged samples from the moon, right? They are only confirming their belief that the samples have the same properties as they would expect to see in a moon rock, so I ask again, where are the public testimonies from scientists, declaring that Apollo was not a hoax, and why? I’ll keep my socks on for now until you’ve finished counting them all.

You seem to have this bizarre idea that getting your degree certificate is accompanied by some sort of swearing an oath of fealty and the signing of a non-disclosure. I own a dozen volumes of lunar science conference proceedings from the Apollo era, each of them jam packed with scientists more than happy to put their name to the samples being genuine.

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“there are numerous times where the astronauts are referencing current events”

Show me some video footage, where they mention something they couldn’t have known in advance.  Although they could have just talked live over the pre-recorded footage, which just shows how gullible you are.

There is plenty, look for it.

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As for it having to stand up to future scrutiny, well according to you, it has, but the vast majority of people who’ve taken the time to view the visual evidence, will tell you, you are bonkers. They must have known they wouldn’t fool future generations, but I would say their hands were tied after Kennedy went and made that foolhardy prediction.

The vast majority that have taken the time to look, to actually look, not just swallow whatever BS some youtube video has said or that they read at aulis written by some fake scholar throwing fancy terms around that don't actually mean anything when you look at it carefully, understand that Apollo happened exactly as history fully and very publicly documents.

Take your own advice. Look carefully at the information you are using as your source material and ask yourself if it is actually correct instead of allowing your prejudices to inform your opinion. Otherwise you're the one that's going to continue looking like an idiot.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on May 21, 2018, 12:52:25 AM
Cambo, can you for heaven's sake leave on the part of the code that tells who you're quoting?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Obviousman on May 21, 2018, 05:01:08 AM
Yeah, there are no air-to-ground audio recordings of them discussing sports results...

https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap14fj/audio/a14-0325451.mp3

https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap14fj/audio/a14-0333100.mp3



Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on May 21, 2018, 05:56:37 AM
Cambo, can you for heaven's sake leave on the part of the code that tells who you're quoting?
Maybe cambo thinks we're all the same person?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on May 21, 2018, 07:21:22 AM
Yeah, there are no air-to-ground audio recordings of them discussing sports results...

https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap14fj/audio/a14-0325451.mp3

https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap14fj/audio/a14-0333100.mp3

The irony is he demands video footage showing something they couldn't have known in advance and he posted a video himself showing exactly that.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on May 21, 2018, 07:38:34 AM
The hardware that got it into the air, were probably the only functional parts.

Except you then go on to cite some 'experts' who say it didn't actually work as advertised at all. Typical HB inconsistency.

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Here’s some thoughts from some clever people, who are sceptical of Apollo. They draw their evidence from their expertise in their own fields.

And again. You'll agree with 'experts' when they agree with you, but you'll dismiss any experts that don't. Typical HB troll.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Luke Pemberton on May 21, 2018, 10:19:55 AM
I'm out. I don't find cambo's arguments compelling or interesting. I'm off to watch paint dry.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nomuse on May 21, 2018, 11:34:30 AM
I'm mildly amused by the circularity of his gravity arguments. They are getting almost hermetic; you can't prove gravity because you can't fly in space because you can't prove gravity.

Ignoring of course that we never measure anything, on Earth or otherwise. If I weigh an object on the simplest pan I am still trusting that gravity is working on both weights and the lever is working the way it is supposed to. If I hold up a ruler I'm not getting a length, I'm receiving photons reconstructing an image space where two objects appear to be intersecting, and reconstructing the meaning of that image in an organic processor that is incompletely described by science, of unique construction, and sealed in a black box.

Most are more obvious than that. We reconstruct a temperature based on assumptions of black-body curves and applying that same (highly inaccurate!) organic processor to compare colors. We assume microscopic grain formation in an unknown and un-assayed material. And after all of that, the newly annealed weld holds correctly. Wow...it's almost as if we DID understand what it is we can't see directly.

Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on May 21, 2018, 12:42:28 PM
Here’s some thoughts from some clever people, who are sceptical of Apollo. They draw their evidence from their expertise in their own fields.

Colin Rourke, Professor of Mathematics

http://www.aulis.com/pdf%20folder/hadley_study.pdf

Gennady Ivchenkov, PhD

http://www.aulis.com/saturn_v_evaluation.htm

Dr Stanislav Georgievich Pokrovsky

http://www.aulis.com/saturn_v.htm

Dr Alexander Ivanovich Popov

http://www.aulis.com/apollo11saturn_v.htm

Yuri Ignatievich Mukhin

http://www.abodia.com/hoax/moon-landing-hoax/articles/moon-landings-conspiracy-theories.htm

Let's see, Colin Rourke is indeed a mathematics professor, however he hasn't acknowledged publishing anything since 1998, so forgery is most suspect.  An e-mail has been sent with hopes he will respond with clarification.

Gennady Ivchenkov, PhD and Dr Stanislav Georgievich Pokrovsky only seem to exist within the domains of conspiracy websites, as no other references for their names seem be available.

Dr Alexander Ivanovich Popov seems to fall in line with the previous two, with this tidbit added (from http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Alexander_Ivanovich_Popov):
"The truthfulness of this article has been questioned. It is believed that some or all of its content might constitute a hoax."

And finally, Yuri Ignatievich Mukhin is merely a political activist, and nothing more.

So, when you said, "They draw their evidence from their expertise in their own fields", you are only correct, because those fields are BS, fraud and lies.  All par for the course.  And YOU put them on a pedestal.  Now, THAT's funny!

I saw these items this morning but didn't have time to sort them out.
Great job in identifying the problems these individuals have with credibility.  And as such they fit right into aulis.com's "experts".  I made a suggestion that cambo quite pending time  at aulis and all he did was suggest that had credentials and expertise, the first is suspect the latter has yet to be demonstrated.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on May 21, 2018, 12:50:28 PM
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“a new GR or theory for gravity must also be consistent with Newton's laws”

If they ever work out a new set of rules, part of it may indeed be consistent with Newton’s laws, but until then, we can’t say for certain. Newton’s laws were based on observations made on earth.

Where they were made is irrelevant. What the observations were of is the key. Newton's laws were derived using observations of anything from a falling apple to distant planets. Are you aware of how Neptune was discovered, for example?

No matter how many times you try to say we are uncertain about the exact mechanism of gravity, it won't alter the fact that whatever new theories arise will not affect how objects within the solar system behave, nor will it affect the calculations necessary to send a spacecraft to the Moon.


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I watched a documentary on the Rosetta mission and all they said was, we launched it, we caught up with the comet, took some photos and crashed into it, and they managed to make that information last 45 minutes. It was either made for ten year olds, or they just hadn’t come up with a feasible explanation at the time of production.

Or maybe they figured that since the physics of gravitational slignshots was well known by that time, but a little too arcane for a TV audience, they didn't go into that detail for the documentary. Have you tried doing any actual research into how these things work? If you're expecting to get your knowledge from TV dcumentaries it's little wonder you're so unable to fathom how things are done.


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“Thank you for demonstrating how little of the record you have actually seen. That would be the 'scaled down' model that every TV broadcast from every mission includes footage of the astronauts working next to, climbing up and into or out and down from, yes?”

Where is your logic? Scaled down models to give the illusion of distance, and full size mock-ups for scenes including the alleged astronauts.

My logic comes from having seen all (and I do mean all) the footage from the lunar surface TV and film. Just because all you have seen is a few clips on YouTube don't assume they give you anything like the full picture.
Excellent description of gravity and why one paper does not refute gravity nor how it works, just two (or more) masses have a gravitational attraction given by the formula F = G*((m sub 1*m sub 2)/r^2) where G is the gravitational constant.  That's how spacecraft are pinpointed to distant targets "using gravity assists".  But YOU knew this.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: jfb on May 21, 2018, 03:21:58 PM
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“a new GR or theory for gravity must also be consistent with Newton's laws”

If they ever work out a new set of rules, part of it may indeed be consistent with Newton’s laws, but until then, we can’t say for certain. Newton’s laws were based on observations made on from earth.

Fixed that for you.

First of all, any new model of motion has to be consistent with all of Newton's laws, because Newton's laws work pretty well most of the time (for the masses and speeds we typically deal with, they're more than sufficient).  Once you start getting above certain masses, or above certain speeds, Newton's laws become inadequate and you have to turn to new models.  Newton's laws of motion could not explain the precession of Mercury's orbit around the Sun.  General Relativity explains that precession, along with everything else Newton's laws already explain.  You can see Newton's laws as being a special case of General Relativity, just as General Relativity will be a special case of whatever new model comes along to explain what General Relativity can't. 

Secondly, Newton's laws apply to objects in space just as much as objects on Earth.  Kepler deduced his laws of planetary motion based on extensive observations of the planets made by Tycho Brahe; those laws were later shown by Newton to be a close approximation of his own laws of motion as applied to the solar system. 

IOW, Netwon's laws work in space just as well as they do on Earth.  Based on observations of the motions of planets orbiting the Sun, planets orbiting other stars, stars orbiting larger stars or the center of the Milky Way, etc., we're pretty confident that gravity works the same everywhere for everybody. 

Newton's laws can be used to compute the velocity necessary to maintain an orbit at a specific altitude.  They can be used to compute path and energy necessary to get a probe to Pluto in the span of a decade.  They can be used to get several meat sacks from the surface of the Earth to the Moon and back again. 
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Abaddon on May 21, 2018, 03:38:15 PM
4/5 of cambo's links are to aulis, a lying site of scumbaggery, known to invent imaginary "experts" out of whole cloth.

That is home to the deceased Jack White, the very same that testified to the HSCA that he had never heard of photogrammetry after purporting to analyse photographs.

The same site is home to the discredited David Percy, whose nonsense was amply torn apart by svector, Jay, Datacable, STS and many others.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on May 21, 2018, 04:10:32 PM
4/5 of cambo's links are to aulis, a lying site of scumbaggery, known to invent imaginary "experts" out of whole cloth.

That is home to the deceased Jack White, the very same that testified to the HSCA that he had never heard of photogrammetry after purporting to analyse photographs.

The same site is home to the discredited David Percy, whose nonsense was amply torn apart by svector, Jay, Datacable, STS and many others.

Auditioning for a new Star Wars writer?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cos on May 21, 2018, 06:22:38 PM
Colin Rourke thoroughly debunked years ago.

http://apollohoax.proboards.com/thread/2689/hadley-study-fakery-colin-rourke

 
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on May 22, 2018, 02:05:49 AM
Auditioning for a new Star Wars writer?
I'm not sure someone who doesn't believe space flight is possible, is a good fit for a movie franchise about space...  ;D
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on May 22, 2018, 05:58:28 AM
Cambo, as a non-expert but with access to the world's largest interconnected source of information at my fingertips, let's say you managed to get off the fusion crust on a metric buttload of  lunar meteorites without leaving detectable traces of what was used (no mean feat given how intensely studied moon rocks have been) and let's say you find a way to re-add the zip pits and helium 3 to the outer layers, well, you still got problems. See, those meteorites didn't just fall yesterday. They've been  exposed air and water and other sources of weathering, leading to changes in their structure and composition compared to the practically pristine Apollo  and Soviet Luna samples. Oh, and their cosmic ray exposure ages tell us how long they've been on the surface. (http://meteorites.wustl.edu/lunar/moon_meteorites.htm)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on May 22, 2018, 07:25:09 AM
Cambo, as a non-expert but with access to the world's largest interconnected source of information at my fingertips, let's say you managed to get off the fusion crust on a metric buttload of  lunar meteorites without leaving detectable traces of what was used (no mean feat given how intensely studied moon rocks have been) and let's say you find a way to re-add the zip pits and helium 3 to the outer layers, well, you still got problems. See, those meteorites didn't just fall yesterday. They've been  exposed air and water and other sources of weathering, leading to changes in their structure and composition compared to the practically pristine Apollo  and Soviet Luna samples. Oh, and their cosmic ray exposure ages tell us how long they've been on the surface. (http://meteorites.wustl.edu/lunar/moon_meteorites.htm)

Save your breath. We're dealing with a troll. There is nothing rational about his arguments. There will be some magical device that can create these faked lunar samples, even though he has no idea what it is, because there must be. It's all fake, therefore whatever means are needed to fake it exist and anything that says otherwise is fake too. He hasn't done any research beyond HB sites, and has clearly seen very little of the record apart from those little clips and pictures they use to prove it was fake. The footage was all achieved using some improbable combination of methods that simply don't work in concert and cannot be applied to the whole unedited footage.

Cambo has already dismissed everything from NASA or any third party that supports Apollo as faked. He's dismissed all our expertise, qualifications and experience but cited other 'experts' that agree with him. There is absolutely no way to argue with someone who says he's willing to discuss proof but already dismissed anything that disagrees with his conclusions as invalid.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nweber on May 22, 2018, 09:03:00 AM
If they ever work out a new set of rules, part of it may indeed be consistent with Newton’s laws, but until then, we can’t say for certain. Newton’s laws were based on observations made on from earth.

Fixed that for you.

Yes, if it were only based on observations on earth, constant acceleration due to gravity towards the centre of the earth would be good enough for just about every application.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nweber on May 22, 2018, 09:04:30 AM
I'm not sure someone who doesn't believe space flight is possible, is a good fit for a movie franchise about space...  ;D

Oh, I think that's going a bit too far, if they could only make hobbit films with actors who believed hobbits were real, that would be rather limiting.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Bryanpoprobson on May 22, 2018, 09:10:16 AM
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“a new GR or theory for gravity must also be consistent with Newton's laws”

If they ever work out a new set of rules, part of it may indeed be consistent with Newton’s laws, but until then, we can’t say for certain. Newton’s laws were based on observations made on earth.

“If you're going to dismiss such fundamental maths and science, then there's really no way to explain anything to you...”

That actually is not true, Newton devised his laws by observing the Heavens as well, he was particularly obsessed with the orbit of the moon around the Earth and realised that gravity influenced body's over astronomical distances.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on May 22, 2018, 12:31:09 PM
Auditioning for a new Star Wars writer?
I'm not sure someone who doesn't believe space flight is possible, is a good fit for a movie franchise about space...  ;D

You misunderstood or I didn't post clearly.  That comment was for Abaddon.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 22, 2018, 12:58:46 PM
Quote from: AtomicDog
Cambo, do you still think that you need blueprints to to show that the Lunar Rover could be carried on the LM and unfolded? If so, why?

Quote from: cambo
Of course not, although it would have been yet another big challenge to fly and land for the first time, with the extra weight on one side

Almost missed this one. Notice how cambo has deftly tapdanced away from his previous contentions?

Quote from: cambo
There is one set of evidence that would be irrefutable proof that these incredible achievements were at least possible, and that’s the plans on how to build the Saturn V rocket, the Lunar Lander and even the Lunar Rover. 

Here cambo states that examining Saturn and Rover blueprints would prove to him that the Apollo program was at least possible. When asked how he could determine this by examining the blueprints, he says:

Quote from: cambo
I couldn’t possibly answer that question until I saw them. I know what the plans are for and what these contraptions are meant to do, so who knows, I may be capable of proving to myself that at least the Rover could possibly fold up inside the Landers trunk and then unfold into a functional moon buggy.

That's right; cambo thought it went inside the Descent Stage, showing that he had no real idea how the LM was constructed. But I digress.

This quote indicates that he has doubts that the LRV could be attached to the Descent Stage and unfolded on the Moon, as advertised. When shown video that the Rover could be seen being deployed, no blueprints necessary, he goes:

Quote from: cambo
And? We all know it was built to unfold, but I need the plans to show how it was constructed, in order to fold and unfold. Not just a set of diagrams showing where all the bits went, you get that sort of thing in a flat pack from a furniture store.

He now admits that the Rover can unfold, but still needs to see the blueprints so he can see how. Why? You don't need to see blueprints of an umbrella to prove it can unfold - just open it. He then goes silent on the subject. When I prod him for an answer:

Quote from: AtomicDog
Cambo, do you still think that you need blueprints to to show that the Lunar Rover could be carried on the LM and unfolded? If so, why?

He pretends that Rover deployment was never an issue:


Quote from: cambo
Of course not, although it would have been yet another big challenge to fly and land for the first time, with the extra weight on one side

And handwaves away the deployment thing, and says that his actual concern was the weight load and balance problems that flying with a LRV attached to the LM would cause, even though aerospace designers and flight engineers have had to deal with balance issues since the birth of aviation.

I've noticed this tactic of his in other replies - backing away from his contentions while hoping no one notices, and pretending that what he was vociferously arguing in a previous post was not the real issue. I just thought I'd point this out.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on May 22, 2018, 01:41:18 PM
I've noticed this tactic of his in other replies - backing away from his contentions while hoping no one notices, and pretending that what he was vociferously arguing in a previous post was not the real issue. I just thought I'd point this out.

It's a standard tactic. I can only assume he gets some kind of perverse pleasure from twisting and dodging whatever is offered to him in order to avoid answering the question of what would make him consider that he is simply wrong. He's already handwaved away anything and everything that can be offered up, and demonstrated that he has a) no idea of what most of the record includes (scaled down LM for distance shots! Ha!) and b) lacks the ability or integrity to admit he is holding entirely conflicting positions with regard to the evidence (experts that agree with him are experts, experts in the same or other relevant fields that disagree with him are not, even if they obtained their expertise in the same way).

At every step the bar of 'acceptable proof' will be raised as soon as the one standard he asks for is actually provided. The rover is just one example. 
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on May 22, 2018, 01:48:51 PM
I'm not sure someone who doesn't believe space flight is possible, is a good fit for a movie franchise about space...  ;D
Oh, I think that's going a bit too far, if they could only make hobbit films with actors who believed hobbits were real, that would be rather limiting.
Very true, although I think fantasy, hobbits and wizards my be a slightly different "suspension of disbelief" than science fiction.  And anyway, are you sure hobbits aren't real?...

You misunderstood or I didn't post clearly.  That comment was for Abaddon.
Sorry - I thought you were referring to Cambo's "creative writing" skills  ;D
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on May 22, 2018, 02:06:32 PM
Cambo, as a non-expert but with access to the world's largest interconnected source of information at my fingertips, let's say you managed to get off the fusion crust on a metric buttload of  lunar meteorites without leaving detectable traces of what was used (no mean feat given how intensely studied moon rocks have been) and let's say you find a way to re-add the zip pits and helium 3 to the outer layers, well, you still got problems. See, those meteorites didn't just fall yesterday. They've been  exposed air and water and other sources of weathering, leading to changes in their structure and composition compared to the practically pristine Apollo  and Soviet Luna samples. Oh, and their cosmic ray exposure ages tell us how long they've been on the surface. (http://meteorites.wustl.edu/lunar/moon_meteorites.htm)
There's also the issue of where do you find a metric buttload (is that more or less than a metric f---tonne?) of lunar meteorites - i.e. nearly 400 Kg of material (after processing) without anyone noticing it being collected, identified, processed and transported to the launches.

The story gets more and more nonsensical at every turn, and now we need teams of people scouring the planet for meteorites (in secret) plus loads of geologists to process them into "samples" - all of whom now need paying to ensure their life-long silence...
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on May 22, 2018, 02:33:52 PM
 If they were from existing collections, didn't museums notice lunar meteorites disappearing? (They were in on it; pay them - forever)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cos on May 22, 2018, 07:30:29 PM
Surely it is time for Cambo to post the story of the petrified wood given to a Dutch politician as proof that all the moon rocks were fake.  Yawn....
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nweber on May 22, 2018, 11:34:23 PM
And anyway, are you sure hobbits aren't real?...

Have you ever seen the president of Ireland?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Von_Smith on May 23, 2018, 07:39:23 AM
If they were from existing collections, didn't museums notice lunar meteorites disappearing? (They were in on it; pay them - forever)

And not just the institution.  Any and all employees, former employees, student interns, major private donors, colleagues from other institutions with similar collections, etc. who might know something about the collections.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on May 23, 2018, 12:34:25 PM
And correct me if I'm wrong, here, but don't we only have a very small amount of meteorites known to have come from the Moon, and didn't we identify them as such because of their similarity to Apollo samples, meaning they couldn't possibly be the source anyway?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Dalhousie on May 24, 2018, 12:13:32 AM
And correct me if I'm wrong, here, but don't we only have a very small amount of meteorites known to have come from the Moon, and didn't we identify them as such because of their similarity to Apollo samples, meaning they couldn't possibly be the source anyway?

No lunar meteorites were identified as such before the Apollo and Luna.  Indeed it as their similarity to Apollo and Luna samples that led them to be identified as such and identifiability distinct from other achondritic meteorites such as SNCs (Mars) and HEDs (Vesta).  The first lunar meteorite was not discovered until 1979 and the first recognised in 1982.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on May 24, 2018, 12:39:29 AM
And correct me if I'm wrong, here, but don't we only have a very small amount of meteorites known to have come from the Moon, and didn't we identify them as such because of their similarity to Apollo samples, meaning they couldn't possibly be the source anyway?

No lunar meteorites were identified as such before the Apollo and Luna.  Indeed it as their similarity to Apollo and Luna samples that led them to be identified as such and identifiability distinct from other achondritic meteorites such as SNCs (Mars) and HEDs (Vesta).  The first lunar meteorite was not discovered until 1979 and the first recognised in 1982.
I'm curious though. Since we don't have any Martian samples, how do we know those meteorites are from Mars then? One of those things I've always been curious about.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Dalhousie on May 24, 2018, 12:58:51 AM
And correct me if I'm wrong, here, but don't we only have a very small amount of meteorites known to have come from the Moon, and didn't we identify them as such because of their similarity to Apollo samples, meaning they couldn't possibly be the source anyway?

No lunar meteorites were identified as such before the Apollo and Luna.  Indeed it as their similarity to Apollo and Luna samples that led them to be identified as such and identifiability distinct from other achondritic meteorites such as SNCs (Mars) and HEDs (Vesta).  The first lunar meteorite was not discovered until 1979 and the first recognised in 1982.
I'm curious though. Since we don't have any Martian samples, how do we know those meteorites are from Mars then? One of those things I've always been curious about.

Classic case of inductive reasons and a process of elimination.

The SNC meteorites are a family of achondritic meteorites (they are essentially mafic rocks similar to terrestrial examples.)  with specific geochemical characteristicscommon to all.

The SNCs have undergone melting.  So they have to have come from a silicate body with volcanism. This means Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon, Mars, Vesta, and Io. 

Earth, Moon, and Vesta are eliminated by stable isotope data.

Venus and Io are delineated by unreason energy requirements to be sent on Earth intersecting orbits.  Mercury isn not quite ruled out, but is unlikely.

The Viking landers measured the noble gas isotopes in the martian atmosphere. The noble gas isotopes in the SNCs match these. 

So Mars is the obvious choice.

This is the argument used by the initial researcher Or you can use the following argument from me:

The parent body had to be one that is of silicate composition.  That rules out all but the terrestrial planets and Io.

The parent body has to have had a long history of volcanic activity (from four billion years ago to a few hundred million years ago.  This rules out Mercury, the Moon, Vesta.

The parent body had to have free water on its surface (there is aqueous alternation in most SNCs. This rules out Venus and Io.

The great age of some SNCs rules out Earth.

Mars is the only one left.  If it did not exist it would have to be invented.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on May 24, 2018, 02:52:18 AM
Ooh, OK! Super cool that! ;D And thank you, I never had it explained half so well before, Dalhousie, much thanks.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Dalhousie on May 24, 2018, 07:52:45 AM
Glad to help!
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Drewid on May 24, 2018, 08:54:45 AM
That sort of answer is why I still lurk here even if I'm not active.    Nicely done :)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Peter B on May 24, 2018, 10:15:23 AM
Cambo, as a non-expert but with access to the world's largest interconnected source of information at my fingertips, let's say you managed to get off the fusion crust on a metric buttload of  lunar meteorites without leaving detectable traces of what was used (no mean feat given how intensely studied moon rocks have been) and let's say you find a way to re-add the zip pits and helium 3 to the outer layers, well, you still got problems. See, those meteorites didn't just fall yesterday. They've been  exposed air and water and other sources of weathering, leading to changes in their structure and composition compared to the practically pristine Apollo  and Soviet Luna samples. Oh, and their cosmic ray exposure ages tell us how long they've been on the surface. (http://meteorites.wustl.edu/lunar/moon_meteorites.htm)
There's also the issue of where do you find a metric buttload (is that more or less than a metric f---tonne?) of lunar meteorites - i.e. nearly 400 Kg of material (after processing) without anyone noticing it being collected, identified, processed and transported to the launches.

The story gets more and more nonsensical at every turn, and now we need teams of people scouring the planet for meteorites (in secret) plus loads of geologists to process them into "samples" - all of whom now need paying to ensure their life-long silence...

Can I suggest it gets even better?

Sure, there are lunar meteorites which have been found on Earth. But the Apollo samples consist of more than just rocks. They include soil samples and core samples. Now, okay, I suppose you could make soil samples from grinding up lunar meteorites (and watch the faces of geologists as you do it!).

But where are you going to get 2.5 metre long core samples from? From a lunar meteorite 2.5 metres across? Seriously?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on May 24, 2018, 03:16:35 PM
Now, okay, I suppose you could make soil samples from grinding up lunar meteorites (and watch the faces of geologists as you do it!).

And good luck doing that without leaving evidence of whatever was used to grind it up. A similar problem the magic machine that 'removes the fusion layer' of a meteorite and adds back the zap pits would have.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Luke Pemberton on May 24, 2018, 03:53:30 PM
Now, okay, I suppose you could make soil samples from grinding up lunar meteorites (and watch the faces of geologists as you do it!).

And good luck doing that without leaving evidence of whatever was used to grind it up. A similar problem the magic machine that 'removes the fusion layer' of a meteorite and adds back the zap pits would have.


... and can create those zap pits without leaving behind a residue that has an origin from Earth.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Dalhousie on May 24, 2018, 09:09:29 PM
Now, okay, I suppose you could make soil samples from grinding up lunar meteorites (and watch the faces of geologists as you do it!).

And good luck doing that without leaving evidence of whatever was used to grind it up. A similar problem the magic machine that 'removes the fusion layer' of a meteorite and adds back the zap pits would have.


... and can create those zap pits without leaving behind a residue that has an origin from Earth.

You'd also have to manufacture the aggulinates and add in the solar wind and meteoritic iron components (as both spherules and fragments).  You would also have to arrange the zero time cosmic ray exposure ages.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Northern Lurker on May 25, 2018, 12:50:20 PM
I have understood that there were several reasons for Apollo program:
-to beat the Soviets in Space Race after Soviet wins of first satellite, first animal in orbit and first human in orbit and safely back to Earth
-to boost the popularity of JFK
-to advance science (origin of Moon, composition of solar wind etc)
-to boost US scientific, technological and industrial capacity

Without Apollo program, would US had the advantage it had in 70's and 80's in fields like microchips and computers, metallurgy, mega project management? Also if space flight is fake, why there are technologies which were developed for space flight but are on everyday use back on Earth?

Lurky
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on May 25, 2018, 02:27:08 PM
But where are you going to get 2.5 metre long core samples from? From a lunar meteorite 2.5 metres across? Seriously?
And you'd need several separate massive moon meteorites, so scientists don't get sneaking suspicions from similarities.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on May 25, 2018, 03:00:02 PM
And you'd need several separate massive moon meteorites, so scientists don't get sneaking suspicions from similarities.

Of course, but to the HBs we have 'some rocks (supposedly) from the Moon'. All we have is 'some rocks (supposedly) from the Moon'. There's nothing else but 'some rocks (supposedly) from the Moon'. Soil samples, core tubes, basalts, anorthosites, breccias, shatter cones, volcanic glass, the differences between the various sites, all these terms and more besides just don't enter their lexicon. It's all just 'some rocks', and it's all just '(supposedly) from the Moon', and since they don't understand the differences, the implications and the chemical and physical processes involved, they just assume it is all fake somehow.

It's just pure anti-rationalism. Start from the conclusion and assume that is totally sound. Anything that disproves it must be fake, anything that supports it is beyond reproach. Rational debate cannot happen even if, unlike cambo, the HB in question doesn't start by outright dismissing everything that contradicts him from any source as fake.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Dalhousie on May 25, 2018, 06:51:39 PM
But where are you going to get 2.5 metre long core samples from? From a lunar meteorite 2.5 metres across? Seriously?
And you'd need several separate massive moon meteorites, so scientists don't get sneaking suspicions from similarities.

The cores were in regolith, no solid rock required. the longest core was 3 m, with an internal diameter of 2 cm,that means a volume of 942 cm3 as returned.  Given a maximum density for regolith of 2, that is 1.884 kg of sample.   Since mafic rocks rock has a density of 3, an 16cm diameter rock would provide the 2 kg necessary.

Of course the material would have to come from several different lunar samples as you say, and include iron meteorite fragments of different types, the fragments would have to be agglutinated, have implanted solar wind, cosmic ray ages that increase with depth, and the rest.

Of course the main properties of the regolith were independently verified by the Luna cores.

But there were no lunar meteorites available anway during the Apollo period.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on May 26, 2018, 12:46:02 PM
But where are you going to get 2.5 metre long core samples from? From a lunar meteorite 2.5 metres across? Seriously?
And you'd need several separate massive moon meteorites, so scientists don't get sneaking suspicions from similarities.

The cores were in regolith, no solid rock required. the longest core was 3 m, with an internal diameter of 2 cm,that means a volume of 942 cm3 as returned.  Given a maximum density for regolith of 2, that is 1.884 kg of sample.   Since mafic rocks rock has a density of 3, an 16cm diameter rock would provide the 2 kg necessary.

Of course the material would have to come from several different lunar samples as you say, and include iron meteorite fragments of different types, the fragments would have to be agglutinated, have implanted solar wind, cosmic ray ages that increase with depth, and the rest.

Of course the main properties of the regolith were independently verified by the Luna cores.

But there were no lunar meteorites available anway during the Apollo period.
Spoken like a true geologist. :)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Dalhousie on May 26, 2018, 06:42:22 PM
But where are you going to get 2.5 metre long core samples from? From a lunar meteorite 2.5 metres across? Seriously?
And you'd need several separate massive moon meteorites, so scientists don't get sneaking suspicions from similarities.

The cores were in regolith, no solid rock required. the longest core was 3 m, with an internal diameter of 2 cm,that means a volume of 942 cm3 as returned.  Given a maximum density for regolith of 2, that is 1.884 kg of sample.   Since mafic rocks rock has a density of 3, an 16cm diameter rock would provide the 2 kg necessary.

Of course the material would have to come from several different lunar samples as you say, and include iron meteorite fragments of different types, the fragments would have to be agglutinated, have implanted solar wind, cosmic ray ages that increase with depth, and the rest.

Of course the main properties of the regolith were independently verified by the Luna cores.

But there were no lunar meteorites available anway during the Apollo period.
Spoken like a true geologist. :)

Naturally - five continents, three oceans, and two planets ;)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on May 26, 2018, 07:06:53 PM
Good one. :)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on June 19, 2018, 04:30:27 AM
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“If you're going to claim that "gravitational slingshots" (gravitational assist manoeuvres) don't work, then you'll need to do more than just make vague statements like "I don't believe they work" or "I don't think gravity works the same in space" - or whatever nonsense it is you're proposing.  You need to show the flaw in the mathematics and physics.  You need to show your calculations of what happens when a spacecraft passes close to a planet.  Until you can do those things, you're just another random person who doesn't "believe in science" and who isn't prepared to learn enough about it to argue their point coherently.”

You’re right, I don’t trust the science, but it is all we have, as this is the stuff we are taught in schools, and I’m glad I made the decision to leave school when I did and earn a honest living , before the brainwashing started.

Even if the science is correct, it would only show us that space flight is possible, but in no way would it be proof that these events have actually took place. In the case of Apollo, Surely the visual record is the only source of real evidence, as without this evidence, we would only have NASA’s word.

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“Or maybe they figured that since the physics of gravitational slignshots was well known by that time, but a little too arcane for a TV audience, they didn't go into that detail for the documentary. Have you tried doing any actual research into how these things work?”

I know, how in theory, a sling shot should work, but a documentary is supposed to be informative, and this one most definitely wasn’t.

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“Just because all you have seen is a few clips on YouTube don't assume they give you anything like the full picture”

I’ve probably seen them all, and I definitely get the picture.

“Gennady Ivchenkov, PhD and Dr Stanislav Georgievich Pokrovsky only seem to exist within the domains of conspiracy websites, as no other references for their names seem be available”

You are right of course, but I wouldn’t expect to find such information on a pro Apollo site.

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“Your contention was that NASA was needed to determine the position of earth as seen from the moon. I said that anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of astronomy doesn't need NASA. If that doesn't include you, that's not my fault.”

Are you saying I’m thick because I don’t have a rudimentary knowledge of astronomy? I think you’ll find there are more people in the world without this knowledge than people who possess it. So does this knowledge make you a better person than most? Of course not, it just makes you the pompous condescending man that you are.

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“Who operated the wires? Where was the harness attached? How did the wires somehow manage never to get tangled up with each other as astronauts crossed paths multiple times?”

I’m sorry but I can’t find the names of the wire men, but here’s where the wires were probably attached.

(https://i.imgur.com/25SpxHm.jpg)



As for tangled wires, maybe the scenes you mention, only had one man on wires, or if the men stayed approximately the same distance apart, it would be an easy task to suspend both of them. Helium balloons would be a good solution, in fact the more I think about it, that may well be how they did it.

(https://i.imgur.com/I5A5Tjm.jpg)

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“What we take issue with is people claiming expertise they plainly do not have and have no intention of acquiring, and who clearly have a problem with those people who have actually bothered to do that”

So in what field is your expertise, because it certainly isn’t cloud formations.

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“Being able to copy and paste is not the same as understanding something”


If I read something, I will understand it, whether it’s a lie or not, so don’t come that condescending crap with me young man.

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“So you're happy to concede that your preconceptions are prejudicing your understanding and defining you answers”

No, that statement applies to you.

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“Nope, wrong again. You clearly have no response to the fact that every single image of Earth, whether it be still image, 16mm film or live TV, contains a unique meteorological fingerprint that is verified by images from meteorological satellites. The configuration of landmasses, and the position and shape of the terminator, in those images are exact matches for the time and date they were taken, as are the details referenced in them during the missions themselves. There is no explanation for those matches other than the images were taken when and where historical fact says they were taken. Prove otherwise.”

It’s already been proven that the footage you got your earth images from, was not shot on the outward journey to the moon, which makes those satellite images false also.

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“The particle size distribution is clearly not just sand”

“And you can tell this, just by watching that poor quality film?”

“Yes, it's funny that you can't work out how.”

Ever studied one of these people skipping or jumping, like in the jump salute for instance? The sand falls faster than the person, and that’s a fact. Pity they couldn’t put all those grains of sand on wires.

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“I for one have spent more time than I care to remember processing and sieving soil samples in to standard size fractions. If you want to know yourself, try it.”

A simple “I don’t know” would have sufficed.

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“Nope, it's a fact. I downloaded the raw images and processed them myself, so I know exactly what's in them even if Japan, India and China don't. Not only do the landing sites show evidence of human activity, you can take any image taken from lunar orbit by Apollo and the tiniest details are an exact match for subsequent probes.”

It would be very awkward if they didn’t match, but it’s only a fact if it’s not a lie.

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“That's the second time you have tried to imply that I have somehow not spent years trawling archives for data, checking the transcripts and video, buying contemporary books and documentation and verifying that the conclusions I have drawn are correct. The work is mine, no-one else's”

Ok, calm down! You didn’t by any chance obtain the satellite imagery from these books you mention, did you? If so, was this book or books, published on the same day as the images from the alleged live TV broadcast? I almost feel terrible, asking you this question, but how can anyone be this gullible?

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“Mainly, the use of my eyes and ears, rather than taking someone else’s word for it”

“When do you plan on starting this? So far all you've done is blown a lot of hot air at it and puked up some Aulis and Sibrel garbage.”

The Aulis site makes a hell of a lot more sense than NASA’s garbage, and thanks to Mr Bart Sibrel, you are all a laughing stock in the eyes of us normal people.

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“Transcripts? So there is no actual alleged video footage of them discussing football scores, for example?”

“Yes.”

When you say yes, do you mean, yes, there is no footage, or yes, there is footage?

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“He suffered from alcoholism and depression for years, and the internet is full of articles on the subject”

“Well done. Shame you don't bother following his media appearances world wide and the rather nice life he leads since he got his act together”

If that’s the case, I’m genuinely pleased for the man. He’s reportedly worth $12million now, so that $5million has gained a lot of interest over the years.

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“I answered this question some time back, but just for your benefit, they could have been meteorites, which everyone agrees, probably came from the moon, but with the fusion layer removed.”

“And how do you think they know they are from the moon?”

Because NASA told them so.

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“Show me some video footage, where they mention something they couldn’t have known in advance.  Although they could have just talked live over the pre-recorded footage, which just shows how gullible you are”

“There is plenty, look for it”

There isn’t any is there. You are making the claim, you know how it works.

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“Take your own advice. Look carefully at the information you are using as your source material and ask yourself if it is actually correct instead of allowing your prejudices to inform your opinion. Otherwise you're the one that's going to continue looking like an idiot”

Wow, what great advice! I started out as a believer, but unlike you I was willing to listen to arguments from both sides, without any prejudice, and as a result, I came to the same conclusion as the vast majority of people who’ve took the time to sift through the mountain of evidence that points to a hoax. Being labelled as idiots by a small group of brainwashed, juvenile name calling individuals doesn’t bother us, as we are in the majority, and the fact that you shout the loudest will never make up for this.

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“Yeah, there are no air-to-ground audio recordings of them discussing sports results”

Are you kidding me?

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“Maybe cambo thinks we're all the same person?”

You are all of the same mind, so what does it matter who said what?

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“The irony is he demands video footage showing something they couldn't have known in advance and he posted a video himself showing exactly that”

Oh, those clouds again, any chance of a satellite image, matching the view from that other window?

Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Zakalwe on June 19, 2018, 05:03:26 AM
and I’m glad I made the decision to leave school when I did and earn a honest living , before the brainwashing started.

And there we have it.




As for tangled wires, maybe the scenes you mention, only had one man on wires, or if the men stayed approximately the same distance apart, it would be an easy task to suspend both of them. Helium balloons would be a good solution, in fact the more I think about it, that may well be how they did it.
How big would a helium balloon have to be to suspend a man in a spacesuit?


Are you saying I’m thick because I don’t have a rudimentary knowledge of astronomy?

In fairness, no-one needs to call you thick. Your own ignorance and words does that all by itself.


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Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on June 19, 2018, 05:32:44 AM
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“And again. You'll agree with 'experts' when they agree with you, but you'll dismiss any experts that don't. Typical HB troll”

“4/5 of cambo's links are to aulis, a lying site of scumbaggery, known to invent imaginary "experts" out of whole cloth.”

“He hasn't done any research beyond HB sites, and has clearly seen very little of the record apart from those little clips and pictures they use to prove it was fake.”

“There is absolutely no way to argue with someone who says he's willing to discuss proof but already dismissed anything that disagrees with his conclusions as invalid”

Those sites aren’t for you, as your minds are already made up, but they make interesting reading for the rest of us. I am labelled as a troll, just because I find the evidence pertaining to a hoax to be far more compelling than the evidence I see coming from NASA. Your stubborn refusal to even consider any evidence that goes against NASA’s version of events is typical of you NASA fans, and you will even resort to lying in an attempt to win an argument.

For instance, let’s take a look at the Apollo 16 jump salute, where we observe the sand falling quicker than the bloke in the spacesuit. First, we see the sand leave his boots and fall back to “earth” before he reaches the top of his jump. We are told that if two objects, regardless of weight are launched upwards at the same velocity, they will reach the same height and hit the ground together, and you can see evidence of this, by observing someone jumping off sand on earth.

That doesn’t happen in this case, and some of the sand is higher than the alleged astronauts’ boots, but for some reason it stops and falls back to the ground while he is still rising. His jump would only be the same height as the sand, if it wasn’t for those wires. It’s quite simple to measure how fast the sand and the alleged astronaut fall in relation to each other by simply drawing horizontal lines and counting the number of frames from the upper line to the bottom line, as the object falls. I counted seven frames for the sand and twelve frames for the bloke in the suit, and the only way to debunk this, would be to lie, as this foul mouthed NASA troll has done.



In the first instance of the jump, measuring the sand, the top line appears one frame too early, as the sand is still rising, and the line is also below the true height of the sand, so we have to advance at least two frames to get the sand level with the line. Twelve frames later, after the top line appears, the bottom line appears, but the sand has met the ground three frames earlier. We also observe the smaller particles of sand being buoyed in the air and taking longer to descend. The only explanation for this, is that it was shot on earth with the person being somehow pulled up and suspended in the air to mimic the moons gravity.

So we now have two sets of evidence which are irrefutable proof of fakery and cannot be debunked, without resorting to lying, so let the hand waving begin.

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“let's say you managed to get off the fusion crust on a metric buttload of  lunar meteorites without leaving detectable traces of what was used (no mean feat given how intensely studied moon rocks have been) and let's say you find a way to re-add the zip pits and helium 3 to the outer layers, well, you still got problems”

Why do you people always have to overcomplicate things? Do you assume that if you make it sound overly technical, we will all run away scratching our heads? First of all, the samples are given out in slivers, for which metal tools are used, and only a very small portion of the alleged moon rocks have been analysed, and the rest are allegedly under lock and key, apart from the ones that have been lost or stolen. As for the pits, it would be easily done with a laser, and Helium 3 would still be present, and in any case, who do you think told the rest of the world they were moon rocks, and why do the alleged samples from the Chinese rover possess different properties to the Nasa samples?

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“Cambo, do you still think that you need blueprints to to show that the Lunar Rover could be carried on the LM and unfolded? If so, why?”

“Of course not, although it would have been yet another big challenge to fly and land for the first time, with the extra weight on one side”

“Almost missed this one. Notice how cambo has deftly tapdanced away from his previous contentions?”

It seems you’ve missed more than just that one, as I had already openly admitted that the Rover could fold up and be attached to the Lander, and then unfold onto the moon set.

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“I may be capable of proving to myself that at least the Rover could possibly fold up inside the Landers trunk and then unfold into a functional moon buggy.”

“That's right; cambo thought it went inside the Descent Stage, showing that he had no real idea how the LM was constructed”

A car has a trunk, whereas a spaceship would have a hold, which should have given you a clue that I was using subtle humour, and the fact that you don’t get it, is not my fault. You really need to get out more often.

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“You don't need to see blueprints of an umbrella to prove it can unfold - just open it”

So when did you last unfold a LRV?

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“He pretends that Rover deployment was never an issue”

Wrong, after seeing a documentary on the subject, I could see it was no big deal.

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“and says that his actual concern was the weight load and balance problems that flying with a LRV attached to the LM would cause, even though aerospace designers and flight engineers have had to deal with balance issues since the birth of aviation.”

You fail to see the difference between controlling an aircraft and controlling a spacecraft, which are two entirely different concepts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation

Pardon me for saying this, but you come across as being a bit of an airhead, as you go over the same things multiple times, and nothing I say to you seems to sink in. Are you taking medication for this?

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“At every step the bar of 'acceptable proof' will be raised as soon as the one standard he asks for is actually provided. The rover is just one example.”

The rover debate came to a conclusion some time back, and it makes me wonder if you are trying to divert my attention from subjects which you aren’t so comfortable with.

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“There's also the issue of where do you find a metric buttload (is that more or less than a metric f---tonne?) of lunar meteorites - i.e. nearly 400 Kg of material (after processing) without anyone noticing it being collected, identified, processed and transported to the launches.

The story gets more and more nonsensical at every turn, and now we need teams of people scouring the planet for meteorites (in secret) plus loads of geologists to process them into "samples" - all of whom now need paying to ensure their life-long silence”

Why do you persist in this dumb assumption that everyone involved would need to know? If you were sent to collect moon meteorites, why would you assume you were part of a hoax? If you were examining alleged moon rocks, you would be comparing them to rocks which you have been assured, came from the moon, so what reason would you have to suspect a hoax? The same goes for the alleged lunar soil, if they tell you it’s lunar soil, then it’s lunar soil, it really is that simple. You lot are just too clever for your own good, as you overthink every little detail.

There’ll be thousands of NASA employees who have their doubts, but if they can’t provide any new evidence, then they would just become another HB lunatic. On the other hand, if they did have new evidence, it could turn out to be a major health risk, although there are some who speak out.



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“7   Why do we need blueprints of the Saturn V when we have video evidence and witnesses of its launch?”

The problem is not its ability to launch, but rather did it have the fuel and storage capacity to carry its alleged payload all the way up into orbit.

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“8   Why should there be a blast crater under the LM? Cite the properties of the regolith and underlying bedrock?”

How can there not be a blast crater? The top layer of the moon’s surface is loose soil, broken up over billions of years by micrometeorite bombardment, and should have been blown away by the thrust from the rocket engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regolith#Moon

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“9   How did they fake the moon rocks, including evidence of space weathering, their age and difference to isotope composition”

I believe I’ve covered most of that question, and as for the difference in isotope composition, apparently moon and earth rocks are pretty similar in this respect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rock#Composition

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“11 Why do objects in free fall or undergoing SHM show g = 1.67 m s-2 (approx)?”

A combination of slow motion and supporting wires are being used, to simulate the moons gravity.

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“12 In view of question 12, what should the correct rate of film speed be to achieve lunar g (provide calculations)?”

Well my previous answer renders this question moot, but if we pretend there were no wires, then the equation to determine how long it takes in seconds for an object to fall over a given distance is √(2d/g)  so an object falling 1 meter on earth would be the square root of 2x1/9.807 which gives us approximately 0.452 seconds. On the moon it would be 2x1/1.623 which gives us approximately 1.11 seconds. If we then divide the earth time by the moon time, we conclude that the film would need to be played at approximately 0.41x speed to simulate lunar gravity.

After watching a lot of footage with normal movement, without any jumping or skipping, 1.5x speed looks right to me, so I would estimate that the actual speed of the film has been slowed to 2/3s or 67% of its original speed.

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“14 Explain how HAM radio witness accounts are waved away”

On the whole, I am certain that these people are telling the truth, but they only received transmissions from the vicinity of the moon, which could have been achieved by an unmanned craft, possibly placed there long before the Apollo missions, simply relaying radio transmissions from earth, which would be timed to coincide with what people saw on their TV’s.

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“17 How did the regolith produce the famous bootprint if dry sand was used?”

It’s that kind of question that amuses us HB’s, as it shows how incredibly gullible you all are. Where is the video showing this footprint being made? Come to think of it, I can’t remember seeing any footage of the alleged astronauts making a clear footprint. Can’t you see how ridiculously insane this argument is?




Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on June 19, 2018, 06:31:37 AM
You’re right, I don’t trust the science, but it is all we have, as this is the stuff we are taught in schools, and I’m glad I made the decision to leave school when I did and earn a honest living , before the brainwashing started.

Oh yeah, brainwashing, that's what school science is....

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Even if the science is correct, it would only show us that space flight is possible,

Listen to those goalposts being moved.

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“Just because all you have seen is a few clips on YouTube don't assume they give you anything like the full picture”

I’ve probably seen them all, and I definitely get the picture.

I don't care how many YouTube clips you've seen, have you seen all the film and TV from all the missions?

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“Gennady Ivchenkov, PhD and Dr Stanislav Georgievich Pokrovsky only seem to exist within the domains of conspiracy websites, as no other references for their names seem be available”

You are right of course, but I wouldn’t expect to find such information on a pro Apollo site.

It has nothing to do with being pro-Apollo or not. Real academics do not resitict themselves to one set of sites and can be verified independently, their place of study, their published thesis that got them the qualification, and any other published works. If they can't be found outside hoax theory sites then it is appropriate to question the legitimacy of their expertise.

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If I read something, I will understand it, whether it’s a lie or not, so don’t come that condescending crap with me young man.

That is plainly absurd. Do you claim to be able to understand anything and everything you read? Can you fully comprehend all the layers of meaning of every sentence you cast your eye over? If you claim yes, I call bullshit, because nobody has the amazing ability to understand literally everything they read. You already admit to limited understanding of various subjects, so you can't then claim full understanding of everything you read.


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The Aulis site makes a hell of a lot more sense than NASA’s garbage, and thanks to Mr Bart Sibrel, you are all a laughing stock in the eyes of us normal people.

Making sense is not the same as being right. Aulis can't even manage to remain consistent in their arguments.

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Because NASA told them so.

Ah yes, because all of geology is just lining up to be told what rocks are. You seriously think geologists the world over can't tell the difference between a rock from Earth and one from the Moon? Explain why it is more ikely that an entire field of science is either incometent or in on a lie than that you might be wrong.

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Wow, what great advice! I started out as a believer,

Oh how tedious. Usual crap.

You started out as a person who didnt understand how things like lunar landings were achieved, read some stuff that said they weren't and clung to that like a blanket because it validated your insecurities as being legitimate concerns about reality rather than limitations in your own understanding that you can't be bothered to recitify.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on June 19, 2018, 06:44:30 AM
Those sites aren’t for you, as your minds are already made up, but they make interesting reading for the rest of us.

You know, my whole exposure to this was actually the Aulis site, their book and their video. I was all set to be convinced it was faked, and I found some of the arguments compelling, but I found the cracks in them pretty quickly. How exactly should we treat someone who performs a complex mathematical analysis which is perfectly correct, but claims to have been able to measure the position of an object in a photo to within 10 microns using a ruler? Or someone who claims the position of a mile-wide rock formation to within 0.1 microns based on a photo with equivalent resolution of 100 metres per pixel?

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I am labelled as a troll, just because I find the evidence pertaining to a hoax to be far more compelling than the evidence I see coming from NASA.

No, you are labelled as a troll because you sarted the entire discussion by dismissing literally everything that disagreed with you as fake before it was even presented, and because you dismiss the expertise of everyone who disagrees with you as 'brainwashing' but accept uncritically the 'experts' who say it was faked.

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We are told that if two objects, regardless of weight are launched upwards at the same velocity, they will reach the same height and hit the ground together,

Now prove that the 'sand' you are looking at is starting off on the same trajectory and velocity as the astronaut. Or explain how this can in fact be possible given the way the 'sand' interacts with his boots.

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and you can see evidence of this, by observing someone jumping off sand on earth.

Provide such evidence.
[/quote]why do the alleged samples from the Chinese rover possess different properties to the Nasa samples?[/quote]

Really? You can't think why rocks from different parts of a moon with a surface area of 38 million square kilometres might be different? Hell I live in a country with an area 150th that size and yet the two ends are on different bedrocks.

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You fail to see the difference between controlling an aircraft and controlling a spacecraft, which are two entirely different concepts.

No-one here fails to see that difference.

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If you were examining alleged moon rocks, you would be comparing them to rocks which you have been assured, came from the moon, so what reason would you have to suspect a hoax? The same goes for the alleged lunar soil, if they tell you it’s lunar soil, then it’s lunar soil, it really is that simple.

Really not how science works.

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How can there not be a blast crater? The top layer of the moon’s surface is loose soil, broken up over billions of years by micrometeorite bombardment, and should have been blown away by the thrust from the rocket engine.

How much of it? To what depth? What was the pressure on the surface from the descent engine?

Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on June 19, 2018, 07:12:23 AM
thanks to Bart Sibrel. thats brilliant. i remember the video where Gene Cerman actually swears on the bible (amazing how many HB's say nobody did). Bart stood up and didnt know what to say. all he could spout was 'well 6 others wouldnt'. what a complete and utter idiot.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on June 19, 2018, 07:48:04 AM
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“And again. You'll agree with 'experts' when they agree with you, but you'll dismiss any experts that don't. Typical HB troll”

“4/5 of cambo's links are to aulis, a lying site of scumbaggery, known to invent imaginary "experts" out of whole cloth.”

“He hasn't done any research beyond HB sites, and has clearly seen very little of the record apart from those little clips and pictures they use to prove it was fake.”

“There is absolutely no way to argue with someone who says he's willing to discuss proof but already dismissed anything that disagrees with his conclusions as invalid”

Those sites aren’t for you, as your minds are already made up, but they make interesting reading for the rest of us. I am labelled as a troll, just because I find the evidence pertaining to a hoax to be far more compelling than the evidence I see coming from NASA. Your stubborn refusal to even consider any evidence that goes against NASA’s version of events is typical of you NASA fans, and you will even resort to lying in an attempt to win an argument.

I gave you specific instances that aulis operators gave incorrect and misleading information, concerning the velocity of the Saturn V vehicle.  You ignored or don't understand. any lay person who reads and isn't able to filter out the BS, you deserve the "interesting reading for the rest of us"
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For instance, let’s take a look at the Apollo 16 jump salute, where we observe the sand falling quicker than the bloke in the spacesuit. First, we see the sand leave his boots and fall back to “earth” before he reaches the top of his jump. We are told that if two objects, regardless of weight are launched upwards at the same velocity, they will reach the same height and hit the ground together, and you can see evidence of this, by observing someone jumping off sand on earth.

That doesn’t happen in this case, and some of the sand is higher than the alleged astronauts’ boots, but for some reason it stops and falls back to the ground while he is still rising. His jump would only be the same height as the sand, if it wasn’t for those wires. It’s quite simple to measure how fast the sand and the alleged astronaut fall in relation to each other by simply drawing horizontal lines and counting the number of frames from the upper line to the bottom line, as the object falls. I counted seven frames for the sand and twelve frames for the bloke in the suit, and the only way to debunk this, would be to lie, as this foul mouthed NASA troll has done.



In the first instance of the jump, measuring the sand, the top line appears one frame too early, as the sand is still rising, and the line is also below the true height of the sand, so we have to advance at least two frames to get the sand level with the line. Twelve frames later, after the top line appears, the bottom line appears, but the sand has met the ground three frames earlier. We also observe the smaller particles of sand being buoyed in the air and taking longer to descend. The only explanation for this, is that it was shot on earth with the person being somehow pulled up and suspended in the air to mimic the moons gravity.

I "count" frames differently than you and no I didn't see the regolith travel higher than the boots, perhaps you could use your expertise in counting and post a video that supports your claim.
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So we now have two sets of evidence which are irrefutable proof of fakery and cannot be debunked, without resorting to lying, so let the hand waving begin.
  No I don't see any irrefutable proof of fakery.
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“let's say you managed to get off the fusion crust on a metric buttload of  lunar meteorites without leaving detectable traces of what was used (no mean feat given how intensely studied moon rocks have been) and let's say you find a way to re-add the zip pits and helium 3 to the outer layers, well, you still got problems”

Why do you people always have to overcomplicate things? Do you assume that if you make it sound overly technical, we will all run away scratching our heads? First of all, the samples are given out in slivers, for which metal tools are used, and only a very small portion of the alleged moon rocks have been analysed, and the rest are allegedly under lock and key, apart from the ones that have been lost or stolen. As for the pits, it would be easily done with a laser, and Helium 3 would still be present, and in any case, who do you think told the rest of the world they were moon rocks, and why do the alleged samples from the Chinese rover possess different properties to the Nasa samples?


Not true, The receiving organization requests the amount of sample and should sufficient rock quantity exists, they are sent.  Get your figures straight, and straight figures straight figures never come from aulis
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“Cambo, do you still think that you need blueprints to to show that the Lunar Rover could be carried on the LM and unfolded? If so, why?”

“Of course not, although it would have been yet another big challenge to fly and land for the first time, with the extra weight on one side”

“Almost missed this one. Notice how cambo has deftly tapdanced away from his previous contentions?”

It seems you’ve missed more than just that one, as I had already openly admitted that the Rover could fold up and be attached to the Lander, and then unfold onto the moon set.

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“I may be capable of proving to myself that at least the Rover could possibly fold up inside the Landers trunk and then unfold into a functional moon buggy.”

“That's right; cambo thought it went inside the Descent Stage, showing that he had no real idea how the LM was constructed”

A car has a trunk, whereas a spaceship would have a hold, which should have given you a clue that I was using subtle humour, and the fact that you don’t get it, is not my fault. You really need to get out more often.

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“You don't need to see blueprints of an umbrella to prove it can unfold - just open it”

So when did you last unfold a LRV?

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“He pretends that Rover deployment was never an issue”

Wrong, after seeing a documentary on the subject, I could see it was no big deal.

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“and says that his actual concern was the weight load and balance problems that flying with a LRV attached to the LM would cause, even though aerospace designers and flight engineers have had to deal with balance issues since the birth of aviation.”

You fail to see the difference between controlling an aircraft and controlling a spacecraft, which are two entirely different concepts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation

Pardon me for saying this, but you come across as being a bit of an airhead, as you go over the same things multiple times, and nothing I say to you seems to sink in. Are you taking medication for this?

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“At every step the bar of 'acceptable proof' will be raised as soon as the one standard he asks for is actually provided. The rover is just one example.”

The rover debate came to a conclusion some time back, and it makes me wonder if you are trying to divert my attention from subjects which you aren’t so comfortable with.

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“There's also the issue of where do you find a metric buttload (is that more or less than a metric f---tonne?) of lunar meteorites - i.e. nearly 400 Kg of material (after processing) without anyone noticing it being collected, identified, processed and transported to the launches.

The story gets more and more nonsensical at every turn, and now we need teams of people scouring the planet for meteorites (in secret) plus loads of geologists to process them into "samples" - all of whom now need paying to ensure their life-long silence”

Why do you persist in this dumb assumption that everyone involved would need to know? If you were sent to collect moon meteorites, why would you assume you were part of a hoax? If you were examining alleged moon rocks, you would be comparing them to rocks which you have been assured, came from the moon, so what reason would you have to suspect a hoax? The same goes for the alleged lunar soil, if they tell you it’s lunar soil, then it’s lunar soil, it really is that simple. You lot are just too clever for your own good, as you overthink every little detail.

There’ll be thousands of NASA employees who have their doubts, but if they can’t provide any new evidence, then they would just become another HB lunatic. On the other hand, if they did have new evidence, it could turn out to be a major health risk, although there are some who speak out.



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“7   Why do we need blueprints of the Saturn V when we have video evidence and witnesses of its launch?”

The problem is not its ability to launch, but rather did it have the fuel and storage capacity to carry its alleged payload all the way up into orbit.

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“8   Why should there be a blast crater under the LM? Cite the properties of the regolith and underlying bedrock?”

How can there not be a blast crater? The top layer of the moon’s surface is loose soil, broken up over billions of years by micrometeorite bombardment, and should have been blown away by the thrust from the rocket engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regolith#Moon

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“9   How did they fake the moon rocks, including evidence of space weathering, their age and difference to isotope composition”

I believe I’ve covered most of that question, and as for the difference in isotope composition, apparently moon and earth rocks are pretty similar in this respect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rock#Composition

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“11 Why do objects in free fall or undergoing SHM show g = 1.67 m s-2 (approx)?”

A combination of slow motion and supporting wires are being used, to simulate the moons gravity.

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“12 In view of question 12, what should the correct rate of film speed be to achieve lunar g (provide calculations)?”

Well my previous answer renders this question moot, but if we pretend there were no wires, then the equation to determine how long it takes in seconds for an object to fall over a given distance is √(2d/g)  so an object falling 1 meter on earth would be the square root of 2x1/9.807 which gives us approximately 0.452 seconds. On the moon it would be 2x1/1.623 which gives us approximately 1.11 seconds. If we then divide the earth time by the moon time, we conclude that the film would need to be played at approximately 0.41x speed to simulate lunar gravity.

After watching a lot of footage with normal movement, without any jumping or skipping, 1.5x speed looks right to me, so I would estimate that the actual speed of the film has been slowed to 2/3s or 67% of its original speed.

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“14 Explain how HAM radio witness accounts are waved away”

On the whole, I am certain that these people are telling the truth, but they only received transmissions from the vicinity of the moon, which could have been achieved by an unmanned craft, possibly placed there long before the Apollo missions, simply relaying radio transmissions from earth, which would be timed to coincide with what people saw on their TV’s.

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“17 How did the regolith produce the famous bootprint if dry sand was used?”

It’s that kind of question that amuses us HB’s, as it shows how incredibly gullible you all are. Where is the video showing this footprint being made? Come to think of it, I can’t remember seeing any footage of the alleged astronauts making a clear footprint. Can’t you see how ridiculously insane this argument is?

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cambo do a better job of quoting, include the name of the poster.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on June 19, 2018, 11:02:46 AM
thanks to Bart Sibrel. thats brilliant. i remember the video where Gene Cerman actually swears on the bible (amazing how many HB's say nobody did). Bart stood up and didnt know what to say. all he could spout was 'well 6 others wouldnt'. what a complete and utter idiot.

That's exactly Sibrel's modus operandi. Everything he does is designed to support his version of events. The astronauts who don't swear on the bible have something to hide, the ones that do are going to hell for lying in the face of God.

I have perosnally communicated with Sibrel, and he has no interest in the truth whatsoever. I asked him to provide a reference for one of his claims, and he point blank refused and said I'd have to buy his video. Money and notoriety are all he cares about, and if he has to get it by attaching himself to some people who actually achieved something rather then doing anything worthwhile himself, he doesn't care.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on June 19, 2018, 11:08:31 AM
thanks to Bart Sibrel. thats brilliant. i remember the video where Gene Cerman actually swears on the bible (amazing how many HB's say nobody did). Bart stood up and didnt know what to say. all he could spout was 'well 6 others wouldnt'. what a complete and utter idiot.

That's exactly Sibrel's modus operandi. Everything he does is designed to support his version of events. The astronauts who don't swear on the bible have something to hide, the ones that do are going to hell for lying in the face of God.

I have perosnally communicated with Sibrel, and he has no interest in the truth whatsoever. I asked him to provide a reference for one of his claims, and he point blank refused and said I'd have to buy his video. Money and notoriety are all he cares about, and if he has to get it by attaching himself to some people who actually achieved something rather then doing anything worthwhile himself, he doesn't care.

i have personally debated as you know on facebook quite a few times. i think roughly the number of people who, as a reply to my question, copied in sibrels movie as if that alone was proof was about 50 percent. to me that is unbelievable. 2 things strike me as odd. 1st that 1 film could provide such proof and 2nd that the all powerful nasa, cia and us government would allow this video to actually exist.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on June 19, 2018, 12:20:38 PM
You’re right, I don’t trust the science...
...I’m glad I made the decision to leave school when I did and earn a honest living , before the brainwashing started.

And that's why you're ignorant of how things actually work.  You're puzzled by the world, didn't bother to learn much about it, and latch onto charlatans like Sibrel, Bennett, and Percy who only want your money and know very well that they can part you from it by making up juicy conspiracy stories.  There is a segment of the population who will eat it up on that basis alone.

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You are right of course, but I wouldn’t expect to find such information on a pro Apollo site.

Who said anything about "pro-Apollo" sites?  They can't be very well-known experts if the only thing they've ever published in their field is a treatise on how Apollo was faked.  My father spent his entire career as an academic and his publications take up about three feet of shelf space.  I can find them easily in several library catalogs, including the national library catalogs of other countries.  I can speak to others in his field who know of him and are familiar with his work.  This is the nature of expertise in the real world.  It doesn't exist in a vacuum.  Your "experts" on the other hand have nothing to establish them as experts, no one who knows them, and no record of achievement anywhere in the world.  The Aulis authors have, since the 1990s, been making up "experts" and lay witnesses who simply don't exist.  You probably didn't know that. "Bill Wood" (or "Woods") and "Una Ronald" and a whole cast of characters who exist only to lend to the notion that this isn't just a couple of charlatans in England trying to make a quid or two off of people they know will buy anything that sounds conspiratorial and won't bother to check any of the references or evidence.

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Are you saying I’m thick because I don’t have a rudimentary knowledge of astronomy? I think you’ll find there are more people in the world without this knowledge than people who possess it. So does this knowledge make you a better person than most? Of course not, it just makes you the pompous condescending man that you are.

No, that's not the argument.  Your argument is that for most things regarding Apollo we just have to take NASA's word for it.  That's not true.  There are (and were in the 1960s) plenty of people who knew a lot about space and space travel who didn't get it from NASA and can't be fooled by NASA if NASA is wrong.  Those people have to be accounted for in your theory.

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I’m sorry but I can’t find the names of the wire men, but here’s where the wires were probably attached.

Have you ever personally used a theatrical flyrig?

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As for tangled wires, maybe the scenes you mention, only had one man on wires, or if the men stayed approximately the same distance apart...

This is why it's important for you to have seen more than just the odd YouTube clip of astronauts on the lunar surface.  You're proposing stuff that would potentially work for a few seconds, or maybe a minute or two.  But not for the lengthy shots that are in the unedited source material.

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...it would be an easy task to suspend both of them.

Bwahaha!  You've obviously never staged Peter Pan with a flyrig.  Multiple actors on wires "live" on a stage with two dimensions of travel is not possible with theatrical flyrigs today.  I'm certified by Foy to operate multiaxis flyrigs and I've designed and built my own single-axis flyrig.  Since Foy's technology is proprietary, an NDA prevents me from describing it in detail.  But safe to say it works on a gantry principle that can't accommodate more than a single flier without drastically reducing his field of travel.  And that's state of the art.  So please describe a rig that could do what you say.

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Helium balloons would be a good solution, in fact the more I think about it, that may well be how they did it.

That's how they did it for From the Earth to the Moon.  I worked on a film with the grip company that did those effects.  And no, it's not just handwavingly "easy."

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So in what field is your expertise, because it certainly isn’t cloud formations.

Aerospace engineering, along with film and theater as side businesses.  Please tell me what your training and experience is in aerospace engineering.  Please tell me what your training and experience is in professional film and theater.  You're making claims along those lines that would ordinarily be probative only if they came from someone with suitable expertise, to be able to give his informed judgment regarding what is easy, hard, possible, or impossible in those fields.

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It’s already been proven that the footage you got your earth images from, was not shot on the outward journey to the moon, which makes those satellite images false also.

No, it hasn't been proven.  You've just bought Sibrel's line uncritically and are uninterested in why his attempt at proof fails.  Then you're simply begging the question of your belief to insist that any rebuttal against it must somehow be false.  That's as circular as reasoning can get.

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I almost feel terrible, asking you this question, but how can anyone be this gullible?

Most of my sources for Apollo reference are contemporary.  You are trying very hard to hide what is effectively an affirmative rebuttal.  No matter what material is produced that contradicts your belief, your standard rebuttal -- made with no evidence -- is that it must somehow have been faked.  Calling your critics gullible doesn't relieve you of the burden to prove an affirmative rebuttal.

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The Aulis site makes a hell of a lot more sense than NASA’s garbage...

By whose judgment?  I've tried for years to get David Percy and Mary Bennett to debate me interactively, but they always refuse.  They refuse any exercise where they don't get to control what is said by both sides.  You haven't been at this long enough to know this, but they used to operate a forum like this on Aulis.  After I pointed out such things as how photos from one part of Percy's book contradict his "photo rules" in another part, he shut it down.  He clearly can't support his claims.  He just wants you to buy his book and movie and leave him alone after that.  His site "makes sense" only if the reader doesn't know much about how space works and only if Percy doesn't let himself be questioned by people he knows can show the flaws in his claims.

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...thanks to Mr Bart Sibrel, you are all a laughing stock in the eyes of us normal people.

You're by no means normal with respect to how you approach historical questions and evidence.  And no, Bart Sibrel has been completely discredited and his attempted proof thoroughly refuted.  He tried to make a quick buck from Apollo and then realized too late that he was in over his head, and now he's been mostly hiding ever since.  And again you're probably too new at this to remember his film tour.  He took A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon on tour to different theaters in the U.S.  Afterward there was a question-and-answer period, but you only got to ask one question and no followups.  So his answers to the "hard" questions were just more made-up crap that, thanks to his ground rules, would never be questioned further.  As with Bennett and Percy, their schtick requires them to be able to avoid questions they can't answer.

Speaking of gullibility, did you know that his tax records are public?  AFTH LLC, the company he formed to sell his hoax videos, posted a quarter million dollars in revenue for his peak sales year, for a film made almost entirely of royalty-free stock footage.  In other words, it cost him nothing but his time to make.  AFTH LLC's address of record was Sibrel's apartment in Nashville (since torn down, so don't bother Google-mapping it), not any production studio or place of business.  So he took hundreds of thousands of dollars from his customers for a throw-together film he edited in his apartment, and they don't even get to hold him accountable for the accuracy of his facts.  How does that factor into your thinking?

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Wow, what great advice! I started out as a believer, but unlike you I was willing to listen to arguments from both sides...

Hogwash.  Every hoax claimant makes exactly this same argument.  They all started out as believers, but then were dragged against their will to believe reluctantly that it was a hoax.  See, if that story were true then you'd be quite pleased to see how easily the hoax arguments fail when exposed to even cursory scrutiny.  You'd be glad to have your prior belief restored, and you'd thank those who helped that happen.

No, you believe in Apollo hoaxes because you very much want to, and you're fighting tooth and nail to defend that belief.  We've seen this many times before.

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...people who’ve took the time to sift through the mountain of evidence that points to a hoax.

You haven't shown any evidence that you've sifted through the mountain of evidence.  You seem to have steeped yourself only in the cherry-picked bits interpreted by people with no knowledge of what they're looking at and considerable interested in getting money from you.  How does that qualify as a well-rounded experience?

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...as we are in the majority...

What facts demonstrate that the majority of people believe that Apollo missions were hoaxes?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on June 19, 2018, 12:27:04 PM
...the ones that do are going to hell for lying in the face of God.

At the time Sibrel made that film he was a member of a controversial church.  I believe they may be defunct now.  But at the time they were notorious for aggressive on-campus preaching and were banned from several college campuses for alleged brainwashy cult tactics.  Apparently there was some really scary, really Fundamentalist stuff going on there.  That's the background for Sibrel's religious tone in that film.

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I have perosnally communicated with Sibrel, and he has no interest in the truth whatsoever. I asked him to provide a reference for one of his claims, and he point blank refused and said I'd have to buy his video. Money and notoriety are all he cares about, and if he has to get it by attaching himself to some people who actually achieved something rather then doing anything worthwhile himself, he doesn't care.

That has been exactly my experience with him too.  He wants nothing but money and fame and he's not the least bothered by lying through his teeth to get it.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on June 19, 2018, 12:47:31 PM
2 things strike me as odd. 1st that 1 film could provide such proof and 2nd that the all powerful nasa, cia and us government would allow this video to actually exist.

That's just conspiracy theorists in general for you. NASA/the CIA/US Government/RAND Corporation/whoever have to be both clever enough to pull off a hoax that fools the world, and yet inept enough to leave it full of inconsistencies that give the game away (like bright, gleaming wires that flash under studio lights that even major film studios haven't ever used for far more elaborate flying effects, precisely because the gleam makes them show up), and unable to silence anyone who publishes stuff about it.

Years ago a chap called Bill Kaysing spent a lot of time making the claim Apollo was fake. He claimed the mass media was controlled and so stuff like his was being silenced. He made that claim using the very mass media he said was controlled. He published his address. He lived alone. And yet, somehow, NASA or whoever could neither silence his media presence (as he claimed they were doing), prevent his book being published, or even arrange his 'accidental' death in a bizarre cat-and-gasoline-related incident in his trailer. He died of natural causes in his seventies a few years ago.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on June 19, 2018, 12:52:28 PM
I'm not going to respond directly to Cambo until he makes it clear to whom he's talking.  But I will say that I'm pretty sure people mocked on The Daily Show aren't more believable to the average person.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on June 19, 2018, 02:16:03 PM
Picking just one point from the "wall o' text", since I think it might be in response to one of my posts :
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“If you're going to claim that "gravitational slingshots" (gravitational assist manoeuvres) don't work, then you'll need to do more than just make vague statements like "I don't believe they work" or "I don't think gravity works the same in space" - or whatever nonsense it is you're proposing.  You need to show the flaw in the mathematics and physics.  You need to show your calculations of what happens when a spacecraft passes close to a planet.  Until you can do those things, you're just another random person who doesn't "believe in science" and who isn't prepared to learn enough about it to argue their point coherently.”

You’re right, I don’t trust the science, but it is all we have, as this is the stuff we are taught in schools, and I’m glad I made the decision to leave school when I did and earn a honest living , before the brainwashing started.
Science, if you had bothered to spend any time actually finding out, is not about "brainwashing", or about having to "believe" what you're told.  Science is all about reproducibility, about testability, and about documenting observations and measurements.

If you want, for example, to figure out how objects accelerate due to gravity, you can do experiments.  Nowadays, with easily available cheap video cameras and phones, accurate digital timing etc., it's a lot easier to get all the data you need than when I did it at school about 50 years ago!  Anyone can do it, check the results, do the calculations, and confirm that gravity does exist, and it does work exactly as we've been told for hundreds of years.  Just because you "don't believe" that planets, moons and spacecraft move the way they do, doesn't invalidate the physics of gravity.

And the same applies to a lot of other parts of physics, and to other fields of science as well, if you're prepared to do the work.  You can do experiments, make measurements, and check on most things.  Science isn't some opaque, obscure, ritualistic belief system, it's something that anyone can, and should, do, if they have any doubts about it.  Even if you dropped out of school, you can still learn - if you're willing to make the effort...

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Even if the science is correct, it would only show us that space flight is possible, but in no way would it be proof that these events have actually took place. In the case of Apollo, Surely the visual record is the only source of real evidence, as without this evidence, we would only have NASA’s word.
There's a lot more than just the visual record (by which I assume you mean the photos, film and video), although you seem determined to dismiss all of it without any real analysis.  The fact that such an extensive and detailed record exists can't easily be ignored, especially when it's not just "NASA" providing us with evidence.  A huge array of information, from people all over the world, in many different disciplines, both from the time of the missions, and in subsequent analysis, supports the case that Apollo happened.

Bottom line, science works, whether you believe in it or not, whether you like it or not.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on June 19, 2018, 02:51:11 PM
Science, if you had bothered to spend any time actually finding out, is not about "brainwashing", or about having to "believe" what you're told.  Science is all about reproducibility, about testability, and about documenting observations and measurements.

This, a million times over. I wasn't 'brainwashed' in school to see experiments and activities I did perform inc ertain ways for deducible reasons, any more than I was 'brainwashed' into believing 2+2=4. Science is not some arcane crap done by boffins in white coats, it's the foundation of everything you do in life, and it gets into everything in ways you arent even aware of. I've seen people claim quantum physics is bunk on the internet, whch depends on quantum physics to function in the first place....

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especially when it's not just "NASA" providing us with evidence.

Boeing, IBM, Douglas, North American Aviation, Grumman... just five major private industry players in Apollo who either are in on the fraud or else built stuff that actually worked for NASA because no-one told them it was a fraud, and were good enough to document their processes extensively.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on June 19, 2018, 03:44:40 PM
2 things strike me as odd. 1st that 1 film could provide such proof and 2nd that the all powerful nasa, cia and us government would allow this video to actually exist.

That's just conspiracy theorists in general for you. NASA/the CIA/US Government/RAND Corporation/whoever have to be both clever enough to pull off a hoax that fools the world, and yet inept enough to leave it full of inconsistencies that give the game away (like bright, gleaming wires that flash under studio lights that even major film studios haven't ever used for far more elaborate flying effects, precisely because the gleam makes them show up), and unable to silence anyone who publishes stuff about it.

Years ago a chap called Bill Kaysing spent a lot of time making the claim Apollo was fake. He claimed the mass media was controlled and so stuff like his was being silenced. He made that claim using the very mass media he said was controlled. He published his address. He lived alone. And yet, somehow, NASA or whoever could neither silence his media presence (as he claimed they were doing), prevent his book being published, or even arrange his 'accidental' death in a bizarre cat-and-gasoline-related incident in his trailer. He died of natural causes in his seventies a few years ago.

rene was the same. the only people they had to convince was enough to buy their stuff. luckily for them there are enough people that want to believe it.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bobdude11 on June 19, 2018, 06:31:22 PM
Quote from: cambo
... you will even resort to lying in an attempt to win an argument.

 Attempt to deflect from self noted.

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Why do you people always have to overcomplicate things? ...

Lack of understanding on your part does not constitute 'over complication' on anyone else's part.
Perhaps if you had stayed in school and actually learned basics, it wouldn't be so confusing.

I am not anywhere near anyone's level on this site, but, I understand most of the science; of course, math being a weakness for me I entered the InfoSec industry (to include getting my MBA in this discipline and my CISSP (99487)) instead of Space/Aerospace/Rocket sciences, Engineering or disciplines even remotely close to those.
 
InfoSec requires math, but we generally have tools that help do the calculations ... I just have to understand the formulas - that can be a struggle for me.

Here's the catch: My lack of understanding of the math, the formulas and everything related is on ME; it does not imply, insinuate, impeach, or otherwise discredit ALL of the learned people here.
 Instead, it is due to my lack of effort or due diligence to learn the higher order mathematics (Trig, Calculus, Geometry, etc.). 

Everyone on here that explains things and references and/or includes the math does so because they have taken the time and effort to learn it. They have degreed in the related disciplines and have practical experience using them.

They are helping me to try and understand some of this (thank you all, BTW).

I don't, for even a millisecond, believe that because they do this, it means they are 'over complicating' things.

Rather, they are attempting to educate those of us who may not understand the math, but still understand the science (or not)

 I did do well in physical sciences in High School and some college level, just not well in the math portions; I was part of a team so I was able to utilize a team member to help write that part of our reports.

I was part of the testing (observation, note taking, data gathering, and other aspects) portion and knew from the observation and the results that sometimes, my hypothesis/theory(ies) were wrong.

I explained that in our reports and based it on my personal experiences and referenced the math where required.

Further, these experiences have helped tremendously in my chosen Information Security discipline as I learned how to observe, formulate a theory, evaluate and test to prove/disprove my theory(ies).

I did NOT learn to generate a theory and then only find evidence to prove me right. That is not science, it is hoax theory. Instead, I do not dismiss anything or anyone that may prove me wrong.

 I may be hard headed and resistant at first, but I listen, re-evaluate my stance and correct myself if proven wrong, or if able to prove my position, provide the evidence to show why I was correct.

I am disappointed when I see someone that attempts to hand-wave away any education I have because: 'science'.


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It seems you’ve missed more than just that one, as I had already openly admitted that the Rover could fold up and be attached to the Lander, and then unfold onto the moon set.

Nope. You have attempted to back pedal from your previous statements. You claimed you had to see the blueprints (which, based on your postings to date, I don't actually believe you would understand if you had them) to prove to you that the Rover did what is has already proven it could do. See quotes below:

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“I may be capable of proving to myself that at least the Rover could possibly fold up inside the Landers trunk and then unfold into a functional moon buggy.”

“That's right; cambo thought it went inside the Descent Stage, showing that he had no real idea how the LM was constructed”

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A car has a trunk, whereas a spaceship would have a hold, which should have given you a clue that I was using subtle humour, and the fact that you don’t get it, is not my fault. You really need to get out more often.

You made a statement. I read it. I love humor (or humour for my friends in the UK). Love it. Your statement was not humor (not even subtle) - you made the statement, own it, admit you misspoke and let's move on.

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“You don't need to see blueprints of an umbrella to prove it can unfold - just open it”

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So when did you last unfold a LRV?

When did you? You missed the point of the statement, entirely.

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“He pretends that Rover deployment was never an issue”

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Wrong, after seeing a documentary on the subject, I could see it was no big deal.

Double wrong on you. You made the statements. Instead of trying to play it off, own it, admit you erred and let's move on.

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“and says that his actual concern was the weight load and balance problems that flying with a LRV attached to the LM would cause, even though aerospace designers and flight engineers have had to deal with balance issues since the birth of aviation.”

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You fail to see the difference between controlling an aircraft and controlling a spacecraft, which are two entirely different concepts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation

Pardon me for saying this, but you come across as being a bit of an airhead, as you go over the same things multiple times, and nothing I say to you seems to sink in. Are you taking medication for this?
Yes and no. The principal of CG, pitch, yaw, roll, energy, thrust, etc. still apply. Even someone like myself can understand that. Why can't you? Why do you insist on ad hominem attacks when proven incapable of following a simple, proven principle of science?

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“At every step the bar of 'acceptable proof' will be raised as soon as the one standard he asks for is actually provided. The rover is just one example.”

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The rover debate came to a conclusion some time back, and it makes me wonder if you are trying to divert my attention from subjects which you aren’t so comfortable with.

Yes it did. Back when Apollo deployed and used it on the Moon; in front of a WORLDWIDE audience. You are the only one that insists that blueprints are the ONLY way to prove it existed/worked as designed.

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“There's also the issue of where do you find a metric buttload (is that more or less than a metric f---tonne?) of lunar meteorites - i.e. nearly 400 Kg of material (after processing) without anyone noticing it being collected, identified, processed and transported to the launches.

The story gets more and more nonsensical at every turn, and now we need teams of people scouring the planet for meteorites (in secret) plus loads of geologists to process them into "samples" - all of whom now need paying to ensure their life-long silence”

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Why do you persist in this dumb assumption that everyone involved would need to know? If you were sent to collect moon meteorites, why would you assume you were part of a hoax? If you were examining alleged moon rocks, you would be comparing them to rocks which you have been assured, came from the moon, so what reason would you have to suspect a hoax? The same goes for the alleged lunar soil, if they tell you it’s lunar soil, then it’s lunar soil, it really is that simple. You lot are just too clever for your own good, as you overthink every little detail.

There’ll be thousands of NASA employees who have their doubts, but if they can’t provide any new evidence, then they would just become another HB lunatic. On the other hand, if they did have new evidence, it could turn out to be a major health risk, although there are some who speak out.

Why do you insist that only a limited number would know? You fail to understand a simple concept, one person, just one, that knows will inevitably tell another. It is human nature to want to impress someone. That aside, the project was a HUGE undertaking; almost half a million folks involved at one point. I guarantee this: if even ONE (1) of them knew this was fake, the WORLD would know for sure. The Apollo, Gemini, and Mercury records (not to mention SkyLab, Space Shuttle, ISS, etc.) ALL speak for themselves. Because you cannot fathom that fact, does not invalidate them, only you.


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“7   Why do we need blueprints of the Saturn V when we have video evidence and witnesses of its launch?”

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The problem is not its ability to launch, but rather did it have the fuel and storage capacity to carry its alleged payload all the way up into orbit.

To quote my lawyer friend: 'Asked and answered' - in this case at '... Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on Nov. 9, 1967. Credit: NASA.' (quote from: https://www.space.com/18505-nasa-moon-rocket-saturn-v-history.html)

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“8   Why should there be a blast crater under the LM? Cite the properties of the regolith and underlying bedrock?”

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How can there not be a blast crater? The top layer of the moon’s surface is loose soil, broken up over billions of years by micrometeorite bombardment, and should have been blown away by the thrust from the rocket engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regolith#Moon

Citing a source that states we went to the Moon to prove we didn't go to the Moon circular logic noted.

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“9   How did they fake the moon rocks, including evidence of space weathering, their age and difference to isotope composition”

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I believe I’ve covered most of that question, and as for the difference in isotope composition, apparently moon and earth rocks are pretty similar in this respect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rock#Composition

Referencing a source that discusses the samples taken from the Moon to prove we did not go to the Moon. Circular logic #2 noted.

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“11 Why do objects in free fall or undergoing SHM show g = 1.67 m s-2 (approx)?”

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A combination of slow motion and supporting wires are being used, to simulate the moons gravity.

Prove it. Show your math. I guarantee I won't understand it, but I know others here will. Show your evidence (the 'It didn't happen because: 'disbelief' is old, tired, and used up)

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“12 In view of question 12, what should the correct rate of film speed be to achieve lunar g (provide calculations)?”

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Well my previous answer renders this question moot, but if we pretend there were no wires, then the equation to determine how long it takes in seconds for an object to fall over a given distance is √(2d/g)  so an object falling 1 meter on earth would be the square root of 2x1/9.807 which gives us approximately 0.452 seconds. On the moon it would be 2x1/1.623 which gives us approximately 1.11 seconds. If we then divide the earth time by the moon time, we conclude that the film would need to be played at approximately 0.41x speed to simulate lunar gravity.

After watching a lot of footage with normal movement, without any jumping or skipping, 1.5x speed looks right to me, so I would estimate that the actual speed of the film has been slowed to 2/3s or 67% of its original speed.

Looks can be deceiving. You also forgot to quote your source on the paragraph with the math (the one in italics).

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“14 Explain how HAM radio witness accounts are waved away”

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On the whole, I am certain that these people are telling the truth, but they only received transmissions from the vicinity of the moon, which could have been achieved by an unmanned craft, possibly placed there long before the Apollo missions, simply relaying radio transmissions from earth, which would be timed to coincide with what people saw on their TV’s.

Even I know this a bogus statement, and I am not even an expert in this area!

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“17 How did the regolith produce the famous bootprint if dry sand was used?”

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It’s that kind of question that amuses us HB’s, as it shows how incredibly gullible you all are. Where is the video showing this footprint being made? Come to think of it, I can’t remember seeing any footage of the alleged astronauts making a clear footprint. Can’t you see how ridiculously insane this argument is?

Where is the video showing this was faked? Come to think of it, I don't remember seeing you there when it was made. Can’t you see how ridiculously insane this argument is?

My questions to you are simple:

What do you hope to gain from this?

What is your payoff?

-and-

How is that working for you?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nomuse on June 19, 2018, 07:45:19 PM

You’re right, I don’t trust the science, but it is all we have, as this is the stuff we are taught in schools, and I’m glad I made the decision to leave school when I did and earn a honest living , before the brainwashing started.

What the heck kind of job allows having a separate reality? I spent a lifetime in the trades, and here's the trick; the science works. That's why we keep using it. It isn't something learned in school and never used again. It isn't something that only happens on the Moon to someone you've never met. Physics is physics, optics is optics, geometry is geometry, materials are materials.


Even if the science is correct, it would only show us that space flight is possible, but in no way would it be proof that these events have actually took place. In the case of Apollo, Surely the visual record is the only source of real evidence, as without this evidence, we would only have NASA’s word.

No. There are multiple lines of evidence. The visual record gets referenced by hoax believers because, frankly, they aren't smart enough to deal with anything other than pretty pictures.


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“Your contention was that NASA was needed to determine the position of earth as seen from the moon. I said that anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of astronomy doesn't need NASA. If that doesn't include you, that's not my fault.”

Are you saying I’m thick because I don’t have a rudimentary knowledge of astronomy? I think you’ll find there are more people in the world without this knowledge than people who possess it. So does this knowledge make you a better person than most? Of course not, it just makes you the pompous condescending man that you are.

Very poor paraphrase. The question of competence isn't an independent value judgement, it is a specific requirement of the evidence in question. None of us know everything. I know so little of football I can't even name the local teams. Does that make me an idiot? Well, perhaps to some! The important thing is, would it matter if I was applying for a job as sportscaster!



As for tangled wires, maybe the scenes you mention, only had one man on wires, or if the men stayed approximately the same distance apart, it would be an easy task to suspend both of them. Helium balloons would be a good solution, in fact the more I think about it, that may well be how they did it.

Italics mine. They don't. That's the basic problem the hoax believers are facing; the actual visual record is long contiguous footage. What works to fake a single moment doesn't work within the context of the actual full shot.

Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nomuse on June 19, 2018, 07:54:58 PM
Two random thoughts:

"Pro-Apollo sites" -- this is why there's no antonym to the term "alternative medicine." There's medicine which is untested, unproven, uncertain. And then there's......medicine. Apollo is exactly and entirely consistent, in width and in depth, with everything that is scientific and/or technical. Aerospace methods, observational astronomy, software standards, trigonometry...whatever. There's not a need for a "pro Apollo" site. There's just....the rest of the world that isn't a conspiracy believer site (or bad sci-fi).

The other is -- counting frames? On a YouTube sourced clip of unknown provenance that originated long ago in an analog transfer from an non-NTSC standard source?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nomuse on June 19, 2018, 08:12:00 PM
Last random thought: Theatrical flight is a lot of misdirection, basically. First show I remember working that had flight in it was Peter Pan. Peter flies through window, up to top of a dresser, back to the floor, the Darlings all lift off, gather together, fly out through the window.

Or, rather, that's the impression you get from the audience. Actually, it was done with four single-point wires and an upstage tracking rig and all of that freedom and flexibility is an illusion brought on by careful choreography and manipulation of basic physics.

Peter alights the first time just inside the window frame, and while focus is on Wendy a tech unclips him from the US rig and attaches him to a rig with a pick point far DS of him. The window box is elevated; thus, when he "lifts off" from the window he pendulums across the stage and the tech only has to lower him at the apex of his downstage arc. Similar trick getting him back to ground. The Darlings are all rigged far upstage of their beds and when they do the first tentative "hops" they are holding on to the beds for dear life so they don't immediately get dragged upstage! They join hands not because it looks cool but because that's the only way to force their motion to arc through the window. Which, in our production, split in the middle and was dragged out of the way as their flight over London began.

You look at the lunar surface video and, yeah, there's setups you could do to achieve certain moments but every single one is violated by what the astronauts are seen doing next. Even the simplest jump violates theatrical flight as the astronaut changes their pivot point in the middle of their flight -- an absolute impossibility when you are talking about something physically attached to an actor.

(The closest thing to a gimbal you can get is with two clips at basically either side of the waist, at the center of gravity, and they go to a plate which can freely rotate. So the actor can tumble and can spin. But they can NOT lean. There's two axes, two fixed axes. That's it.)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on June 20, 2018, 03:30:26 AM
I really cba to pick through the bones of cambo's latest collection of canards, but in reference to the stuff I've posted for him, his position shifts so often I'm not sure he knows what it is anymore.

First there was no matching meteorology. Then it matched but only because they guessed. Now it seems they match but only because they faked the satellite images. That's right, the satellite images that were broadcast from orbit so that anyone with a receiver could get them and which were then distributed to meteorological agencies world wide were somehow edited retrospectively when they brought out Apollo images showing Earth, or broadcast them live on TV. He seems to have settled for a position where they faked the images of Earth, then faked the satellite imagery to match the fake Apollo images, which is beyond dumb.

Most of cambo's other responses to my points are him pretending he hasn't had a response, and mistaking short answers as non-answers instead of "stop being a lazy dumbass and do your own legwork".

When I asked him to provide an answer that made sense I wasn't expecting to get one, so I shouldn't be surprised that I did't. He should have stuck to the standard HB response of pretending he hadn't seen the question. Probably best if you continue to let other people do your thinking for you cambo, it clearly isn't working for you when you try and do it for yourself. You have made no effort to account for meteorological fingerprints in Apollo images other than jerk your knee, and have made no effort at all to prove that the satellite record does not match the Apollo imagery.

"Because I said so" is not an acceptable response - if it was, my website would have taken a lot less time to put together.


Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Zakalwe on June 20, 2018, 05:33:41 AM
Cambo has taken the gish-gallop (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop) to new lows.

Hey Cambo...what is, in your opinion, the strongest piece of "evidence" that lead you to believe in the hoax nonsense? Just one please..the one that you think is the absolute strongest and the most solid


Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: jfb on June 20, 2018, 08:41:57 AM
Cambo has taken the gish-gallop (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop) to new lows.

Hey Cambo...what is, in your opinion, the strongest piece of "evidence" that lead you to believe in the hoax nonsense? Just one please..the one that you think is the absolute strongest and the most solid

All of them, Katie.

I mean, you know that’s going to be the response, much like a squid squirting a cloud of ink while running away.  I don’t think cambo’s capable of following a single argument. 
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: jfb on June 20, 2018, 08:53:36 AM


Another video for cambo, this one from Apollo 7.  Interested to hear what kind of wire rigs were used to fake this one. 
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on June 20, 2018, 10:54:44 AM
I'm not going to respond directly to Cambo until he makes it clear to whom he's talking.  But I will say that I'm pretty sure people mocked on The Daily Show aren't more believable to the average person.


I feel the same way as I indicated in my previous post.  No one but cambo knows who the comments are directed.

His wall-o-text is still boring.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on June 20, 2018, 11:04:13 AM
I'm tired of picking my comments out of his wall of spam. It's a lot of work, and he does it that way on purpose. It's a tactic of his, and I refuse to play any more. That, and his ad hominem attacks let any reader know who the real winner of this debate is.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on June 20, 2018, 11:16:09 AM
I get the impression he's more raging against the machine than actually cogently trying to argue a point.  That would explain the wall o' screed.  He said flatly that he doesn't much care who he's talking to, since he thinks were all interchangeably "of one mind."
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on June 20, 2018, 12:58:36 PM
The thing is, if you pick a topic that's actually a matter of opinion, you could doubtless get an array of opinions from us.  (For example--I don't actually like Kubrick films much!)  His fault if he happens to be attempting to challenge fact, where we all agree because we have enough sense to see which way the evidence points.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on June 20, 2018, 01:11:07 PM
I'm tired of picking my comments out of his wall of spam. It's a lot of work, and he does it that way on purpose. It's a tactic of his, and I refuse to play any more. That, and his ad hominem attacks let any reader know who the real winner of this debate is.
I'm not sure he is actually doing it on purpose.  It's more likely, given his disdain for any kind of science or technology, that he's just unable to learn how to use the quote feature properly.

His very infrequent posting, about once a week, and the time it must take to add quote marks to all the quoted snippets, leads me to think he's spending hours manually putting his posts together, rather than learning how to use the tools provided for the job.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on June 20, 2018, 02:02:31 PM
There
I'm tired of picking my comments out of his wall of spam. It's a lot of work, and he does it that way on purpose. It's a tactic of his, and I refuse to play any more. That, and his ad hominem attacks let any reader know who the real winner of this debate is.
I'm not sure he is actually doing it on purpose.  It's more likely, given his disdain for any kind of science or technology, that he's just unable to learn how to use the quote feature properly.

His very infrequent posting, about once a week, and the time it must take to add quote marks to all the quoted snippets, leads me to think he's spending hours manually putting his posts together, rather than learning how to use the tools provided for the job.

There's nothing stopping him from making an individual reply to an individual post. That's actually easier than the way he is doing  it; just like you did to my post. I'm sorry, I think he's doing it intentionally.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Luke Pemberton on June 20, 2018, 05:03:20 PM
I get the impression he's more raging against the machine than actually cogently trying to argue a point.  That would explain the wall o' screed.  He said flatly that he doesn't much care who he's talking to, since he thinks were all interchangeably "of one mind."

A great band.



I always have a mental image of all CT's listening to the above genre of music on loop, but I admit to still finding pleasure in the same music, despite my late middle age.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Luke Pemberton on June 20, 2018, 05:07:42 PM
I'm tired of picking my comments out of his wall of spam. It's a lot of work, and he does it that way on purpose. It's a tactic of his, and I refuse to play any more. That, and his ad hominem attacks let any reader know who the real winner of this debate is.

I gave up with the continued wall of spam along with finding his 'arguments' being less than compelling. They are straight from the book of un4g1v3n1 of Dwane Damon (StrayDog02) from YouTube, back in the heady days, but less vitriolic in content. The whole anti-establishment tact is boring. The irony being it that he is communicating with the world on the back of the science he dismisses as brainwashing and bogus.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Luke Pemberton on June 20, 2018, 05:09:57 PM
His very infrequent posting, about once a week, and the time it must take to add quote marks to all the quoted snippets, leads me to think he's spending hours manually putting his posts together, rather than learning how to use the tools provided for the job.

I concur. I really cannot be bothered to engage with the wall of text, it is too time consuming to work out where he has replied to me, along with his whole anti-establishment approach.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: ka9q on June 21, 2018, 04:09:42 PM
As an afterthought - have any amateurs done any work on receiving imagery from e.g. lunar orbiting spacecraft?  I know there were plenty listening in on Apollo audio transmissions, and there was some recent work by amateurs to get a defunct satellite back into action again, so it might, in theory be possible.  (I've just bought a cheap SDR dongle to make a weather satellite receiver, so technically it could be possible.)
Probably not, though each case has to be individually analyzed. Modern digital communications tends to be all or nothing. Either you have an antenna big enough (and a receiver quiet enough) to receive a signal with a certain power and data rate over a given distance or you don't. Modern lunar and planetary probes generally store up their data and then transmit it to earth at prearranged times at the highest data rate that the intended receiver can handle. Unless you have an equally good (or better) receiving station nearby at the same time, you won't get anything.

Depending on how they are designed, you may get certain components of a deep space signal. For example, some years ago the AMSAT-DL group used the 20m dish at Bochum, Germany, to receive Voyager 1's carrier signal. The link budget was far too poor to permit actual reception of data. However, it was still a pretty good accomplishment. The same dish is routinely used to receive the real time science downlink from the STEREO spacecraft because the data rate is low and continuous. It can't receive the high speed dumps to the DSN.

The Apollo signals were all analog, except for telemetry (a fairly primitive digital format). The hams who received the CSM in lunar orbit only got the voice on a narrow band FM (frequency modulated) subcarrier on a PM (phase modulated) main carrier. The PM modulation index was low enough that the NBFM subcarrier could be extracted separately from the rest of the composite signal (telemetry, ranging, etc).

Video was completely out of the question as it required wideband FM on the main carrier. Larry Baysinger got Neil Armstrong's voice by listening to the VHF AM transmitter on his backpack, not Eagle's wideband FM transmission to earth on S-band.

Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: ka9q on June 21, 2018, 11:43:14 PM
Pure oxygen at 5 psi is the same oxygen pressure as air at 15 psi.
Side comment. Sea level atmospheric pressure is 101.325 kPa. O2 is 20.95% of this, so that's a partial pressure of 21.228 kPa. However, the fire hazard doesn't depend solely on the O2 partial pressure. Diluent gases (like nitrogen and argon) conduct heat away from a fire, so the fire hazard in a pure O2 atmosphere is somewhat greater than in a mixed gas atmosphere with the same O2 partial pressure.

A good demonstration film of this exists from one of the Sealab experiments in saturation diving. It was impossible to light matches because the large amount of helium conducted heat away from the flame. (Helium is also a better conductor of heat than either nitrogen or oxygen.)

All said, I doubt Apollo 15's feather was seen as much of a fire hazard.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on June 22, 2018, 07:22:50 AM
As an afterthought - have any amateurs done any work on receiving imagery from e.g. lunar orbiting spacecraft?

...
Probably not, though each case has to be individually analyzed. Modern digital communications tends to be all or nothing. Either you have an antenna big enough (and a receiver quiet enough) to receive a signal with a certain power and data rate over a given distance or you don't. Modern lunar and planetary probes generally store up their data and then transmit it to earth at prearranged times at the highest data rate that the intended receiver can handle. Unless you have an equally good (or better) receiving station nearby at the same time, you won't get anything.

<snip for brevity>
Thanks - most informative.  I dabble in electronics, but haven't much experience with RF stuff, so it was a bit of a punt.  I suppose if I could get my hands on a nice big dish and the right receivers, I could give it a go*  ;D

Meantime I'll try setting up the SDR dongle for weather satellites, which I've read I can do with a smaller, hand-made antenna.  Currently I'm having fun tracking aircraft in the area from ADS-B transmissions.

[ * funnily enough, there's a few big dishes, up to 3.7m, at the receiving station just across from my office - although I don't think they'll let me play with them...  ;) ]
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Kiwi on June 22, 2018, 10:23:44 AM
Great Wall of Text deleted – the following is from the last paragraph in the post.

Where is the video showing this footprint being made? Come to think of it, I can’t remember seeing any footage of the alleged astronauts making a clear footprint.

I have to guess that you are referring to the five boot print photos that Buzz Aldrin took, AS11-40-5876 to 5880. Is that correct? If it is, when at the ALSJ (link below), click on the Apollo 11 Image Library (5th link down in "Background Material") and examine the captions and links for each to learn more.

Your comments tell me that you are not a very good researcher and perhaps more likely to study a hoax-promoter's web page than go to the great wealth of genuine information that is available.

Anyway, try this - it's exactly what I did and how I got to the appropriate information in less than 90 seconds. Note that I used "print" only so that I didn't have to search for "boot print/bootprint" and "foot print/footprint". 

1./ Go to the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal. https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/

2./ Click on Apollo 11.

3./ Open the part of the journal titled Mobility and Photography. That name is a clue that Armstrong and Aldrin are moving around and taking photos, so it's a good place to start.

4./ Open the search function in your browser (I press Control-F).

5./ Type in "print" without the quote marks and tell the function to search for it (press Enter).

6./ The first hit is at Ground Elapsed Time 110:21:24 in the word "footprints" when Buzz describes to Houston the visual effects of transiting from sunlight to shadow. While it's nothing to do with the deliberate boot prints he made for the soil experts, it is still an interesting section because in his last comment he prevents one of many potential disasters produced by man on the lunar surface; and a few minutes before, starting at 110:18:37, he describes the effects of kicking the lunar soil for the experts in Houston. You can also view this in the 16mm colour film. Note that these tasks are listed in the checklist ("Dust / Pene-Photo Footprint") that's sewn onto the upper part of his outer glove – you can also view that by clicking on the links.

7./ Hit No. 2 is at 110:22:51 "Note that each of the bootprints is 33 cm long and has a greatest width of 15 cm.", but still not what we want.

8./ The 3rd to 15th hits are between 110:23:32 and 110:25:41, and cover what we want, the Bootprint Penetration Experiment for the soil mechanics experts. Enjoy!

The info is highly detailed and documented with many links, to which you seem to object, but that is exactly what helps convince many of us that the Apollo missions occurred as history describes. Note that Buzz is mostly out of the movie frame during this task (possibly because Stanley Kubrick couldn't fit inside the LM and direct exactly where Buzz should go to be in-frame :-)), but at least there is a little backup on the 16mm film which corroborates his explanations and photographs.

You could view all the Apollo 11 film and video on a large TV screen if you get hold of the 3-DVD set "Apollo 11: Men on the Moon" from Spacecraft Films. It's discounted to US$29.99 at the moment. Here are the details: https://spacehistory.tv/blog/?product=apollo-11-men-on-the-moon

Can’t you see how ridiculously insane this argument is?

I can't at all see anything "ridiculously insane" about this boot print argument. Could you please enlarge on that comment? I would like to understand why you've said that. Perhaps you just don't know enough about it (which is the most common trait of hoax-believers), and I hope this post helps you remedy that.

And by the way, can you please learn to use the quote button at the top right of every post here, as I have done above with the final comment in your post?  The little black bit above the quote is actually a hot link which puts us right in the exact post. Isn't that marvellous?

Many of us here use that button and you have had so many requests to join in but have not done so. By clicking on the quote link at the top of this post, you'll be able to see see how it's done, by copying and pasting the beginning and ending code in the quote. Just do it yourself with all quotes. If I (long-term invalid and doddery old fart who watched Sputnik 1 pass above New Zealand) can figure it out, surely you can.


Edited to add: Don't miss the two quotes below. My all-time favourites.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: twik on June 22, 2018, 11:57:15 AM
You’re right, I don’t trust the science...
...I’m glad I made the decision to leave school when I did and earn a honest living , before the brainwashing started.

And that's why you're ignorant of how things actually work.  You're puzzled by the world, didn't bother to learn much about it, and latch onto charlatans like Sibrel, Bennett, and Percy who only want your money and know very well that they can part you from it by making up juicy conspiracy stories.  There is a segment of the population who will eat it up on that basis alone.

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You are right of course, but I wouldn’t expect to find such information on a pro Apollo site.

Who said anything about "pro-Apollo" sites?  They can't be very well-known experts if the only thing they've ever published in their field is a treatise on how Apollo was faked.  My father spent his entire career as an academic and his publications take up about three feet of shelf space.  I can find them easily in several library catalogs, including the national library catalogs of other countries.  I can speak to others in his field who know of him and are familiar with his work.  This is the nature of expertise in the real world.  It doesn't exist in a vacuum.  Your "experts" on the other hand have nothing to establish them as experts, no one who knows them, and no record of achievement anywhere in the world.  The Aulis authors have, since the 1990s, been making up "experts" and lay witnesses who simply don't exist.  You probably didn't know that. "Bill Wood" (or "Woods") and "Una Ronald" and a whole cast of characters who exist only to lend to the notion that this isn't just a couple of charlatans in England trying to make a quid or two off of people they know will buy anything that sounds conspiratorial and won't bother to check any of the references or evidence.

Popular media doesn't give the public much of an idea of how science or scientists work. The idea that you could have "outstanding experts" with no paper trail outside the conspiracy community just isn't feasible. It's a "publish or perish" world in academia. If you're an expert, people read your stuff and expand on it. If no one has ever cited your work, you're not an expert.

Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on June 22, 2018, 12:50:28 PM
Popular media doesn't give the public much of an idea of how science or scientists work. The idea that you could have "outstanding experts" with no paper trail outside the conspiracy community just isn't feasible. It's a "publish or perish" world in academia. If you're an expert, people read your stuff and expand on it. If no one has ever cited your work, you're not an expert.

That's why I think the current Aulis webmasters cleverly refer only to Russian experts, which they can argue would be difficult for American critics to vet.  We get no record of him because we're just not able to see into Russian academic circles.  Except that's not the case.  Even back in the 1980s I was working with an American professor of Russian to translate technical papers in space engineering.  He wanted to be able to translate them into the proper English terms.  American and Russian academics in space research are quite well aware of each other, and have been for decades.  The more likely excuse for an alleged Russian researcher not to have any discernible academic record is that he doesn't exist.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Count Zero on June 22, 2018, 01:17:18 PM
His very infrequent posting, about once a week...

Maybe that's when the attendants at his facility give him computer time.



;)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: MBDK on June 22, 2018, 02:35:28 PM
Hey!  You referenced my footer!
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on November 15, 2018, 07:51:30 PM
Quote from: Jason Thompson
I don't care how many YouTube clips you've seen, have you seen all the film and TV from all the missions?

 By now, I can honestly say I’ve seen pretty much everything, and although all the moon footage is obviously faked, there are however, the odd on-board scenes from the earlier missions which look quite impressive, which shows they really did have balls back then, risking their lives, pushing that Vomit Comet to its absolute limits. Adding slow motion adds to the duration of some of the clips, so I can understand why a lot of the moon deniers still believe in manned space flight.

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If I read something, I will understand it, whether it’s a lie or not

Quote from: Jason Thompson
That is plainly absurd. Do you claim to be able to understand anything and everything you read?

OK I worded that wrong, what I should have said was, if I read something, I will first make sure I have at least a basic understanding of what I’m reading before discussing the subject.

Quote from: Jason Thompson
Ah yes, because all of geology is just lining up to be told what rocks are. You seriously think geologists the world over can't tell the difference between a rock from Earth and one from the Moon? Explain why it is more ikely that an entire field of science is either incometent or in on a lie than that you might be wrong.

Those geologists are not incompetent, although extremely gullible, and nor are they in on the fraud. How do you think they know they are examining noon rocks? Did they go to the noon and bring them back themselves, or were they shown what to look for in order to confirm they are indeed, looking at an Apollo sample?

If a geologist receives an Apollo sample from NASA and that sample displays the odd property not found on earth, then why would he or her question its authenticity, as who is more trustworthy than NASA to assure them of its authenticity? The zap pits are a prime example as to how easy it is for people with weak minds to be influenced, as many say it is proof that the rocks are genuine. A nice little touch by NASA, making that one up, and I’m sure the bloke that thought of it got a nice bonus.

Quote from: Jason Thompson
You started out as a person who didnt understand how things like lunar landings were achieved, read some stuff that said they weren't and clung to that like a blanket because it validated your insecurities as being legitimate concerns about reality rather than limitations in your own understanding that you can't be bothered to recitify.

I am well aware of the technical details involved in achieving this fantastical feat of human endeavour, as I lived through it, and since the invention of the internet, I’ve wasted countless hours reading up on the subject. It soon became apparent that the story had many instances that defied logic, mainly from the safety aspect, which enabled me to “rectify” my ill-founded beliefs that were merely based on a TV show produced by NASA many years before.

One prime example is the radiation issue, and I know I’ve covered this before, but it looks like you’ve all been watching too many action movies, so I feel it necessary to remind you that the alleged astronauts’ bravery and the ability to stay cool under pressure wouldn’t make the Apollo 8 suicide mission any less hazardous. “When” something goes wrong, it would be up to the boffins on the ground to solve the problem, so it also makes no sense, not to have at least one of those boffins as part of the crew, as those aircraft pilots didn’t even know where the radiation belts are, just ask Alan Bean.

It is obvious to anyone with the ability to read, that NASA didn’t fully understand what the effects of radiation would pose to the astronauts, but they said it wouldn’t matter too much, as they wouldn’t be spending a lot of time in the belts. The sun was at the height of its solar cycle, so it wasn’t just the belts they had to worry about, as solar flares can cause power outages here on earth, even though it apparently has protection in the form of the magnetosphere and ionosphere, so how could they be so sure that an unforeseen solar event wouldn’t have an effect on the on-board electronics?

It might seem foolhardy in hindsight for NASA to have accepted the risks of send astronauts through the Van Allen belts without extra protection, but it was a minor risk in the scheme of the mission” In other words, the astronauts lives were a mere triviality in the scheme of the mission. The fact that Apollo 8, which was by far, the most dangerous of all the alleged missions, happened over the Christmas period, suggests that it was merely a publicity stunt to test the gullibility of the public, and it worked brilliantly, as at the time, those poor deluded Americans desperately needed a fairy-tale with a happy ending. Those astronauts reading passages from the bible, makes my stomach churn, but I’ll bet it brought a tear to the eyes of the over patriotic US public.

Flying to the Moon, radiation exposure included, was still a safer day at the office than putting an experimental aircraft through its paces in the skies above Edwards Air Force Base.” Oh please!!!

https://www.popsci.com/blog-network/vintage-space/apollo-rocketed-through-van-allen-belts#page-4

A while back, I watched the Moon Machines episode, concerning the Command Module, just to see what spin they would put on the radiation issue, as the CM is what allegedly kept the astronauts alive on their journey to and from the moon. Amazingly, not a word was spoken regarding the risks of radiation. They covered the fire, and the steps taken to rectify the problem, and a few words on strengthening its hull to prevent damage on splashdown. So was the threat from radiation so insignificant, that NASA told the producers, it didn’t deserve a mention? I think this was probably the case, as with radiation being such a controversial subject, the only way to dumb it down would be to distort the facts and leave themselves open to criticism. 

I’ve now came across another documentary from 2005 entitled “Race to the Moon: Apollo 8” and again, no mention of radiation. How can a documentary about Apollo 8, fail to mention radiation, as surely this is the biggest talking point between the hoaxers and the NASA faithful? I had to force myself to sit through it, as it was a classic piece of American over dramatization, designed to pull at the heartstrings of the viewers, rather than giving a full and honest account of the alleged events. I find it unsettling that there are seemingly highly educated people among us, who will vigorously defend NASA with nothing but blind faith on their side.



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We are told that if two objects, regardless of weight are launched upwards at the same velocity, they will reach the same height and hit the ground together

Quote from: Jason Thompson
Now prove that the 'sand' you are looking at is starting off on the same trajectory and velocity as the astronaut. Or explain how this can in fact be possible given the way the 'sand' interacts with his boots

He jumps straight up and the sand clearly rises with his boots and then drops back to “earth”, while he magically continues to ascend, and the sand falls a hell of a lot faster than the bloke in the spacesuit. Explain what you mean when you say “the way the sand interacts with his boots”. It seems that the laws of physics only apply when it suites you, and your refusal to accept what is clear to most, whilst failing to present clear evidence which would prove us wrong, suggests that either you are not able to provide such evidence or due to your arrogance, you feel it unnecessary.

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And you can see evidence of this, by observing someone jumping off sand on earth.

Quote from: Jason Thompson
Provide such evidence.

Let me get this straight, you want me to provide proof that physics works? You actually want me to provide evidence for something which you already know, or at least, be able to find for yourself in seconds? Why am I made to jump through hoops to get a simple point across, while you provide very little to support NASA’s claims. The burden of proof doesn’t lie solely with the hoaxers, as NASA are the accused, which means they have to prove beyond any reasonable doubt, that they are innocent of the fraud.

Ok I’ll humour you, here’s that evidence you ask for.


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You can't think why rocks from different parts of a moon with a surface area of 38 million square kilometres might be different? Hell I live in a country with an area 150th that size and yet the two ends are on different bedrocks.

First of all, the Chinese mission was also faked, as there are no photos of stars, which had to be the case, in order to tie in with NASA’s policy of no stars. Anyone saying they couldn’t or they deemed it unnecessary to take pictures of stars are talking out of their backsides. Let’s face it, China don’t like the US very much, so I suspect the vast difference in composition is just them using artistic license, and when they eventually fake bringing back their own samples, they’ll do the same again, because it’s very unlikely that anyone outside of China will have access to those fictitious samples.

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How can there not be a blast crater? The top layer of the moon’s surface is loose soil, broken up over billions of years by alleged micrometeorite bombardment, and should have been blown away by the thrust from the rocket engine.

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How much of it? To what depth? What was the pressure on the surface from the descent engine?

The thrust was enough to hold an alleged 2.5 ton (moon weight) object aloft, and in the case of Apollo 11, the engine was still firing when it hit the alleged lunar surface, but not a sign of disturbance. You will say that the exhaust would have spread out, due to there being no atmosphere, but when we watch the on-board footage of Apollo 11 coming in to land, we see the alleged lunar dust starting to billowing up outside the window, while still seventy five feet above the surface, according to the overlaid commentary.

By using simple observation and a bit of common sense, it should become obvious that if the engine is capable of kicking up dust from a height of seventy five feet, and also knowing how soft the alleged lunar soil was, by noting how easily the soil was kicked up by the alleged astronauts, then it can be safely assumed that from only a few inches away, it’s going to cause a large amount of disturbance. If a thrust equation can show that there would be next no observable disturbance, then either the maths is flawed or the video is faked. Wake up!


 


 

Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on November 16, 2018, 03:30:27 AM
Bloomin Heck talk about a delay in replying lol. This should be good
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on November 16, 2018, 03:32:49 AM
Everybody knows why there are no stars in the Apollo photographs. However nasa has also never said you cannot see or photograph stars in space. In fact nasa themselves have released photographs of stars in space. Common are long exposure shots of Aurora.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on November 16, 2018, 03:35:54 AM
As far as I know the engine had all been shut down prior to actual landing and don't forget Exhaust gases expand very rapidly in a vacuum. Also don't forget the LM didn't hover for any significant time over its final landing spot instead moving laterally over the surface of the moon. Finally consider the jagged and interlocking nature of the rigolith material. when you consider these facts it becomes obvious that the exhaust wasn't powerful enough or centralised enough to blast a hugh crater. as far as I am aware though there was a small crater under the LM just not the huge one most HB think should have been there.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on November 16, 2018, 03:37:51 AM
just for reference the dust wouldn't billow. there was no air for it to do that. and finally I always love when the HB says Wake up at the end lol. I love that they think they have gotten the better of millions of scientists and engineers over the past 5 decades who all believe the landings took place based on science and evidence.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Glom on November 16, 2018, 03:38:21 AM


The burden of proof doesn’t lie solely with the hoaxers, as NASA are the accused, which means they have to prove beyond any reasonable doubt, that they are innocent of the fraud.

I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that's the exact opposite of how it works. The prosecution must prove their case. The defence is only required to cast reasonable doubt on the prosecution's case.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on November 16, 2018, 05:01:33 AM
First of all, the Chinese mission was also faked, as there are no photos of stars, which had to be the case, in order to tie in with NASA’s policy of no stars. Anyone saying they couldn’t or they deemed it unnecessary to take pictures of stars are talking out of their backsides. Let’s face it, China don’t like the US very much, so I suspect the vast difference in composition is just them using artistic license, and when they eventually fake bringing back their own samples, they’ll do the same again, because it’s very unlikely that anyone outside of China will have access to those fictitious samples.

Really cba to pick through your conspiracy by the numbers stuff right now, but this needs picking up on. Why? Because it's absolute garbage and you are the one talking out of your backside

Apollo astronauts took many photographs of stars, they referred to stars all the time, they have describe them in detail many times:

http://onebigmonkey.com/apollo/stars/starryskies.html

and no, I'm not just talking about the UV images.

As for China, you're right, they are no friends of the US, so why is it that when you download and process their raw images from Chang'e-2 do they show evidence of human activity at the landing sites?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on November 16, 2018, 05:06:38 AM
Ok I’ll humour you, here’s that evidence you ask for.



Could you be any more dishonest?

Comparing Young's live on TV flat footed jump in a full suit with a heavy backpack with that of someone who crouches all the way down after a long run up before jumping? Really? All that proves is how blinkered you are and how you are prepared to distort the truth to suit your own trolling purposes.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on November 16, 2018, 07:27:53 AM
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I don't care how many YouTube clips you've seen, have you seen all the film and TV from all the missions?

 By now, I can honestly say I’ve seen pretty much everything, and although all the moon footage is obviously faked, there are however, the odd on-board scenes from the earlier missions which look quite impressive, which shows they really did have balls back then, risking their lives, pushing that Vomit Comet to its absolute limits. Adding slow motion adds to the duration of some of the clips, so I can understand why a lot of the moon deniers still believe in manned space flight.

No amount of slow motion will extend a vomit comet zero-g flight time to several minutes or over an hour, as plenty of film and video of spaceflight shows.

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OK I worded that wrong, what I should have said was, if I read something, I will first make sure I have at least a basic understanding of what I’m reading before discussing the subject.

And having acknowledged a basic understanding, how have you attempted to use the discussion to expand it? This is where most HBs fall down: assuming their basic understanding is enough, while failing to realise that to become expert in the field requires a hell of a lot more than a basic understanding.

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The zap pits are a prime example as to how easy it is for people with weak minds to be influenced, as many say it is proof that the rocks are genuine. A nice little touch by NASA, making that one up, and I’m sure the bloke that thought of it got a nice bonus.

Typical HB baseless accusation of 'making stuff up' noted. Where is the proof they were 'made up'?

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I am well aware of the technical details involved in achieving this fantastical feat of human endeavour, as I lived through it

Non sequitur. Being around at the time does not equate to a detailed knowledge of the technical details.

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It soon became apparent that the story had many instances that defied logic,

Whose? It's very easy to find something that 'defies logic' if you don't actually understand the premise.

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One prime example is the radiation issue, and I know I’ve covered this before, but it looks like you’ve all been watching too many action movies, so I feel it necessary to remind you that the alleged astronauts’ bravery and the ability to stay cool under pressure wouldn’t make the Apollo 8 suicide mission any less hazardous.

Really not going to re-tread this ground. You joined just after one of the longest threads on this issue  came to a close, so go and read it. In summary, prove the radiation levels were hazardous or stop droning on about it.
 
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Ok I’ll humour you, here’s that evidence you ask for.

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Funny, but in the very first minute I can see clear evidence that some of the regolith does indeed travel as far as his boots at the height of the jump. Once again, looking at a cloud of particles which all behave in slightly different ways, you can't simply ignore the complexity of that and point to the most visible cloud and consider it to be representative of all the dust.

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Quote from: Jason Thompson
You can't think why rocks from different parts of a moon with a surface area of 38 million square kilometres might be different? Hell I live in a country with an area 150th that size and yet the two ends are on different bedrocks.

First of all, the Chinese mission was also faked, as there are no photos of stars, which had to be the case, in order to tie in with NASA’s policy of no stars. Anyone saying they couldn’t or they deemed it unnecessary to take pictures of stars are talking out of their backsides. Let’s face it, China don’t like the US very much, so I suspect the vast difference in composition is just them using artistic license, and when they eventually fake bringing back their own samples, they’ll do the same again, because it’s very unlikely that anyone outside of China will have access to those fictitious samples.

Evasion noted. Switching to another (incorrect) argument noted. You contended that differences between Apollo and Chinese samples were significant. I repeat my question: why should differences not be observed when, for example, one small island here on Earth would produce even more marked differences if geologists dug around in Dover and Aberdeen?

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How can there not be a blast crater? The top layer of the moon’s surface is loose soil, broken up over billions of years by alleged micrometeorite bombardment, and should have been blown away by the thrust from the rocket engine.

Quote from: Jason Thompson
How much of it? To what depth? What was the pressure on the surface from the descent engine?

The thrust was enough to hold an alleged 2.5 ton (moon weight) object aloft, and in the case of Apollo 11, the engine was still firing when it hit the alleged lunar surface, but not a sign of disturbance. You will say that the exhaust would have spread out, due to there being no atmosphere, but when we watch the on-board footage of Apollo 11 coming in to land, we see the alleged lunar dust starting to billowing up outside the window, while still seventy five feet above the surface, according to the overlaid commentary.

That is not answering the question. It basically boils down to 'it looks like it should to me'. Where are you calculations of the thrust and pressure? Where is your information on how deep the lunar regolith is at this point, and where is your fluid analysis of how the exhaust would interact with the surface?
 
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By using simple observation and a bit of common sense

The classic mantra of the HB who can't be bothered or doesn't understand how to do the actual analysis required to support their arguments.

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it should become obvious that if the engine is capable of kicking up dust from a height of seventy five feet, and also knowing how soft the alleged lunar soil was, by noting how easily the soil was kicked up by the alleged astronauts, then it can be safely assumed that from only a few inches away, it’s going to cause a large amount of disturbance.

Now prove that 'large amount of disturbance' equates to 'whacking great crater' as opposed to 'evidence of surface scouring' as was in fact observed.

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If a thrust equation can show that there would be next no observable disturbance, then either the maths is flawed or the video is faked.

Or you are wrong. Explain why you reduce the situation to a false dilemma that takes no account of the impact your understanding has on the conclusions.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on November 16, 2018, 07:58:27 AM
Jason

surely this guy is a troll lol the distance between posts is very big
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Abaddon on November 16, 2018, 08:00:21 AM
Yay, fringe reset.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on November 16, 2018, 08:07:13 AM

 By now, I can honestly say I’ve seen pretty much everything, and although all the moon footage is obviously faked, there are however, the odd on-board scenes from the earlier missions which look quite impressive, which shows they really did have balls back then, risking their lives, pushing that Vomit Comet to its absolute limits. Adding slow motion adds to the duration of some of the clips, so I can understand why a lot of the moon deniers still believe in manned space flight.
The hours that were taken on the Lunar surface are by far more than the 20 seconds of zero gravity produced by the Vomit Comet.  You should make your comparisons more realistic.
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Those geologists are not incompetent, although extremely gullible, and nor are they in on the fraud. How do you think they know they are examining noon rocks? Did they go to the noon and bring them back themselves, or were they shown what to look for in order to confirm they are indeed, looking at an Apollo sample?

If a geologist receives an Apollo sample from NASA and that sample displays the odd property not found on earth, then why would he or her question its authenticity, as who is more trustworthy than NASA to assure them of its authenticity? The zap pits are a prime example as to how easy it is for people with weak minds to be influenced, as many say it is proof that the rocks are genuine. A nice little touch by NASA, making that one up, and I’m sure the bloke that thought of it got a nice bonus.
No all those geologists did not go to the Moon and collect rocks(with the exception of Harrison Schmitt), however the general lack of water found in the Lunar samples is a major property that distinguishes Lunar rocks from Earth samples.
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I am well aware of the technical details involved in achieving this fantastical feat of human endeavour, as I lived through it, and since the invention of the internet, I’ve wasted countless hours reading up on the subject. It soon became apparent that the story had many instances that defied logic, mainly from the safety aspect, which enabled me to rectify my ill-founded beliefs that were merely based on a TV show produced by NASA many years before.

One prime example is the radiation issue, and I know I’ve covered this before, but it looks like you’ve all been watching too many action movies, so I feel it necessary to remind you that the alleged astronauts’ bravery and the ability to stay cool under pressure wouldn’t make the Apollo 8 suicide mission any less hazardous. When something goes wrong, it would be up to the boffins on the ground to solve the problem, so it also makes no sense, not to have at least one of those boffins as part of the crew, as those aircraft pilots didn’t even know where the radiation belts are, just ask Alan Bean.
That video you watched was produced with outakes from two videos.  The question asked Alan was concerning his Skylab mission(which was in LEO), not the Apollo mission.
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It is obvious to anyone with the ability to read, that NASA didn’t fully understand what the effects of radiation would pose to the astronauts, but they said it wouldn’t matter too much, as they wouldn’t be spending a lot of time in the belts. The sun was at the height of its solar cycle, so it wasn’t just the belts they had to worry about, as solar flares can cause power outages here on earth, even though it apparently has protection in the form of the magnetosphere and ionosphere, so how could they be so sure that an unforeseen solar event wouldn’t have an effect on the on-board electronics?

It might seem foolhardy in hindsight for NASA to have accepted the risks of send astronauts through the Van Allen belts without extra protection, but it was a minor risk in the scheme of the mission In other words, the astronauts lives were a mere triviality in the scheme of the mission. The fact that Apollo 8, which was by far, the most dangerous of all the alleged missions, happened over the Christmas period, suggests that it was merely a publicity stunt to test the gullibility of the public, and it worked brilliantly, as at the time, those poor deluded Americans desperately needed a fairy-tale with a happy ending. Those astronauts reading passages from the bible, makes my stomach churn, but I’ll bet it brought a tear to the eyes of the over patriotic US public.

Flying to the Moon, radiation exposure included, was still a safer day at the office than putting an experimental aircraft through its paces in the skies above Edwards Air Force Base. Oh please!!!

https://www.popsci.com/blog-network/vintage-space/apollo-rocketed-through-van-allen-belts#page-4

A while back, I watched the Moon Machines episode, concerning the Command Module, just to see what spin they would put on the radiation issue, as the CM is what allegedly kept the astronauts alive on their journey to and from the moon. Amazingly, not a word was spoken regarding the risks of radiation. They covered the fire, and the steps taken to rectify the problem, and a few words on strengthening its hull to prevent damage on splashdown. So was the threat from radiation so insignificant, that NASA told the producers, it didn’t deserve a mention? I think this was probably the case, as with radiation being such a controversial subject, the only way to dumb it down would be to distort the facts and leave themselves open to criticism. 

I’ve now came across another documentary from 2005 entitled Race to the Moon: Apollo 8 and again, no mention of radiation. How can a documentary about Apollo 8, fail to mention radiation, as surely this is the biggest talking point between the hoaxers and the NASA faithful? I had to force myself to sit through it, as it was a classic piece of American over dramatization, designed to pull at the heartstrings of the viewers, rather than giving a full and honest account of the alleged events. I find it unsettling that there are seemingly highly educated people among us, who will vigorously defend NASA with nothing but blind faith on their side.


Firstly you use generalizations when describing the radiation in the VARB.  The trajectory of Apollo skirted the outside of the torus shaped VARB.  As NASA reported the time through the parts that were traversed was fairly quick, less than two hours and some of that two hours was spent in between the two regions of the VARB where there is no trapped radiation.  When you post that NASA didn't fully understand the effects would pose to astronauts, this is partially correct as information of the effects are still being studied, however for the two week missions of Apollo they understood well the effects and amounts that the astronauts would receive.  Several times you have mentioned that NASA hasn't mentioned what radiation measures were included in construction of the CSM.  That may be correct however the materials used in construction are all radiation barriers to some extent.  The .25" aluminum is an effect barrier to ALL but the most energetic of the radiation particles  also there was some phenolic materials used which are low density and that makes even a better radiation barrier.  All you have to do is to read up on the properties on each of all the materials instead of making a broad brush statement that NASA did not consider radiation when constructing the CSM.
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He jumps straight up and the sand clearly rises with his boots and then drops back to earth, while he magically continues to ascend, and the sand falls a hell of a lot faster than the bloke in the spacesuit. Explain what you mean when you say the way the sand interacts with his boots. It seems that the laws of physics only apply when it suites you, and your refusal to accept what is clear to most, whilst failing to present clear evidence which would prove us wrong, suggests that either you are not able to provide such evidence or due to your arrogance, you feel it unnecessary.

Let me get this straight, you want me to provide proof that physics works? You actually want me to provide evidence for something which you already know, or at least, be able to find for yourself in seconds? Why am I made to jump through hoops to get a simple point across, while you provide very little to support NASA’s claims. The burden of proof doesn’t lie solely with the hoaxers, as NASA are the accused, which means they have to prove beyond any reasonable doubt, that they are innocent of the fraud.

Ok I’ll humour you, here’s that evidence you ask for.
Physics works in al situations, but observations vary especially when you are attempting to prove a false point.  The regolith does not fall faster than the astronaut.  Some of the regolith starts dropping prior to the exact top of the jump.
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First of all, the Chinese mission was also faked, as there are no photos of stars, which had to be the case, in order to tie in with NASA’s policy of no stars. Anyone saying they couldn’t or they deemed it unnecessary to take pictures of stars are talking out of their backsides. Let’s face it, China don’t like the US very much, so I suspect the vast difference in composition is just them using artistic license, and when they eventually fake bringing back their own samples, they’ll do the same again, because it’s very unlikely that anyone outside of China will have access to those fictitious samples.
What proof do you present that the Chinese missions are fake, just saying that they ar isn't sufficient proof that they are.
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The thrust was enough to hold an alleged 2.5 ton (moon weight) object aloft, and in the case of Apollo 11, the engine was still firing when it hit the alleged lunar surface, but not a sign of disturbance. You will say that the exhaust would have spread out, due to there being no atmosphere, but when we watch the on-board footage of Apollo 11 coming in to land, we see the alleged lunar dust starting to billowing up outside the window, while still seventy five feet above the surface, according to the overlaid commentary.

By using simple observation and a bit of common sense, it should become obvious that if the engine is capable of kicking up dust from a height of seventy five feet, and also knowing how soft the alleged lunar soil was, by noting how easily the soil was kicked up by the alleged astronauts, then it can be safely assumed that from only a few inches away, it’s going to cause a large amount of disturbance. If a thrust equation can show that there would be next no observable disturbance, then either the maths is flawed or the video is faked. Wake up!

You didn't answer Jason's question as to the psi at the rocket nozzle.  Does that mean that you have no clue what the psi. was?  Yes Lunar regolith was displaced when the LM landed, however that does not mean that there would be a crater.  And there was disturbances below all the LM's, all you have to do is look.  Regolith varied in depth from a few cm's to more than 10 cm's.  This is all the material that would be displaced as the Lunar surface is solid rock below the regolith and would not be blown away(have you ever watched a Harrier jump jet landing on grass?)  The "craters" would be very shallow and unobservable in the images.  If there was instruments available to measure the displaced regolith.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Abaddon on November 16, 2018, 08:25:40 AM
By now, I can honestly say I’ve seen pretty much everything, and although all the moon footage is obviously faked, there are however, the odd on-board scenes from the earlier missions which look quite impressive, which shows they really did have balls back then, risking their lives, pushing that Vomit Comet to its absolute limits. Adding slow motion adds to the duration of some of the clips, so I can understand why a lot of the moon deniers still believe in manned space flight.
Please account for the continuous uncut footage inside the LM with zero g which cannot have been "faked" on the comet.

You can't, can you?

OK I worded that wrong, what I should have said was, if I read something, I will first make sure I have at least a basic understanding of what I’m reading before discussing the subject.
Why, then, have you plainly not done so?

Those geologists are not incompetent,
If they are competent, their conclusions are reliable.

although extremely gullible,
Projection.

and nor are they in on the fraud.
There isn't one to be in on.

How do you think they know they are examining noon rocks?
They are geologists. It's their job.

Did they go to the noon and bring them back themselves,
Actually, yes. Are you really so ignorant that you didn't know that an actual geologist went to the moon and collected samples? Really?

or were they shown what to look for in order to confirm they are indeed, looking at an Apollo sample?
What a dumb claim.

If a geologist receives an Apollo sample from NASA and that sample displays the odd property not found on earth, then why would he or her question its authenticity, as who is more trustworthy than NASA to assure them of its authenticity?
How about a fellow geologist who had been to the moon and collected samples?

The zap pits are a prime example as to how easy it is for people with weak minds to be influenced, as many say it is proof that the rocks are genuine. A nice little touch by NASA, making that one up, and I’m sure the bloke that thought of it got a nice bonus.
Then how do YOU account for them? You can't. Beccause you are ignorant of the science.

I am well aware of the technical details involved in achieving this fantastical feat of human endeavour, as I lived through it, and since the invention of the internet, I’ve wasted countless hours reading up on the subject. It soon became apparent that the story had many instances that defied logic, mainly from the safety aspect, which enabled me to “rectify” my ill-founded beliefs that were merely based on a TV show produced by NASA many years before.
Everything you just typed is wrong.

You have demonstrated that you are not even vaguely aware of the technical details.
You have demonstrated that you only read HB sites which enable your confirmation bias.
You have not a single example of Apollo "defying logic".
You do not understand science, evidence or Apollo.

One prime example is the radiation issue, and I know I’ve covered this before, but it looks like you’ve all been watching too many action movies, so I feel it necessary to remind you that the alleged astronauts’ bravery and the ability to stay cool under pressure wouldn’t make the Apollo 8 suicide mission any less hazardous. “When” something goes wrong, it would be up to the boffins on the ground to solve the problem, so it also makes no sense, not to have at least one of those boffins as part of the crew, as those aircraft pilots didn’t even know where the radiation belts are, just ask Alan Bean.
QED. You don't understand the radiation environment.

It is obvious to anyone with the ability to read, that NASA didn’t fully understand what the effects of radiation would pose to the astronauts, but they said it wouldn’t matter too much, as they wouldn’t be spending a lot of time in the belts. The sun was at the height of its solar cycle, so it wasn’t just the belts they had to worry about, as solar flares can cause power outages here on earth, even though it apparently has protection in the form of the magnetosphere and ionosphere, so how could they be so sure that an unforeseen solar event wouldn’t have an effect on the on-board electronics?
That is why NASA planed for those contingencies. That you are ignorant of such contingency planning does not mean it never happened.

From this point on, your post devolves into outright fantasy.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: ineluki on November 16, 2018, 08:31:22 AM
I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that's the exact opposite of how it works. The prosecution must prove their case. The defence is only required to cast reasonable doubt on the prosecution's case.

Even if it wasn't... Apollo has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt, that's why it is in the history books around the world.

And quite frankly if the defence would come up with gems like
"Those geologists are not incompetent, although extremely gullible"
 
or

"First of all, the Chinese mission was also faked, as there are no photos of stars, which had to be the case, in order to tie in with NASA’s policy of no stars"

they simply can no longer claim to be remotely reasonable...


Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on November 16, 2018, 11:01:39 AM
Yeah, can you imagine how awful it would be if you had to go into court to prove a negative?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on November 16, 2018, 11:16:56 AM
cambo is trying to shift the burden of proof on Apollo/NASA when in fact the burden lies with the CT's as many have pointed out.  Further he has demonstrated no facts to back up his belief, even though he feels he has.  The ball is still in his court and he can't hit it out.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nomuse on November 16, 2018, 11:36:45 PM

Those geologists are not incompetent, although extremely gullible, and nor are they in on the fraud. How do you think they know they are examining noon rocks? Did they go to the noon and bring them back themselves, or were they shown what to look for in order to confirm they are indeed, looking at an Apollo sample?

If a geologist receives an Apollo sample from NASA and that sample displays the odd property not found on earth, then why would he or her question its authenticity, as who is more trustworthy than NASA to assure them of its authenticity? The zap pits are a prime example as to how easy it is for people with weak minds to be influenced, as many say it is proof that the rocks are genuine. A nice little touch by NASA, making that one up, and I’m sure the bloke that thought of it got a nice bonus.


You didn't engage with the original reply; all you are doing above is repeating your original assertion.

No, geology doesn't work like that. I really can't think of a science that does. Maybe back in the 18th century there might be a science that merely categorizes, but every science worth the name is built on discovering and expanding from the underlying patterns.

Geologists don't look at a piece of limestone and a piece of marble and say, "well, here's one kind of stone, we'll call it limestone, here's another kind of stone, we'll call it marble." Marble is a metamorphic form of limestone. The geologist understands it as an example of a process seen in other stones that transforms the one into the other and, while doing so, leaves distinct traces of the process.

No geologist would decide a sample must be from the Moon because it is UNLIKE any sample they know. They would do almost entirely the obverse; they would decide a sample is consistent with being from the Moon because it is LIKE other samples -- in the sense that it shows understood processes, but that those processes are appropriate to the lunar environment.

Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on November 17, 2018, 01:23:24 PM
thanks to Bart Sibrel. thats brilliant. i remember the video where Gene Cerman actually swears on the bible (amazing how many HB's say nobody did). Bart stood up and didnt know what to say. all he could spout was 'well 6 others wouldnt'. what a complete and utter idiot.

You’re forgetting that it was his video, and I’m sure that if he felt embarrassed, he would have simply cut the scene, which shows he has an honest side. I completely agree with you when you say the man is an idiot, but only in the way he conducts himself. You will say all HB’s are idiots, just because we don’t share your beliefs, which is just plain arrogance on your part, as you fail to understand the reasoning behind our concerns. I don’t believe in a flat earth, but at the same time, I can see the FE’s way of thinking, and it doesn’t help when some of the explanations aimed at debunking their assumptions can be a little vague or poorly explained at times. It’s no wonder the FE movement is growing.

(https://i.imgur.com/yHiCNGr.jpg)

The NASA believers are heard over and over saying that everything has been debunked “thousands” of times, but to debunk something means to prove something to be false, but in most cases, all you are doing is presenting an alternative reason for the anomaly. For instance, we will say the Apollo 15 flag fluttered because of the air being disturbed when the actor skipped passed it, but your view, as far as I’m aware, is that it was more than likely static electricity. Does that assumption debunk the air theory? Of course it doesn’t, as your logic is merely based on your belief that they really did go to the moon and therefore all HB’s are wrong, and a bunch of idiots to boot.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on November 17, 2018, 02:24:01 PM
thanks to Bart Sibrel. thats brilliant. i remember the video where Gene Cerman actually swears on the bible (amazing how many HB's say nobody did). Bart stood up and didnt know what to say. all he could spout was 'well 6 others wouldnt'. what a complete and utter idiot.

You’re forgetting that it was his video, and I’m sure that if he felt embarrassed, he would have simply cut the scene, which shows he has an honest side. I completely agree with you when you say the man is an idiot, but only in the way he conducts himself. You will say all HB’s are idiots

Personally and this is directed at all HB's, including yourself, You are willfully ignorant concerning physics, project management, and image evaluation.
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just because we don’t share your beliefs, which is just plain arrogance on your part, as you fail to understand the reasoning behind our concerns. I don’t believe in a flat earth, but at the same time, I can see the FE’s way of thinking, and it doesn’t help when some of the explanations aimed at debunking their assumptions can be a little vague or poorly explained at times. It’s no wonder the FE movement is growing.


Again FE individuals are willfully ignorant and in many ways more so the HB's concerning Apollo, but this thread concerns Apollo and not FE.
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(https://i.imgur.com/yHiCNGr.jpg)

The NASA believers are heard over and over saying that everything has been debunked “thousands” of times, but to debunk something means to prove something to be false, but in most cases, all you are doing is presenting an alternative reason for the anomaly.


Not a bit true all the HB's beliefs have been disproved using science, knowledge and technology.
I'll continue with your A15 flag "anomaly"  The flag didn't move from air pushing on it.  Even the blunder could not make it work in the air with his experimentation.  If you knew the force of air in front of your body doesn't have enough force to move a flag, you would understand. QED
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because of air, even  For instance, we will say the Apollo 15 flag fluttered because of the air being disturbed when the actor skipped passed it, but your view, as far as I’m aware, is that it was more than likely static electricity. Does that assumption debunk the air theory? Of course it doesn’t, as your logic is merely based on your belief that they really did go to the moon and therefore all HB’s are wrong, and a bunch of idiots to boot.

No I don't believe that NASA sent men to the Moon, I know from the evidence that are in the records for all to see, including yourself.  All you need to do is study up and sciences/technology to know the mission happened are NOT fake in any way.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: MBDK on November 17, 2018, 02:26:29 PM
The NASA believers are heard over and over saying that everything has been debunked “thousands” of times, but to debunk something means to prove something to be false
Wrong.  One of the many logical failures hoax believers wreck with is their inability to recognize simple definitions, such as you just did.  From -
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/debunk
"debunk
[dih-buhngk]
verb (used with object)
to expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated:"

And this HAS been done "thousands" of times.  If you bothered to take the time to perform intellectually honest analysis, you would know this.

Also, FYI, "proof" is another term hoax promoters fling around with as much ignorance as they have in the relative scientific fields.

From the same source -
proof
[proof]
noun
1.  evidence sufficient to establish a thing as true, or to produce belief in its truth.
2.  anything serving as such evidence

Yet, hoax supporters use their own unreasonable ideas of "proof" when it comes to tangible evidence against their claims, yet promote the most whimsical conjectures as their own "proof" of a hoax.  The hypocrisy runs rampant among them.
it was more than likely static electricity. Does that assumption debunk the air theory? Of course it doesn’t, as your logic is merely based on your belief that they really did go to the moon and therefore all HB’s are wrong, and a bunch of idiots to boot.
Yes.  Also, it IS a demonstrable FACT that air does not move in FRONT of a person in such a manner as your inane "theory" contends.  So, to a REASONABLE person, that "theory" has been proven false on those grounds.

Regardless, the science is sound and utterly convincing for the reality of the landings, as documented.  Willful ignorance and uneducated incredulity have been demonstrated in almost every hoax claimer's response to criticism.  You know, just like you did in your post.  I can only suggest you toughen up that fragile ego of yours and be honest with the scientific evidence and yourself.

Note:  Edited for spelling and punctuation.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on November 17, 2018, 02:28:34 PM
thanks to Bart Sibrel. thats brilliant. i remember the video where Gene Cerman actually swears on the bible (amazing how many HB's say nobody did). Bart stood up and didnt know what to say. all he could spout was 'well 6 others wouldnt'. what a complete and utter idiot.

You’re forgetting that it was his video, and I’m sure that if he felt embarrassed, he would have simply cut the scene, which shows he has an honest side. I completely agree with you when you say the man is an idiot, but only in the way he conducts himself. You will say all HB’s are idiots, just because we don’t share your beliefs, which is just plain arrogance on your part, as you fail to understand the reasoning behind our concerns. I don’t believe in a flat earth, but at the same time, I can see the FE’s way of thinking, and it doesn’t help when some of the explanations aimed at debunking their assumptions can be a little vague or poorly explained at times. It’s no wonder the FE movement is growing.

incorrect. I believe Bart Sibrel is an idiot because he chooses to make a living by lieing. and yes I do believe he knows he is. I believe this because in his documentary he purposely left out 1 of the 3 videos he received from nasa. take a look at a documentary called 'lunar legacy'. Bart does what he does for 15 minutes of fame and tried his upmost to keep that going.

(https://i.imgur.com/yHiCNGr.jpg)

The NASA believers are heard over and over saying that everything has been debunked “thousands” of times, but to debunk something means to prove something to be false, but in most cases, all you are doing is presenting an alternative reason for the anomaly. For instance, we will say the Apollo 15 flag fluttered because of the air being disturbed when the actor skipped passed it, but your view, as far as I’m aware, is that it was more than likely static electricity. Does that assumption debunk the air theory? Of course it doesn’t, as your logic is merely based on your belief that they really did go to the moon and therefore all HB’s are wrong, and a bunch of idiots to boot.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on November 17, 2018, 02:29:08 PM
incorrect. I believe Bart Sibrel is an idiot because he chooses to make a living by lieing. and yes I do believe he knows he is. I believe this because in his documentary he purposely left out 1 of the 3 videos he received from nasa. take a look at a documentary called 'lunar legacy'. Bart does what he does for 15 minutes of fame and tried his upmost to keep that going.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on November 17, 2018, 02:32:18 PM
I don't say all HB's are idiots. just the ones who either make a portion of their living from purporating the hoax or just choose to believe in the hoax because they want to. many people have blocked me on FB because quite simply they couldn't get past my points. before you call me arrogant for thinking I know everything I don't. every single bit of information I have gleened has been mostly from people here. A gent called Bob Braeunig had an excellent page and Clavius is superb.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nomuse on November 17, 2018, 02:33:25 PM
Not entirely wrong, but not taking it far enough.

There are multiple possible explanations for any observation. After the fact, none of them can be proven (absolute certainty, in fact, is essentially unobtainable for anything outside of certain specific cases within mathematics.)

However.

All explanations are not equal. Some explanations require fewer assumptions. If I am trying to melt copper in a crucible and it doesn't melt at 1083 the simplest explanation is that I'm measuring wrong. The next explanation in the rank of fewest assumptions is that my supplier slipped up and the sample is actually a brass or other alloy. The explanation with the largest number of assumptions is that copper actually doesn't melt at the book value and there is a massive conspiracy crossing tens of fields to hide the real melting point.

Now, it is tempting to drill down and say that the conspiracy involves the least number of assumptions because it explains all questionable observations. The problem is that is doesn't. If there was a single coherent conspiracy narrative that captured the majority of what the hoax believers have identified as anomalies, this would be a compelling argument. Instead, each has a different mechanism, and each ends up with a vastly different picture of the conspiracy. One picture demands a robot, one a studio, another a whistle-blower. One assumes darkroom trickery, another assumes digital manipulation, a third assumes a model, a fourth...you get the picture.

The embracing meta-explanation with the fewest assumptions is that the project was real and like all things, like all the world, some of the material we are left with today appears contradictory.

And it doesn't stop there. The vast majority of explanations offered by supporters of the reality of the program are consistent with known physics, aerospace practice, human nature et al, and require no further assumptions.

The vast majority of explanations offered by hoax believers require at least one and often multiple assumptions beyond; they require that optics, geometry, physics, chemistry, etc. don't work the way mainstream science and industry experience claim they do.

And you can't wriggle out of it by saying, "Sure, 99% of the stuff OTHER hoax believers is stupid, but MY claims are all solid." Because there isn't a hoax believer that hasn't said the same. From any larger perspective, the grand mass of hoax belief is nothing but straws, none of them capable of bearing any weight because none of them weave together in anything resembling a bundle.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on November 17, 2018, 02:33:53 PM
The question I have for you is why don't you believe the earth is flat. there must be a reason you don't buy into the flat earth arguments. there must be a reason why you have dismissed those arguments and yet you fail to dismiss the moon hoax arguments even though every one you have presented has been firmly shown to be wrong by many people here
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on November 17, 2018, 02:36:13 PM
also Cambo you say things haven't been debunked. yes they have. for example the no stars in the photos is not nasa taking them out its because the cameras were set to low exposure. that is a fact. I believe Bill Kaysing accused nasa of lieing by saying stars cannot be seen in space which is absurd as nasa has released many photos in space with stars in them.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on November 17, 2018, 02:39:34 PM
1 final thing cambo and it goes back to the burden of proof. the entire scientific and engineering community over the past 50 years are happy with the landings. therefore it is the job of the HB's to show they didn't happen. I think most people would agree on that. therefore the entirety of the evidence must be refuted. 1 of my favourite items is the behaviour of the dust in the Apollo videos with the rover for example. the dust behaves as it would in an airless environment. for the landings to be faked the HB's have to explain this and other items which show they were in a vacuum.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: MBDK on November 17, 2018, 02:48:10 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/yHiCNGr.jpg)

The problem with this quote is there is no authentic citation supporting this claim.

The closest thing I have found is in the book "Einstein: His Life and Times" (1972) by Ronald W. Clark.

On page 418, it says that Louis de Broglie, regarding Einstein's discussion of his problem with wave mechanics, quotes Einstein as saying:

"that all physical theories, their mathematical expressions apart, ought to lend themselves to so simple a description 'that even a child could understand them.' "

The other anonymous corollary to such a statement SHOULD be obvious:

"I can explain something to you. but I CAN'T understand it for you."

Note:  Edited for ANOTHER punctuation error.  Dang it.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on November 17, 2018, 03:43:38 PM

The NASA believers are heard over and over saying that everything has been debunked “thousands” of times, but to debunk something means to prove something to be false, but in most cases, all you are doing is presenting an alternative reason for the anomaly.

The hoax claims have been debunked 'thousands of times' because people like you keep turning up and regurgitating the same ill-thought out, illogical, badly constructed arguments thousands of times. People like you are not presenting an alternative reason for anything, you're just recycling crap without bothering to check what alternative explanations there might be that make more sense. You stick the word 'anomaly' on there is if it automatically discredits anything, and as if it is actually a fact. I'll keep it simple for you: there are no anomalies whatsoever, just your ignorance of the subject.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on November 17, 2018, 05:39:04 PM

The NASA believers are heard over and over saying that everything has been debunked “thousands” of times, but to debunk something means to prove something to be false, but in most cases, all you are doing is presenting an alternative reason for the anomaly.

The hoax claims have been debunked 'thousands of times' because people like you keep turning up and regurgitating the same ill-thought out, illogical, badly constructed arguments thousands of times. People like you are not presenting an alternative reason for anything, you're just recycling crap without bothering to check what alternative explanations there might be that make more sense. You stick the word 'anomaly' on there is if it automatically discredits anything, and as if it is actually a fact. I'll keep it simple for you: there are no anomalies whatsoever, just your willful ignorance of the subject.

FTFY  8)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on November 17, 2018, 06:02:09 PM
thanks to Bart Sibrel. thats brilliant. i remember the video where Gene Cerman actually swears on the bible (amazing how many HB's say nobody did). Bart stood up and didnt know what to say. all he could spout was 'well 6 others wouldnt'. what a complete and utter idiot.

You’re forgetting that it was his video, and I’m sure that if he felt embarrassed, he would have simply cut the scene, which shows he has an honest side.

No, it shows he doesn't care what they say because all he cares about is promoting his crap. Does he have an honest side? No doubt he does. I am sure he doesn;t lie about everything. When it comes to his Apollo arguments, however, he remains as dishonest as they come. Incidentally, this conclusion is also reinforced by my own interactions with the man.
 
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You will say all HB’s are idiots, just because we don’t share your beliefs,

Oh yawn, that same old 'just because we disagree' crap. Fifteen years of doing this and this comes up so often.
 
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which is just plain arrogance on your part, as you fail to understand the reasoning behind our concerns.

No, we understand where the errors in your reasoning are, while you refuse to see or accept them.

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The NASA believers are heard over and over saying that everything has been debunked “thousands” of times, but to debunk something means to prove something to be false, but in most cases, all you are doing is presenting an alternative reason for the anomaly.

FIrstly, that's a gross oversimplification. However, it is an entirely appropriate response when an HB presents and argument that reduces to 'this one argument proves it was fake'. Confronting such an argument only requires presenting an explanation that is actually consistent with physics.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on November 17, 2018, 06:29:55 PM
On the subject of "no stars", I found this rather nice demonstration of why exactly this is the case on the RidingWithRobots (@ridingrobots) Twitter feed (although I can't figure out how to embed a tweet, so I'll have to copy'n'paste) :

FAQ: "Where are the stars?"
A: Here's the Moon and Mars (upper left) in the sky tonight. By the time the Moon is properly exposed, poor Mars is gone.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: MBDK on November 17, 2018, 08:43:24 PM
FAQ: "Where are the stars?"

I frequently answer with a cursory explanation of camera settings and exposure, with the follow up, "Just ask ANY professional photographer."

Such a simple thing to do, but not a one has ever done it, or at least admitted to it, much less acknowledged the inevitable confirmation that most stars will not be seen under those conditions.  Yet, they make the same claim later, or in a different thread, with the same unsupported incredulity.  THAT is either willful ignorance, or purposeful deceit.  Just another reason why posters of that ilk create their own negative reputations.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nomuse on November 17, 2018, 10:13:48 PM
They still make the "multiple lights" claim, although that can be refuted with two sticks and a sunny day.

It's tempting to say that Hoax Believers never experiment, preferring to theorize endlessly from the comfort of their chair. But sometimes they do get up. You can't even accuse them of being half-hearted about it. Well, you could, but Flat Earthers really go that extra mile in their experiments (and still end up wrong at the end of it).

The laziness is annoying, but when all is said it's a laziness of thought that's involved. We all claim to be open minded and able to step back from our own preconceptions. On a good day, some of us actually do.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Obviousman on November 18, 2018, 12:42:51 AM
I'll just pop in to say a couple of things:

1. You say 'believers' have proved anything yet that is simply more willful ignorance on your part viz you dismiss anything that contradicts the premise of your claims.
2. It is my honest belief that you are a troll who got bored with other forums and who has reappeared here to see if you can chum the waters & get some more bites. What other people do is up to them but I can't be bothered to waste any energy responding to your dross.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: smartcooky on November 18, 2018, 05:38:05 AM
I'll just pop in to say a couple of things:

1. You say 'believers' have proved anything yet that is simply more willful ignorance on your part viz you dismiss anything that contradicts the premise of your claims.
2. It is my honest belief that you are a troll who got bored with other forums and who has reappeared here to see if you can chum the waters & get some more bites. What other people do is up to them but I can't be bothered to waste any energy responding to your dross.

I made that decision the last time this troll poked his mug in here, and I'll be making it again, because he brings nothing but fringe resets and age-old previously and thoroughly debunked rubbish that all of us have seen before.



Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on November 18, 2018, 12:36:42 PM
I'll just pop in to say a couple of things:

1. You say 'believers' have proved anything yet that is simply more willful ignorance on your part viz you dismiss anything that contradicts the premise of your claims.
2. It is my honest belief that you are a troll who got bored with other forums and who has reappeared here to see if you can chum the waters & get some more bites. What other people do is up to them but I can't be bothered to waste any energy responding to your dross.

I made that decision the last time this troll poked his mug in here, and I'll be making it again, because he brings nothing but fringe resets and age-old previously and thoroughly debunked rubbish that all of us have seen before.
I can understand both your points of view, but personally I feel it's worth a small response to counter any particularly idiotic argument, just for the benefit of anyone else who might be reading.  It also stops trolls like Cambo claiming "they couldn't answer my questions"...
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: jfb on November 19, 2018, 12:26:34 PM
First of all, the Chinese mission was also faked, as there are no photos of stars, which had to be the case, in order to tie in with NASA’s policy of no stars. Anyone saying they couldn’t or they deemed it unnecessary to take pictures of stars are talking out of their backsides. Let’s face it, China don’t like the US very much, so I suspect the vast difference in composition is just them using artistic license, and when they eventually fake bringing back their own samples, they’ll do the same again, because it’s very unlikely that anyone outside of China will have access to those fictitious samples.

Just a minute...

If the Chinese don't like the US very much, then why would they play along with a US government organization like NASA at all?  Why fake their own missions instead of just proving (much more competently than you could ever hope to) that the US faked the Apollo missions, for far greater geopolitical effect?   For that matter, why didn't the Russians fake a manned landing before we did to score some points?  After all, they'd already beaten us to the punch with Sputnik and Gagarin. 

How can you ever hope to make a case when you can't even recognize the glaring contradictions in your own arguments? 

As for "no stars", that's been explained ad nauseam here and elsewhere, but because I don't want to work on what I'm supposed to be working on, we'll go over it one more time.

TL/DR; Photographic film and even modern digital sensors cannot capture the sunlit lunar surface and the brightest stars in the same exposure.  There is a hard physical limit at play here. 

As we're talking Apollo images, we'll talk about film.  Most film can capture a dynamic range (pure white to pure black) of about 10 stops, where 1 stop represents a doubling or halving of the amount of light striking the film.  1 stop represents a dynamic range of 2 to 1, 2 stops represents a range of 4 to 1, 3 stops 8 to 1, etc.  10 stops is 1024 to 1 - that is, the brightest highlight in the frame cannot be more than 1000 times brighter than the dimmest shadow detail in order for both to show up for a given exposure.  If it is, then either the highlight will be blown out (a detail-free blob of white) or the shadow detail will be lost (a detail-free blob of pure black).  This is why you see professional photographers use flashes and reflectors on a sunny day - they're trying to reduce the dynamic range between highlight and shadow so that the shadows won't look so stark in the final image.

Now, assuming I've done the math anywhere close to correct, the dynamic range between the sunlit lunar surface and the brightest stars is on the order of 30,000 to 1 (15 stops).  There is simply no way you can capture both in the same exposure with film.  If you expose for the stars, the lunar surface becomes a detail-free white blob.  If you expose for the lunar surface, the stars simply don't register and you get a field of pure black. 

If the sky is clear where you are today, you can go outside and see the quarter moon in the early afternoon, but no stars.  It's simply that much brighter than the stars, bright enough to punch through the daylight sky.  This is roughly what photographic film sees when you expose for the lunar surface - the stars are simply not bright enough to register. 

If you want to prove this for yourself, grab a camera, go outside on a sunny day, and take a picture of the landscape.  You can let the meter pick the exposure, or you can set it manually using the Sunny 16 rule (set the aperture to f/16, set the shutter speed to 1 over the number nearest the ISO rating - for ISO 100, use 1/125, for ISO 400, use 1/500, etc.).  On a clear night, go outside and take a picture of the sky using that same setting.  Tell me how many stars show up in the final image.  Then figure out the settings for capturing the stars; for ISO 100, it will be something like 30 seconds at f5.6.  Then the next day, go out and take a picture of the landscape with those settings.  Tell me if you get anything but a pure white image. 

Yeah, yeah, yeah, "but that doesn't prove anything, things are different on the Moon!"  Baloney.  The physics regarding light and exposure are the exactly the same on the Moon as they are on Earth.  The only difference is that on the Moon you don't have an atmosphere acting as a giant diffuse light source filling in some shadows. 
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Dalhousie on November 19, 2018, 10:35:29 PM
Here's a photo I took on a drill site during night shift looking across a dry lake bed towards Moonrise.  The Moon is visible as a reddish object on the horizon.  Despite multiple floodlights the ground (multiple shadows) is not as brightly lit as it would be in daylight.  No stars visible, even though it was a clear night.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nomuse on November 19, 2018, 11:09:29 PM
I'm trying out a new phrase:

"Swallow Poster."

It's like a seagull poster, but every year it migrates back across the Atlantic and posts again.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: ineluki on November 20, 2018, 07:20:58 AM
I frequently answer with a cursory explanation of camera settings and exposure, with the follow up, "Just ask ANY professional photographer."

No need to bother Professionals, every Amateur who ever tried to take pictures of Stars should do.

Actually my neighbour's kids could test this and understand the concept (unlike Jim Fetzer)


 


Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: ineluki on November 20, 2018, 07:26:32 AM
"Swallow Poster."

Is that an african or european Swallow, and what is it's air-speed velocity?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on November 20, 2018, 12:24:48 PM
...Incidentally, this conclusion is also reinforced by my own interactions with the man.

And mine.  He claims he was not invited to participate in the episode of "The Truth About..." series on the hoax theory because they could not refute his claims.  That's a bald-faced lie.  I was involved in the production of that episode.  Sibrel was not invited because he demanded a $2,500 non-negotiable "appearance fee."  Appearance fees are unheard of in the documentary world, although if the interviewee must incur actual expense in order to appear, the expenses are paid.  This is only some of the evidence I've collected that indicates Sibrel does this only for the money.  But the important point is that he lied about it.  He could just as easily have scored his rhetorical victory saying the producers were cheapskates.  But instead he voluntarily lied about why he was rejected.  As far as I'm concerned, Sibrel lies shamelessly and effortlessly.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on November 20, 2018, 12:36:19 PM
Here's a photo I took on a drill site during night shift looking across a dry lake bed towards Moonrise.  The Moon is visible as a reddish object on the horizon.  Despite multiple floodlights the ground (multiple shadows) is not as brightly lit as it would be in daylight.  No stars visible, even though it was a clear night.

Nice shot.  Where is the drill site?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on November 20, 2018, 01:09:47 PM
It also stops trolls like Cambo claiming "they couldn't answer my questions"...

That's why I wrote the Clavius.org website.  The answers have been there for nearly 20 years in some cases.  I don't feel the need to respond at length when I've already responded at length and made them available to the world for free.  Digging up the questions anew and giving them a fresh coat of paint doesn't make the existing answers go away.  If they claim "They couldn't answer my questions," then I respond, "They ignored the answers."

Nor do I buy the excuse of disregarding the existing answers because they are only alternatives to hoax claims such that casual denial suffices to address them.  First, that's not true in cases like stars in the photographs, which are the majority of hoax claims.  In those straightforward cases, the hoax claims obviously err from a factual or technical position.  When the alternative spells out facts the hoax claimant was just plain ignorant about or got wrong, it's not just competing conjecture.

In harder cases such as the curious movement of the flag, we must remember the structure of the presented argument.  The claimant identifies something that defies simple explanation, then he leaps to explain it as a telltale of some purported hoax:  "See, that proves there was air in the studio."  Well, no it doesn't.  That's one of several possible explanations he leaped over.  Proposing as true one of many alternatives carries the burden to show it is most true among them all.  Ignoring them is not a substitute for bearing the burden.  Other alternatives are usually more parsimonious.  Therefore they explain more than a claim that brings with it a lot of baggage.  That baggage is why hoax claims often assume a background in arguments of limited depth:  "It would have to be hoaxed just to avoid the radiation, therefore photographic anomalies like this are just confirmation of what we already know."
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on November 20, 2018, 01:41:59 PM
...Incidentally, this conclusion is also reinforced by my own interactions with the man.

And mine.  He claims he was not invited to participate in the episode of "The Truth About..." series on the hoax theory because they could not refute his claims.  That's a bald-faced lie.  I was involved in the production of that episode.  Sibrel was not invited because he demanded a $2,500 non-negotiable "appearance fee."  Appearance fees are unheard of in the documentary world, although if the interviewee must incur actual expense in order to appear, the expenses are paid.  This is only some of the evidence I've collected that indicates Sibrel does this only for the money.  But the important point is that he lied about it.  He could just as easily have scored his rhetorical victory saying the producers were cheapskates.  But instead he voluntarily lied about why he was rejected.  As far as I'm concerned, Sibrel lies shamelessly and effortlessly.

Jay, I'm curious and I apologize if you have already answered, but have you met Sibrel up close and personal?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on November 20, 2018, 05:17:27 PM
Jay, I'm curious and I apologize if you have already answered, but have you met Sibrel up close and personal?

No, we've never directly met.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Dalhousie on November 20, 2018, 08:09:01 PM
Here's a photo I took on a drill site during night shift looking across a dry lake bed towards Moonrise.  The Moon is visible as a reddish object on the horizon.  Despite multiple floodlights the ground (multiple shadows) is not as brightly lit as it would be in daylight.  No stars visible, even though it was a clear night.

Nice shot.  Where is the drill site?

Lake Menindee, Australia https://goo.gl/maps/sngnQC7vjGT2
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Count Zero on November 20, 2018, 08:36:04 PM
I don't feel the need to respond at length when I've already responded at length...

...but you do anyway (and we love you for it).
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Glom on November 21, 2018, 02:55:05 AM
Jay, I'm curious and I apologize if you have already answered, but have you met Sibrel up close and personal?

No, we've never directly met.
Are you sure? I've seen a clip of a hobbit punching him. Was that you?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on November 21, 2018, 03:24:55 AM
...Incidentally, this conclusion is also reinforced by my own interactions with the man.

And mine.  He claims he was not invited to participate in the episode of "The Truth About..." series on the hoax theory because they could not refute his claims.  That's a bald-faced lie.  I was involved in the production of that episode.  Sibrel was not invited because he demanded a $2,500 non-negotiable "appearance fee."  Appearance fees are unheard of in the documentary world, although if the interviewee must incur actual expense in order to appear, the expenses are paid.  This is only some of the evidence I've collected that indicates Sibrel does this only for the money.  But the important point is that he lied about it.  He could just as easily have scored his rhetorical victory saying the producers were cheapskates.  But instead he voluntarily lied about why he was rejected.  As far as I'm concerned, Sibrel lies shamelessly and effortlessly.

just going off a video I saw once Jay called Lunar Legacy, didn't Sibrel leave out 1 of the 3 videos nasa sent to him because including it would have invalidated his claims
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Abaddon on November 21, 2018, 06:47:24 AM
...Incidentally, this conclusion is also reinforced by my own interactions with the man.

And mine.  He claims he was not invited to participate in the episode of "The Truth About..." series on the hoax theory because they could not refute his claims.  That's a bald-faced lie.  I was involved in the production of that episode.  Sibrel was not invited because he demanded a $2,500 non-negotiable "appearance fee."  Appearance fees are unheard of in the documentary world, although if the interviewee must incur actual expense in order to appear, the expenses are paid.  This is only some of the evidence I've collected that indicates Sibrel does this only for the money.  But the important point is that he lied about it.  He could just as easily have scored his rhetorical victory saying the producers were cheapskates.  But instead he voluntarily lied about why he was rejected.  As far as I'm concerned, Sibrel lies shamelessly and effortlessly.

just going off a video I saw once Jay called Lunar Legacy, didn't Sibrel leave out 1 of the 3 videos nasa sent to him because including it would have invalidated his claims
You recall correctly. Sibrel also claimed that the parts he DID include were accidentally given to him by NASA when they are quite obviously publicly available and have been for years.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on November 21, 2018, 07:02:14 AM
...Incidentally, this conclusion is also reinforced by my own interactions with the man.

And mine.  He claims he was not invited to participate in the episode of "The Truth About..." series on the hoax theory because they could not refute his claims.  That's a bald-faced lie.  I was involved in the production of that episode.  Sibrel was not invited because he demanded a $2,500 non-negotiable "appearance fee."  Appearance fees are unheard of in the documentary world, although if the interviewee must incur actual expense in order to appear, the expenses are paid.  This is only some of the evidence I've collected that indicates Sibrel does this only for the money.  But the important point is that he lied about it.  He could just as easily have scored his rhetorical victory saying the producers were cheapskates.  But instead he voluntarily lied about why he was rejected.  As far as I'm concerned, Sibrel lies shamelessly and effortlessly.

just going off a video I saw once Jay called Lunar Legacy, didn't Sibrel leave out 1 of the 3 videos nasa sent to him because including it would have invalidated his claims
You recall correctly. Sibrel also claimed that the parts he DID include were accidentally given to him by NASA when they are quite obviously publicly available and have been for years.

yeah I thought I had that right. How many people did he con into buying his DVD eh !!!
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on November 21, 2018, 09:32:52 AM
You recall correctly.

Indeed, and Sibrel tried to lie and say the telltale video wasn't in the package he got from NASA.  But Mark Gray confirmed that clips in Sibrel's videos indeed came from that, supporting the hypothesis that Sibrel knew all along that the evidence wasn't consistent with his interpretation but chose instead to cherry-pick from it.

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Sibrel also claimed that the parts he DID include were accidentally given to him by NASA when they are quite obviously publicly available and have been for years.

Nowadays available to anyone and given out as a standard response to requests for Apollo-era film.  See Jeff Quitney's YouTube channel for a great example of such things.  But originally they were produced as so-called "report films."  Every NASA-funded project (and many other aerospace projects of the time) produced at least one of these every fiscal quarter, to be sent to NASA HQ as a visual record of progress, or as needed to document results.  So the title slug says something like "Not for public distribution," which Sibrel interpreted to mean Top Secret.  They were merely internal documents, not intended to be released for public use but certainly not restricted from it.  On Clavius you can find examples of actual NASA documents that were once classified but later declassified.  The wording of the classifications is important.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on November 21, 2018, 09:36:11 AM
yeah I thought I had that right. How many people did he con into buying his DVD eh !!!

The company he started to distribute them reported an annual revenue of well over $200,000 for one of the years it was in operation.  Assuming that was its only product, and going by his retail price of $45 per set, that's well over 4,000.  The address listed for the company was a Nashville apartment complex (now demolished).
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bobdude11 on November 21, 2018, 12:53:56 PM
I'm trying out a new phrase:

"Swallow Poster."

It's like a seagull poster, but every year it migrates back across the Atlantic and posts again.
But is it an African swallow or a European swallow? :)

Leaving it, but got ninja'd
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on November 21, 2018, 02:08:33 PM
In the first instance of the jump, measuring the sand, the top line appears one frame too early, as the sand is still rising, and the line is also below the true height of the sand, so we have to advance at least two frames to get the sand level with the line. Twelve frames later, after the top line appears, the bottom line appears, but the sand has met the ground three frames earlier. We also observe the smaller particles of sand being buoyed in the air and taking longer to descend. The only explanation for this, is that it was shot on earth with the person being somehow pulled up and suspended in the air to mimic the moons gravity.

I "count" frames differently than you and no I didn't see the regolith travel higher than the boots, perhaps you could use your expertise in counting and post a video that supports your claim

The evidence is in the clip, for anyone that can be bothered to analyse it. I posted the video and explained why the film was not shot on the moon.

 Sand is visible above the actors left boot, early in his ascent.
(https://i.imgur.com/6j96BXe.jpg)

One frame after the first line appears, the finer sand is just reaching its highest point.
(https://i.imgur.com/9Fh1dgA.jpg)

Seven frames later, we see the sand settling on the ground.
(https://i.imgur.com/1k6MO4c.png)

The sand above his boot had to be propelled upwards at a higher velocity than the actor, and the finer sand disperses and disappears on the way down before it reaches the ground. How could that happen if it were filmed in a vacuum? The only two possibilities are, that either I’m making it up or you have impaired vision, as it would be unheard of for a person defending NASA to resort to lying, wouldn’t it?

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So we now have two sets of evidence which are irrefutable proof of fakery and cannot be debunked, without resorting to lying

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No I don't see any irrefutable proof of fakery.

It’s really quite sad that some people just don’t have the courage to admit they are wrong, even when it is plainly obvious, which to me, suggest stubbornness or a lack of intelligence, but when we see seemingly educated adults displaying such behaviour, there must be more to it. It has to be indoctrination, although there will be some that stand to make financial gain by defending NASA’s lies, and I am certain there is at least two of these people on these forums.

 Explain to a group of people that any object, regardless of size or weight will fall at the same speed in a vacuum and show them the jump salute with instructions on how to analyse the video, and they will all come to the same conclusion as I did. Explain to people how to determine the size, the earth would look from a given distance, and then ask them to compare their findings to what we see on Apollo 11’s alleged transit to the moon, and again, they will also come to the same conclusion as I did. When I presented my evidence, I failed to take into account, the difference in specs between my video camera and the Apollo 11 on-board camera, but if I had, then the results would be even more damning.

Your only response is that you cannot see what I see, without giving any evidence to support your assumption that what you see is what you would expect to see. I challenge you to give me just one piece of solid proof that the moon landings were genuine.

How about the reflectors? We don’t need a reflector to bounce a laser off the moon.

The lunar samples? In short, we only have NASA’s word, and when I say we, I include the geologists. Now here’s a novel idea, why not as well as a geologist being able to request a sample for delivery, he or she could also have a “pick up in store” option where they could make an appointment and browse through those hundreds of kilos of moon soil and rocks and be allowed to choose which specimen they would like their sample taken from, and then watch, while they cut them a slice.

Examining a tiny piece of rock might indicate that it didn’t come from earth and it may even be somehow possible to determine with some degree of accuracy that it probably originated from the moon, but in no way would it be possible to prove that a sample was brought back by the alleged Apollo missions. NASA never put a man on the moon, which means no one has even seen, let alone examined an Apollo sample, because they simply don’t exist.

The rocket launches? There is no proof, they made it into orbit, let alone, making it to the moon, and photos of alleged rocket plumes high in the sky doesn’t prove the alleged astronauts were in space. The only eyewitnesses who seen the crafts venturing out into space were the alleged astronauts.

Apollo was tracked? No tracking station outside of NASA’s influence can attest to tracking any of the Apollo missions on their journey’s to and from the moon, so the question that needs to be answered is, why was the data required to track those nine moon missions kept a secret? If you think this is a minor point, then you haven’t thought it through, as this third party evidence, along with the lost telemetry data and technology would surely have gone a long way in silencing us conspiracy nuts.

Russia would have blabbed? Even if the US and the Soviets weren’t in cahoots at the time, how would they go about proving it? They couldn’t track the Apollo missions, so the best they could do was listen in on radio transmissions coming from the direction of the moon, when they were lucky enough to be in site of the moon during a transmission. Those transmissions wouldn’t have given the Russians any cause for concern, as they did it themselves, during the Zond 5/6 missions, before the alleged Apollo 8 mission took place. A Russian voice was picked up coming from the crafts, giving the impression that the flights were manned, when it was actually a tape recording. The Zond 5 transmission supposedly had NASA flapping for a short while, thinking they’d been beaten to yet another milestone in manned space exploration.

The Russians knew it was faked because they knew it couldn’t be done, but to accuse the US of fraud, without proof would be seen as sour grapes to the rest of the deluded world, and anyhow it was best to bite their tongue in the knowledge that they and others would now have a free licence to fake the shit out of space, and that cheap wheat sure did come in handy. It seems strange that one nation would help feed another nation with whom they were in conflict with, as wouldn’t it make more sense to help starve them?

What about the rover and this rooster tail thing? As I understand it, the alleged lunar dust, thrown from the wheels of the rover forms an arc, resembling a rooster tail, as oppose to a parabolic arc, which we would see on earth. Apparently, the air resistance on earth is the reason for the parabolic arc, but as there is no air on the moon, the alleged dust falls straight back down. What?! Surely the opposite would be true, as with no air resistance, the alleged dust would be allowed to follow its trajectory and therefore form a perfect parabolic arc? Or am I missing something? I’m actually not sure what I’m supposed to be looking at, as I can’t see anything in the rover footage that wouldn’t be observable here on earth. It’s definitely not the backward C thing, so I’d be grateful if someone could post a photo which clearly shows the alleged dust forming the shape of a rooster tail, thanks.
(https://i.imgur.com/DguXj7v.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/HzOucqA.png)

As I’ve said on numerous occasions, there is only one source of evidence available that could possibly prove it one way or another, and that is the video evidence, and sadly for you, it all points to a hoax. Kubrick would never have openly admitted to his involvement in the fraud, but they chose to end his life anyway, as he was about to blow the lid on the vile and deviant corruption within our governments and secret societies, of which he was exposed to. Who knows what was in those twenty minutes that he refused to cut from his last film, a couple of days before he was murdered? The likes of Sibrel and Percy are allowed to live because they are nobody’s, and anyway, NASA seem to be quite happy to let the debate linger on as long as they have stooges such as you to fight their corner.







Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on November 21, 2018, 03:07:20 PM
Apollo was tracked? No tracking station outside of NASA’s influence can attest to tracking any of the Apollo missions on their journey’s to and from the moon...

You don't read Russian astronomy magazines, apparently.

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...so the question that needs to be answered is, why was the data required to track those nine moon missions kept a secret?

Thank you for confirming you know nothing about space operations.  Radio frequencies and general orbital characteristics for non-orbit missions were routinely published starting in the early 1960s for the purpose of deconflicting communications and tracking.

You realize we can tell you're just making all this up as you go.

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It’s really quite sad that some people just don’t have the courage to admit they are wrong, even when it is plainly obvious, which to me, suggest stubbornness or a lack of intelligence, but when we see seemingly educated adults displaying such behaviour, there must be more to it. It has to be indoctrination, although there will be some that stand to make financial gain by defending NASA’s lies, and I am certain there is at least two of these people on these forums.

Poisoning the well only works if you're not the one who's demonstrably ignorant.  Obvious troll is obvious.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on November 21, 2018, 04:27:01 PM
Cambo, you can pile in the ad hominems all you like, it doesn't hide your lack of knowledge and it doesn't prove whatever point you're gish-galloping through at the moment.

I could be getting a a 6 figure pay cheque every month from NASA but it wouldn't make either of us right. What matters is whether the information you are given is correct. It is. The information you have so far given has not been correct.

Here, have a thread from Cosmoquest about Soviet monitoring of Apollo for free:

https://forum.cosmoquest.org/archive/index.php/t-20447.html
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on November 21, 2018, 04:39:48 PM
Because of the way you post I'll only give you a tidbit of the laundry list you provide.  When discussing the sand, again I have watched the video and the blurry images you present and of the video, there is no proof that the sand moved higher than the boots, perhaps it is your zeal to prove something that lets you see events that ae not present.
However, let me ask you a gravitational question, IF as you belief, but not proven, that the regolith goes higher than the boots, why is this proof that the sequence was shot on Earth.  Isn't gravity universal?  No sand would go higher than the boots unless it has been given extra energy to do so the formula for distance


https://www.dummies.com/education/science/physics/how-to-calculate-time-and-distance-from-acceleration-and-velocity/

and I chose that particular site as, you are a dummy or troll as Jay has indicated.
Fine material will not go higher that the boots unless there is that little bit of energy added.


Now as to my being:

"unheard of for a person defending NASA to resort to lying, wouldn’t it?"  Of course it would be not unheard-of for an HB to tell lies, the history is ripe with HB's lies.

"It’s really quite sad that some people just don’t have the courage to admit they are wrong, even when it is plainly obvious, which to me, suggest stubbornness or a lack of intelligence, but when we see seemingly educated adults displaying such behaviour, there must be more to it. It has to be indoctrination, although there will be some that stand to make financial gain by defending NASA’s lies, and I am certain there is at least two of these people on these forums."

I have admitted many times concerning the errors I have made, unfortunately, you haven't.  Search the forum and you will sell my admissions.  Indoctrination?  that is rich, why don't you use a more proper term educated and versed in the Apollo program, by reading the literature.  Financial gain by defending.. That is rich NASA doesn't pay anyone to stand and knock down the BS you throw out.

Further you really need to spend some time in a physics book, this is high school level.  The regolith will depart the wheels with whatever the force is predominant.  If ANGULAR force is greater then the dust will travel in an arc, if the lateral force is greater then the path will be parabolic.  You cherry pick images, as thee are many that show parabolic paths.  Now who is lying?

I agree with Jay you are a troll, plain and simple.



Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on November 21, 2018, 04:45:41 PM
Picking just a few points out of your stream-of-consciousness blather :

Examining a tiny piece of rock might indicate that it didn’t come from earth and it may even be somehow possible to determine with some degree of accuracy that it probably originated from the moon, but in no way would it be possible to prove that a sample was brought back by the alleged Apollo missions. NASA never put a man on the moon, which means no one has even seen, let alone examined an Apollo sample, because they simply don’t exist.
Isn't this putting the cart before the horse?  You've decided the samples are not of lunar origin, therefore you aren't willing to look at any evidence that they might be.  You're not trying to have any kind of rational discussion, you're just reinforcing your own beliefs.

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The rocket launches? There is no proof, they made it into orbit, let alone, making it to the moon, and photos of alleged rocket plumes high in the sky doesn’t prove the alleged astronauts were in space. The only eyewitnesses who seen the crafts venturing out into space were the alleged astronauts.
Not true.  And a small amount of research would have turned up plenty of reports of tracking of various missions.  The fact that you are either too lazy, or too afraid (in case it disproves your belief) to properly research the information, doesn't mean it ceases to exist.

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Apollo was tracked? No tracking station outside of NASA’s influence can attest to tracking any of the Apollo missions on their journey’s to and from the moon
ditto...

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so the question that needs to be answered is, why was the data required to track those nine moon missions kept a secret? If you think this is a minor point, then you haven’t thought it through, as this third party evidence, along with the lost telemetry data and technology would surely have gone a long way in silencing us conspiracy nuts.
There were no "conspiracy nuts" (glad it's yourself using the phrase) at the time of the Apollo missions, so there was no goal of "silencing" them.  Also, as already pointed out, and again showing your lack of research, the information wasn't secret, and no telemetry data or technology was "lost".  (Yes, some tapes were overwritten, but the data on them had already been processed and copied to other forms.)

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What about the rover and this rooster tail thing? As I understand it, the alleged lunar dust, thrown from the wheels of the rover forms an arc, resembling a rooster tail, as oppose to a parabolic arc, which we would see on earth. Apparently, the air resistance on earth is the reason for the parabolic arc, but as there is no air on the moon, the alleged dust falls straight back down. What?! Surely the opposite would be true, as with no air resistance, the alleged dust would be allowed to follow its trajectory and therefore form a perfect parabolic arc? Or am I missing something?
Yes, you're missing a basic understanding of physics, and also an understanding of colloquial English use of phrases such as "rooster tail" in describing said basic physics.

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As I’ve said on numerous occasions, there is only one source of evidence available that could possibly prove it one way or another, and that is the video evidence, and sadly for you, it all points to a hoax. Kubrick would never have openly admitted to his involvement in the fraud, but they chose to end his life anyway, as he was about to blow the lid on the vile and deviant corruption within our governments and secret societies, of which he was exposed to. Who knows what was in those twenty minutes that he refused to cut from his last film, a couple of days before he was murdered?
Can I ask what brand of tinfoil you prefer for your headgear??

I do love your opening statement though :
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It’s really quite sad that some people just don’t have the courage to admit they are wrong, even when it is plainly obvious, which to me, suggest stubbornness or a lack of intelligence...
Don't you see any irony in writing something like that?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on November 22, 2018, 08:01:41 AM
The rocket launches? There is no proof, they made it into orbit, let alone, making it to the moon, and photos of alleged rocket plumes high in the sky doesn’t prove the alleged astronauts were in space. The only eyewitnesses who seen the crafts venturing out into space were the alleged astronauts.

How blind are you? Have you even seen one of the launches, you know, the ones tracked from the ground until they disappeared?

No proof they made it into orbit? Seriously? You mean apart from large numbers of photographs taken in Earth orbit prior to TLI?

For example:

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/catalog/70mm/magazine/?36

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/catalog/70mm/magazine/?148

Not to mention the many photographs of Earth, and 16mm, taken immediately after TLI, all of which show an exact correspondence with the various weather satellites in orbit at the time, like this montage of Apollo 11 images taken in orbit:

(https://i.imgur.com/hV0RfyX.jpg)
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Apollo was tracked? No tracking station outside of NASA’s influence can attest to tracking any of the Apollo missions on their journey’s to and from the moon, so the question that needs to be answered is, why was the data required to track those nine moon missions kept a secret? If you think this is a minor point, then you haven’t thought it through, as this third party evidence, along with the lost telemetry data and technology would surely have gone a long way in silencing us conspiracy nuts.

Who says the tracking data was a secret?

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19730012127.pdf

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19700051154&hterms=apollo+tracking+data&qs=N%3D0%26Ntk%3DAll%26Ntt%3Dapollo%2520tracking%2520data%26Ntx%3Dmode%2520matchallpartial%26Nm%3D123%7CCollection%7CNASA%2520STI%7C%7C17%7CCollection%7CNACA

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700025195.pdf

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As I’ve said on numerous occasions, there is only one source of evidence available that could possibly prove it one way or another, and that is the video evidence, and sadly for you, it all points to a hoax.

Unfortunately for you the video (both 16mm and live TV) all point to the landings being genuine, no matter on how many occasions you say otherwise.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on November 22, 2018, 08:21:59 AM
The evidence is in the clip, for anyone that can be bothered to analyse it.

Still avoiding the understanding that looking at a cloud of dust doesn't equate to looking at a single object.

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The only two possibilities are, that either I’m making it up or you have impaired vision,

Or you are wrong. Explain why you keep failing to include that possibility.
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It’s really quite sad that some people just don’t have the courage to admit they are wrong

Even sadder when people won't even consider it when presenting their conclusions.

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Explain to a group of people that any object, regardless of size or weight will fall at the same speed in a vacuum and show them the jump salute with instructions on how to analyse the video, and they will all come to the same conclusion as I did.

Of course, because your 'analysis' is based on a faulty premise. Typical HB argument: take a true simple statement, then conclude that any apparent deviation from it is proof of something nefarious rather than an example of how the complexity of reality sometimes makes for some apparently anomalous observations.

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Explain to people how to determine the size, the earth would look from a given distance, and then ask them to compare their findings to what we see on Apollo 11’s alleged transit to the moon, and again, they will also come to the same conclusion as I did.

Nope. Already answered that one. With information about the FOV of the camera and the distance of the Earth and it looks exactly right. You fail to put up any calculation to prove your point.

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When I presented my evidence, I failed to take into account, the difference in specs between my video camera and the Apollo 11 on-board camera, but if I had, then the results would be even more damning.

The mere fact you considered your video camera to have any relevance to the problem at all is pretty damning for your 'analysis' (put in inverted commas because nothing you have done bears the slightest resemblance to actual analysis).

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I challenge you to give me just one piece of solid proof that the moon landings were genuine.

Really not how this works, and in any case you have already pre-emptively dismissed any and all proof that can be offered as either fake (from NASA) or fake (from lying people supporting the NASA version of events).

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How about the reflectors? We don’t need a reflector to bounce a laser off the moon.

No, but you get a stronger signal if you do use a reflector.
 
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but in no way would it be possible to prove that a sample was brought back by the alleged Apollo missions.

That creaking sound must be those goalposts shifting again.

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NASA never put a man on the moon, which means no one has even seen, let alone examined an Apollo sample, because they simply don’t exist.

Repeating that assertion won't make it true.

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The rocket launches? There is no proof, they made it into orbit, let alone, making it to the moon, and photos of alleged rocket plumes high in the sky doesn’t prove the alleged astronauts were in space. The only eyewitnesses who seen the crafts venturing out into space were the alleged astronauts.

There is no proof of any of your alternatives either, so no basis on which to conclude fakery.
 
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Apollo was tracked? No tracking station outside of NASA’s influence

There we go again. Either no evidence or NASA-influenced evidence.

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so the question that needs to be answered is, why was the data required to track those nine moon missions kept a secret?

There is a difference between 'kept secret' and 'I haven't seen it'. The data were published before every mission.

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Kubrick would never have openly admitted to his involvement in the fraud, but they chose to end his life anyway

Three decades and multiple administrations later. That's some real efficient work.

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as he was about to blow the lid on the vile and deviant corruption within our governments and secret societies, of which he was exposed to.

Since, apparently, you know a lot about this corruption, how would killing Kubrick help keep the lid on it? Or are you expecting a death squad visit some time soon?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on November 22, 2018, 10:09:14 AM
My Gods, they never stop with the Kubrick thing.  Yes, there's the obvious and frankly stupid "no one tracked the missions" error, but come on!  They won't even do the work to fit directing Apollo missions into Kubrick's known schedule for the time to realize that it doesn't work.  Much less any of the other reasons Kubrick would have been a terrible choice.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: ineluki on November 23, 2018, 06:49:43 AM
As I’ve said on numerous occasions

Yes that's the problem with you disgustingly dishonest Troll, you say the same things over and over, even after you get explanations a 9 year old would understand...

Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Dalhousie on November 24, 2018, 01:01:46 AM
Maybe they filmed some of this in New Mexico around Los Alamos Canyon area.  They built Los Alamos National Laboratory on a conspicuous gravity low.  Maybe this gravitational anomaly had a role to play in all these discrepancies.

I know this is post necromancy and I should not feed the troll, but this is so funny I can't resist responding.

Gravity is measured in geophysics in milligals.  Incidentally this is an SI unit, none has been defined as yet.  A standard gravity would be 980.665 gal, or 980665 millgals.

Los Alamos indeed lies over a gravity low of 260 milligals.  Not only does this very large anomaly extend north into Colorado, it is clearly related to geological structure.  Plus of course a low 260 milligals is all of 0.0265% less than a standard gravity, and detectable only with sensitive instruments.

https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/ofr-01-0061/html/nm_boug.htm
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: BDL on November 24, 2018, 12:29:56 PM
Jay, I'm curious and I apologize if you have already answered, but have you met Sibrel up close and personal?

No, we've never directly met.

If you do decide to meet with him, be prepared for a bible duel. He’s pretty infamous for bible-poking battles.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on November 24, 2018, 02:34:12 PM
Wow is this guy still getting responses lol
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: apollo16uvc on November 24, 2018, 06:37:08 PM
My Gods, they never stop with the Kubrick thing.  Yes, there's the obvious and frankly stupid "no one tracked the missions" error, but come on!  They won't even do the work to fit directing Apollo missions into Kubrick's known schedule for the time to realize that it doesn't work.  Much less any of the other reasons Kubrick would have been a terrible choice.
I have been looking into that for some time. If you take into account how long 2001 a space odyssey took to make, and multiply that by all the live footage from the Apollo missions, it becomes pretty clear he did not have enough time.

This is not even taking into account the tens of thousands of photos, and 16mm footage, from different locations.

Would like to see your calculations!
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: MBDK on November 25, 2018, 01:59:52 AM
The sand above his boot had to be propelled upwards at a higher velocity than the actor, and the finer sand disperses and disappears on the way down before it reaches the ground. How could that happen if it were filmed in a vacuum? The only two possibilities are, that either I’m making it up or you have impaired vision, as it would be unheard of for a person defending NASA to resort to lying, wouldn’t it?

I see you have little to no grasp of basic physics or anatomy.  Acceleration equals Force divided by Mass, or A=F/M.  When you jump flat-footed, you don't actually jump with your foot flat.  Your heel comes up and you jump off of the balls of your feet with a little extra push from the toes.  As you do this, your heel lifts completely just before the rest of your foot does.  (https://www.thehoopsgeek.com/the-physics-of-the-vertical-jump/) This is why any fine evenly distributed particles you may be standing in will rise from the heel first.  Now, back to the equation.  Obviously, from the BASIC physics involved, the mass of the fine particles will be much less than the mass of a human resulting in greater acceleration. However, the force applied to the fine particles will not be equal to the total force provided to the jumper.  This is because the heel lift, that starts the jump AND the particulate acceleration, is just the initial lifting force.  Also, the force applied to the particles is only that which is contributed by the friction of the jumper's feet/shoes/boots, as there is no other avenue to impart it.  The final push off the balls and toes is yet to come.  So, two things happen.  The particulates are accelerated prior to the completion of the jump force AND the forces upon the particulates and the jumper are exponentially different. 

Conclusion:  The physics involved, regarding the relative heights reached by the particulates and the jumper, is the result of a complex and uneven exertion of forces.  Therefor, there can be no expectation of their relative heights gleamed purely from photography, and your claim for there being only two possibilities is utterly ignorant.

As far as dispersion goes, such dust in a vacuum would naturally spread out, as there is no air to slow and clump it into a cloud.  Your pictures of the LRV and the dune buggy actually prove this.  At the bottom of the LRV's rooster tail, the dust is spreading out and can be seen through easily.  As for the dune buggy, the dust is clouding up considerably more at the bottom of its rooster tail than it does in its arc, due to its reduced speed and further billowing caused by the atmosphere.

Note:  Edited for punctuation and reworded "with the relative heights" in my conclusion to read better.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on November 25, 2018, 10:56:31 AM
My Gods, they never stop with the Kubrick thing.  Yes, there's the obvious and frankly stupid "no one tracked the missions" error, but come on!  They won't even do the work to fit directing Apollo missions into Kubrick's known schedule for the time to realize that it doesn't work.  Much less any of the other reasons Kubrick would have been a terrible choice.
I have been looking into that for some time. If you take into account how long 2001 a space odyssey took to make, and multiply that by all the live footage from the Apollo missions, it becomes pretty clear he did not have enough time.

This is not even taking into account the tens of thousands of photos, and 16mm footage, from different locations.

Would like to see your calculations!

I haven't bothered with calculations, honestly.  It's just that, you know, he made A Clockwork Orange in the middle of Apollo.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bobdude11 on November 27, 2018, 01:01:54 PM
So Cambo,
 I just have a couple of things in response:


If you choose to ignore or dismiss this post, I will assume you have no response and are unable to provide any new arguments/'evidence' and therefore, to me, your claims, as of this post, are null and void until you present new and independent arguments complete with all of the data and the calculations used to derive that data and your conclusions.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Peter B on December 03, 2018, 09:45:25 AM
The lunar samples? In short, we only have NASA’s word, and when I say we, I include the geologists. Now here’s a novel idea, why not as well as a geologist being able to request a sample for delivery, he or she could also have a “pick up in store” option where they could make an appointment and browse through those hundreds of kilos of moon soil and rocks and be allowed to choose which specimen they would like their sample taken from, and then watch, while they cut them a slice.

Maybe that could be a Thing...if geologists had the money to fly around the world and spend a few days in Houston browsing through hundreds of samples.

It's just a darn site cheaper to browse the catalog in the comfort of their own office and have the sample sent through. Remember, the catalog tells the scientist the exact type of rock in each sample, with details about its uniqueness. Go to https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/samples/ and pick a few samples at random. You never know, you might learn a bit about how each sample is a little different. And of course, if you bothered to learn a bit about science you might understand why a scientist might want one particular sample out of all those listed, rather than any other. Then, having asked for exactly that sample, she'd very quickly know whether she'd been given a piece of that specific sample as opposed to something from one of the others.

Why do you suggest your "pick up in store" option? Are you thinking of setting up a charter company to fly those cashed-up eggheads?

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Examining a tiny piece of rock might indicate that it didn’t come from earth and it may even be somehow possible to determine with some degree of accuracy that it probably originated from the moon...

OMG, you finally got there. You actually accepted the idea that the Apollo rocks could have come from the Moon. Well done!

I take it then you accept the scientific consensus that these rocks, while similar to Earth rocks, also have distinct chemical differences which make terrestrial origin impossible.

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...but in no way would it be possible to prove that a sample was brought back by the alleged Apollo missions.

To some extent I think you'll find scientists couldn't really care less how NASA came into possession of these rocks which you say "...probably originated from the moon..." They just want to do some good sciencey lovin' on their sample - to find out stuff about the geological history of the Moon, or something about the solar wind, or whatever.

But regardless of whether the scientists care or not how the rocks came to be on the Earth, the fact remains these Moon rocks are on the Earth. So if you accept they're Moon rocks, you now have to explain how ~380 kilograms of the stuff of the Moon is now on Earth, in a way that doesn't involve them flying through the Earth's atmosphere as meteorites.

Go on, take your time. See if you can do it without invoking the TARDIS.

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NASA never put a man on the moon, which means no one has even seen, let alone examined an Apollo sample, because they simply don’t exist.

You what? So after just accepting the Apollo rocks "...probably originated from the moon..." you now say they don't exist? What are they, Schroedinger's rocks? They simultaneously came from the Moon and don't exist?

I think a little more explanation might be needed here. Like, a lot little more.

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Russia would have blabbed? Even if the US and the Soviets weren’t in cahoots at the time, how would they go about proving it? They couldn’t track the Apollo missions, so the best they could do was listen in on radio transmissions coming from the direction of the moon, when they were lucky enough to be in site of the moon during a transmission. Those transmissions wouldn’t have given the Russians any cause for concern, as they did it themselves, during the Zond 5/6 missions, before the alleged Apollo 8 mission took place. A Russian voice was picked up coming from the crafts, giving the impression that the flights were manned, when it was actually a tape recording. The Zond 5 transmission supposedly had NASA flapping for a short while, thinking they’d been beaten to yet another milestone in manned space exploration.

LOL! Oh, stop it! Now we have Schroedinger's Cold War. The USSR was simultaneously "in cahoots" with the USA and causing a flap for NASA.

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The Russians knew it was faked because they knew it couldn’t be done, but to accuse the US of fraud, without proof would be seen as sour grapes to the rest of the deluded world, and anyhow it was best to bite their tongue in the knowledge that they and others would now have a free licence to fake the shit out of space, and that cheap wheat sure did come in handy. It seems strange that one nation would help feed another nation with whom they were in conflict with, as wouldn’t it make more sense to help starve them?

"Da, comrade, we know that going to the Moon is impossible, we just don't know how to prove it." Do you seriously think an argument like that would work, like, anywhere?

Let me just spell this out in case I'm going too fast: if the Soviets knew that going to the Moon was impossible, all they needed to do was explain to the rest of the world what they knew. That way, the rest of the world would know that going to the Moon was impossible, meaning that the Americans going to the Moon must be impossible, meaning the Americans must be faking it. It would be a propaganda coup of the first order.

Oh, and by the way, why was it impossible for the Apollo spacecraft to go to the Moon? I forget whether you ever actually got around to explaining that.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on December 24, 2018, 01:39:00 PM
You're puzzled by the world, didn't bother to learn much about it…..

It’s not a case of me being puzzled by the world, but rather, my perception of the world is merely different to what you perceive it to be. What does puzzle me however is why some people believe that governments and large organisations such as NASA would be incapable of lying.



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Your argument is that for most things regarding Apollo we just have to take NASA's word for it.  That's not true.  There are (and were in the 1960s) plenty of people who knew a lot about space and space travel who didn't get it from NASA and can't be fooled by NASA if NASA is wrong.  Those people have to be accounted for in your theory

Only America and Russia were supposedly actively exploring space in the 60’s, so anyone outside of these countries would only know what they had been told.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_space_exploration#1960%E2%80%931969

Wind forward to recent years and the heads of every so called space agency in the world know that Apollo was a hoax, along with all other alleged manned space flight, as they are all in on the act. This is not my own theory, as you state, but a very likely fact, given the obvious fakery we see on board the ISS, because if they are faking space now, then they were definitely faking it fifty years ago. We see clear evidence of wire harnesses, mad looking hair, permed into place and pixelating objects and foregrounds, while the background stays intact. This fakery isn’t up for argument, as it is plainly obvious, so the way I see it, your only defence can be to explain why they need to fake the footage if they are really in space.









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As for tangled wires, maybe the scenes you mention, only had one man on wires, or if the men stayed approximately the same distance apart...

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This is why it's important for you to have seen more than just the odd YouTube clip of astronauts on the lunar surface.  You're proposing stuff that would potentially work for a few seconds, or maybe a minute or two.  But not for the lengthy shots that are in the unedited source material

Why would any of the footage be impossible to fake with a combination of wire rigs, helium balloons and framerate editing? Don’t forget, they only needed support for those high skips and jumps, where the fall could be measurable. The bulk of the footage doesn’t require wires, just crank up the speed and it becomes clear that they are on a movie set.

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...it would be an easy task to suspend both of them

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You've obviously never staged Peter Pan with a flyrig.  Multiple actors on wires "live" on a stage with two dimensions of travel is not possible with theatrical flyrigs today.  I'm certified by Foy to operate multiaxis flyrigs and I've designed and built my own single-axis flyrig.  Since Foy's technology is proprietary, an NDA prevents me from describing it in detail.  But safe to say it works on a gantry principle that can't accommodate more than a single flier without drastically reducing his field of travel.  And that's state of the art.  So please describe a rig that could do what you say

First of all, we are talking a multibillion dollar organisation, not some two-bit “live” stage production. I would imagine a rotating rail underneath the main rig would suffice in order to allow the actors to skip and jump around each other, but I’ve yet to find any footage of the actors crossing paths multiple times, that would require both actors to be suspended.

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Helium balloons would be a good solution.....

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That's how they did it for From the Earth to the Moon.  I worked on a film with the grip company that did those effects.  And no, it's not just handwavingly easy.

They didn’t do it because it was easy, but because it was hard :)

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So in what field is your expertise…..

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Aerospace engineering, along with film and theater as side businesses.  Please tell me what your training and experience is in aerospace engineering.  Please tell me what your training and experience is in professional film and theater.  You're making claims along those lines that would ordinarily be probative only if they came from someone with suitable expertise, to be able to give his informed judgment regarding what is easy, hard, possible, or impossible in those fields

There are people with better qualifications than you, who have fell foul to NASA’s lies. The qualifications you are so proud of are the very thing preventing you from viewing the evidence with an open mind. I can’t believe we are arguing over how they managed to suspend the actors when the video fakery as a whole is so insanely obvious, and I do believe some of you when you say you can’t see it, but that’s mind control for you.

Knowledge is power, but that doesn’t apply to you, as the people running the world have the real knowledge, which gives them the power to control the rest of us, by giving us a false knowledge, which in turn, gives us a false understanding of the world we live in. Therefore, the less knowledge we have, to a certain extent, the more open our minds are, and since I have less of this alleged scientific knowledge than you, it gives me power over the likes of you, as I am free to think outside the box, in which, you will be forever locked inside.

 
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It’s already been proven that the footage you got your earth images from, was not shot on the outward journey to the moon…..

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No, it hasn't been proven.  You've just bought Sibrel's line uncritically and are uninterested in why his attempt at proof fails.  Then you're simply begging the question of your belief to insist that any rebuttal against it must somehow be false.  That's as circular as reasoning can get

Sibrel was wrong in his assumption that the trickery was performed while in LEO, but rather on board a plane, as we never see the alleged astronauts speaking, because to have live audio would mean hearing the planes engines. The triple glazing theory doesn’t come close to debunking what we see in the footage. There are large discrepancies in the views of the windows when the camera is zoomed out, depending on which transmission we are viewing, and the size of the earth is only a fraction of the size it should be from the distances alleged. There are also numerous cuts in the video footage, while the audio continues seamlessly over these cuts, in all three of the alleged transmissions.

It seems that every TV network, apart from ABC have lost the original live news coverage of that second broadcast, and the ABC News channel showed an edited version of that transmission in an alleged “live” broadcast. How the hell does that work? The “fact” that there is no unedited archive TV footage from the time of the event, and the fact that the bulk of the footage was never officially released to the public until after Sibrel released his DVD is very suspicious to say the least. Your flimsy debunking efforts only make sense to those within the realms of the NASA fan club, while the rest of us see it as pure BS.


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.....how can anyone be this gullible?

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Most of my sources for Apollo reference are contemporary.  You are trying very hard to hide what is effectively an affirmative rebuttal.  No matter what material is produced that contradicts your belief, your standard rebuttal -- made with no evidence -- is that it must somehow have been faked.  Calling your critics gullible doesn't relieve you of the burden to prove an affirmative rebuttal.

Made with no evidence? What do you hope to gain by being dishonest? You may have some respect among your fellow cult members, but most people outside of your little club see you as a deceitful character who will distort the truth and make false accusations toward your opponents in an attempt to discredit them.

Why would anyone accept your challenge to debate with you, as they would be banging their heads against a brick wall? You and your friends will either ignore the evidence presented to you and instead, discredit the person making the claim, or simply wave it away with weak counterevidence and then claim victory on the grounds that you allegedly have the superior knowledge.

I’m only here to fill in my spare time, and to try and understand how people can be so easily blinded by science. This is incredulity of the highest order, as there is a mountain of evidence staring you in the face, but you put your fingers in your ears and look the other way. This has to be a form of mental illness you are all suffering from, as your way of thinking is completely alien to any rational thinking person. Try and imagine your emotions if the government and NASA were to come clean and admit the fraud. The very thought should terrify you, but I’m guessing that your brains are not wired for imaginative thinking.

 





Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on December 24, 2018, 02:05:15 PM
The Aulis site makes a hell of a lot more sense than NASA’s garbage...

His site "makes sense" only if the reader doesn't know much about how space works.....

How do you know how space works? You have no first-hand experience of what it’s like up there, which is the main point of my argument. We only have knowledge of what we are taught, and until you have personal experience of what you’ve been taught, then you can’t say you know. It would be like when you believed in Santa Claus as a child, but until you’ve been up in that sleigh, all you have is faith, not knowledge.

Relative to the world’s population, there is only a microscopic group of people who can say they allegedly have experience of how space works. Forget the people on the ground constructing rockets, satellites, Mars landers and the likes, and also the people looking at screens, and don’t forget all those geologists. These people have been given the equivalent of seeing their dad in a Santa suit. It must be real because I helped build it! And I monitored its progress on my computer screen! Hey that’s nothing, I seen a rock!!!

The alleged astronauts and the people involved in the video and photographic fakery will know it’s all a big fraud, but they don’t understand how space works. My guess is, the Russians, and then the US, realised early on that they couldn’t send people out into space and bring them back alive, so whether it’s because they can’t survive re-entry or whether it be radiation, or those rockets just didn’t have the oomph to carry all that weight into space, I’m just not sure, but I’ll put money on it being at least one of those factors, plus a few others. Who knows, maybe rockets really don’t work in space. ;) Or maybe it’s the dome. ;D ;D

A small elite group will have some idea how it works, but it’s not the story we’re being told. It’s beginning to look like they’ll never work it out, as it’s been well over half a century since they started trying, and still no joy. What the hell’s wrong with you people? Stanley Kubrick and his special effects man, Douglas Trumbull, did a half decent job of fooling the public back in the day, but how on “earth” is it possible that some people still refuse to see through the lies?

If you want to push the idea that they went, then that’s just fine, but at least admit the video footage is fake, as you aren’t doing yourselves any favours by being stubborn. You are fighting a losing battle and if they ever pluck up the courage to fake it again, it’ll be the video footage, once again which lets them down, as although NASA have all the necessary facilities to produce blockbuster movies, they’re just not very good at it.

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.....I started out as a believer, but unlike you I was willing to listen to arguments from both sides...

Quote from: JayUtah
No, you believe in Apollo hoaxes because you very much want to, and you're fighting tooth and nail to defend that belief.....

No one “wants” to believe that our governments are controlling us with their evil lies and deceit, and it would be absurd to think anyone would want to believe that a government would deliberately slaughter thousands of its own citizens in order to have an excuse to start a war, but I believe it to be true because the evidence strongly suggests it to be true. It is you who is fighting to defend a belief that is merely based on your misplaced trust in the people that govern you.

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You haven't shown any evidence that you've sifted through the mountain of evidence.  You seem to have steeped yourself only in the cherry-picked bits interpreted by people with no knowledge of what they're looking at and considerable interested in getting money from you.  How does that qualify as a well-rounded experience?

Of course I’m cherry-picking, as I’m picking out what I feel is the strongest evidence, which proves we are being lied to. On top of this, there is also a large amount of circumstantial evidence, which adds further weight to the allegations. The money earned by the people making these videos is nothing compared to the trillions extorted from the tax payers, but the difference is, we have a choice to whether or not we line the pockets of those filmmaker’s. I for one, haven’t gave a single penny to these charlatans as you call them, although you may find it ironic that I’ve purchased several official Apollo DVD’s over the past few months.


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...as we are in the majority...

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What facts demonstrate that the majority of people believe that Apollo missions were hoaxes?

I’ve discussed this subject with many of my work colleagues and friends over recent years, and when I tell them that it never happened, the majority say of course it did. When I ask them how they know, the answer I always get is, because it did. On the other hand, the handful of people who agree with me will give me a list of reasons why they don’t believe.

How many people do you think have actually looked at the evidence, rather than just being told that it happened and leaving it at that? Around twenty to thirty percent of the public don’t believe we went to the moon and the vast majority of the other 70% probably just don’t give a crap, as they have lives to live and don’t have time for conspiracies, and although this isn’t a fact, I feel it is a fair assumption, due to my personal experience.

There are only a very small group of people, which includes you, who take the time to fight tooth and nail to uphold this fantasy that we are capable of manned space flight, and as time goes on, that 30% of nonbelievers will grow, while your numbers will at best, stay as they are. Don’t forget to order your Apollo 50yrs commemorative coin and other memorabilia which I’m sure will be money well spent.

https://sputniknews.com/science/201807271066736384-russians-polled-on-moon-landings/
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/moon-landing-celebrates-47th-anniversary-8446862

Have a nice Christmas, get your hankies ready!


 
 
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on December 24, 2018, 02:55:23 PM
This is incredulity of the highest order, as there is a mountain of evidence staring you in the face, but you put your fingers in your ears and look the other way. This has to be a form of mental illness you are all suffering from, as your way of thinking is completely alien to any rational thinking person. Try and imagine your emotions if the government and NASA were to come clean and admit the fraud. The very thought should terrify you, but I’m guessing that your brains are not wired for imaginative thinking.

My irony meter just broke.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on December 24, 2018, 03:01:50 PM

How many people do you think have actually looked at the evidence, rather than just being told that it happened and leaving it at that? Around twenty to thirty percent of the public don’t believe we went to the moon and the vast majority of the other 70% probably just don’t give a crap, as they have lives to live and don’t have time for conspiracies, and although this isn’t a fact, I feel it is a fair assumption, due to my personal experience.

Doesn't matter how many have actually looked. What actually matters is whether the evidence they look at is correct or not. The Apollo evidence is correct and stands up to every scrutiny thinking people can give it. You assumptions are just that and have no basis in fact.

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There are only a very small group of people, which includes you, who take the time to fight tooth and nail to uphold this fantasy that we are capable of manned space flight, and as time goes on, that 30% of nonbelievers will grow, while your numbers will at best, stay as they are.

And?

A lot of people actually involved in manned space flight really, really, don't give a rat's ass for the morons out there who don't believe in it. The baseless, ill-informed opinions of cretins are an irrelevance to them, and it doesn't matter how many of them there are, it doesn't make them correct.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: nomuse on December 24, 2018, 03:21:22 PM


How do you know how space works? You have no first-hand experience of what it’s like up there, which is the main point of my argument. We only have knowledge of what we are taught, and until you have personal experience of what you’ve been taught, then you can’t say you know. It would be like when you believed in Santa Claus as a child, but until you’ve been up in that sleigh, all you have is faith, not knowledge.



And it's still a stupid argument.

There is no bright line. All the sciences are connected. The same underlying principles are shared across specialities. The same physics operates regardless of where you are; the difference is in which factors come to the front.

I worked briefly at an industrial vacuum deposition shop. We had a vacuum, our tools were in that vacuum, the processes we were doing to make products for our customers happened in that vacuum. Now here you are, saying that if we made that vacuum just slightly harder it would change all the rules. It would suddenly turn into Magical Space Vacuum about which no human can ever be allowed to understand.

Balderdash.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on December 24, 2018, 03:26:59 PM
why some people believe that governments and large organisations such as NASA would be incapable of lying.

Nobody claims they are incapable of lying.  They merely didn't, and can prove they didn't.

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Wind forward to recent years and the heads of every so called space agency in the world know that Apollo was a hoax...

Maybe in some alternate universe.

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First of all, we are talking a multibillion dollar organisation, not some two-bit “live” stage production.

You don't know who Foy is, do you?  Also, the theater I work in is a $65 million performing arts facility, not some "two-bit" stage.  Our automation contractor is the same one Cirque du Soleil uses.

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There are people with better qualifications than you, who have fell foul to NASA’s lies. The qualifications you are so proud of are the very thing preventing you from viewing the evidence with an open mind.

Right.  The guy who does all this stuff for a living is somehow "blinded" to the evidence.  I notice you didn't answer what your qualifications were.  I assume you don't have any.

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Sibrel was wrong...

Have you actually seen the footage aside from what Sibrel shows you?

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...the fact that the bulk of the footage was never officially released to the public until after Sibrel released his DVD is very suspicious to say the least.

It was all released on VHS long before Sibrel's voice changed.  You may not have seen it, but that's your problem.

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Made with no evidence? What do you hope to gain by being dishonest? You may have some respect among your fellow cult members, but most people outside of your little club see you as a deceitful character who will distort the truth and make false accusations toward your opponents in an attempt to discredit them.

If you say so.

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I’m guessing that your brains are not wired for imaginative thinking.

Yes, you're obviously so much the better thinker.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on December 24, 2018, 03:30:52 PM
How do you know how space works?

Because it's what I do for a living.

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If you want to push the idea that they went, then that’s just fine, but at least admit the video footage is fake, as you aren’t doing yourselves any favours by being stubborn. You are fighting a losing battle...

If you say so.

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No one “wants” to believe that our governments are controlling us with their evil lies and deceit...

You do, because what else would you have to rail against?  How else would you be the "hero" who can somehow see through all these layers of deception?

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I’ve discussed this subject with many of my work colleagues...

So that's your idea of a "majority?"  Your personal circle?

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How many people do you think have actually looked at the evidence, rather than just being told that it happened and leaving it at that?

Everyone in my industry.

Obvious troll is obvious.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on December 24, 2018, 03:40:06 PM
My irony meter just broke.

Indeed.  He really has no toehold in reality.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: MBDK on December 24, 2018, 03:45:12 PM
It’s not a case of me being puzzled by the world, but rather, my perception of the world is merely different to what you perceive it to be.

That would be due to the fact that I am mentally stable.

What does puzzle me however is why some people believe that governments and large organisations such as NASA would be incapable of lying.

Since you seem to be puzzled by every physical law of the universe, this is not a revelation.  Your critically disabled critical thinking skills can't seem to grasp the glaring difference between capability and performance.  Just because someone CAN lie does not mean they did, or have done it in a specific instance.  EVERYONE is capable of lying (you know, just like you did when you claimed there were only two possibilities for the observation of the dust movement in the "jump salute").  One needs to examine each point individually to judge its accuracy.  However, I am certain you know this and are just trolling, because your tactic of saturation dumping is merely a lame attempt to obfuscate any discussion.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on December 24, 2018, 05:16:39 PM
why some people believe that governments and large organisations such as NASA would be incapable of lying.

Nobody claims they are incapable of lying.  They merely didn't, and can prove they didn't.

What we are specifically claiming is that they are incapable of keeping a lie secret, which is a very different claim.

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I’m guessing that your brains are not wired for imaginative thinking.

Yes, you're obviously so much the better thinker.

Not to mention that some of us are involved in the creative arts!

It’s not a case of me being puzzled by the world, but rather, my perception of the world is merely different to what you perceive it to be.

That would be due to the fact that I am mentally stable.

Be careful--I'm not, remember, and neither are several other members.  What matters is not a binary stable/unstable.  What matters is an ability to view evidence objectively.  Plenty of unstable people are perfectly capable of doing that, and many are capable of doing that provided the evidence isn't a focus of their instability.  I have a friend whose schizophrenic aunt is paranoid about the Klan, and there are a lot of factors where her thinking is not reasonable.  But she's still capable of being rational about some things that aren't touched by her illness.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: MBDK on December 24, 2018, 10:53:46 PM
That would be due to the fact that I am mentally stable.
Be careful--I'm not, remember, and neither are several other members.  What matters is not a binary stable/unstable.  What matters is an ability to view evidence objectively.  Plenty of unstable people are perfectly capable of doing that, and many are capable of doing that provided the evidence isn't a focus of their instability.  I have a friend whose schizophrenic aunt is paranoid about the Klan, and there are a lot of factors where her thinking is not reasonable.  But she's still capable of being rational about some things that aren't touched by her illness.
Understood, and I apologize for any insult you may have perceived.  We all have our problems and unrecognized prejudices, but I would like to point out that Cambo may be the best in the world at rationalizing things, such as say, the intricacies of precision Swiss watches, but Cambo either has a similar problem (like your dear friend) with regards to physics/NASA/governments, or is a deliberate troll, who's mental justifications are of a serious concern. 

Regardless, I will try to refrain from such innuendos in future, and wish you and yours, and EVERYBODY on this forum (even you, too Cambo) a VERY Merry Christmas, and a happy and fruitful New Year!

Note: Edited to clarify the comparison of gillianren's friend's situation to Cambo's.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Peter B on December 25, 2018, 12:35:29 AM
It’s not a case of me being puzzled by the world, but rather, my perception of the world is merely different to what you perceive it to be...

So you'd call yourself a stable genius?

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Wind forward to recent years and the heads of every so called space agency in the world know that Apollo was a hoax, along with all other alleged manned space flight, as they are all in on the act.

What, even the North Koreans and Cubans are willing to go along with this, despite their lack of love for the USA?

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There are people with better qualifications than you, who have fell foul to NASA’s lies. The qualifications you are so proud of are the very thing preventing you from viewing the evidence with an open mind.

So what are the qualifications needed to tell whether a rocket launched from a space port somewhere is actually in space?

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Knowledge is power, but that doesn’t apply to you, as the people running the world have the real knowledge, which gives them the power to control the rest of us, by giving us a false knowledge, which in turn, gives us a false understanding of the world we live in. Therefore, the less knowledge we have, to a certain extent, the more open our minds are, and since I have less of this alleged scientific knowledge than you, it gives me power over the likes of you, as I am free to think outside the box, in which, you will be forever locked inside.

How about the less you know about a subject, the easier it is to be mistaken about it.

Incidentally, does this world-view of yours apply to earth-bound science and technology? Do you, for example distrust a construction engineer who makes a pronouncement about the safety or otherwise of a bridge, and prefer instead the prognostications of an open-minded non-engineer? (I'm thinking, for example, of the Ponte Morandi in Genoa, which partially collapsed in August this year.)

Likewise, do you apply this maxim to what experts tell you about yourself and your...stuff? Do you, for example, dismiss as "false understanding" what your mechanic says about your car when your best mate can wave a crystal over it and say it's fine?

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...we never see the alleged astronauts speaking, because to have live audio would mean hearing the planes engines...

If you're going to insist on that being a problem, how is it that amplified music doesn't immediately cause feedback?

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Try and imagine your emotions if the government and NASA were to come clean and admit the fraud.

I've done better than that. I've written a short story in which faking the Moon landings is the central plot point.

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The very thought should terrify you, but I’m guessing that your brains are not wired for imaginative thinking.

Heh. I'm a parent. My imaginative thinking about the possible consequences of my kids' current activities leaves me in a constant state of terror.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Peter B on December 25, 2018, 01:05:59 AM
How do you know how space works? You have no first-hand experience of what it’s like up there, which is the main point of my argument. We only have knowledge of what we are taught, and until you have personal experience of what you’ve been taught, then you can’t say you know. It would be like when you believed in Santa Claus as a child, but until you’ve been up in that sleigh, all you have is faith, not knowledge.

Well, let's take an alternative sample...

Do you believe anything you haven't had a "personal experience" of? If you do, what do you say is acceptable evidence to accept the reality of something you can't personally experience?

Is Bulgaria real? What about something historical like, say, the Column of Phocas in Rome? Does Saturn have rings? How many moons does Jupiter have? Is Neptune real?

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Relative to the world’s population, there is only a microscopic group of people who can say they allegedly have experience of how space works. Forget the people on the ground constructing rockets, satellites, Mars landers and the likes, and also the people looking at screens, and don’t forget all those geologists. These people have been given the equivalent of seeing their dad in a Santa suit. It must be real because I helped build it! And I monitored its progress on my computer screen! Hey that’s nothing, I seen a rock!!!

Okay, so what about the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket? People can go to Cape Canaveral and film the lift-off, and with their cameras can track the first stage up into space, and then a few minutes later watch a slightly singed rocket land by the pad. They can have beside them a screen showing live shots from the top of the first stage looking down, with views which exactly match the trajectory of the rocket they're watching. Or are those people fake too?

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My guess is, the Russians, and then the US, realised early on that they couldn’t send people out into space and bring them back alive, so whether it’s because they can’t survive re-entry or whether it be radiation, or those rockets just didn’t have the oomph to carry all that weight into space, I’m just not sure, but I’ll put money on it being at least one of those factors, plus a few others. Who knows, maybe rockets really don’t work in space. ;) Or maybe it’s the dome. ;D ;D

So this is what it comes down to: you think rockets can't take people into space, but you don't what it is that makes it impossible. And the only evidence you have in your favour is a couple of videos you think don't look right.

Roger that.

Just out of interest, I know I've asked this before, but I don't think you've ever bothered to reply: what unmanned space missions do you believe are real? Voyagers 1 and 2? Galileo and Cassini? Far Horizons? Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity on Mars? The Indian Mars orbiter? The Chinese lunar rover? Communications satellites in geosynchronous orbit? Satellites in low-Earth orbit? V-2s?

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Of course I’m cherry-picking...

The problem with cherry-picking the evidence is that the bits you leave out may completely change the meaning of what is said...

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...I...earned...trillions...from the tax payers...for one...official Apollo DVD...over the past few months.

 :)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on December 29, 2018, 02:44:35 PM
There's a lot more than just the visual record (by which I assume you mean the photos, film and video), although you seem determined to dismiss all of it without any real analysis.  The fact that such an extensive and detailed record exists can't easily be ignored, especially when it's not just "NASA" providing us with evidence.  A huge array of information, from people all over the world, in many different disciplines, both from the time of the missions, and in subsequent analysis, supports the case that Apollo happened.

What do you mean when you say “an extensive and detailed record”? Are you talking about things such as the original video tapes from Apollo 11 and all that telemetry data from the missions? And surely the old technology that enabled them to achieve such an incredible feat, must also be well documented? Or are you merely referring to the written account of events?

Could you be more specific about this huge array of evidence from people all over the world, from the time of the missions, that would support the idea that NASA were successful in sending men to the moon and back nine times in under four years, without a single casualty.

The video record is the only true source of evidence, as it was the hardest thing to fake, and boy did they mess up. Including video footage of the events was a big mistake, and they’ve since learned their lesson, as even the latest fake mars mission doesn’t include video footage.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on December 29, 2018, 03:08:06 PM
And surely the old technology that enabled them to achieve such an incredible feat, must also be well documented?

Yes.

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The video record is the only true source of evidence...

No.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on December 29, 2018, 03:29:09 PM


The video record is the only true source of evidence, as it was the hardest thing to fake, and boy did they mess up. /quote]

No it isn't. Telemetry, experiments left on the Moon, Moon rock returned to give you some example
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Including video footage of the events was a big mistake,


Could you be specific concerning video mistakes?


Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on December 29, 2018, 06:08:29 PM
I had to go a long way back to find the context for this.  It's on page 19 if anyone is interested in reading more.

The response is to cambo's comment :
Even if the science is correct, it would only show us that space flight is possible, but in no way would it be proof that these events have actually took place. In the case of Apollo, Surely the visual record is the only source of real evidence, as without this evidence, we would only have NASA’s word.

There's a lot more than just the visual record (by which I assume you mean the photos, film and video), although you seem determined to dismiss all of it without any real analysis.  The fact that such an extensive and detailed record exists can't easily be ignored, especially when it's not just "NASA" providing us with evidence.  A huge array of information, from people all over the world, in many different disciplines, both from the time of the missions, and in subsequent analysis, supports the case that Apollo happened.

What do you mean when you say “an extensive and detailed record”? Are you talking about things such as the original video tapes from Apollo 11 and all that telemetry data from the missions? And surely the old technology that enabled them to achieve such an incredible feat, must also be well documented? Or are you merely referring to the written account of events?
Since you claimed the visual (video) record was "the only real evidence", my response was that there are many other parts of the record which are non-visual, but which are equally important, and confirm the reality of Apollo.  The video record is interesting, but is probably not as important as many other pieces of evidence generated during the project.

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Could you be more specific about this huge array of evidence from people all over the world, from the time of the missions, that would support the idea that NASA were successful in sending men to the moon and back nine times in under four years, without a single casualty.
How specific do you want me to be?  If you take the time to read other threads on this forum you'll find references to many, many types of evidence.  It would take days to document even the main parts of it, but, for example, there's the photographic archive, not just from the missions, but of all the supporting developments and work during the programme.

Then there's all the engineering documentation of every aspect of the programme, from the enormous undertaking of developing the launch vehicles, to tiny details like the layouts of control panels.  Another form of written documentation is the paper trail of memos, letters, faxes etc. etc. discussing all sorts of aspects of the project, including personnel issues, development problems, cost issues etc.  A lot of it might seem to be trivialities, but it is still supporting evidence.

And if you're looking for international documentation, there's everything from Soviet reports on the Apollo missions, to the records from people and organisations which tracked and listened in to the missions (including private individuals).  These are all corroborating which add to the proof that these missions took place as stated.

If you're going to claim this is all "hoaxed" you need to explain each and every part of this vast array of varied evidence.

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The video record is the only true source of evidence, as it was the hardest thing to fake, and boy did they mess up. Including video footage of the events was a big mistake,
In what way?  I've yet to see anything which even begins to look like evidence that any video footage was faked.

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and they’ve since learned their lesson, as even the latest fake mars mission doesn’t include video footage.
What on earth (  ;) ) are you wittering on about?  Which Mars mission?  If you're talking about Insight, then why do you think it should have a video camera?  It has two cameras which are for specific purposes - yet again you're falling into the trap of expecting mission planners and designers to waste weight and power to provide "entertainment" for numpties who might doubt the reality of what they're accomplishing...

[edit] As I'm replying in the throes of post-crimbo stupor, I should have added mention of all the other non-visual pieces of evidence, such as those mentioned by bknight above.  Thanks for that.  Any thoughts on all of this additional evidence cambo?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Trebor on December 30, 2018, 08:44:12 AM
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What on earth (  ;) ) are you wittering on about?  Which Mars mission?  If you're talking about Insight, then why do you think it should have a video camera?  It has two cameras which are for specific purposes - yet again you're falling into the trap of expecting mission planners and designers to waste weight and power to provide "entertainment" for numpties who might doubt the reality of what they're accomplishing...

But we NEED 60 fps HD video of Mars rocks! Never mind the amount of data or getting it back from Mars.
Science can wait.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on January 08, 2019, 01:03:22 PM
First of all, we are talking a multibillion dollar organisation, not some two-bit “live” stage production.

Here's a link to our latest "two-bit live stage production."
https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2019/01/08/here-are-top-whiz-bang/
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: tikkitakki on January 09, 2019, 04:30:27 AM

Here's a link to our latest "two-bit live stage production."
https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2019/01/08/here-are-top-whiz-bang/ (https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2019/01/08/here-are-top-whiz-bang/)

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We'll be back

We're sorry. The Salt Lake Tribune's web site, sltrib.com, is unavailable in the European Union. We are working with lawyers on compliance with the European Union's General Data Protection Requirements, and we expect to sltrib.com to be available once that is done. Thank you for your patience.
:( :(


Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on January 09, 2019, 09:39:02 AM
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We'll be back

We're sorry. The Salt Lake Tribune's web site, sltrib.com, is unavailable in the European Union. We are working with lawyers on compliance with the European Union's General Data Protection Requirements, and we expect to sltrib.com to be available once that is done. Thank you for your patience.
:( :(

Yeah, their subscription system barely works.  I can't imagine it comes close to GDPR compliance.   “吸牛 high-tech Alliance crap!”
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: peter eldergill on January 09, 2019, 12:48:59 PM
  “吸牛 high-tech Alliance crap!”

Firefly?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Northern Lurker on January 09, 2019, 01:57:50 PM
Here's a link to our latest "two-bit live stage production."
https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2019/01/08/here-are-top-whiz-bang/ (https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2019/01/08/here-are-top-whiz-bang/)

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We'll be back

We're sorry. The Salt Lake Tribune's web site, sltrib.com, is unavailable in the European Union. We are working with lawyers on compliance with the European Union's General Data Protection Requirements, and we expect to sltrib.com to be available once that is done. Thank you for your patience.

One acronym: VPN

Being a Finn, I use F-Secure security suite with Freedome VPN. Changing my geolocation to US worked like a charm.

Lurky

edit: typo
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on January 09, 2019, 03:40:17 PM
  “吸牛 high-tech Alliance crap!”

Firefly?

Indeed. Jayne's opinion of an Alliance stun gun when it turns out it can't be used to shoot out the lock of a door in Ariel, I believe....
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Obviousman on January 09, 2019, 05:46:38 PM
Shiny!
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: MBDK on January 09, 2019, 10:42:24 PM
Here's a link to our latest "two-bit live stage production."
https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2019/01/08/here-are-top-whiz-bang/
Looks amazing, Jay.  I wish I could see it.  All I need are six numbers in synchronous harmony with the random retrieval of balls inked with reciprocal integers. *sigh*  At least my odds will be better than any portion of the Apollo missions being faked.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on February 11, 2019, 06:49:44 PM
Boeing, IBM, Douglas, North American Aviation, Grumman... just five major private industry players in Apollo who either are in on the fraud or else built stuff that actually worked for NASA because no-one told them it was a fraud, and were good enough to document their processes extensively.

IBM built and programmed the guidance system using the data given to them by NASA.

Boeing, North American and Douglas Aircraft built the rocket stages, which were designed by NASA under the direction of Wernher von Braun. Boeing were also the main contractor, given the task of building the LRV.

Grumman were apparently contracted by NASA to design and build the LM, and after they were satisfied it would work, they handed it over to NASA, who allegedly put it through its paces in space, where it apparently performed exactly as stated on the tin.

You know all this of course, but why would any of those contractors have known that all their hard work was just part of NASA’s plan to fool the world? The rockets first stage was the only part that had to work to a certain degree, as is plainly seen in the original live news broadcasts from the time of the events.

After first staging occurs, we see no clear evidence to suggest that the second stage is working, or even still intact for that matter, as all we see is an indistinct glowing white blob, which the camera follows for a couple of minutes, before cutting to the animation. But as with most of NASA’s video footage, our eyes must be deceiving us, as the man reading the script tells us that everything’s working fine.

In the original live news footage of the Apollo 17 night launch, just prior to staging we see a bright red rocket plume, and then the camera switches to black & white. At the exact point of staging, there is a glitch in the transmission and a second later, we see the white blob with no sign of the first stage falling away.

It’s a real shame the footage never stayed in colour for just a few more seconds, as we would have had some indication as to whether that second stage was firing, or just what was left of the rocket falling back to earth, as is apparent in the Apollo 16 footage.

By what reasoning do you assume that everyone working for, or contracted to NASA would have to be in on the fraud, including the cleaners? Did any of those contractors test the hardware in the environment it was made for? Those contractors would not necessarily have to be in on the fraud, and would not necessarily have built something that worked. They merely built something that they thought would work, because like you, they had complete trust in the science presented to them by NASA.


Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: BDL on February 11, 2019, 07:49:32 PM
Boeing, IBM, Douglas, North American Aviation, Grumman... just five major private industry players in Apollo who either are in on the fraud or else built stuff that actually worked for NASA because no-one told them it was a fraud, and were good enough to document their processes extensively.

IBM built and programmed the guidance system using the data given to them by NASA.

Boeing, North American and Douglas Aircraft built the rocket stages, which were designed by NASA under the direction of Wernher von Braun. Boeing were also the main contractor, given the task of building the LRV.

Grumman were apparently contracted by NASA to design and build the LM, and after they were satisfied it would work, they handed it over to NASA, who allegedly put it through its paces in space, where it apparently performed exactly as stated on the tin.

You know all this of course, but why would any of those contractors have known that all their hard work was just part of NASA’s plan to fool the world? The rockets first stage was the only part that had to work to a certain degree, as is plainly seen in the original live news broadcasts from the time of the events.

After first staging occurs, we see no clear evidence to suggest that the second stage is working, or even still intact for that matter, as all we see is an indistinct glowing white blob, which the camera follows for a couple of minutes, before cutting to the animation. But as with most of NASA’s video footage, our eyes must be deceiving us, as the man reading the script tells us that everything’s working fine.

In the original live news footage of the Apollo 17 night launch, just prior to staging we see a bright red rocket plume, and then the camera switches to black & white. At the exact point of staging, there is a glitch in the transmission and a second later, we see the white blob with no sign of the first stage falling away.

It’s a real shame the footage never stayed in colour for just a few more seconds, as we would have had some indication as to whether that second stage was firing, or just what was left of the rocket falling back to earth, as is apparent in the Apollo 16 footage.

By what reasoning do you assume that everyone working for, or contracted to NASA would have to be in on the fraud, including the cleaners? Did any of those contractors test the hardware in the environment it was made for? Those contractors would not necessarily have to be in on the fraud, and would not necessarily have built something that worked. They merely built something that they thought would work, because like you, they had complete trust in the science presented to them by NASA.
If you had built a faulty machine and known it to be faulty - and a space agency takes that faulty technology and claims it did what you knew it couldn’t, wouldn’t you tell someone? Wouldn’t that already be enough to know that there was some sort of conspiracy going on?

The engineers hired to build, create, and figure out the Apollo technology would be pretty confused when they see the technology they know is faulty being flown to the moon with no problems whatsoever. They would have been vocal about it.

But that’s just a hypothetical. Because that didn’t really happen.
There were no engineers from ICBM, Grumman, Boeing, or Douglass who ever claimed that the Apollo tech never worked. Because it did, and they know it did. And they know it did because they were the ones who built, designed, and created it.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gwiz on February 12, 2019, 07:37:36 AM
In the original live news footage of the Apollo 17 night launch, just prior to staging we see a bright red rocket plume, and then the camera switches to black & white. At the exact point of staging, there is a glitch in the transmission and a second later, we see the white blob with no sign of the first stage falling away.

It’s a real shame the footage never stayed in colour for just a few more seconds, as we would have had some indication as to whether that second stage was firing, or just what was left of the rocket falling back to earth, as is apparent in the Apollo 16 footage.
I was present at the launch of Apollo 17 and there was no doubt about the second stage firing, it was visible for a considerable time.  I don't know which video you saw, but to the naked eye the second stage flame was a different colour from the first stage, white rather than yellow.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on February 12, 2019, 08:18:43 AM
Boeing, IBM, Douglas, North American Aviation, Grumman... just five major private industry players in Apollo who either are in on the fraud or else built stuff that actually worked for NASA because no-one told them it was a fraud, and were good enough to document their processes extensively.

IBM built and programmed the guidance system using the data given to them by NASA.

Boeing, North American and Douglas Aircraft built the rocket stages, which were designed by NASA...

Grumman were apparently contracted by NASA to design and build the LM, and after they were satisfied it would work, they handed it over to NASA...

Standard conspiracy theory fallacy 1: all the private companies just did what NASA told them to. The world really really does not work this way. If a company is contracted to build something that has to do something specific, the engineers will build something that does the thing it is supposed to do, and they will know whether it will work as intended or not. IBM's IU, for example, used an inertial guidance system that was not designed by NASA (inertial guidance was in use in WWII) and had to liaise closely with the other contractors since the IU would be controlling all stages of the Saturn V, so interfaces and feedback systems had to be developed in concert with the stage development.

Despite the way you wish to characterise it, the hardware was not designed in toto by NASA and then just given to various contractors to blindly assemble.

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You know all this of course, but why would any of those contractors have known that all their hard work was just part of NASA’s plan to fool the world?

If someone there doesn't know it doesn't need to work, they build something that does work.

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After first staging occurs, we see no clear evidence to suggest that the second stage is working, or even still intact for that matter, as all we see is an indistinct glowing white blob,

How much Saturn V launch footage have you seen? I've seen quite a bit that shows the S-II stage still working after staging. Not very clearly of course given the distances involved but certainly with enough clarity to see it is still very much intact and firing its engines.

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It’s a real shame the footage never stayed in colour for just a few more seconds

And that you never expanded your research to encompass all the available footage of the many Saturn V launches.

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By what reasoning do you assume that everyone working for, or contracted to NASA would have to be in on the fraud, including the cleaners?

By what reasoning do you conclude that is what I said? Don't distort my arguments to try and make your point. The point remains, if you contract an engineering company to build a spacecraft they will build working space hardware unless you tell them it doesn't have to work, and if you try to get them to build something that doesn't work they will know.

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Did any of those contractors test the hardware in the environment it was made for?

Standard conspiracy theory fallacy 2: everything must be tested in the exact way it is to be used or else it is untested. Again, the world doesn't work that way. And in any case you have already decided it's fake, so the fact that there were actually test flights of the hardware in space is inadmissible to you anyway. Representatives from the contractors were on hand at NASA when those flights occurred. Think they're all clever enough to build what they think is working space hardware but too dumb to spot fake telemetry?

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They merely built something that they thought would work, because like you, they had complete trust in the science presented to them by NASA.

Standard conspiracy theory fallacy 3: all the science of Apollo comes from NASA. It never has.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: ka9q on February 12, 2019, 08:25:54 AM
After first staging occurs, we see no clear evidence to suggest that the second stage is working, or even still intact for that matter, as all we see is an indistinct glowing white blob, which the camera follows for a couple of minutes, before cutting to the animation. But as with most of NASA’s video footage, our eyes must be deceiving us, as the man reading the script tells us that everything’s working fine.
How about the third stage? Quite a few people around the world saw the translunar injection burns out of earth orbit. Some even took photos.

http://pages.astronomy.ua.edu/keel/space/apollo.html

And then we have the radio signals, the returned photographs, movies and lunar samples, eyewitness reports of the returning Apollo capsules, etc, etc, etc.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on February 12, 2019, 08:46:23 AM
Boeing, IBM, Douglas, North American Aviation, Grumman... just five major private industry players in Apollo who either are in on the fraud or else built stuff that actually worked for NASA because no-one told them it was a fraud, and were good enough to document their processes extensively.

<snip nonsense>

In the original live news footage of the Apollo 17 night launch, just prior to staging we see a bright red rocket plume, and then the camera switches to black & white. At the exact point of staging, there is a glitch in the transmission and a second later, we see the white blob with no sign of the first stage falling away.

It’s a real shame the footage never stayed in colour for just a few more seconds, as we would have had some indication as to whether that second stage was firing, or just what was left of the rocket falling back to earth, as is apparent in the Apollo 16 footage.

<snip BS>
I guess you never shot any TV coverage at night, it takes some light to see objects like the first stage falling away.  And probably you should look around for other sources of footage.  Here for example one continues viewing the launch with the second stage burning(no first stage falling away as it is night)
 
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Peter B on February 12, 2019, 09:10:03 AM
Boeing, IBM, Douglas, North American Aviation, Grumman... just five major private industry players in Apollo who either are in on the fraud or else built stuff that actually worked for NASA because no-one told them it was a fraud, and were good enough to document their processes extensively.

IBM built and programmed the guidance system using the data given to them by NASA.

Boeing, North American and Douglas Aircraft built the rocket stages, which were designed by NASA under the direction of Wernher von Braun. Boeing were also the main contractor, given the task of building the LRV.

Grumman were apparently contracted by NASA to design and build the LM, and after they were satisfied it would work, they handed it over to NASA, who allegedly put it through its paces in space, where it apparently performed exactly as stated on the tin.

You know all this of course, but why would any of those contractors have known that all their hard work was just part of NASA’s plan to fool the world? The rockets first stage was the only part that had to work to a certain degree, as is plainly seen in the original live news broadcasts from the time of the events.

Ah, so according to you the contractors designed something that worked as intended, and gave it to NASA who intended to not use it.

Why would NASA not want to use all the equipment as advertised if the contractors had built equipment that...worked as advertised?

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After first staging occurs, we see no clear evidence to suggest that the second stage is working, or even still intact for that matter, as all we see is an indistinct glowing white blob, which the camera follows for a couple of minutes, before cutting to the animation. But as with most of NASA’s video footage, our eyes must be deceiving us, as the man reading the script tells us that everything’s working fine.

In the original live news footage of the Apollo 17 night launch, just prior to staging we see a bright red rocket plume, and then the camera switches to black & white. At the exact point of staging, there is a glitch in the transmission and a second later, we see the white blob with no sign of the first stage falling away.

It’s a real shame the footage never stayed in colour for just a few more seconds, as we would have had some indication as to whether that second stage was firing, or just what was left of the rocket falling back to earth, as is apparent in the Apollo 16 footage.

Can I just check, Cambo, are you a flat-earther? This is a serious question, because I want to know whether you believe the horizon is a real thing. So, for example, when a plane disappears beyond a mountain range or whatever, it hasn't crashed but simply flown over the horizon?

If so, do you understand that the process of launching a rocket into orbit involves travelling hundreds of kilometres downrange from the launch point. As a result, the rocket must disappear over the horizon from the point of view of a person near the launch point. So what you describe as "the rocket falling back to earth" is actually the rocket continuing to climb as it disappears over the horizon.

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By what reasoning do you assume that everyone working for, or contracted to NASA would have to be in on the fraud, including the cleaners? Did any of those contractors test the hardware in the environment it was made for? Those contractors would not necessarily have to be in on the fraud, and would not necessarily have built something that worked. They merely built something that they thought would work, because like you, they had complete trust in the science presented to them by NASA.

Come on, this isn't a trick question, is it?

Yes, the engineers tested equipment. Yes, prior to launch they tested it in environments equivalent to what it was intended to experience in space. And yes, the first use of the equipment in a real mission was also a test.

So, for example, the LM descent engine was tested on Earth. It was tested on Earth in vacuum chambers so that engineers could be sure they knew how it behaved in a vacuum. And then it was tested in space on Apollo 5, an unmanned mission. And then the astronauts were allowed to play with it on Apollo 9.

Come on Cambo, tell us, what exactly was it about Apollo that made a mission not possible. You've danced around this all thread and never given us a firm answer. Apparently the only thing you're convinced of it that somehow it wasn't possible to go to the Moon, but you won't/can't tell us why. This is about as rational as deciding which team you support in the Bundesliga.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on February 12, 2019, 09:48:04 AM
IBM built and programmed the guidance system using the data given to them by NASA.

No.

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Boeing, North American and Douglas Aircraft built the rocket stages, which were designed by NASA under the direction of Wernher von Braun.

No.

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...where it apparently performed exactly as stated on the tin.

You know all this of course, but why would any of those contractors have known that all their hard work was just part of NASA’s plan to fool the world?

Indeed.  They were told to build hardware that actually worked in space to do the tasks as prescribed, so they did.

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After first staging occurs, we see no clear evidence to suggest that the second stage is working...

Except of course for the film and direct observation that you seem not to know about.

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By what reasoning do you assume that everyone working for, or contracted to NASA would have to be in on the fraud, including the cleaners?

Because if there was an attempt to defraud and deceive, these organizations would be the first to know about it.  NASA contracted with these private companies because they had the knowledge and expertise to do what NASA required.  They were not just dumb mechanics mindlessly building what NASA drew out for them.  You have no clue how the aerospace industry works.

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Did any of those contractors test the hardware in the environment it was made for?

Yes, rigorously.

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...they had complete trust in the science presented to them by NASA.

Utter nonsense.  If you had actually read and understood the history of Apollo development, you'd have run across the dozens upon dozens of documents produced by the prospective contractors that research and analyze the mission requirements for themselves.  In many cases, NASA contracted with these private organizations to conduct the preliminary research.

Your version of the story bears absolutely no resemblance to the documented facts.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on February 12, 2019, 09:52:42 AM
Why would NASA not want to use all the equipment as advertised if the contractors had built equipment that...worked as advertised?

It's his contention that the contractors didn't know that it wouldn't have worked.  He contents that they just blindly and naively did as they were told, dumbly executing finished designs handed to them by NASA along with assurances that whatever they produced would satisfy the customer.

A complete and total fantasy, in other words.  Cambo is thoroughly ignorant of how aerospace engineering works in general, and specifically how it was documented to have worked for Apollo.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on February 12, 2019, 10:50:15 AM
Look, I've been saying for years that I believe the figure of how many people would've known it was fake is inflated, simply because it does involve every single person who worked on Apollo.  I absolutely agree the cleaners wouldn't have known if the hardware doesn't work.  I'll do you one better--I think a lot of the people doing the actual building wouldn't have known.  Oh, I think they would've known that they did their job right, because that's something you know if you deserve your job.  So if your job is to, say, weld bits together, you know if your weld is going to hold.  If you don't, you're a pretty crappy welder.

But you have to extend that knowledge upward.  So just as the women sewing the space suits knew that their sewing was done right, so, too, did the engineers know their engineering was done right.  All in all, I still believe that literally thousands of people would've had to have known if something was wrong, because thousands of them were highly placed enough in the engineering aspects to have been able to say, "Wait, that should have done <x> and instead did <y>.  What happened?"
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on February 12, 2019, 11:45:50 AM
I still cannot believe this guy is getting responses. He is clearly a troll who comes back every couple of months for a laugh. He will waste your time for about 3 maybe 4 more posts, leave it at that and then reply again say mid april.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on February 12, 2019, 11:50:06 AM
So if your job is to, say, weld bits together, you know if your weld is going to hold.  If you don't, you're a pretty crappy welder.

Especially in Grumman's case.  The fabrication methods used to build the LM were very specialized and very difficult to execute.  And they were also Grumman trade secrets.  This was why they won the contract.  The line between engineering and fabrication/assembly is a lot blurrier than most people realize, more so in aerospace.  The guy who's fitting up and assembling chem-milled panels with integral stringers knows the degree of quality he must attain, and why.  And he knows the degree of frailty in the resulting structure probably more than any person in the project.

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But you have to extend that knowledge upward.  So just as the women sewing the space suits knew that their sewing was done right, so, too, did the engineers know their engineering was done right.

The vertical movement of information and direction is easily inferred from the org chart.  What is more important, but less visible, is the horizontal movement of information between groups that would be compartmentalized in "silos" in an organization designed to keep secrets or prevent anyone getting the big picture.  Engineers of different disciplines and from different companies must communicate across functional boundaries in order to do their jobs quickly and effectively.  There is simply no way to prevent some of them from acquiring a big picture, even if that wasn't their titular role.  And toward that proposition we have surviving examples of the Data Book, the "Bible" of the spacecraft -- two feet of loose-leaf shelf space with all the pertinent design information.  And we have familiarization manuals with annotations from their original owners attesting to the degree to which cross-pollination was practiced inside Apollo.

Yes, we have to concede that not all 400,000 people we say worked on Apollo would have been able to detect a forgery at the design and manufacturing level.  But the degree to which non-functioning designs would have still needed to be convincing still precludes a credible accusation of fraud.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on February 12, 2019, 12:51:40 PM
I still cannot believe this guy is getting responses. He is clearly a troll...

Clearly, and not a very imaginative or intelligent one either.

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He will waste your time...

Yes and no.  I haven't responded to every single post he's made, mostly because I choose not to spend the time on self-debunking nonsense.  However in some cases it's worth responding to, not because he's going to acknowledge the answer and incorporate it into his argument, but because truth and knowledge is best served by having a response on the record in the same place where he made his accusations.  Consider that someone Googles his way to apollohoax.net, sees a post alleging that NASA simply spoonfed nonsense to unwitting contractors, and then -- absent a cogent response -- goes away thinking that's a suitably well informed analysis.  Instead what that hypothetical lurker sees is an accusation laid bare as ignorant nonsense by those who work in the field.  The rebuttal to the claim appears in the same space as the claim itself, even if the original claimant hasn't the brains or the inclination to respond to it.  Setting the record straight may be time-consuming, but it's not always a waste of time.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on February 12, 2019, 02:02:17 PM
I still cannot believe this guy is getting responses. He is clearly a troll...

Clearly, and not a very imaginative or intelligent one either.

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He will waste your time...

Yes and no.  I haven't responded to every single post he's made, mostly because I choose not to spend the time on self-debunking nonsense.  However in some cases it's worth responding to, not because he's going to acknowledge the answer and incorporate it into his argument, but because truth and knowledge is best served by having a response on the record in the same place where he made his accusations.  Consider that someone Googles his way to apollohoax.net, sees a post alleging that NASA simply spoonfed nonsense to unwitting contractors, and then -- absent a cogent response -- goes away thinking that's a suitably well informed analysis.  Instead what that hypothetical lurker sees is an accusation laid bare as ignorant nonsense by those who work in the field.  The rebuttal to the claim appears in the same space as the claim itself, even if the original claimant hasn't the brains or the inclination to respond to it.  Setting the record straight may be time-consuming, but it's not always a waste of time.

actually Jay I agree with you there. I used to be on quite a few FB groups and ran into Allan F on one of them. Now while my knowledge isn't up there with Al's or yours of course we had quite a bit of fun with Pascal who i'm sure you know. Quite a few times I said it was better to actually answer the claims so that if anybody made their way there they would see an answer
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on February 12, 2019, 02:06:28 PM
Just while your on Jay I noticed  a quote earlier about the engine of the LM being tested on earth in a vacuum chamber. I assume this chamber was of a certain size to accomplish this.
One of my pet go to questions when answering HB's is how did nasa get the dust in the Apollo videos of the Rover for example to behave like it was in a vacuum. Mostly their go to answer is a massive vacuum chamber. My question to you is how big were the chambers to test the LM engine in and secondly how big would the chamber have needed to be to actually simulate the entire landing scene. I assume huge. My worry is that if somebody, for example, cambo sees that the LM engine was tested in a vacuum chamber they could say that 'well they had a vacuum chamber for that so why not the entire thing'. you know ??
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on February 12, 2019, 02:08:44 PM
Pascal Xavier is such a willfully ignorant individual, and he should know better being an engineer.  But then I guess it takes all kinds ::)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on February 12, 2019, 02:11:43 PM
Pascal Xavier is such a willfully ignorant individual, and he should know better being an engineer.  But then I guess it takes all kinds ::)

of course. He has made his way over to another group on FB and poisoned that too but he seems to be getting his ass handed to him there tbh. The issue with him of course is that nothing will ever convince him.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on February 12, 2019, 02:38:44 PM
Pascal Xavier is such a willfully ignorant individual, and he should know better being an engineer.  But then I guess it takes all kinds ::)

But so was Baker.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on February 12, 2019, 03:10:25 PM
Pascal Xavier is such a willfully ignorant individual, and he should know better being an engineer.  But then I guess it takes all kinds ::)

It may take all kinds, but there is actually an ethical responsibility among professional engineers (and practitioners of many other professions) to oppose those who willfully mislead.  Xavier may have an engineering degree (I'm still not convinced his credentials are real), but he is no engineer.  His blatantly errant and misleading statements regarding Apollo have earned him expulsion from the ranks of ethically-bound professional engineers.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on February 12, 2019, 03:16:03 PM
Really, really, really, not difficult to get hold of Saturn V footage:

(https://i.imgur.com/gLwNg1B.jpg)

or information about the development and building of it, or the LM, or indeed many of the other component parts of the Apollo programme.

Unless, of course, you are trying really hard not to.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on February 12, 2019, 03:17:34 PM
My question to you is how big were the chambers to test the LM engine in...

Engine tests and system tests don't use the same chambers.  The LM was tested for pressure integrity, thermal design, etc. in a regular vacuum chamber that's essentially just large enough to accommodate the vehicle.  These go down to pretty much an undetectable pressure.  Those tests didn't include propulsion system tests.  Rocket motor tests happen in an entirely different kind of chamber that's specially made to maintain the vacuum even while the engine is firing.  Obviously if the engine supplies many kilograms of exhaust products, the vacuum wouldn't last long.  These are more accurately called "altitude chambers," and have special designs and equipment to maintain a mostly-vacuum condition while the engine is firing.  They don't simulate total vacuum or space-level vacuum, but rather the pressure at an equivalent altitude of hundreds of thousands of feet.  For engineering test purposes, this is functionally indistinguishable from vacuum.  The price you pay for the ability to so quickly dispose of exhaust products and thus maintain a vacuum is that the vacuum is only in the neighborhood of 0.1 psi.

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...and secondly how big would the chamber have needed to be to actually simulate the entire landing scene. I assume huge.

Yes.  See for yourself in the various videos, especially the LRV "Grand Prix."
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on February 12, 2019, 03:56:11 PM
My question to you is how big were the chambers to test the LM engine in...

Engine tests and system tests don't use the same chambers.  The LM was tested for pressure integrity, thermal design, etc. in a regular vacuum chamber that's essentially just large enough to accommodate the vehicle.  These go down to pretty much an undetectable pressure.  Those tests didn't include propulsion system tests.  Rocket motor tests happen in an entirely different kind of chamber that's specially made to maintain the vacuum even while the engine is firing.  Obviously if the engine supplies many kilograms of exhaust products, the vacuum wouldn't last long.  These are more accurately called "altitude chambers," and have special designs and equipment to maintain a mostly-vacuum condition while the engine is firing.  They don't simulate total vacuum or space-level vacuum, but rather the pressure at an equivalent altitude of hundreds of thousands of feet.  For engineering test purposes, this is functionally indistinguishable from vacuum.  The price you pay for the ability to so quickly dispose of exhaust products and thus maintain a vacuum is that the vacuum is only in the neighborhood of 0.1 psi.



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...and secondly how big would the chamber have needed to be to actually simulate the entire landing scene. I assume huge.

Yes.  See for yourself in the various videos, especially the LRV "Grand Prix."

ah ok cool. thanks a lot Jay
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Peter B on February 13, 2019, 08:01:36 AM

[ker-snippity]

Grumman were apparently contracted by NASA to design and build the LM, and after they were satisfied it would work, they handed it over to NASA, who allegedly put it through its paces in space, where it apparently performed exactly as stated on the tin.

[snip again]

You know all this of course, but why would any of those contractors have known that all their hard work was just part of NASA’s plan to fool the world? The rockets first stage was the only part that had to work to a certain degree, as is plainly seen in the original live news broadcasts from the time of the events.

By what reasoning do you assume that everyone working for, or contracted to NASA would have to be in on the fraud, including the cleaners? Did any of those contractors test the hardware in the environment it was made for? Those contractors would not necessarily have to be in on the fraud, and would not necessarily have built something that worked. They merely built something that they thought would work, because like you, they had complete trust in the science presented to them by NASA.

So perhaps you'd like to explain why the appearance of the LM changed over the months from the time that Grumman won the contract to the point that the design was fixed. There are at least two well known images of early designs for the LM which are noticeably different from what was actually presented to the public.

Why the changes? If it didn't have to actually work in space what did it matter what it looked like? Did NASA have quarterly competitions for its design staff to come up with better looking LM pictures which they'd send over to Grumman?

Or did Grumman keep tinkering with the design because...[drumroll]...they changed it until they had a design which actually worked in space and on the Moon?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on February 13, 2019, 09:22:10 AM
I should probably clarify that "while the engine is firing" is a duration measured small numbers of seconds, if not in fractions of a second.  The test objective is usually just to see whether the engine will start in a vacuum and achieve steady-state combustion.  You don't need to test it for dozens of a second in ground-based testing.  For full-duration firing tests, you test in space (e.g., LM-1 and almost LM-2) once you've validated engine-start capability in a vacuum chamber.  For the LM, a special-case test was run with a full-scale LM mockup initially in full vacuum, to see what the effect of APS exhaust impingement would be in a vacuum with the LM descent stage directly beneath it.  A combination of full-vacuum and high-flow altitude chambers was used, the two being connected together with pressure-operated valve.

One of the problems you run into in engineering with fluids is the need to move fluid at high flow rates, to high volumes, at high pressure differences.  Most notably this happens in hydraulics and pneumatics where pumps can supply fluid either at high volume or high pressure, but not both at the same time.  When you need both, you use an accumulator.  The pumps supply fluid at high pressure and low flow rates, and it builds up to a high volume and high pressure in the accumulator over time.  Then the accumulator has enough volume stored at high enough pressure to supply the load -- such as for a large-scale actuator.  This introduces a duty cycle into the design, to allow the pumps to restore volume and pressure as needed.

The vacuum scenario is the accumulator problem in reverse.  Vacuum is the commodity you want.  You can get a small volume of hard vacuum easily.  If you need a large volume of hard vacuum, it takes time -- but it can be done.  You run your test in a small chamber of hard vacuum until pressure builds to a certain (unacceptable) amount, and then you vent that chamber into larger chamber in which you've built up a larger volume of vacuum over a long time prior to the test, your "vacuum accumulator."  With this technique you can get harder vacuums for longer time, in test regimes that produce gas as part of the test.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Echnaton on February 13, 2019, 07:44:40 PM
Grumman were apparently contracted by NASA to design and build the LM, and after they were satisfied it would work, they handed it over to NASA, who allegedly put it through its paces in space, where it apparently performed exactly as stated on the tin.


Let's put aside from all the wishy washy "apparently" qualifications in this statement. Gruman and all the hardware builders were monitoring performance tests and actual flight performance. They knew when things didn't work as planned because their engineers were at the facilities where the tests were being conducted. You don't see them in films often but there were rooms full of hardware contractor's employees involved in every mission.  This notion of compartmentalization between NASA and contractors is laughable ignorant.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Glom on February 14, 2019, 07:22:16 AM
I still cannot believe this guy is getting responses. He is clearly a troll...

Clearly, and not a very imaginative or intelligent one either.

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He will waste your time...

Yes and no.  I haven't responded to every single post he's made, mostly because I choose not to spend the time on self-debunking nonsense.  However in some cases it's worth responding to, not because he's going to acknowledge the answer and incorporate it into his argument, but because truth and knowledge is best served by having a response on the record in the same place where he made his accusations.  Consider that someone Googles his way to apollohoax.net, sees a post alleging that NASA simply spoonfed nonsense to unwitting contractors, and then -- absent a cogent response -- goes away thinking that's a suitably well informed analysis.  Instead what that hypothetical lurker sees is an accusation laid bare as ignorant nonsense by those who work in the field.  The rebuttal to the claim appears in the same space as the claim itself, even if the original claimant hasn't the brains or the inclination to respond to it.  Setting the record straight may be time-consuming, but it's not always a waste of time.
Yes. The argument about just ignoring the cranks is wrong. We have seen what that has led to. Wrongness must be challenged.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: benparry on February 14, 2019, 09:11:15 AM
I still cannot believe this guy is getting responses. He is clearly a troll...

Clearly, and not a very imaginative or intelligent one either.

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He will waste your time...

Yes and no.  I haven't responded to every single post he's made, mostly because I choose not to spend the time on self-debunking nonsense.  However in some cases it's worth responding to, not because he's going to acknowledge the answer and incorporate it into his argument, but because truth and knowledge is best served by having a response on the record in the same place where he made his accusations.  Consider that someone Googles his way to apollohoax.net, sees a post alleging that NASA simply spoonfed nonsense to unwitting contractors, and then -- absent a cogent response -- goes away thinking that's a suitably well informed analysis.  Instead what that hypothetical lurker sees is an accusation laid bare as ignorant nonsense by those who work in the field.  The rebuttal to the claim appears in the same space as the claim itself, even if the original claimant hasn't the brains or the inclination to respond to it.  Setting the record straight may be time-consuming, but it's not always a waste of time.
Yes. The argument about just ignoring the cranks is wrong. We have seen what that has led to. Wrongness must be challenged.

I do know what you mean Glom but you could spend the rest of your lives with these idiots
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on February 14, 2019, 11:32:07 AM
I do know what you mean Glom but you could spend the rest of your lives with these idiots

Sure.  But it's a valuable thing to do in and of itself.  We'll never convince this guy, but at the same time, we're teaching things like "look things up for yourself" and "don't fall for the more interesting story" to anyone reading.  We have to fight anti-scientific nonsense, because it literally saves lives.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on February 14, 2019, 01:19:48 PM
Even in the merest practical sense, someone has to clean up the garbage on the beach even though we know tomorrow there will be a whole new batch of garbage.  There is certainly a moral imperative to instill the values of critical thinking and research.  But sometimes people volunteer to clean up the garbage just because they don't like looking at it.  It's a thankless task, and one that has no influence over those who are leaving the trash.  I correct misconceptions because that's one way I can convert spare time into personal satisfaction.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Echnaton on February 14, 2019, 09:31:01 PM

I do know what you mean Glom but you could spend the rest of your lives with these idiots

No one can ever stop them from talking. It is having a place where anyone can come make a claim, face critics and have the opportunity to respond that is valuable, even if we all know it is nonsense and failure of the claim is sure to be the end result.

They all eventually get bored or do something that makes them worthy of being banned from this forum. So it isn't entirely open ended.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on February 14, 2019, 11:10:16 PM
Now cambo is just repeating himself.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on February 27, 2019, 07:19:37 AM
I did NOT learn to generate a theory and then only find evidence to prove me right

Don’t talk crap, if I find evidence which proves me right, then the evidence to the contrary must be wrong, right? Or am I overcomplicating things? I know what you were trying to say, but that’s not the way you wrote it down.

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A car has a trunk, whereas a spaceship would have a hold, which should have given you a clue that I was using subtle humour.

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You made a statement. I read it. I love humor (or humour for my friends in the UK). Love it. Your statement was not humor (not even subtle) - you made the statement, own it, admit you misspoke and let's move on.

It was a joke and you didn’t get it, because like everyone else on here, you are so busy looking for flaws in HB’s comments, you fail to spot sarcasm and humour, even when it should be obvious, so instead of resorting to these childish attacks on my credibility, why don’t you either concede that you may have misconstrued my comment, or just let it go and move on as you put it?

It’s a well-known fact that the majority of Americans just don’t get British humour, as it’s too subtle and clever for them to grasp. There’s an old saying that goes something like “you can take an American to see Ricky Gervais, but you can’t make it laugh”, or words to that effect.

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You don't need to see blueprints of an umbrella to prove it can unfold - just open it

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So when did you last unfold a LRV?

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When did you? You missed the point of the statement, entirely.

No I didn’t, it was a terrible analogy. Nearly everyone over the age of six knows how to open an umbrella, so it is you that missed my point entirely.

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You fail to see the difference between controlling an aircraft and controlling a spacecraft, which are two entirely different concepts.

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The principal of CG, pitch, yaw, roll, energy, thrust, etc. still apply. Even someone like myself can understand that. Why can't you? Why do you insist on ad hominem attacks when proven incapable of following a simple, proven principle of science?

An aircraft relies on air to manoeuvre, which we are told there is a severe lack of in space. So go on Mr clever clogs, describe the principle which governs an aeroplanes ability to manoeuvre in flight, and then explain how that principle is applied to a crafts manoeuvrability in a vacuum.

Did you misread my post? Or have you been reading other people’s replies and got yourself a little confused? In any case, that was a rash statement on your part, and it shows that it is you with a lack of understanding and I would suggest that you put a little more thought into your posts in future to avoid any further embarrassment. You made the statement, own it!

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The rover debate came to a conclusion some time back

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Yes it did. Back when Apollo deployed and used it on the Moon; in front of a WORLDWIDE audience. You are the only one that insists that blueprints are the ONLY way to prove it existed/worked as designed.

I think you’ll find that I’m only one among millions of people who would find it absurd that the plans to build a working Rover, LM and Saturn V rocket are nowhere to be found, along with the tools used to build them. Oh but wait, you and millions of others have seen live TV footage which is proof of their authenticity. Pardon me for being such a naive fool.

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You fail to understand a simple concept, one person, just one, that knows will inevitably tell another

Not if they’ve signed a contract. Can you even begin to imagine what it would be like to be sworn to secrecy by your government, because I certainly can? The responsibility must be enormous, and what about the people who refuse to sign it? I would imagine they would be in the same situation, only a lot poorer. To blab would be an act of treason in the eyes of their government, and they, and I suspect their families would pay the price.

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You also forgot to quote your source on the paragraph with the math

By your own admission you are not one of the more “educated” members on here, and it shows, which is a good thing as you still have a chance to free yourself from the shackles of your indoctrination, but if you’re incapable of looking up gravity equations, then you aren’t deserving of my attention.


Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Peter B on February 27, 2019, 08:07:55 AM
Eight months for a reply? If I took that long at work I'd get in trouble.

Okay, well, I suppose that means I should come back in October to get a reply to my questions...
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: ka9q on February 27, 2019, 08:43:44 AM
An aircraft relies on air to manoeuvre, which we are told there is a severe lack of in space. So go on Mr clever clogs, describe the principle which governs an aeroplanes ability to manoeuvre in flight, and then explain how that principle is applied to a crafts manoeuvrability in a vacuum.
The basic laws of physics are the same in space as on earth. They include conservation of mass/energy, conservation of angular momentum, conservation of linear momentum, and the second law of thermodynamics (mass/energy conservation is actually the first law).

So to turn either an aircraft or a spacecraft you need torque. How you generate that torque differs, but the result is the same - the vehicle turns around the torque axis at a rate proportional to the torque times time divided by the moment of inertia. Angular momentum is conserved in both cases; in the spacecraft case, the sum of the spacecraft angular momentum plus its reaction control propellant is the same before and after the thruster firing. In the case of the aircraft, the sum total angular momentum of the aircraft and the air surrounding it also remains constant.

Spacecraft and aircraft can be navigated by the same or similar means. Both can use inertial guidance systems, which also rely on the principles of momentum conservation. Spacecraft in low earth orbit can today be navigated by the GPS. And so on.

Anyone who actually understands the principles knows that the differences between space and air flight do not obscure the fact that both follow well-understood laws of physics. And it says a lot that we humans can use those laws to design a device to fly or otherwise operate in places we've never been or to do things that have never been done while still having confidence that it will work. That's what science and engineering are all about.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on February 27, 2019, 09:15:39 AM
An aircraft relies on air to manoeuvre...

Three-axis control is still the theoretical basis of all flight, whether in atmosphere or not.  If you can't figure out how a spacecraft achieves three-axis flight control, then you're just too ignorant to have this discussion.

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I think you’ll find that I’m only one among millions of people who would find it absurd that the plans to build a working Rover, LM and Saturn V rocket are nowhere to be found...

Except that they are to be found.

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Can you even begin to imagine what it would be like to be sworn to secrecy by your government...

Yes.

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...because I certainly can?

No, you're just a troll making stuff up to get attention.  You clearly have no relevant knowledge or understanding.

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By your own admission you are not one of the more “educated” members on here, and it shows, which is a good thing as you still have a chance to free yourself from the shackles of your indoctrination...

Nice dodge.  He asked you to put up or shut up, and you did neither because you don't actually know what you're talking about and don't want that fact made evident.  If all you can do is bluster about "indoctrination" while avoiding any meaningful test of your understanding and skill, then no one is obliged to listen to your drivel.

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...if you’re incapable of looking up gravity equations, then you aren’t deserving of my attention.

What does the rest of this forum have to do be similarly undeserving of your attention?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on February 27, 2019, 09:16:09 AM
Eight months for a reply?.

Obvious troll is obvious.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on February 27, 2019, 09:58:48 AM
Oh I agree with the troll comment describing cambo.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on February 27, 2019, 10:23:19 AM
<snip BS>
I think you’ll find that I’m only one among millions of people who would find it absurd that the plans to build a working Rover, LM and Saturn V rocket are nowhere to be found, along with the tools used to build them.
 Oh but wait, you and millions of others have seen live TV footage which is proof of their authenticity. Pardon me for being such a naive fool.[/quote]
Where are these millions?  Could you provide a link to where these millions might be?
All of which you think are nowhere to be found are indeed available, but not for free.  You just have to look instead of believing that a hoax has been perpetrated.
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<snip more BS>
Where are you facts t prove your case?  You don't have any because the facts point to exactly contradicting your beliefs.  8)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on February 27, 2019, 11:40:35 AM
I have pretty much never yet had a conversation outside the confines of this forum about hoax belief that didn't involve someone asking if people were really foolish enough to believe it.  So you know.

As to being sworn to secrecy, to me it would be a greater shame to swear to protect a lie than to break a confidentiality agreement.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on February 27, 2019, 01:37:52 PM
if I find evidence which proves me right

You have yet to provide this.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: jfb on February 27, 2019, 02:52:01 PM
Quote from: bobdude
You fail to understand a simple concept, one person, just one, that knows will inevitably tell another

Not if they’ve signed a contract.

What contract?

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Can you even begin to imagine what it would be like to be sworn to secrecy by your government, because I certainly can?

I don't have to imagine it.  I filled out the SF86, went through the background checks, got the periodic briefings that reminded me exactly how screwed I would be if I just lost something, etc.  And even though I haven't had a clearance in almost a decade, I'm still bound by that.  There's stuff I worked on almost 30 years ago that I still can't talk about, and in the grand scheme of things it's pretty boring.

Yet, leaks still happen, and a few leakers manage to not get caught (at least not until after the damage has been done).  Hell, had Greenwald not screwed him over, Snowden wouldn't be living in Russia today.

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The responsibility must be enormous, and what about the people who refuse to sign it?

Refuse to sign what?  What the hell are you talking about?

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I would imagine they would be in the same situation, only a lot poorer. To blab would be an act of treason in the eyes of their government, and they, and I suspect their families would pay the price.

The X Files was not a documentary.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Jason Thompson on February 28, 2019, 03:51:51 AM
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Can you even begin to imagine what it would be like to be sworn to secrecy by your government, because I certainly can?

I don't have to imagine it.  I filled out the SF86, went through the background checks, got the periodic briefings that reminded me exactly how screwed I would be if I just lost something, etc.  And even though I haven't had a clearance in almost a decade, I'm still bound by that.  There's stuff I worked on almost 30 years ago that I still can't talk about, and in the grand scheme of things it's pretty boring.

This always bemuses me when it comes to conspiracy theorists. They can imagine all sorts of things. They can imagine a shady world of secrets and retribution. They can imagine crazy machines that have to exist to explain things in ways that don't involve the actual published versions of events. They can imagine people willing to go to any lengths to fool the world. And yet, their imagination utterly fails to cover the idea that people they talk to might actually know how some of these hypothetical things really work through personal experience....
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on February 28, 2019, 09:30:21 AM
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Can you even begin to imagine what it would be like to be sworn to secrecy by your government, because I certainly can?

I don't have to imagine it.  I filled out the SF86, went through the background checks, got the periodic briefings that reminded me exactly how screwed I would be if I just lost something, etc.  And even though I haven't had a clearance in almost a decade, I'm still bound by that.  There's stuff I worked on almost 30 years ago that I still can't talk about, and in the grand scheme of things it's pretty boring.

This always bemuses me when it comes to conspiracy theorists. They can imagine all sorts of things. They can imagine a shady world of secrets and retribution. They can imagine crazy machines that have to exist to explain things in ways that don't involve the actual published versions of events. They can imagine people willing to go to any lengths to fool the world. And yet, their imagination utterly fails to cover the idea that people they talk to might actually know how some of these hypothetical things really work through personal experience....

But of course, what on Earth could anybody in the real world know that would outshine the in depth knowledge of someone who has learned how to use Google selectively.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on February 28, 2019, 10:26:10 AM
But of course, what on Earth could anybody in the real world know that would outshine the in depth knowledge of someone who has learned how to use Google selectively.

I'm not even sure at this point that he's Googling with any degree of sincerity.  He seems to have all but stopped responding meaningfully to other posts and seems more excited about pushing emotional buttons just to elicit responses.  Classic troll behavior.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: jfb on February 28, 2019, 11:19:55 AM
But of course, what on Earth could anybody in the real world know that would outshine the in depth knowledge of someone who has learned how to use Google selectively.

I'm not even sure at this point that he's Googling with any degree of sincerity.  He seems to have all but stopped responding meaningfully to other posts and seems more excited about pushing emotional buttons just to elicit responses.  Classic troll behavior.

He's outright admitted he was trolling on at least one occasion.  But, sometimes, it's either deal with him or, you know, work.   

Annoying as he is, he's less annoying than having to migrate a legacy C++ codebase to AWS. 
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on February 28, 2019, 12:16:23 PM
He's outright admitted he was trolling on at least one occasion.

Hence why I respond only when it seems likely that a stumbler upon our forum might be misled by something he's said.  For the most part he's bringing up topics that have been well addressed in the past.

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Annoying as he is, he's less annoying than having to migrate a legacy C++ codebase to AWS.

Depends on the exact flavor of legacy.  My software team uses AWS for software QA, but that's about it.  Their biggest hurdle in recent memory was shifting from Pathscale to LLVM and to the 2014 C++ standard from [whatever it was they were using back in 2004].  These are guys for whom hand-packed assembly is barely fast enough to make them happy, so it's about on the same annoyance level as unimaginative trolls.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on June 10, 2019, 05:33:04 PM
You have made no effort to account for meteorological fingerprints in Apollo images other than jerk your knee, and have made no effort at all to prove that the satellite record does not match the Apollo imagery.

No one is disputing the claim that the images from Apollo match the alleged satellite images. What is in dispute is the claim that the matching images prove the authenticity of the Apollo moon missions.

Unless you can prove beyond any doubt that the anomalies in those alleged transmissions, which I and others say point to fakery, are in fact as they should be, then all that painstaking research of yours was for nothing. Even the evidence of rotation that you yourself put forward, shows it to be fake. Every time you present evidence, you dig yourself a deeper hole.

I remember you stating that some of the satellite images came from non NASA sources, but the closest one I could find was the ESSA-9 satellite. The ESSA satellites were reportedly launched by NASA, who also allegedly had a hand in their development. Can you even prove those satellites were up there?

We started using balloons to track weather conditions back in the 1930’s, and we currently release around 650,000 weather balloons every year from nearly 900 locations around the world, two a day from each location, which give us accurate real time weather models, and is still the prime source for weather prediction, along with weather radar, the development of which was started soon after WWII, so why the need for satellites? If I want to know about climate change, I may consider asking a satellite, if I can find one.

You are obviously extremely proud of yourself for digging up this evidence, but are you really so conceited that you think you’ve discovered something that the people at NASA had overlooked, when in reality, that evidence, along with any other contrived evidence they could muster up, would be leaked into the media as soon as they got wind of those poor aircraft pilots being grilled and humiliated by Sibrel? How could any employer sit back and watch the appalling treatment these national heroes were subjected to and not lift a finger in their defence? 

NASA don’t officially answer to the hoax claims, but there’s been countless interviews with NASA employees, including those celebrity astronauts, from Neil Armstrong & Co to our present day protagonists, such as Chris Hadfield, Donald Pettit and the likes, but not one of them have ever brought up this evidence, which you seem to think, irrefutably proves they achieved this extraordinary feat. Could it simply be that they’d rather not draw any further attention to this embarrassing footage?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: ApolloEnthusiast on June 10, 2019, 05:56:10 PM
NASA don’t officially answer to the hoax claims, but there’s been countless interviews with NASA employees, including those celebrity astronauts, from Neil Armstrong & Co to our present day protagonists, such as Chris Hadfield, Donald Pettit and the likes, but not one of them have ever brought up this evidence, which you seem to think, irrefutably proves they achieved this extraordinary feat. Could it simply be that they’d rather not draw any further attention to this embarrassing footage?
It's more likely that they understand that, for people who do that job for a living, even having the ridiculous conversation can make it seem credible to the ignorant.  Better to just talk about it intelligently with intelligent people.

While a site like this, especially with so many highly qualified people, may unfortunately do the same thing to some degree, I do think it's good to have a place where people with legitimate questions can see the extreme imbalance in the weight of the evidence and arguments.  Meanwhile, the serious hoax nuts are basically irredeemable anyway, so it's not like encouraging them actually has any effect on the ability to educate them.

It's just sad that you don't recognize that when NASA officials and astronauts aren't debating you, it's not because your argument is too strong.  It's because the argument isn't even strong enough to warrant a seat at the table.   
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on June 10, 2019, 05:58:23 PM
Could it simply be that they’d rather not draw any further attention to this embarrassing footage?

No.  It's because they don't take hoax claims seriously.  As ignorant and poorly-supported as those claims are, they are behaving appropriately.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: smartcooky on June 10, 2019, 11:10:05 PM
It's just sad that you don't recognize that when NASA officials and astronauts aren't debating you, it's not because your argument is too strong.  It's because the argument isn't even strong enough to warrant a seat at the table.

THIS!

...there's a notion that everyone's opinion is valid, My arse! A bloke who's a professor of dentistry for 40 years does not have to debate with some eejit who removes his teeth with string and a door"
- Dara O'Brain
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on June 11, 2019, 02:40:33 AM
You have made no effort to account for meteorological fingerprints in Apollo images other than jerk your knee, and have made no effort at all to prove that the satellite record does not match the Apollo imagery.

No one is disputing the claim that the images from Apollo match the alleged satellite images. What is in dispute is the claim that the matching images prove the authenticity of the Apollo moon missions.

No sane person can provide a rational explanation for them. Images of Earth were broadcast on live TV, and published in the following day's newspapers, and were done before the ESSA images in particular were collected. ESSA, and NIMBUS, images cover sections of the Earth in black and white and require 12 hours to gather an entire hemisphere's worth of data.

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Unless you can prove beyond any doubt that the anomalies in those alleged transmissions,

Listen very carefully, I will say this only once: there are no anomalies in Apollo TV transmissions. Claims suggesting things are not as they should be are based on ignorance, stupidity, and usually a wilful distortion of events and facts.

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which I and others say point to fakery, are in fact as they should be, then all that painstaking research of yours was for nothing. Even the evidence of rotation that you yourself put forward, shows it to be fake. Every time you present evidence, you dig yourself a deeper hole.

Garbage. Evidence of the Earth's rotation in live TV broadcast (and in assemblies of still images) is somehow not proof that the broadcasts show Earth rotating?

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I remember you stating that some of the satellite images came from non NASA sources, but the closest one I could find was the ESSA-9 satellite. The ESSA satellites were reportedly launched by NASA, who also allegedly had a hand in their development.

None of the satellites were managed directly by NASA. There were far more than ESSA-9, you have clearly not read what I've written. The clue's in the number "9". Broadcasts from them could be intercepted by anyone with the right equipment.

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Can you even prove those satellites were up there?

Now you're just being a dick. Can you prove they aren't? Several of the satellites I cite are still in orbit and can be tracked. ATS-3 was a multi-purpose satellite that was used for a variety of purposes in the scientific community and even relayed TV signals. There are numerous amateur enthusiasts out there who like to download the images. I've done that myself in the late 1980s.

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We started using balloons to track weather conditions back in the 1930’s, and we currently release around 650,000 weather balloons every year from nearly 900 locations around the world, two a day from each location, which give us accurate real time weather models, and is still the prime source for weather prediction, along with weather radar, the development of which was started soon after WWII, so why the need for satellites? If I want to know about climate change, I may consider asking a satellite, if I can find one.

The existence of horses is not proof that cars don't exist.

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You are obviously extremely proud of yourself for digging up this evidence, but are you really so conceited that you think you’ve discovered something that the people at NASA had overlooked, when in reality, that evidence, along with any other contrived evidence they could muster up, would be leaked into the media as soon as they got wind of those poor aircraft pilots being grilled and humiliated by Sibrel? How could any employer sit back and watch the appalling treatment these national heroes were subjected to and not lift a finger in their defence? 

I am not proud of myself, I am proud of the work I've done. I stand by every word of it. Prove it wrong.

As for Sibrel, the astronauts were perfectly capable of defending themselves (and they were private citizens by the time that fraud caught up with them) just ask Sibrel's nose. Are you really so conceited that you think you have discovered a mass conspiracy when, in reality, evidence proving such a thing would have been leaked to the media?

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NASA don’t officially answer to the hoax claims, but there’s been countless interviews with NASA employees, including those celebrity astronauts, from Neil Armstrong & Co to our present day protagonists, such as Chris Hadfield, Donald Pettit and the likes, but not one of them have ever brought up this evidence, which you seem to think, irrefutably proves they achieved this extraordinary feat. Could it simply be that they’d rather not draw any further attention to this embarrassing footage?

Could it be that they think that the hoax claims are just so dumb that it's not worth the effort? Many astronauts have responded to the claims - see the front page of my site. Maybe they think that wasting words on morons is just pointless and there's no sense in trying to educate idiots? Maybe you need to ask them what their rationale is instead of using subtle ad hominems to try and bolster your rather feeble argument.

I state it on my site: They never bothered looking at the weather satellite record because it didn't occur to them. It's only relatively recently occurred co climate scientists to start looking back at the records. Why would it occur to them? Why would the people who went to the moon bother to spend so much time and effort proving that they went when they know they actually went and only empty headed blowhards wanting to carve a reputation for themselves say otherwise? You thnk that because Neil Armstrong didn't come out and say "Hey, look at these satellite pictures, they prove I did it!" that somehow proves he never went?

All I see in your post is a desperate attempt to try and discredit what I've put forward without actually providing anything at all to support that stance. It's all "they could have..." with nothing at all to prove that they did. What I've done is examine a whole host of evidence (the weather satellite stuff is just a small part of it) from the Apollo record. There is not one single anomaly or inconsistency in any of it. Prove otherwise.

You've got all the source material you need. I provide links to all of it. Prove that anything I have written is incorrect.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on June 11, 2019, 10:26:35 AM
And again, my Ren faire boss, who doesn't even have a junior high education, can point out satellites as they cross the night sky.  Are they paying him, too?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on June 11, 2019, 01:33:14 PM
Our last two contributors have demonstrated something I've seen commonly in conspiracy theorists:  an exaggerated opinion of the objective strength of their argument and the nobility of their causes.  As a matter of fact, NASA hired Jim Oberg to write a response to the conspiracy theories.  When it was announced, a cry rose up from the American taxpayers saying they didn't want their money spent on such unnecessary nonsense.  We don't have to speculate about the reasons why NASA pays no attention to conspiracy theories.  NASA are not the ones who need to rehabilitate their reputations.

Similarly I've seen people try to take conspiracy theories to court, and their critics for imagined slights and slurs.  They get snapped back to reality fairly quickly when the court doesn't buy for a moment that they're conscientious researchers and authors just looking to hold history accountable to fact.  There are many ways to attract attention.  But some of them are the intellectual equivalent of waddling down the street with one's pants around one's ankles.  Sure, you'll get attention.  But when you demand equitable relief from the mockery you will undoubtedly receive, the court will firmly remind you of the essential nature of your behavior.  The law surrounding equity ensures that you get what you are entitled to, but not necessary what you want or ask for.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on June 11, 2019, 03:05:20 PM
I think it's returning to cambo's statement above:

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No one is disputing the claim that the images from Apollo match the alleged satellite images.

There is no "alleged" here - there is no disputing that the satellites existed. Their images were reproduced in the mass media and scientific journals on a regular basis. I own complete contemporary volumes of the images - these aren't just some internet construct, they actually exist. By looking at the entire satellite record you can also see the weather systems in them developing over time - they aren't just a record of the weather during the Apollo missions, they are a record of the weather full stop. That record just happens to encompass the Apollo period. They did not exist as a source of evidence for Apollo, they existed to provide weather data to the scientific community.

By conceding that the images from Apollo are matched by the satellite cambo is admitting an important point: Apollo images of Earth can only have been taken during the timeline of the missions. They were not concocted in advance, they were not done later. They can only have been done at the time. Furthermore, they could only have been done from the location history records them as having been taken: in space or on the moon.

To argue otherwise is to suggest several impossible scenarios. Firstly, a technology that didn't exist to generate real time, convincing images of Earth that not only accurately reproduced the weather on a given day but accurately predicted it ready for live TV broadcasts. In order to generate that you would need an army of technicians in on the fake. Secondly, yet another army of technicians involved in reproducing photo realistic images of Earth that showed the weather in painstaking detail. Thirdly, yet more technicians doing the same work on 16mm film.

The technology, and the timespan needed, just did not exist to do what is required in cambo's imaginarium for the images of Earth taken by Apollo to have been faked. You would be hard pressed to do it now. Add into the mix a global audience of meteorologists with access to the weather satellite images (and that included the Russians, with whom the US had a data sharing agreement as far as meteorology is concerned and who also had their own satellites in operation) and faking those images becomes (as far as I am concerned) impossible.

Cambo's other point about weather balloons shows further ignorance concerning how weather forecasting was (and is) done. During Apollo, satellite meteorology was in its infancy; the images were used as an add-on to the science and the main work was done by ground observations and atmospheric sensing by balloons, radar and a bunch of other more terrestrial equipment. Even today a hefty chunk of weather forecasting is still done using data gathered within easy reach of the ground.

So yes, not only do those Apollo images of Earth match the satellite record, that satellite record proves that they are genuine.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on June 11, 2019, 03:52:20 PM
Our last two contributors have demonstrated something I've seen commonly in conspiracy theorists:  an exaggerated opinion of the objective strength of their argument and the nobility of their causes.  As a matter of fact, NASA hired Jim Oberg to write a response to the conspiracy theories.  When it was announced, a cry rose up from the American taxpayers saying they didn't want their money spent on such unnecessary nonsense.  We don't have to speculate about the reasons why NASA pays no attention to conspiracy theories.  NASA are not the ones who need to rehabilitate their reputations.

Similarly I've seen people try to take conspiracy theories to court, and their critics for imagined slights and slurs.  They get snapped back to reality fairly quickly when the court doesn't buy for a moment that they're conscientious researchers and authors just looking to hold history accountable to fact.  There are many ways to attract attention.  But some of them are the intellectual equivalent of waddling down the street with one's pants around one's ankles.  Sure, you'll get attention.  But when you demand equitable relief from the mockery you will undoubtedly receive, the court will firmly remind you of the essential nature of your behavior.  The law surrounding equity ensures that you get what you are entitled to, but not necessary what you want or ask for.
In my short time at this game I have noticed this type of behavior along with I know something no one else knows.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Obviousman on June 11, 2019, 05:49:27 PM
We started using balloons to track weather conditions back in the 1930’s, and we currently release around 650,000 weather balloons every year from nearly 900 locations around the world, two a day from each location, which give us accurate real time weather models, and is still the prime source for weather prediction, along with weather radar, the development of which was started soon after WWII, so why the need for satellites? If I want to know about climate change, I may consider asking a satellite, if I can find one.

Really? How well does a radiosonde go in a cyclone? In times of conflict, do you still get weather observations over denied territory? In places like Australia there are vast areas that have no weather observation stations - not even an AWIS - yet knowing what goes on there is vital to understanding when a weather system will start to affect a populated area.

Nice try but as has been repeatedly shown, you know diddly-squat about the things you are positing.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: smartcooky on June 11, 2019, 07:11:22 PM
We started using balloons to track weather conditions back in the 1930’s, and we currently release around 650,000 weather balloons every year from nearly 900 locations around the world, two a day from each location, which give us accurate real time weather models, and is still the prime source for weather prediction, along with weather radar, the development of which was started soon after WWII, so why the need for satellites? If I want to know about climate change, I may consider asking a satellite, if I can find one.

Really? How well does a radiosonde go in a cyclone? In times of conflict, do you still get weather observations over denied territory? In places like Australia there are vast areas that have no weather observation stations - not even an AWIS - yet knowing what goes on there is vital to understanding when a weather system will start to affect a populated area.

...and how do weather balloons help to predict and keep track of tropical storms that turn into hurricanes that come onto the east coast of the USA from the Atlantic, and tropical cyclones that start in the Pacific and move into Southeast Asia?

... how do we obtain satellite photos to track these kinds of storms without, err, satellites?

The denial of the existence of satellites has to be one of the most stupid world views of all, a close second behind flat earth nuttery. We can predict when a satellite will appear from your location, and then go outside and watch it!

...as has been repeatedly shown, you know diddly-squat about the things you are positing.

Indeed this!

PS: I wonder where cambo thinks his satellite TV signal comes from; or if he doesn't have satellite TV, his neighbours satellite TV, and all the other people where he lives with all their satellite dishes pointing up into the sky.... all... in... the.... same.... direction!!!
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Von_Smith on June 12, 2019, 05:52:30 AM
We started using balloons to track weather conditions back in the 1930’s, and we currently release around 650,000 weather balloons every year from nearly 900 locations around the world, two a day from each location, which give us accurate real time weather models, and is still the prime source for weather prediction, along with weather radar, the development of which was started soon after WWII, so why the need for satellites? If I want to know about climate change, I may consider asking a satellite, if I can find one.

Really? How well does a radiosonde go in a cyclone? In times of conflict, do you still get weather observations over denied territory? In places like Australia there are vast areas that have no weather observation stations - not even an AWIS - yet knowing what goes on there is vital to understanding when a weather system will start to affect a populated area.

...and how do weather balloons help to predict and keep track of tropical storms that turn into hurricanes that come onto the east coast of the USA from the Atlantic, and tropical cyclones that start in the Pacific and move into Southeast Asia?

... how do we obtain satellite photos to track these kinds of storms without, err, satellites?

The denial of the existence of satellites has to be one of the most stupid world views of all, a close second behind flat earth nuttery. We can predict when a satellite will appear from your location, and then go outside and watch it!

...as has been repeatedly shown, you know diddly-squat about the things you are positing.

Indeed this!

PS: I wonder where cambo thinks his satellite TV signal comes from; or if he doesn't have satellite TV, his neighbours satellite TV, and all the other people where he lives with all their satellite dishes pointing up into the sky.... all... in... the.... same.... direction!!!

I once had somebody suggest that satellite tv wasn't real; that they secretly tapped into cable infrastructure or something.  I asked him why it was, then, that my signal always got worse when there was snow in my dish, and then instantly got better the moment I decided to go out and clean it.

To *that* he mumbled something about some secret technology in the dish that sensed snow or weather, and degraded the signal appropriately.  I then asked him why, if the dish concealed such secret technology, did direcTV not care what I did with the thing when I canceled service? They didn't even want it back when I asked them how to return it.  He didn't have an answer to that one.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on June 12, 2019, 09:44:48 AM
To *that* he mumbled something about some secret technology in the dish that sensed snow or weather, and degraded the signal appropriately.

Tree-sensing technology, too.  Many years ago, a friend of mine imposed on a fine spring Saturday to ask me to troubleshoot his satellite television, which had inexplicably started to fail after months of trouble-free performance.  Apparently my having something to do with the (re)design of the spacecraft he was aiming at somehow qualified me (nay, obligated me) to do this.  As it happened, he had acquired the service and hung the dish in the dead of winter.  Then as spring came, the tree between his dish and the spacecraft -- albeit significantly closer to the dish than to the spacecraft -- decided to sprout leaves that absorbed enough of the signal to render his DirecTV service unsuitably spotty.  Relocating the dish to have a clear view of the southern sky fixed the problem immediately.  So yeah, very sneaky of those DirecTV beggars to build a cheap dish that can still somehow magically sense intervening obstacles from a distance of several meters away.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Trebor on June 12, 2019, 12:02:15 PM
We started using balloons to track weather conditions back in the 1930’s, and we currently release around 650,000 weather balloons every year from nearly 900 locations around the world, two a day from each location, which give us accurate real time weather models, and is still the prime source for weather prediction, along with weather radar, the development of which was started soon after WWII, so why the need for satellites? If I want to know about climate change, I may consider asking a satellite, if I can find one.

Really? How well does a radiosonde go in a cyclone? In times of conflict, do you still get weather observations over denied territory? In places like Australia there are vast areas that have no weather observation stations - not even an AWIS - yet knowing what goes on there is vital to understanding when a weather system will start to affect a populated area.

...and how do weather balloons help to predict and keep track of tropical storms that turn into hurricanes that come onto the east coast of the USA from the Atlantic, and tropical cyclones that start in the Pacific and move into Southeast Asia?

... how do we obtain satellite photos to track these kinds of storms without, err, satellites?

The denial of the existence of satellites has to be one of the most stupid world views of all, a close second behind flat earth nuttery. We can predict when a satellite will appear from your location, and then go outside and watch it!
...

Or if you want to go the next level go outside and directly recieve the data from them.

Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on June 12, 2019, 01:01:57 PM
Or if you want to go the next level go outside and directly recieve the data from them.

Some guys I know built their own rigs using software-defined radios to hack into the Echostars and get "free" Dish Network.  By "free" I mean they can actually decode and watch the unencrypted transport streams, but the only unencrypted streams on those birds are barker streams or test streams.  No actual entertainment content.  But it can be done.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on June 12, 2019, 02:01:32 PM

Or if you want to go the next level go outside and directly recieve the data from them.


This is what I referred to in my initial reply to him. In the late 1980s I worked at an educational establishment in south Wales. They collected weather data and managed to get cash to install a whacking great satellite dish on the roof, along with a dedicated 486 desktop and a a few floppy disks of software. We had a timetable of NOAA and METEOSAT overpasses and we'd tune in, get the data stream and then convert it to an image.

It was huge fun, and people have been doing it since the first satellites were launched.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: jfb on June 12, 2019, 02:30:07 PM
We started using balloons to track weather conditions back in the 1930’s, and we currently release around 650,000 weather balloons every year from nearly 900 locations around the world, two a day from each location, which give us accurate real time weather models, and is still the prime source for weather prediction, along with weather radar, the development of which was started soon after WWII, so why the need for satellites? If I want to know about climate change, I may consider asking a satellite, if I can find one.

Really? How well does a radiosonde go in a cyclone? In times of conflict, do you still get weather observations over denied territory? In places like Australia there are vast areas that have no weather observation stations - not even an AWIS - yet knowing what goes on there is vital to understanding when a weather system will start to affect a populated area.

...and how do weather balloons help to predict and keep track of tropical storms that turn into hurricanes that come onto the east coast of the USA from the Atlantic, and tropical cyclones that start in the Pacific and move into Southeast Asia?

... how do we obtain satellite photos to track these kinds of storms without, err, satellites?

The denial of the existence of satellites has to be one of the most stupid world views of all, a close second behind flat earth nuttery. We can predict when a satellite will appear from your location, and then go outside and watch it!

...as has been repeatedly shown, you know diddly-squat about the things you are positing.

Indeed this!

PS: I wonder where cambo thinks his satellite TV signal comes from; or if he doesn't have satellite TV, his neighbours satellite TV, and all the other people where he lives with all their satellite dishes pointing up into the sky.... all... in... the.... same.... direction!!!

I have often wondered why FE's don't enter a class action suit against DirecTV and Dish for fraud. 

Got in an argument in another forum where someone was claiming you could replace weather satellites with aircraft flying 24/7.  Little problems like the fleet size necessary to cover CONUS with no gaps, fuel, aircraft maintenance, spare parts, crew rotation, etc., weren't worth bothering about. 
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on June 12, 2019, 02:40:05 PM
You can't fix stupid and cambo is at the top of the list currently.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on June 13, 2019, 01:52:06 AM
Especially when it doesn't want to be fixed. Seriously, if other tech could do what satellites do, why would they fake them, when instead just profit off whatever that tech would be without the trouble and expense of creating the idea of artificial moons circling around the Earth.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bobdude11 on June 13, 2019, 01:58:29 PM
I did NOT learn to generate a theory and then only find evidence to prove me right

Don’t talk crap, if I find evidence which proves me right, then the evidence to the contrary must be wrong, right? Or am I overcomplicating things? I know what you were trying to say, but that’s not the way you wrote it down.

Quote from: cambo
A car has a trunk, whereas a spaceship would have a hold, which should have given you a clue that I was using subtle humour.

Quote from: bobdude
You made a statement. I read it. I love humor (or humour for my friends in the UK). Love it. Your statement was not humor (not even subtle) - you made the statement, own it, admit you misspoke and let's move on.

It was a joke and you didn’t get it, because like everyone else on here, you are so busy looking for flaws in HB’s comments, you fail to spot sarcasm and humour, even when it should be obvious, so instead of resorting to these childish attacks on my credibility, why don’t you either concede that you may have misconstrued my comment, or just let it go and move on as you put it?

It’s a well-known fact that the majority of Americans just don’t get British humour, as it’s too subtle and clever for them to grasp. There’s an old saying that goes something like “you can take an American to see Ricky Gervais, but you can’t make it laugh”, or words to that effect.

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You don't need to see blueprints of an umbrella to prove it can unfold - just open it

Quote from: cambo
So when did you last unfold a LRV?

Quote from: bobdude
When did you? You missed the point of the statement, entirely.

No I didn’t, it was a terrible analogy. Nearly everyone over the age of six knows how to open an umbrella, so it is you that missed my point entirely.

Quote from: cambo
You fail to see the difference between controlling an aircraft and controlling a spacecraft, which are two entirely different concepts.

Quote from: bobdude
The principal of CG, pitch, yaw, roll, energy, thrust, etc. still apply. Even someone like myself can understand that. Why can't you? Why do you insist on ad hominem attacks when proven incapable of following a simple, proven principle of science?

An aircraft relies on air to manoeuvre, which we are told there is a severe lack of in space. So go on Mr clever clogs, describe the principle which governs an aeroplanes ability to manoeuvre in flight, and then explain how that principle is applied to a crafts manoeuvrability in a vacuum.

Did you misread my post? Or have you been reading other people’s replies and got yourself a little confused? In any case, that was a rash statement on your part, and it shows that it is you with a lack of understanding and I would suggest that you put a little more thought into your posts in future to avoid any further embarrassment. You made the statement, own it!

Quote from: cambo
The rover debate came to a conclusion some time back

Quote from: bobdude
Yes it did. Back when Apollo deployed and used it on the Moon; in front of a WORLDWIDE audience. You are the only one that insists that blueprints are the ONLY way to prove it existed/worked as designed.

I think you’ll find that I’m only one among millions of people who would find it absurd that the plans to build a working Rover, LM and Saturn V rocket are nowhere to be found, along with the tools used to build them. Oh but wait, you and millions of others have seen live TV footage which is proof of their authenticity. Pardon me for being such a naive fool.

Quote from: bobdude
You fail to understand a simple concept, one person, just one, that knows will inevitably tell another

Not if they’ve signed a contract. Can you even begin to imagine what it would be like to be sworn to secrecy by your government, because I certainly can? The responsibility must be enormous, and what about the people who refuse to sign it? I would imagine they would be in the same situation, only a lot poorer. To blab would be an act of treason in the eyes of their government, and they, and I suspect their families would pay the price.

Quote from: bobdude
You also forgot to quote your source on the paragraph with the math

By your own admission you are not one of the more “educated” members on here, and it shows, which is a good thing as you still have a chance to free yourself from the shackles of your indoctrination, but if you’re incapable of looking up gravity equations, then you aren’t deserving of my attention.




Ok, I am a little late to this reply.

You state my umbrella analogy was too simple, yet, you fail to construe the ultimate point: You DON'T need blueprints to know it works, just witness it (like videos of the LRV) or is that too complicated for you?

You also state the plans are not available. Perhaps you should follow your own advice and do a Google search? You might be surprised at what you find.

As to your response to my theory statement:

 Evidence to the contrary, when isolated against the OVERWHELMING evidence in favor, points me to the possibility that my theory (and even the evidence I believe contradicts) is wrong when, ultimately, the majority of experts provide all of the DETAILS to explain why my evidence is incorrect. I then would have to state that my theory has been proven incorrect and I would need to either abandon that theory or rework it and then attempt to prove or disprove.

You take evidence that you claim is contradictory and say it fits your theory. You essentially form the theory, then find evidence to 'prove it'.

I may not be at the level of Jay or many others on here, but I know enough to see the fallacies you present.

The ad hominem of my education (while you know nothing of it), is uncalled for.

MY point is this: it is not MY responsibility to look up gravitational equations. YOU presented your 'evidence' without the source. It is YOUR responsibility to show your work.

I make no claims to be educated in the requisite sciences, but I do hold a Masters in Information Security (backed by a BS in Computer Info Systems, 30 years experience in component level PC repair, 20 years in InfoSec, a CISSP (99487), multiple MCSE certifications, ITIL and previously held several CompTIA certs (A+, Network+, and Security+). ). As you can see, I make no claim to aerospace or any kind of engineering degrees.

I also have a thirst for knowledge, the ability to read and comprehend, and the ability (via my InfoSec training and experience) to follow basic scientific principals

I will never:
I will:

To that end, I have a some questions for you; one that will help me understand (hopefully) your motivation for your posts:
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Rob48 on June 20, 2019, 06:05:54 AM

I once had somebody suggest that satellite tv wasn't real; that they secretly tapped into cable infrastructure or something.  I asked him why it was, then, that my signal always got worse when there was snow in my dish, and then instantly got better the moment I decided to go out and clean it.

To *that* he mumbled something about some secret technology in the dish that sensed snow or weather, and degraded the signal appropriately.  I then asked him why, if the dish concealed such secret technology, did direcTV not care what I did with the thing when I canceled service? They didn't even want it back when I asked them how to return it.  He didn't have an answer to that one.

Related simple home experiment here: https://www.metabunk.org/how-to-test-if-satellites-are-real.t10730/
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: frenat on June 20, 2019, 08:14:02 AM

Got in an argument in another forum where someone was claiming you could replace weather satellites with aircraft flying 24/7.  Little problems like the fleet size necessary to cover CONUS with no gaps, fuel, aircraft maintenance, spare parts, crew rotation, etc., weren't worth bothering about. 
I found somebody once that tried to argue that satellites were real but only low Earth orbit ones. According to him NOTHING could get past the Van Allen belts, not even radio. So how did they fake the higher ones? Multiple satellites in low orbit all networked together and switching on when in the right position for the observer and off when not. When it was pointed out that it would take thousands to get the right angle simulated for all observers for a single geostationary satellite he claimed they could each simulate multiple different satellites. And this has all been done since the 60's.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: smartcooky on June 20, 2019, 08:30:54 AM

Got in an argument in another forum where someone was claiming you could replace weather satellites with aircraft flying 24/7.  Little problems like the fleet size necessary to cover CONUS with no gaps, fuel, aircraft maintenance, spare parts, crew rotation, etc., weren't worth bothering about. 
I found somebody once that tried to argue that satellites were real but only low Earth orbit ones. According to him NOTHING could get past the Van Allen belts, not even radio. So how did they fake the higher ones? Multiple satellites in low orbit all networked together and switching on when in the right position for the observer and off when not. When it was pointed out that it would take thousands to get the right angle simulated for all observers for a single geostationary satellite he claimed they could each simulate multiple different satellites. And this has all been done since the 60's.


So when I look up into the sky in the early evening I should see several hundreds of satellites go over during the 90 minutes or so before dark?

'K
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: frenat on June 20, 2019, 08:42:10 AM

Got in an argument in another forum where someone was claiming you could replace weather satellites with aircraft flying 24/7.  Little problems like the fleet size necessary to cover CONUS with no gaps, fuel, aircraft maintenance, spare parts, crew rotation, etc., weren't worth bothering about. 
I found somebody once that tried to argue that satellites were real but only low Earth orbit ones. According to him NOTHING could get past the Van Allen belts, not even radio. So how did they fake the higher ones? Multiple satellites in low orbit all networked together and switching on when in the right position for the observer and off when not. When it was pointed out that it would take thousands to get the right angle simulated for all observers for a single geostationary satellite he claimed they could each simulate multiple different satellites. And this has all been done since the 60's.


So when I look up into the sky in the early evening I should see several hundreds of satellites go over during the 90 minutes or so before dark?

'K
They're all stealth of course.  I'm sure he never really though about how many satellites would be needed to get all the angles right for every person.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on June 20, 2019, 08:52:57 AM

Got in an argument in another forum where someone was claiming you could replace weather satellites with aircraft flying 24/7.  Little problems like the fleet size necessary to cover CONUS with no gaps, fuel, aircraft maintenance, spare parts, crew rotation, etc., weren't worth bothering about. 
I found somebody once that tried to argue that satellites were real but only low Earth orbit ones. According to him NOTHING could get past the Van Allen belts, not even radio. So how did they fake the higher ones? Multiple satellites in low orbit all networked together and switching on when in the right position for the observer and off when not. When it was pointed out that it would take thousands to get the right angle simulated for all observers for a single geostationary satellite he claimed they could each simulate multiple different satellites. And this has all been done since the 60's.


So when I look up into the sky in the early evening I should see several hundreds of satellites go over during the 90 minutes or so before dark?

'K
They're all stealth of course.  I'm sure he never really though about how many satellites would be needed to get all the angles right for every person.

This should become reality when SpaceX gets its 11K+ satellites into orbit for internet coverage.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Von_Smith on June 20, 2019, 12:20:19 PM

Got in an argument in another forum where someone was claiming you could replace weather satellites with aircraft flying 24/7.  Little problems like the fleet size necessary to cover CONUS with no gaps, fuel, aircraft maintenance, spare parts, crew rotation, etc., weren't worth bothering about. 
I found somebody once that tried to argue that satellites were real but only low Earth orbit ones. According to him NOTHING could get past the Van Allen belts, not even radio. So how did they fake the higher ones? Multiple satellites in low orbit all networked together and switching on when in the right position for the observer and off when not. When it was pointed out that it would take thousands to get the right angle simulated for all observers for a single geostationary satellite he claimed they could each simulate multiple different satellites. And this has all been done since the 60's.


So when I look up into the sky in the early evening I should see several hundreds of satellites go over during the 90 minutes or so before dark?

'K
They're all stealth of course.  I'm sure he never really though about how many satellites would be needed to get all the angles right for every person.

This should become reality when SpaceX gets its 11K+ satellites into orbit for internet coverage.

This would be the Kessler Project?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on June 20, 2019, 01:54:54 PM
No, I believe it is called Starlink
https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/15/18096943/spacex-fcc-starlink-satellites-approval-constellation-internet-from-space
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: smartcooky on June 20, 2019, 11:05:01 PM

Got in an argument in another forum where someone was claiming you could replace weather satellites with aircraft flying 24/7.  Little problems like the fleet size necessary to cover CONUS with no gaps, fuel, aircraft maintenance, spare parts, crew rotation, etc., weren't worth bothering about. 
I found somebody once that tried to argue that satellites were real but only low Earth orbit ones. According to him NOTHING could get past the Van Allen belts, not even radio. So how did they fake the higher ones? Multiple satellites in low orbit all networked together and switching on when in the right position for the observer and off when not. When it was pointed out that it would take thousands to get the right angle simulated for all observers for a single geostationary satellite he claimed they could each simulate multiple different satellites. And this has all been done since the 60's.


So when I look up into the sky in the early evening I should see several hundreds of satellites go over during the 90 minutes or so before dark?

'K
They're all stealth of course.  I'm sure he never really though about how many satellites would be needed to get all the angles right for every person.


Well it would be about 1.5 million satellites for UK subscribers alone.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Tedward on July 08, 2019, 03:05:06 AM
If I understand this stealth thing correctly, it would need to be a wide belt as well?
Couple events every year plague uplink operators and I expect not many subscribers notice it, that is sun outages (sun aligns with the satellite in use, and your antenna). I am not sure what is in place for static uplinks. Depends on location, dish sizes etc. and what sat is being used as to exactly when and how bad it comes right down the bottle for interference.

Quite a thing to see your spectrum swamped but you hope that the universe stays true and you know that it will last perhaps a minute thirty and you are due up on the bird in two minutes time. Bad planning and you are in for some ear ache.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on August 05, 2019, 06:54:44 PM
Hey Cambo...what is, in your opinion, the strongest piece of "evidence" that lead you to believe in the hoax nonsense? Just one please..the one that you think is the absolute strongest and the most solid

It has to be the fact that not one other country has attempted to send humans out into deep space, not even a trip around the moon and back. Years back, the Americans were planning to do this very thing until Obama said to hell with that, let’s go to Mars. Then Trump came along and said no, let’s keep it simple and do the moon thing again, but NASA said we aren’t ready yet. I was hoping that Trump would rumble their little game and give their arses a good kicking, but it’s looking like he’s just another puppet in a long line of puppets, at the beck and call of the real people running the show.

Until recently, why has no other country at least thought about doing it just the once? The Russians gave up because they were apparently incapable of designing a rocket that was up to the task and their special FX were naff, but It was a piece of cake for the Americans back then, and even after the alleged near tragedy of Apollo 13, they went ahead with another four missions. Why did they keep going back there every few months, when the job of beating the Russians had already been accomplished? NASA say they travelled to and from the moon nine times in less than four years, and all they did was bring back more moon rocks.

A reflector went up with Apollo 11, so why the need for more reflectors? The camera conveniently broke on Apollo 12, probably because Kubrick had pissed off to start work on A Clockwork Orange and then we had the Apollo 13 near disaster to buy them more time while they perfected their special FX and a couple of missions later, someone came up with the novel idea of taking a car along. Do you really believe that the Russians simply lost interest and gave up because they were beaten to the moon by a country that had always played second fiddle to them in space until the magic of Apollo? How can you possibly accept the fact that no other country has ever had the spare change to develop the technology and do a couple of unmanned missions to test the hardware, followed by a single trip around the moon, when in reality, every country with a space program would be falling over each other to replicate a feat that had already been performed multiple times with apparent ease?

But more importantly, why is it taking so long for NASA to go back? They stopped going to the moon, only because public interest had waned, then destroyed the technology that got them there and decided to circle the earth for the next five decades doing what? They apparently achieved so much in ten years and then threw it all away to do countless meaningless experiments in LEO and a few back flips for the cameras. The Vietnam War cost the US tax payers an estimated 168 billion dollars, which is around a trillion dollars in today’s money, while Apollo cost a measly 25 billion, so you can stick your money excuse where the sun don’t shine.

2024 is the current date planned for the next manned moon landing, but at the moment there is apparently not enough funding, even though I’m guessing it’ll end up being a joint effort, as they’ll all want in on the “act”. The rockets aren’t ready, the new space station is still on the drawing board and because the plans were destroyed for the original lander, which apparently worked almost flawlessly, they now have to find someone to design and build a new one from scratch. So much for the theory that the plans are hidden away somewhere on microfilm, as whoever wins the contract could’ve simply updated the old one.

By the sound of it, 2024 isn’t a realistic goal if they are actually planning to do it this time around, but with CGI being so advanced now, I suspect we will see it go ahead as planned, as they won’t need to use ultra-low quality footage to try and mask the fakery. I took my youngest granddaughter to see the new Dumbo movie, but I made the mistake of telling her the elephant wasn’t real and she now thinks I’m an idiot (try and keep the sarcasm to a minimum). I don’t blame her, as these upcoming moon landings are going to look very real to most people and it may be extremely difficult this time around, to find visual evidence that could cast doubt on their authenticity.

It was made to look like a walk in the park back then, as we had astronauts hopping, dancing, singing and falling over, seemingly without a care in the world. For most, it takes a few beers while on holiday to act in such a childish manner, but that’s showbiz for you I suppose. If you believe that fifty years ago, a big rocket and a shitty computer with a 1.024 MHz processor, 2k memory and 32k storage was enough to launch men into space and navigate to and land on the moon and then take off again and dock with the command module and then navigate back to earth, then you are simply deluded. But if you also accept that it’s ok to go nearly half a century and still not have the means to emulate an achievement that is fast becoming ancient history, then you are beyond delusional. You are asleep.

I fear for Trump’s safety as he has not only given NASA an unrealistic goal to put men on the moon within five years, but he has also challenged the military to create a space force, which has to involve NASA, and we all know what happens to presidents who challenge NASA to do the impossible.

So go on Zakalwe, what, in your own opinion is the strongest piece of evidence that has brought you to believe in this Apollo nonsense? Just the one please. The one that is least likely to make me fall of my chair with laughter. I’ll be back in a few months to read your reply.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Obviousman on August 05, 2019, 08:45:44 PM
That's ONE?

(sound of gish-gallopinging into the distance...)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Ranb on August 05, 2019, 09:28:33 PM
.... but It was a piece of cake for the Americans back then, and even after the alleged near tragedy of Apollo 13, they went ahead with another four missions.
If you knew much about the Apollo missions you would understand that it was anything but a piece of cake.

Why did they keep going back there every few months, when the job of beating the Russians had already been accomplished?
Because most of the hardware was already purchased for the missions up to Apollo 17.

NASA say they travelled to and from the moon nine times in less than four years, and all they did was bring back more moon rocks.
They also brought back photos, core samples and place experiment packages on the lunar surface.

The camera conveniently broke on Apollo 12, probably because Kubrick had pissed off to start work on A Clockwork Orange and then we had the Apollo 13 near disaster to buy them more time while they perfected their special FX and a couple of missions later, someone came up with the novel idea of taking a car along. Do you really believe that the Russians simply lost interest and gave up because they were beaten to the moon by a country that had always played second fiddle to them in space until the magic of Apollo?
It was just a single camera that broke.  The still photo camera were still used.  While the Soviets were able to put a satellite and man into orbit first, by the time the Gemini program was flying, Americans had far outpaced the Russians in just about everything to do with space flight.

.... when in reality, every country with a space program would be falling over each other to replicate a feat that had already been performed multiple times with apparent ease?
Explain why every country with a space program would want to replicate NASA accomplishments.

But more importantly, why is it taking so long for NASA to go back?
Because NASA can't simply write a check to finance they missions.  Why do you want them to go back anyway?

They stopped going to the moon, only because public interest had waned, then destroyed the technology that got them there and decided to circle the earth for the next five decades doing what?
The tech was not destroyed.  Some of the hardware is still on Earth.  You should take a look at it sometime.

 
They apparently achieved so much in ten years and then threw it all away to do countless meaningless experiments in LEO and a few back flips for the cameras.
Why were the LEO experiments meaningless?

The Vietnam War cost the US tax payers an estimated 168 billion dollars, which is around a trillion dollars in today’s money, while Apollo cost a measly 25 billion, so you can stick your money excuse where the sun don’t shine.
When you can convince anyone to write that check, get back to us.

2024 is the current date planned for the next manned moon landing, but at the moment there is apparently not enough funding, even though I’m guessing it’ll end up being a joint effort, as they’ll all want in on the “act”.
Trump is no JFK and there is no one to race against like there was in the 60's

So much for the theory that the plans are hidden away somewhere on microfilm, as whoever wins the contract could’ve simply updated the old one.
Why use old outdated hardware when we can use safer more efficient new tech?

By the sound of it, 2024 isn’t a realistic goal if they are actually planning to do it this time around,....
Of course it is not realistic.  It is a Trump pipe dream to get there by 2024.

If you believe that fifty years ago, a big rocket and a shitty computer with a 1.024 MHz processor, 2k memory and 32k storage was enough to launch men into space and navigate to and land on the moon and then take off again and dock with the command module and then navigate back to earth, then you are simply deluded.
Since you have no idea how much computing power is required to navigate a ship without a graphic user interface, why do you think that old tech was not up to the task?

Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on August 05, 2019, 10:33:52 PM
The whole 'but no ones been back' argument is weapons grade bolognium. It took longer than since Apollo for anyone to return to Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the ocean, a far simpler technical challenge that was met with the resources and pull of a wealthy film director.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on August 05, 2019, 10:36:00 PM
That's ONE?

(sound of gish-gallopinging into the distance...)

Exactly.  8)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on August 06, 2019, 02:09:01 AM
Aaaaand we're back for with another tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Lots of fancy words but no substance, just the same tired old tropes about not having hardware, only doing LEO stuff, not a big enough computer, all stuff that that sounds impressive in the bedroom mirror but means absolutely zilch. Blah blah blah.

The AGC was what is now referred to as a thin client.

Look it up.

Most of the grunt work was done by a basement sized machine back on the ground.

Apolo didn't just happen, it took years of work and planning with the financial backing of politicians. When the US is prepared to put its money where its mouth is, it might get to the moon again. In the meantime it can just watch in admiration as India and China do the exploring. India and China would be the countries that photographed evidence of human activity on the moon.

No-one destroyed any hardware. They put it in museums and shelved the blueprints. It's all there for anyone to examine and look at. Claiming it was destroyed is just swallowing the BS of ignorant hoax nuts.

You want evidence that proves we went? You've been given plenty but chosen to ignore it. Maybe it was all tl:dr. Have something less attention span sapping:





Next time you submit an essay, put it in on time, use references and stick to the subject. This was is late, lacking in source material and wanders all over the place.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on August 06, 2019, 02:27:37 AM
I was going to write a point-by-point rebuttal, but I doubt any of it would sink in.  Besides, there are people far better qualified than me to do that.

I can summarise however - cambo's latest diatribe is wrong on almost every technical, economic and political point.  It's strawmanning every area of the Apollo programme, and then arguing against said straw men.

It's almost as if he hasn't done any research...
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on August 06, 2019, 03:35:48 AM
Quote from: cambo
If you believe that fifty years ago, a big rocket and a shitty computer with a 1.024 MHz processor, 2k memory and 32k storage was enough to launch men into space and navigate to and land on the moon and then take off again and dock with the command module and then navigate back to earth, then you are simply deluded.
Please, elaborate then, on what kind of computational power is needed to put a person on the moon?
The good folks of this forum are, by and large, quite technically inclined and literate, so, please, elucidate on this point: what would be required. Show your work. I am curious and would be deeply interested in your answer.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: ApolloEnthusiast on August 06, 2019, 05:11:21 AM
Hey Cambo...what is, in your opinion, the strongest piece of "evidence" that lead you to believe in the hoax nonsense? Just one please..the one that you think is the absolute strongest and the most solid

It has to be the fact that not one other country has attempted to send humans out into deep space, not even a trip around the moon and back.
Why did they keep going back there every few months, when the job of beating the Russians had already been accomplished?
Do you recognize the inherent problem with claiming that the strongest evidence for a hoax is that no one has gone back, and in the very next paragraph using the fact that they did go back as evidence for the hoax?

I ask this question because I'm curious about whether you have been successfully manipulated by people smarter than you using these types of rhetorical gimmicks or if you are actually trying to manipulate people who are smarter than you.

Put more simply, do you honestly not realize that all of the "evidence" you're presenting doesn't stand up under even a small amount of scrutiny, or do you know you're wrong?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Zakalwe on August 06, 2019, 05:13:21 AM
Hey Cambo...what is, in your opinion, the strongest piece of "evidence" that lead you to believe in the hoax nonsense? Just one please..the one that you think is the absolute strongest and the most solid

It has to be the fact that not one other country has attempted to send humans out into deep space, not even a trip around the moon and back.

Thanks for replying.

OK, I've deleted all of the gish-gallop to focus on this one point that in your own words is your strongest piece of evidence.

Why would the claim that something hasn't been repeated invalidate the original act? Lets use an extreme example...you were born at a specific time and date. This exact occurrence will never ever happen again. Using your "logic" it is reasonable to claim that you don't exist and never had existed. Now, clearly that is a nonsense claim and you would be right to guffaw in my direction if I was to claim such a thing. Yet this is exactly the premise of your absolute strongest and most solid piece of "evidence".

Lets be clear here, your very existence totally invalidates the claim that just because something hasn't been repeated it is therefore fake.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Allan F on August 06, 2019, 07:46:08 AM

Quote from: cambo
If you believe that fifty years ago, a big rocket and a shitty computer with a 1.024 MHz processor, 2k memory and 32k storage was enough to launch men into space and navigate to and land on the moon and then take off again and dock with the command module and then navigate back to earth, then you are simply deluded.

Actually, it wasn't the shitty computer, which controlled the rocket going into space. It had a separate guidance system. Also, the "shitty computer" didn't navigate at all, bigger and better computers ON EARTH did that. And then transmitted instructions to the computers onboard. What the "shitty computer" did, was FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS transmitted from Earth. That got the spacecraft to the moon and into orbit. Following instructions.

The other "shitty computer" then guided the LM down to the surface - by following a set of preplanned maneuvers. Changes in the programme were triggered by certain events, like the radar returning certain values for altitude, and the inertial navigation system reaching certain values for velocity.

The "shitty computer" then, triggered to start the ascent at a specific exact time, guided the ascent stage back into lunar orbit, by executing a series of preplanned maneuvers. Not much computing power needed, to do this.

Please look into how the missions were ACTUALLY performed, before you cry "fake". Your own LACK OF UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWLEDGE is NOT evidence, not even an argument against the reality of the Apollo moon landings. It is only evidence of your intellectual laziness.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on August 06, 2019, 11:21:57 AM
Even at the time, there were people who were mad that as much was spent on Apollo as was.  People thought the money could better be spent on Earth (neglecting to understand, of course, that they didn't just fire the money out into space, and that every penny of it was spent on Earth and provided jobs and so forth) and wanted the program scrapped in favour of practically anything else, the "something else" varying depending on the particular hobbyhorse of the person in question.  Getting the political will to keep funding the program once Nixon wanted it scrapped simply wasn't there. 

Frankly, if there were a single "powers that be" running things, human history would have a lot fewer things like "going to the Moon and then never going back," because the reason the program was scrapped was Nixon's hatred of Kennedy and Johnson.  He couldn't cancel it before Apollo 11, but he sure as hell cancelled it as quickly as he reasonably could after.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on August 07, 2019, 02:48:24 AM
Just to add a couple of points...

Firstly, not going back for many years after the last Apollo mission means nothing.  Look at the exploration of Antarctica in the early 20th Century - there was a gap of 45 years between the last exploratory expeditions to the South Pole and the return and creation of a permanent base.

Secondly, the computing systems used for various part of the mission were certainly not inadequate, or insufficient.  Take a look back at e.g. early games consoles and home computers.  They had roughly the same computing power and yet could run quite complex games and graphics with very slow processors and not much RAM.

Don't fall into the trap of thinking that because we use (comparatively) very powerful computers nowadays, earlier ones weren't up to the job.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: smartcooky on August 07, 2019, 06:42:45 AM
Secondly, the computing systems used for various part of the mission were certainly not inadequate, or insufficient.  Take a look back at e.g. early games consoles and home computers.  They had roughly the same computing power and yet could run quite complex games and graphics with very slow processors and not much RAM.

Don't fall into the trap of thinking that because we use (comparatively) very powerful computers nowadays, earlier ones weren't up to the job.

This is really important to keep in mind.

Firstly, the space navigation calculations to send Apollo 11 to the moon, and land, and ascend, and return to earth were already done before the spacecraft ever lifted off; a number of mathematicians led by Katherine J. Johnson did the calculations, and Margaret Hamilton (who must surely have been one of the world's first software engineers) led the effort to turn the calculations into a program. Space navigation is a math problem; it can be very easily run on a simple computer. It requires nowhere near as much computer power as running a rudimentary graphics program.

Secondly, even when things didn't quite go right, and when the Apollo crew wanted something checked, the "back-up computer" was a bunch of guys at consoles in Houston armed with slide rules!

https://www.businessinsider.com/space-travel-relied-on-slide-rule-2015-2?IR=T

Interesting aside

(https://www.dropbox.com/s/ikuvl781ai23mpq/Hamilton-Bouman.png?raw=1)

LEFT: Software Engineer Margaret Hamilton in 1969 standing beside a pile of printouts of the code she helped create to get Apollo 11 to the moon and back.

RIGHT: Fifty years later, Computer Scientist Dr. Katie Bouman embracing a bunch of HDD stacks that allowed the Event Horizon team to get first "photograph" of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy.

This is the sort of juxtaposition that reminds me of Kubrick's "four million year jump cut" from 2001 A Space Odyssey


Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: jfb on August 07, 2019, 10:47:49 AM
Hey Cambo...what is, in your opinion, the strongest piece of "evidence" that lead you to believe in the hoax nonsense? Just one please..the one that you think is the absolute strongest and the most solid

It has to be the fact that not one other country has attempted to send humans out into deep space, not even a trip around the moon and back.

Manned spaceflight ain't cheap.  Manned spaceflight beyond Earth orbit is even more ain't cheap.  The Apollo program cost over $280 billion in 2019 dollars, and at its peak received like 4% total federal budget.  Not many countries are in a position to devote that much of their resources to an effort that, frankly, has little direct payoff.   

There is currently no practical benefit in sending people to the Moon.  None.  There is no ROI that makes the effort worth the cost.  You get some prestige, you show off your repurposed ICBMs to your geopolitical adversaries, but that's pretty much it.  Like the man said, we did it because it was hard, but having done it, there's no real good reason to do it again. 

Unmanned missions, sure, everyone is sending unmanned probes to the Moon.  We've sent a number of orbiters, China's landed two probes on the surface (including a rover), Israel attempted to land a small probe (which failed, unfortunately), India's sent an orbiter to the Moon.  There's plenty of activity on the unmanned side because you don't need to build a monster rocket to do it. 
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Years back, the Americans were planning to do this very thing until Obama said to hell with that, let’s go to Mars. Then Trump came along and said no, let’s keep it simple and do the moon thing again, but NASA said we aren’t ready yet. I was hoping that Trump would rumble their little game and give their arses a good kicking, but it’s looking like he’s just another puppet in a long line of puppets, at the beck and call of the real people running the show.

We're not going to get into the whole history of the Constellation and then SLS debacles, except to say that SLS has never had a real mission.  There was no exploration program that required SLS be built in the first place - the Mars and asteroid redirect missions were desperate post hoc justifications to hide the fact that SLS is little more than a welfare program to keep the old Shuttle workforce employed and give several NASA offices something to do.  The primary purpose of SLS is to funnel federal dollars to the districts of several powerful Congressmen - actually launching something is a nice side benefit, but not necessary. 

If anything positive comes out of this *********** of an administration, it's that Trump hired Brindenstine to run NASA, and that Brindenstine is lighting a fire under the SLS program to get the goddamned thing flying already.  To his credit, he's decoupled the vehicle from the Artemis program - if SLS can't be made ready by 2024, he'll look at commercial vehicles to do the job instead.  SpaceX hopes to have their orbital Spaceship prototypes flying later this year, and may be in a position to send one to the Moon in the next couple of years.   

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Until recently, why has no other country at least thought about doing it just the once?

$$$$$$$$$$$$$.  As in, too goddamned much of. 

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The Russians gave up because they were apparently incapable of designing a rocket that was up to the task and their special FX were naff, but It was a piece of cake for the Americans back then, and even after the alleged near tragedy of Apollo 13, they went ahead with another four missions. Why did they keep going back there every few months, when the job of beating the Russians had already been accomplished? NASA say they travelled to and from the moon nine times in less than four years, and all they did was bring back more moon rocks.

It was anything but a piece of cake - it took years, many millions of dollars, and several lives to get to the surface of the Moon.  It was a Herculean engineering effort that almost didn't work.  There were glitches and anomalies on every flight, some severe.  11 overshot its landing site and had the 1202 program alarms, 12 got struck by lightning on launch and almost had to abort, 13 had an engine shut down during launch and then had the O2 tank blow up, 14 almost aborted the landing due to a piece of loose solder floating around behind a control panel, on and on and on.  It wasn't easy.  It only worked because literally thousands of very smart and very dedicated people devoted a good chunk of their lives to make it work. 
 
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A reflector went up with Apollo 11, so why the need for more reflectors?

Redundancy.  If the first reflector got knocked over or covered by dust from liftoff, they'd know to place subsequent reflectors further away. 

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The camera conveniently broke on Apollo 12, probably because Kubrick had pissed off to start work on A Clockwork Orange and then we had the Apollo 13 near disaster to buy them more time while they perfected their special FX and a couple of missions later, someone came up with the novel idea of taking a car along.

You're nowhere near as cute as you think you are. 

The Apollo missions followed an incremental path, each building on the previous.  There were several unmanned launches to shake out the hardware in Earth orbit.  7 was a manned test of the CSM alone in Earth orbit.  8 was a manned test of the CSM alone in lunar orbit (it was supposed to test the LM in Earth orbit, but the first LM was way behind schedule, so this turned into a lunar orbit flight and a bit of a PR stunt).  9 was a manned test of the CSM and LM in Earth orbit.  10 was a manned test of the CSM and LM in Lunar orbit.  11 was a test of lunar landing and launch.  12 was a test of precision lunar landing and launch.  13 was supposed to be the first "real" mission in terms of science objectives, but we know how that turned out.  14 basically completed 13's mission. 

15, 16, and 17 were the full-up science missions, necessitating the LRV to reach sites far away from the LM. 

This stuff was all planned, in great detail, right from the beginning.  Nothing was arbitrarily added midway through. 

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Do you really believe that the Russians simply lost interest and gave up because they were beaten to the moon by a country that had always played second fiddle to them in space until the magic of Apollo?

Yes.  The Soviets squandered their lead by, well, being Soviets and demanding that engineering take a back seat to politics (which is where the US is now).  It also didn't help that Korolev decided to test the N1 by building the full stack and lighting it without doing smaller-scale tests first. They wound up falling years behind (I remember seeing that their first landing was on pace for 1975 or something like that).  And yeah, once the US succeeded, the Soviets decided those rubles were better spent elsewhere. The USSR's economy was never that strong, and trying to keep up with the US in the arms race effectively bankrupted them. 

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How can you possibly accept the fact that no other country has ever had the spare change to develop the technology and do a couple of unmanned missions to test the hardware, followed by a single trip around the moon, when in reality, every country with a space program would be falling over each other to replicate a feat that had already been performed multiple times with apparent ease?

Enough with the "apparent ease" crap.  Apollo wasn't easy.  It was incredibly difficult and stupid expensive, and had no payoff except national pride.  It takes incredible political willpower to make something like that happen.  Hell, we didn't even finish the program as originally envisioned - there were at least 3 more missions that were planned, but Nixon and Congress couldn't wait to kill it. 

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But more importantly, why is it taking so long for NASA to go back? They stopped going to the moon, only because public interest had waned, then destroyed the technology

The tooling and pad infrastructure were destroyed, but there are spacecraft and rockets that were built but never flew since their missions were canceled.  They're not in flyable condition due to age, but they're still around.

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 that got them there and decided to circle the earth for the next five decades doing what? They apparently achieved so much in ten years and then threw it all away to do countless meaningless experiments in LEO and a few back flips for the cameras. The Vietnam War cost the US tax payers an estimated 168 billion dollars, which is around a trillion dollars in today’s money, while Apollo cost a measly 25 billion, so you can stick your money excuse where the sun don’t shine.

There's always money for war.  There's almost never money for space exploration.  That's where our priorities are. 
You keep ignoring political considerations when you keep asking why we haven't done it again.  The simple answer is that we don't want to - we're not willing to commit the resources.  Yeah, we're building a big-ass rocket, but that's because certain powerful members of Congress see that as a way to keep jobs in their districts. 

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2024 is the current date planned for the next manned moon landing, but at the moment there is apparently not enough funding, even though I’m guessing it’ll end up being a joint effort, as they’ll all want in on the “act”. The rockets aren’t ready, the new space station is still on the drawing board and because the plans were destroyed for the original lander, which apparently worked almost flawlessly, they now have to find someone to design and build a new one from scratch. So much for the theory that the plans are hidden away somewhere on microfilm, as whoever wins the contract could’ve simply updated the old one.

Jesus, so much wrong.

SLS isn't ready because a) NASA's manned side has lost its ability to manage large projects, and b) Congress is funding it at a level such that it keeps people employed, but not enough to build at more than a snail's pace. 

SLS was sold on the promise of being Shuttle-derived - basically take existing Shuttle hardware (external tank, engines, solid boosters), tweak and reconfigure it, build a quickie upper stage, and theoretically that would take less time and money than a completely new, clean-sheet design.  Except, that isn't what they did - they extensively modified the design, requiring all new equipment to build and test it.  About the only thing that's carried over as-is are the engines.  Those lovely, expensive, exquisitely engineered reusable engines that are going to be tossed in the ocean after each launch now. 

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By the sound of it, 2024 isn’t a realistic goal if they are actually planning to do it this time around, but with CGI being so advanced now, I suspect we will see it go ahead as planned, as they won’t need to use ultra-low quality footage to try and mask the fakery. I took my youngest granddaughter to see the new Dumbo movie, but I made the mistake of telling her the elephant wasn’t real and she now thinks I’m an idiot (try and keep the sarcasm to a minimum). I don’t blame her, as these upcoming moon landings are going to look very real to most people and it may be extremely difficult this time around, to find visual evidence that could cast doubt on their authenticity.

Again, not as clever as you think you are. 

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It was made to look like a walk in the park back then, as we had astronauts hopping, dancing, singing and falling over, seemingly without a care in the world. For most, it takes a few beers while on holiday to act in such a childish manner, but that’s showbiz for you I suppose. If you believe that fifty years ago, a big rocket and a shitty computer with a 1.024 MHz processor, 2k memory and 32k storage was enough to launch men into space and navigate to and land on the moon and then take off again and dock with the command module and then navigate back to earth, then you are simply deluded. But if you also accept that it’s ok to go nearly half a century and still not have the means to emulate an achievement that is fast becoming ancient history, then you are beyond delusional. You are asleep.

Here's the thing - there are people who are smarter than you.  Your inability to conceive of how a thing can be done doesn't mean it can't be done.

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I fear for Trump’s safety as he has not only given NASA an unrealistic goal to put men on the moon within five years, but he has also challenged the military to create a space force, which has to involve NASA, and we all know what happens to presidents who challenge NASA to do the impossible.

That is probably the dumbest f***ing thing you've said to date, and God knows that's a high bar to clear. Seriously, dude, you are an idiot.  Moron.  Jackass. 

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So go on Zakalwe, what, in your own opinion is the strongest piece of evidence that has brought you to believe in this Apollo nonsense? Just the one please. The one that is least likely to make me fall of my chair with laughter. I’ll be back in a few months to read your reply.

Let's go with samples from the Lunar surface that have been examined by a couple of generations of planetary scientists from institutions all over the world. 
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Allan F on August 07, 2019, 10:57:09 AM
The software in those days were written in machine language, which is much more compact, fast and DIFFICULT to troubleshoot. Within a few hundred bytes of code, you can have all kinds of things going on, which would require hundreds of kilobytes in a compiled language. I've dabbled in machine code programming myself, many years ago. You should look to the demo scene, especially the socalled 4K demos for the C64. There you'll see what a machine coder can do with limited resources.



This demo uses a clever trick, I myself discovered (but others have found it before me). By using the "Load xxx,8,1" command, you load the programme into memory at a specific location defined in the programme itself. The first two bytes in the file specify the address where the programme should be loaded. In this case, the programme loads the third and fourth bytes into a register, which tells the computer to execute the code specified by those two bytes, when loading is completed. Very clever.


ETA: 4K demo means 4 kilobytes of data - the entire demo including sound and graphics and everything is 4096 bytes or less.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: smartcooky on August 07, 2019, 10:36:44 PM
The software in those days were written in machine language, which is much more compact, fast and DIFFICULT to troubleshoot. Within a few hundred bytes of code, you can have all kinds of things going on, which would require hundreds of kilobytes in a compiled language. I've dabbled in machine code programming myself, many years ago. You should look to the demo scene, especially the socalled 4K demos for the C64. There you'll see what a machine coder can do with limited resources.

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This demo uses a clever trick, I myself discovered (but others have found it before me). By using the "Load xxx,8,1" command, you load the programme into memory at a specific location defined in the programme itself. The first two bytes in the file specify the address where the programme should be loaded. In this case, the programme loads the third and fourth bytes into a register, which tells the computer to execute the code specified by those two bytes, when loading is completed. Very clever.


ETA: 4K demo means 4 kilobytes of data - the entire demo including sound and graphics and everything is 4096 bytes or less.

One of the things I did back in my good old practical astronomy days was to program an Apple][+ (with 16K of RAM) as a data logger (using 6502 machine & assembly language) to store information from the output of a photoelectric photometer onto a 5.25" floppy disk. We used a  John Bell Engineering 6522 Versatile Interface Adapter (plugged into Slot 7) as a current > frequency converter.

The programme would start by allowing the user to input the date, the name of the star being observed, the name of the observer and any other notes in a string up to 255 characters long. Those strings would be converted to hexadecimal values and saved directly to a reserved area on the floppy disk. Once all that was done, the user would press the space bar and the data logging subroutines would start.

1. 900 m/s of frequency signal integration.
2. 100 m/s to save the data to RAM memory, one line of 16 bytes representing;
- frequency in Hz
- UBV filter setting from the photometer
- UTC time in HH:MM:SS (sourced directly from WWVH in Hawaii via a dedicated telephone line)
During this 100m/s period it would also check for the amount of RAM memory left for data storage

The program could integrate and log data for about 15 minutes before the memory warning would go off. The user would press the space bar and the whole 15K of RAM memory would be dumped onto the floppy disk, cleared to all zeros, and then the program would wait for user to tap the space bar to  commence another round of data logging.

The whole routine was about 200 lines of code that used less than 100 bytes of RAM memory. I got so good at programming this stuff, that I could recognize a whole block of hexadecimal code and tell you exactly what that subroutine was doing... now, 30+ years later, I couldn't even tell you where to begin!
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on August 08, 2019, 08:43:44 AM
Like a lot of us you suffer from CRS.  :)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on August 08, 2019, 04:45:01 PM
This demo uses a clever trick, I myself discovered (but others have found it before me). By using the "Load xxx,8,1" command, you load the programme into memory at a specific location defined in the programme itself. The first two bytes in the file specify the address where the programme should be loaded. In this case, the programme loads the third and fourth bytes into a register, which tells the computer to execute the code specified by those two bytes, when loading is completed. Very clever.


ETA: 4K demo means 4 kilobytes of data - the entire demo including sound and graphics and everything is 4096 bytes or less.
Oooh, demo coding is a real skill!  :)  I have a few friends who still do it, and one of them just won first place for a 4K demo at the Assembly festival in Finland!  Having spent about half my working life writing video games, I know all too well just how much crafting goes into squeezing every last nanosecond out of the hardware  :o

I think people like cambo, who perhaps have a view of science and technology as "magical", really can't appreciate the skills and dogged determination of the many people who make things work - whether it's a fun computer demo or launching a lunar mission.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Kiwi on August 09, 2019, 09:57:31 AM
That is probably the dumbest f***ing thing you've said to date, and God knows that's a high bar to clear. Seriously, dude, you are an idiot.  Moron.  Jackass.

Jfb: I'm disappointed that have used such nasty language like that on this forum, and I hope that a few others were dismayed to see it. But, for whatever reason, if they were, they haven't yet commented.

That small paragraph is particularly surprising because most of your post is calm, rational, informative non-abusive and quite clear. Why didn't you just ignore that paragraph of Cambo's or simply acknowledge it with "No comment" and suitable smiley?

You've been here long enough to get the idea that we regulars usually don't talk like that to hoax-believers or anyone else either, and that our webmaster, LunarOrbit, disapproves of such childishness. He expects us to act like decent grown-ups and not like some of the abusive ratbags that mainly seem to live somewhere between Mexico and Canada. And no, I'm not rubbishing the many good people who live in the same area and am thankful that some of them are members here.

By all means, criticise the message with non-abusive language but leave the messenger alone, and if necessary refamiliarise yourself with LunarOrbit's perfectly reasonable rules that are mostly covered in his first two sentences:--
http://www.apollohoax.net/forum/index.php?topic=18.0

Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Von_Smith on August 09, 2019, 08:50:30 PM
Hey Cambo...what is, in your opinion, the strongest piece of "evidence" that lead you to believe in the hoax nonsense? Just one please..the one that you think is the absolute strongest and the most solid

It has to be the fact that not one other country has attempted to send humans out into deep space, not even a trip around the moon and back.


In order to draw conclusions from evidence, you need a few things other than just making observations. 

You need to show some sort of cogent method for interpreting observations and drawing conclusions from them.

You need to establish the *relevance* the specific observations you are making have to the conclusion you are trying to draw from them..

You need to argue for why one should prefer your conclusions to others one might draw from the same observations.

You need to ensure that the observations themselves are accurate.

You need to ensure that your explanation fits all the other observations, and not just some ones you cherry picked.

For example:  you observe that no other country ran manned missions to the moon, nor has the US returned in that time.  From this, you conclude that the missions were faked.  But drawing this conclusion from that observation requires a rule.  Something like:  For any X, if no other country has done X, and the US hasn't done it in 50 years, than X wasn't actually done.

In addition to there not being any reason to think that such a rule is actually a thing, there is the fact that it has inconvenient implications to your position if you apply it to cases where X equals "faking moon landings".  No other countries have *faked* a moon landing, either.  Nor has the US *faked* any moon landings in the last 50 years.  This argues at least as strongly against the idea that we faked the moon landings as it does against the idea that we went.  You need to explain why the rule applies to actually doing moon landings, but not to faking them. 

I could go on.  There is no need.


Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: LunarOrbit on August 11, 2019, 11:51:34 PM
That is probably the dumbest f***ing thing you've said to date, and God knows that's a high bar to clear. Seriously, dude, you are an idiot.  Moron.  Jackass. 

Knock it off with the swearing and insults, please. I expect everyone to be better than that.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on August 15, 2019, 04:57:22 PM


Another video for cambo, this one from Apollo 7.  Interested to hear what kind of wire rigs were used to fake this one.

Wire rigs? I think you’re confusing the Apollo craft with the ISS, as all the Zero G stuff was performed in a vomit comet back then. There is a clip from around the seven minute mark, which runs for just under two minutes. The first 40 seconds, where a bloke is floating in what seems to be slow motion is the only part of the clip that we can definitely be sure is in Zero G, as after he lays down in readiness for the return of gravity, we don’t see any real conclusive proof of a weightless environment. Having said that, if we play the clip at 2x speed, it looks perfectly acceptable, which ties in with the 58 second clip I was shown from Apollo 10, which was at normal speed, so it looks perfectly feasible to me, that a one minute stint would be doable in a vomit comet.

Why do you readily accept that a vomit comet can only give us 25 to 30 seconds of Zero G? Those planes are essentially commercial flights to give members of the public a chance to experience weightlessness, so it’s obvious that these planes are flying well within their safety limits. What would these planes be capable of if they were pushed to their limits and beyond? You all need to give yourselves a shake and stop swallowing everything you are told at face value and use your noggin and apply a bit of logic for a change.

Why are all the clips so short? With all the hours of on-board footage, why would they not put the camera down once in a while and leave it running while they went about their business? Show me an Apollo astronaut floating around the capsule for three minutes and I may need to have a rethink, so until then, stop posting these ridiculous vomit comet videos. 

Here’s that clip with sound at around 6 minutes in. What’s that background noise? Is it the air conditioning, or maybe it’s just audio interference. It can’t be an aircraft engine because they are in space, right? 


Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: molesworth on August 15, 2019, 05:20:09 PM


Why do you readily accept that a vomit comet can only give us 25 to 30 seconds of Zero G? Those planes are essentially commercial flights to give members of the public a chance to experience weightlessness, so it’s obvious that these planes are flying well within their safety limits. What would these planes be capable of if they were pushed to their limits and beyond? You all need to give yourselves a shake and stop swallowing everything you are told at face value and use your noggin and apply a bit of logic for a change.

Do you understand the mechanism, i.e. the flight trajectory, which is responsible for the reduced or zero gravity experiences on these aircraft?  If not, I suggest you research it, because there is a reason for the limited duration of the effect.

If you think there is some way to extend it, please provide a coherent explanation as to how it could be achieved, and what you think the maximum possible duration should be.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: MBDK on August 15, 2019, 09:14:38 PM
use your noggin and apply a bit of logic for a change.

It can’t be an aircraft engine because they are in space, right? 

If you could only follow your own advice.  Of course it can't be an aircraft engine, because they are not aboard an aircraft, they are on a SPACESHIP.  And how can you hear a spaceship's engine when travelling through space?  Using your noggin, and appropriate logic, you SHOULD be able to understand that since sound is caused by vibrations through a medium (i.e., you can hear sounds underwater), the spacecraft's engine vibrations can reverberate through the vehicle, interact with the on-board atmosphere, and produce sound.  You can think of the hull of the ship as a stylus, the engine the record, and the cabin the speaker in a funky kind of phonograph system.  Get it?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Allan F on August 15, 2019, 09:59:52 PM
Tape hiss. No mystery there.

Remember: THE CAMERA USED DIDN'T RECORD SOUND. The sound has been added LATER. So whatever sound you hear, does not reflect the ambient noise of the spacecraft.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: sts60 on August 16, 2019, 12:14:52 AM
... If you believe that fifty years ago, a big rocket and a shitty computer with a 1.024 MHz processor, 2k memory and 32k storage was enough to launch men into space and navigate to and land on the moon and then take off again and dock with the command module and then navigate back to earth, then you are simply deluded...

Hello, cambo.  Why, exactly, was the Apollo computing infrastructure inadequate to the task?  I’m an aerospace engineer with almost three decades in the field, so I’ll be very interested in your detailed answer backing up your claim.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: onebigmonkey on August 16, 2019, 03:02:30 AM
Here is my prediction:

Someone, possibly lots of people, will post clips showing Apollo astronauts in zero G conditions for and over the time limit specified by cambo.

He will then either find some specious excuse to claim they do not meet previously unspecified requirements, or he will pretend he never saw them.

I have a better idea cambo: post a video from an Apollo mission in progress, prove it was done in a plane.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on August 16, 2019, 03:15:36 AM
Do you understand the mechanism, i.e. the flight trajectory, which is responsible for the reduced or zero gravity experiences on these aircraft?  If not, I suggest you research it, because there is a reason for the limited duration of the effect.

If you think there is some way to extend it, please provide a coherent explanation as to how it could be achieved, and what you think the maximum possible duration should be.
Sounds like something that would result in an unplanned disassembly from an overaggressive lithobraking manoeuvrer as well as high speed oxidation of the plane and all contents.
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Hello, cambo.  Why, exactly, was the Apollo computing infrastructure inadequate to the task?  I’m an aerospace engineer with almost three decades in the field, so I’ll be very interested in your detailed answer backing up your claim..
 
I'm not an aerospace engineer, nor do I play one on TV, but I asked this very same question last page (http://www.apollohoax.net/forum/index.php?topic=1460.msg51411#msg51411).
So far the only answer has been crickets, tumbleweeds, and tumbleweeds carrying crickets.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Von_Smith on August 16, 2019, 08:24:00 AM

Why do you readily accept that a vomit comet can only give us 25 to 30 seconds of Zero G?

Because an airplane starting at 32000 feet can only stay in freefall so long before something bad happens.  C'mon, cambo, this one isn't even hard for a liberal arts major like me.

eta:  I see raven beat me to it.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on August 16, 2019, 10:01:03 AM

Why do you readily accept that a vomit comet can only give us 25 to 30 seconds of Zero G?

Because an airplane starting at 32000 feet can only stay in freefall so long before something bad happens.  C'mon, cambo, this one isn't even hard for a liberal arts major like me.

eta:  I see raven beat me to it.

Wait, are you telling us that the plane might experience a transition from zero g to a huge negative  as the plane encounters the ground/water??  8)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: twik on August 16, 2019, 10:02:25 AM
I'd be interested in knowing how long cambo thinks a plane can remain in free-fall. Without, you know, actually being in orbit.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on August 16, 2019, 10:02:59 AM
Why do you readily accept that a vomit comet can only give us 25 to 30 seconds of Zero G?

Because I know the specifics of how airplanes generate the zero-gravity effect, and you evidently do not.

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Those planes are essentially commercial flights to give members of the public a chance to experience weightlessness, so it’s obvious that these planes are flying well within their safety limits. What would these planes be capable of if they were pushed to their limits and beyond?

The robustness of the airplane has little to do with it until it's time to pull out of the dive at the end of the parabola.  It's the precise trajectory flown that generates the effect.  My first flight instructor could routinely produce periods of zero-gravity effect in a light Cessna.  That doesn't stop the ground from being there at the end if you do it for too long.

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You all need to give yourselves a shake and stop swallowing everything you are told at face value...

Why do you think that's how we know what we know?  You tried to bluff your way through a discussion of wire rigs only to be told by several people with professional theater experience that what you were proposing was impossible.  You tried to write it off as merely "two-bit theater," but in fact I'm talking about my fly rig at an $80 million performing arts facility.  Now you're trying to write off people's actual experience with flight dynamics as merely something they've been told and have chosen to believe, rather than something that can be known, experienced, and is subject to irrevocable laws of physics.

Are you a pilot?  No, I didn't think so.

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...and use your noggin and apply a bit of logic for a change.

Logic tells us that a plane in a dive has a limited time before it hits the ground.  You need to quit trying to bluff your way through this discussion.  You need to realize that most of us can tell when you're making stuff up or when you don't really know what you're talking about.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Rob48 on August 16, 2019, 11:21:58 AM
NASA say they travelled to and from the moon nine times in less than four years, and all they did was bring back more moon rocks.
Umm... there's not really a whole lot else on the moon to bring back other than moon rock (although, as previously pointed out, it wasn't just rocks, it was also core samples, regolith, oh and of course a fair few bits of the Surveyor 3 probe).

What should they have brought back? Cheese? String soup? An actual Clanger?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: mako88sb on August 16, 2019, 12:47:48 PM
NASA say they travelled to and from the moon nine times in less than four years, and all they did was bring back more moon rocks.
Umm... there's not really a whole let else on the moon to bring back other than moon rock (although, as previously pointed out, it wasn't just rocks, it was also core samples, regolith, oh and of course a fair few bits of the Surveyor 3 probe).

What should they have brought back? Cheese? String soup? An actual Clanger?

Some hoax believers think they should have brought back the valuable helium 3 for the fusion power plants we've had for decades. I kid you not.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Allan F on August 16, 2019, 02:28:25 PM
How much lunar regolith should they have processed to get - say - a kilogram of He-3? A million ton? A billion ton?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: sts60 on August 16, 2019, 02:43:20 PM
NASA say they travelled to and from the moon nine times in less than four years, and all they did was bring back more moon rocks.
Umm... there's not really a whole lot else on the moon to bring back other than moon rock (although, as previously pointed out, it wasn't just rocks, it was also core samples, regolith, oh and of course a fair few bits of the Surveyor 3 probe).

What should they have brought back? Cheese? String soup? An actual Clanger?
cambo’s assertion is incorrect.  They also set up several nuclear-powered robotic laboratories, the ALSEPs, which returned thirty gigabits of selenological and space environment data for over five years after the last Apollo crew left.  This data was received at tracking stations around the world and is publicly available via NSSDC. 

Did you know that, cambo?

By the way, active science is still being done based on Apollo data and samples.  I was at a seminar at Goddard Space Flight Center last year in which Apollo 17 geologist Harrison Schmitt and fellow scientists were discussing their ongoing research.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Von_Smith on August 16, 2019, 03:20:26 PM
How much lunar regolith should they have processed to get - say - a kilogram of He-3? A million ton? A billion ton?

Easy enough to do with your pocket zero-point energy generators.  But even though you have those, you still need the He-3 for your fusion reactors for reasons.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Allan F on August 16, 2019, 03:34:11 PM
The idea is fusion energy without stray neutrons, but He-3 is much more difficult to fuse than deuterium-tritium. The temperature needed to effect fusion is double or triple what D-T fusion requires.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on August 16, 2019, 04:22:55 PM
I'd be interested in knowing how long cambo thinks a plane can remain in free-fall. Without, you know, actually being in orbit.
Ala Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, no doubt: throw yourself at the ground . . . and miss.
Which, if you think about it, is actually a pretty good description of an orbit.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on August 16, 2019, 07:30:40 PM
Interesting article about the dynamics of zero-g parabolic flight:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2598414/ (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2598414/)



Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Von_Smith on August 16, 2019, 08:16:04 PM
I'd be interested in knowing how long cambo thinks a plane can remain in free-fall. Without, you know, actually being in orbit.
Ala Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, no doubt: throw yourself at the ground . . . and miss.
Which, if you think about it, is actually a pretty good description of an orbit.

I had a physics professor who made precisely that comparison!  He even mentioned Douglas Adams.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Peter B on August 17, 2019, 10:29:59 AM
Even at the time, there were people who were mad that as much was spent on Apollo as was.  People thought the money could better be spent on Earth (neglecting to understand, of course, that they didn't just fire the money out into space, and that every penny of it was spent on Earth and provided jobs and so forth) and wanted the program scrapped in favour of practically anything else, the "something else" varying depending on the particular hobbyhorse of the person in question.  Getting the political will to keep funding the program once Nixon wanted it scrapped simply wasn't there...

With the greatest of respect to Gillianren, I've never liked this argument.

Sure, the money was all spent here on Earth, and sure it gave jobs to hundreds of thousands of people. But the infrastructure they built was (to a large extent) "fired out into space".

The key point about people saying "the money should have been spent on Earth" when they criticise Apollo is not the implication that Apollo's money wasn't spent on Earth, but that the infrastructure didn't stay on Earth (and didn't provide any real direct benefit to the nation).

If Kennedy's challenge had been to build a network of hospitals or schools, instead of Apollo, then hundreds of thousands of people could still have been employed and billions of dollars spent, and on top of that the nation would have had an enormous suite of useful stuff that would have provided a much bigger return on investment than Apollo managed.

For me, another way of looking at it is Public Art. The government of the Australian Capital Territory, where I live, is often coming in for criticism for its funding of public art. Over the years, a couple of million dollars have been spent commissioning artists to create sculptures which are dotted around the city. Sure, it's kept a few artists employed, but what they've constructed doesn't serve any practical purpose - it's just intended to make the city more interesting. But as some have pointed out, in theory the money could have been allocated to funding other activities that might have employed/benefited more people directly. (Personally I like most of it.)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on August 17, 2019, 12:35:08 PM
If Kennedy's challenge had been to build a network of hospitals or schools, instead of Apollo, then hundreds of thousands of people could still have been employed and billions of dollars spent, and on top of that the nation would have had an enormous suite of useful stuff that would have provided a much bigger return on investment than Apollo managed.

This is probably true.  However, in American politics, "building a network of hospitals or schools" smacks of Robin Hood economics, which is a hard thing to get public funding for under most incarnations of the Congress.  Apollo has a wow factor that is easier to make more appealing to some Congresses.  This doesn't directly the rebut the argument that public funding for a more universally applicable infrastructure would have resulted in an overall greater public good.  It states instead that if that had been the nominal goal, the money probably would not have been appropriated at all.  Therefore the benefit would not have been realized.  Sometimes, if you want people to spend money on a worthy cause, you have to wrap that cause in something they will agree to fund.  The worthiness itself is not necessarily politically viable.  It's still a weak argument; it still sounds a little like a straw man.  But I feel it's important to identify some of these nuances.

From the engineering perspective, Apollo produced a lot of know-how that wouldn't necessarily have been created otherwise, and in industries besides aerospace.  A lot of progress in engineering is depressingly incremental.  Project budgets don't allow for more than a modicum of innovation on each project, because those appear in the cost column and must be judiciously controlled within the scope of the bid.  Apollo allowed for giant strides in design, manufacturing, and testing methods in many fields of engineering that then become part of their normal methods.  The cost-plus basis basically allowed companies to accept a small, fixed profit in exchange for relatively few limits on what they spent.  Sometimes it's as simple as just modernizing processes with existing (but expensive) equipment and techniques.  Apollo paid for their development, and the rest of the nation reaped the rewards in everything those companies made using those methods after Apollo was finished.  We engineers don't care whether the "giant leap" project is for rockets or hospitals, so long as we get the giant influx of cash that's need to explore alternatives in a less conservative fashion.  Again, the end product in Apollo's case is still exotic machines that you throw away, and civil engineering installations with limited future use.  So there's still room for improvement when you look at the actual product.  But the "money spent here on Earth" still ripples through all American business.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Von_Smith on August 17, 2019, 01:48:26 PM
If Kennedy's challenge had been to build a network of hospitals or schools, instead of Apollo, then hundreds of thousands of people could still have been employed and billions of dollars spent, and on top of that the nation would have had an enormous suite of useful stuff that would have provided a much bigger return on investment than Apollo managed.

This is probably true.  However, in American politics, "building a network of hospitals or schools" smacks of Robin Hood economics, which is a hard thing to get public funding for under most incarnations of the Congress.
 

Building networks of schools and hospitals isn't a traditional function of the national government in the U.S with the notable exception of the VA health system.  The federal government didn't even have a Department of Education until 1980.  So it wouldn't even have been part of a serious conversation about what to spend federal funds on, with or without Apollo.

On the other hand, keeping an aerospace technology edge on the Soviets *was* generally accepted as a legitimate national priority.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on August 17, 2019, 03:59:52 PM
IIRC Reverend Abernathy was ay the Cape pleading(my connotation not necessarily what his action were) feeding the poor and providing housing for the poor instead of spending the money on going to the Moon.  Those requests were the beginning of a multi decade long entitlement programs that far outlived the Apollo program.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on August 17, 2019, 05:12:08 PM
On the other hand, you could make that argument about any public science funding. A far bigger misuse, in my opinion, of the public dollar is that glorious euphemism of 'defence' spending.  NASA, even in its moonshot days, is a paltry pittance to that.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: MBDK on August 17, 2019, 09:19:52 PM
The key point about people saying "the money should have been spent on Earth" when they criticise Apollo is not the implication that Apollo's money wasn't spent on Earth, but that the infrastructure didn't stay on Earth (and didn't provide any real direct benefit to the nation).
I would counter with the results of actual studies that reveal the extent to which space exploration HAS provided real direct benefit to the nation (and world).  Such as this article, and its quote below:
https://interestingengineering.com/is-it-worth-it-the-costs-and-benefits-of-space-exploration

"The list goes on and on, but to break it down, a 2002 study conducted by George Washington University's Space Policy Institute indicated that on average, NASA returns $7 to $21 back to the American public through its Technology Transfer Program. That's a pretty significant return on investment, especially when you consider the other ways in which it has paid off."
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Zakalwe on August 18, 2019, 09:32:33 AM

cambo’s assertion is incorrect.  They also set up several nuclear-powered robotic laboratories, the ALSEPs, which returned thirty gigabits of selenological and space environment data for over five years after the last Apollo crew left.  This data was received at tracking stations around the world and is publicly available via NSSDC. 

Did you know that, cambo?

Of course he doesn't.

I've no doubt that he'll huff, puff and bluster, and then hand-wave it away with some nonsense like "the data is streamed from LEO satellites". The man is a wilfully ignorant fool and all that he is doing here is trolling. He has no intention of learning anything or challenging his "thinking".

I'm at the point where I think that the best response is to not feed the troll.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Obviousman on August 18, 2019, 05:04:17 PM
I'm at the point where I think that the best response is to not feed the troll.

Correct. They are either an idiot, willfully ignorant or a troll. In any case, wasting time on them isn't worthwhile.

(Unless, of course, you are really bored and kicking the cat just doesn't cut it anymore)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: ka9q on August 18, 2019, 05:50:27 PM
I found somebody once that tried to argue that satellites were real but only low Earth orbit ones. According to him NOTHING could get past the Van Allen belts, not even radio.
Um, not even sunlight, moonlight or starlight? They're radio too, just at a higher frequency.

But actual radio frequency signals are regularly received from natural sources far beyond earth, from Jupiter's electron synchrotron radiation on the HF bands up to the cosmic background that peaks at a few hundred gigahertz. The field is called 'radio astronomy'.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Count Zero on August 18, 2019, 09:05:24 PM
The field is called 'radio astronomy'.

My dad was a radio astronomer.  Got his PhD at UC Berkeley.  He used to take me on his observing runs at Kitt Peak when I was a kid.

Love ya' Dad!
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: ka9q on August 19, 2019, 05:34:29 AM
Why are all the clips so short? With all the hours of on-board footage, why would they not put the camera down once in a while and leave it running while they went about their business? Show me an Apollo astronaut floating around the capsule for three minutes and I may need to have a rethink, so until then, stop posting these ridiculous vomit comet videos.
OK, they did exactly that. Look at any of the in-flight videos returned by the Apollo missions 8, 10, 11 or beyond. Those were lunar missions that could be continuously tracked during their 3-day flights to and from the moon. Apollos 7 and 9 remained in low orbit where continuous wideband (video) communications coverage was not yet available; the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) didn't come along until the 1980s.

I eagerly await your back-pedaling.

As opposed to video, you won't find films of the Apollo astronauts floating around cabins for several minutes at a time for the simple reason that 16mm movie film magazines are very limited in capacity. It's easy to take modern HD camcorders for granted but they simply didn't exist in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

But I'm especially amused by your apparent belief that the interior of a "Vomit Comet" (ie., airplane flying a parabolic trajectory) can provide a weightless environment indistinguishable from true space flight. It can't! Objects floating within an aircraft cabin during one of these flights will experience true free fall provided they do not contact the cabin interior. That's because the aircraft itself does not actually experience true free fall. Not only does it have to continually pitch down to maintain a tolerable angle of attack on the wings, small aerodynamic perturbations will keep it from flying a perfect parabolic trajectory.

You can see this "tell" in any number of scenes in the movie Apollo 13. Not only does the editing keep each camera shot much shorter than the ~20 second time of a single parabolic "lob", but objects floating within the set often move irregularly relative to the set as the latter (which is mounted to the airplane) is tugged around by those small perturbations of the aircraft's trajectory.

Carefully contrast those scenes with true free-fall video (and film) taken during the actual Apollo flights. Not only do the Apollo scenes last much longer but there is no residual acceleration of the spacecraft itself during a shot.

Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: smartcooky on August 19, 2019, 08:37:13 AM
The field is called 'radio astronomy'.

My dad was a radio astronomer.  Got his PhD at UC Berkeley.  He used to take me on his observing runs at Kitt Peak when I was a kid.

Love ya' Dad!


There are radio astronomy dishes at Kitt Peak, as in Arizona... where the 36in Boller & Chivens telescope is?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on August 19, 2019, 11:00:01 AM
I'd be extremely happy if we improved the public health system and so forth.  However, Apollo did provide jobs, which itself boosts the economy.  I'm not enough of an economist to know much beyond that, but I know that the people who were earning money on Apollo were probably happy to have the jobs.  And they spent money.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on August 19, 2019, 01:23:18 PM
I certainly would be rather building rockets and other components to learn more about the universe than for some war any sane person would hope never happens.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: jfb on August 19, 2019, 07:07:03 PM
Why do you readily accept that a vomit comet can only give us 25 to 30 seconds of Zero G?

Because to simulate weightlessness, the plane has to fly towards the ground in a parabolic arc (a ballistic trajectory), starting in a shallow dive but getting deeper as your body accelerates towards the ground. 

Remember that absent any air resistance, Earth's gravity accelerates you towards the ground at a rate of 9.8 m/s2 - that is, for each second you fall, your velocity increases by 9.8 m/s (neglecting air resistance).  So for each second of the flight, the plane has to go into a steeper dive to keep up with how fast you are falling.  After 30 seconds or so the plane loses over 4 km (~14,000 ft) of altitude.  After 45 seconds you lose almost 10 kilometers (~32,000 ft), which is close to the cruising altitude of most commercial aircraft.  A full 60 seconds would require over 17 kilometers (~58,000 feet), which is significantly higher than what most commercial aircraft reach.   

And remember, it takes time to pull out of a dive, and the steeper the dive, the longer it takes and the more stress it puts on the airframe.  30 seconds is a practical limit that saves wear and tear on the aircraft and the crew.  To get 45 seconds you'd have to start at a much higher altitude than typical cruising altitude to give you enough room to pull out of the dive. 

A full 60 seconds is pretty much out of the question.  It just takes too much altitude. 

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Those planes are essentially commercial flights to give members of the public a chance to experience weightlessness, so it’s obvious that these planes are flying well within their safety limits. What would these planes be capable of if they were pushed to their limits and beyond? You all need to give yourselves a shake and stop swallowing everything you are told at face value and use your noggin and apply a bit of logic for a change.

I'm not sure you could push it much beyond 30 seconds unless you start at a significantly higher altitude and were willing to put that much more stress on the airframe.

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Why are all the clips so short?  With all the hours of on-board footage, why would they not put the camera down once in a while and leave it running while they went about their business? Show me an Apollo astronaut floating around the capsule for three minutes and I may need to have a rethink, so until then, stop posting these ridiculous vomit comet videos. 

They had a limited amount of film that was intended to capture scientific and engineering data, not home movies of astronauts just floating around the capsule.  And remember, for many of these clips the camera was undercranked (shooting less than 24 frames per second), so some clips do capture several minutes worth of activity, even if it only plays back in less than a minute.  The Apollo 10 footage I linked was shot at 12 frames/second (I think), so that bit where they're playing with the flashlights is actually a couple of minutes long. 

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Here’s that clip with sound at around 6 minutes in. What’s that background noise? Is it the air conditioning, or maybe it’s just audio interference. It can’t be an aircraft engine because they are in space, right? 



Fans, pumps, hiss from the audio track itself (analog media, remember).  And every time you dupe a tape to another tape (as they would have done for this presentation), the problem only gets worse.  Back in high school I played with "multitrack" recording by bouncing between two stereo tape decks - I'd play the left and right channels from the playback deck into the left channel of the recoding deck, and then played whatever instrument into the right channel of the recording deck.  To lay down another track I'd swap tapes between the decks.  You couldn't do more than 3 swaps before the accumulated noise was unbearable1.  When I got a job and could buy expensive things for myself, the very first thing I got was a 6-track tape deck.  Made a lot of really unfortunate music on that puppy. 

1.  That, and the speed of the two decks was slightly different, so after each swap you had to tune upwards a little bit.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: MBDK on August 19, 2019, 08:38:47 PM
I'd be extremely happy if we improved the public health system and so forth.
If you consider all the spin-off technologies from the space program, I think you will find quite a few health care improvements you can attribute to it.  In the link below (which is also embedded in my link from post #522), I count 10 of the 23 listed NASA spin-offs that are health related.
https://interestingengineering.com/23-great-nasa-spin-off-technologies

Also, to quote that link, "Since 1976, there have been more than 1,500 documented NASA technologies that have improved our quality of lives and created many new industries."

As for the health of the general public, if you include all the lives saved and the reduction of health related problems that ensue (poor sanitation, exposure to the elements, etc.) from severe storm warnings we identify via satellite, it is pretty clear that the money was well spent, after all.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Count Zero on August 19, 2019, 08:54:41 PM
There are radio astronomy dishes at Kitt Peak, as in Arizona... where the 36in Boller & Chivens telescope is?

It's a couple of miles before you get to the summit (because those irritating radio astronomers liked to have lights on in the open dome) (link (https://www.google.com/maps/@31.9531746,-111.6148118,354m/data=!3m1!1e3)).  Back then (the early '70s) it was known as the 36-foot (link (https://public.nrao.edu/gallery/the-36foot-molecule-hunter-at-work/)).  It has since been upgraded to a 12-meter and is known as the ARO 12m Radio Telescope (link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARO_12m_Radio_Telescope)).
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: smartcooky on August 20, 2019, 03:19:38 AM
There are radio astronomy dishes at Kitt Peak, as in Arizona... where the 36in Boller & Chivens telescope is?

It's a couple of miles before you get to the summit (because those irritating radio astronomers liked to have lights on in the open dome) (link (https://www.google.com/maps/@31.9531746,-111.6148118,354m/data=!3m1!1e3)).  Back then (the early '70s) it was known as the 36-foot (link (https://public.nrao.edu/gallery/the-36foot-molecule-hunter-at-work/)).  It has since been upgraded to a 12-meter and is known as the ARO 12m Radio Telescope (link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARO_12m_Radio_Telescope)).

I never knew that. Despite being a mad-keen astronomy enthusiast for years, I did not know that Kitt Peak had radio telescopes. I wouldn't have even considered the possibility.

You see, this is why I like this site.... I never stop learning new stuff!
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: smartcooky on August 20, 2019, 07:55:37 AM
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Why are all the clips so short?  With all the hours of on-board footage, why would they not put the camera down once in a while and leave it running while they went about their business? Show me an Apollo astronaut floating around the capsule for three minutes and I may need to have a rethink, so until then, stop posting these ridiculous vomit comet videos. 

They had a limited amount of film that was intended to capture scientific and engineering data, not home movies of astronauts just floating around the capsule.  And remember, for many of these clips the camera was undercranked (shooting less than 24 frames per second), so some clips do capture several minutes worth of activity, even if it only plays back in less than a minute.  The Apollo 10 footage I linked was shot at 12 frames/second (I think), so that bit where they're playing with the flashlights is actually a couple of minutes long.

Not to mention they couldn't possibly have known at that time that years later, there would be idiots who questioned the reality of everything they did.

I think that people today who have never experienced what it was like to shoot movies with film just don't have any idea how fast  irgot used up.

A 4" diameter roll of VHS tape lasts 3 hours
A 4" diameter roll of 16mm film lasts four minutes!
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on August 20, 2019, 10:29:06 AM
As for the health of the general public, if you include all the lives saved and the reduction of health related problems that ensue (poor sanitation, exposure to the elements, etc.) from severe storm warnings we identify via satellite, it is pretty clear that the money was well spent, after all.

Oh, you're preaching to the choir on that one!  It's just that I also wish we'd, you know, have enough low-cost treatment options so that I could be in therapy for my chronic mental health condition.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: jfb on August 20, 2019, 03:15:55 PM
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Why are all the clips so short?  With all the hours of on-board footage, why would they not put the camera down once in a while and leave it running while they went about their business? Show me an Apollo astronaut floating around the capsule for three minutes and I may need to have a rethink, so until then, stop posting these ridiculous vomit comet videos. 

They had a limited amount of film that was intended to capture scientific and engineering data, not home movies of astronauts just floating around the capsule.  And remember, for many of these clips the camera was undercranked (shooting less than 24 frames per second), so some clips do capture several minutes worth of activity, even if it only plays back in less than a minute.  The Apollo 10 footage I linked was shot at 12 frames/second (I think), so that bit where they're playing with the flashlights is actually a couple of minutes long.

Not to mention they couldn't possibly have known at that time that years later, there would be idiots who questioned the reality of everything they did.

Yeah.  cambo's inability (or deliberate refusal) to understand and process the vast public record of NASA missions, including but not limited to Apollo, is not NASA's problem.   

It is a problem for the rest of us, though, which is why I got short with him a couple of weeks ago.  I respect and admire LO's commitment to keeping the level of discourse as high as he can - I just think the effort is wasted on people like cambo.  It's that same combination of arrogance, ignorance, and narcissism that's fueling things like the anti-vaccine movement, a good chunk of the alt-right, and various other groups that are determined to tear down every positive thing that has occurred in my lifetime and make life objectively worse for everyone.  And some days abuse and invective are all I'm willing to offer, because nothing else seems to work. 

I'll do my best to offer it elsewhere (Usenet's still a thing).   

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I think that people today who have never experienced what it was like to shoot movies with film just don't have any idea how fast  irgot used up.

A 4" diameter roll of VHS tape lasts 3 hours
A 4" diameter roll of 16mm film lasts four minutes!

Not only did it get used up fast, you had to wait until it was developed to see if you actually caught what you were intending to.  And processing cost money. 
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Abaddon on August 20, 2019, 03:34:17 PM
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Why are all the clips so short?  With all the hours of on-board footage, why would they not put the camera down once in a while and leave it running while they went about their business? Show me an Apollo astronaut floating around the capsule for three minutes and I may need to have a rethink, so until then, stop posting these ridiculous vomit comet videos. 

They had a limited amount of film that was intended to capture scientific and engineering data, not home movies of astronauts just floating around the capsule.  And remember, for many of these clips the camera was undercranked (shooting less than 24 frames per second), so some clips do capture several minutes worth of activity, even if it only plays back in less than a minute.  The Apollo 10 footage I linked was shot at 12 frames/second (I think), so that bit where they're playing with the flashlights is actually a couple of minutes long.

Not to mention they couldn't possibly have known at that time that years later, there would be idiots who questioned the reality of everything they did.

I think that people today who have never experienced what it was like to shoot movies with film just don't have any idea how fast  irgot used up.

A 4" diameter roll of VHS tape lasts 3 hours
A 4" diameter roll of 16mm film lasts four minutes!
The very reason the DAC ran at such a low frame rate much of the time.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: raven on August 20, 2019, 04:44:17 PM
And why people switched to video tape cameras in droves.  Those 8mm's are just gorgeous pieces of engineering though.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: MBDK on August 21, 2019, 12:50:25 AM
It's just that I also wish we'd, you know, have enough low-cost treatment options so that I could be in therapy for my chronic mental health condition.
Understood, and wish you the best.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: ka9q on August 24, 2019, 02:35:18 AM
Despite being a mad-keen astronomy enthusiast for years, I did not know that Kitt Peak had radio telescopes. I wouldn't have even considered the possibility.
A friend (now retired) ran NASA's VLBI program for many years, and he once (late 1980s?) arranged a tour of Kitt Peak for us when we were having a conference in Tucson. Living in NJ at the time, I always looked forward to visiting Tucson in February. But being an east coaster I kinda forgot about the effect of altitude. When we left Tucson, it was raining. When we reached the site it was snowing -- heavily -- and I'd forgotten to bring a sufficiently heavy coat. Site utility power was off but it was running on propane, which was apparently a routine occurrence. We clambered around the dishes, looking at the feed rooms with their low noise amplifiers and helium refrigerators going "klump klump", occasionally clearing out so the operator could dump the accumulated snow in the dish without dumping us out too.

The "screen room" was where most of the electronics were located in the building. Because they generated radio noise, the room itself had copper mesh in the walls and door to keep that noise from escaping and getting into the antennas. I saw my first hydrogen maser there. It was a rather unassuming small rack of equipment with some lights flashing at what I presumed was exactly 1 Hz.

At that time, each location recorded data on high speed digital tape and shipped them all to a central correlator at Socorro NM, where the radio images were actually processed. Later those became shipments of pallets of hard drives, and I understand that finally they have fiber lines over which they can send data in real time.

This being before GPS, one of the main uses of the VLBI network at that time was, surprisingly enough, measuring the movement of the earth's tectonic plates. (My friend's group at NASA was called "Crustal Dynamics".) They'd all observe some distant, strong radio source in a known celestial location and compute the exact straight-line "baseline" distance (to millimeter accuracy) between the phase centers of each pair of antennas. The first map I ever saw of the annual movements of the plates in the state of California was produced by this network. I think they still determine the precise rotational position of the earth and the locations of the earth's rotational poles (they wander by a few tens of meters, IIRC).
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on August 24, 2019, 11:46:33 AM
Is this VLBI(I had to look that one up) capable of predicting earthquakes by studying the past movement of the Earth prior to earthquakes?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: ka9q on August 26, 2019, 05:12:51 AM
No one (and nothing) can, as yet, predict earthquakes. VLBI, like GPS, can only measure the relative motions of the observing stations on the ground as they move with the crustal plates.

VLBI can in addition measure the precise orientation of the earth's rotational poles relative to the stars and its precise rotational position and angular velocity. Because the earth's rotational angular momentum is known (constant except for what it's slowly losing via tides) this can tell you interesting things about how mass moves within, on and near the earth (e.g., the ocean and atmosphere). I think it has even been able to detect sudden changes after major earthquakes. But it still can't predict them.
 
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on August 26, 2019, 02:15:25 PM
I agree that earthquake prediction at the present is not predictable. I guess what I was thinking was measure and study movements prior to an earthquake, this would happen after the earthquake then develop a dB of movements that then would be used to predict future ones.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: ka9q on August 27, 2019, 09:48:09 AM
I'm sure it's not for a lack of trying that this hasn't been done.

The problem is that while earthquakes are statistically predictable in the long term (there will be more earthquakes along the Pacific/North American plate boundary) they are very chaotic and unpredictable in the short term. Even the aftershocks after a large earthquake can only be predicted statistically, although those statistics do change in known ways.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: cambo on January 13, 2020, 08:53:48 PM
I can't at all see anything "ridiculously insane" about this boot print argument. Could you please enlarge on that comment? I would like to understand why you've said that. Perhaps you just don't know enough about it (which is the most common trait of hoax-believers)

The question asked was “How did the regolith produce the famous bootprint if dry sand was used?”

Maybe it’s the original question that’s the confusing part, as it implies that I’m suggesting that dry sand was used in the photo. My claim is that dry sand was used in the film footage, so I’m pretty sure that the question he was asking should have read “How did the regolith produce the famous bootprint if dry sand was used in the film footage?” So to me, it implies that he is under the illusion that the boot print photo had to be taken under the same conditions as the film footage, and therefore disproving the dry sand claim. I’m sorry, but I can’t think of a way to make it any clearer, and if I could, then I suspect my neighbours’ cat would understand. Maybe the gentleman who asked the question could clarify what he meant, as I’m sure that paint should have dried by now.

You see, this is the problem with you people, as you take everything you are told as the gospel truth and therefore no one is allowed to question it, even though there is no real evidence to support these alleged facts. Your arguments are all based on the assumption that your idols would never lie to us, so you only see what you want to see. There are people who swear they have seen the earths curve from a plane, but they only see it because they want to see it, simply because their minds are too gullible and weak to distinguish between reality and fantasy. (I’m still not a flat-earther, but I’m getting there).

You are told that the alleged moon regolith, as you wannabe scientists like to call it, reacts differently than it would on earth, which blinds you to the fact that it reacts in exactly the same way as sand does in an indoor environment on earth. You think a short video segment showing people in Zero G proves that they are in space because you are assured that only 30 seconds max is possible in a Zero G plane. You accept that the moons’ surface is so reflective that we can see a man descending a ladder on the shadow side of the LM, lit up like a Christmas tree, while the picture below shows a rock with its shadow side in total darkness. Did the person taking that photo forget to don his ultra-reflective spacesuit?

(https://i.imgur.com/IEEluXM.png)

You think the moon rocks are genuine because you believe that geologists from around the world have confirmed their authenticity, but they’ve confirmed nothing of the sort. The only people that could possibly vouch for their authenticity are the people directly involved in the alleged collection of the samples. An alleged moon rock doesn’t contain one single property that can’t be found or manufactured on earth, but you still insist that they would be impossible to fake. We are assured that it would be impossible to find or manufacture 850 pounds of moon rock, but you have no proof of this amount of rock and soil actually existing.

You assume that steering a craft in space is easy because you are told so, and you think you have the science to back you up, and there is even one “dude” on here that seems to think a jet aircraft would work in space. People like that should be locked up for their own safety. Let’s take the Trans-lunar injection as an example, because when that rocket engine bursts into life, the sudden jolt would be like inflating a party balloon and releasing it, and that on-board computer coupled with those mechanical gimbals wouldn’t stand a chance of keeping up with the corrections that would be required, and the same goes for the lift-off from the moon. I have now came to the conclusion that if space does in fact exist in the manner we have been educated to believe, then all space flight would be pointless, as controlled navigation would be impossible due to there being no air to stabilize the craft.

You think I’m talking out of my rear end, simply because you believe I lack the intelligence to understand how things work as you perceive them to work, but receiving a higher education and passing your exams, just means that you had a good enough memory to put down on paper all the BS fed to you in class. Intellect isn’t something you learn in class as we are all born with a smidgen of intellect, which grows as we get older and wiser, but sadly for some, this intellect is suppressed and not allowed to grow, probably due to a sheltered upbringing and a lack of real life experiences.

So listen carefully, it was 1969, do you understand? Ok I’ll say it again, it was 1969, you children have been conned. You are simply too young to understand, as you were born after the indoctrination started back in the sixties, and you have no first-hand experience of those events. Anyone my age who believes in the moon landings must have been too high on LSD to take any notice and the rest of you have been conditioned to think in a way that ignores logic. You have the right to have an opinion, but until you come up with some hard evidence to back up your theories, then that’s all you have, an opinion and nothing more.

Edit: I wrote the above comment some months back, but never got around to posting it as I had grew bored arguing with a bunch of fools who’s only defence is blind faith. Since then however it suddenly hit me that I myself were only half awake, as I now realise the full extent of this “global” deception, so I’ll leave you to live out this ridiculous fantasy that you call reality. We will all go to our graves, not knowing the true reason for our existence, but at least I won’t go to my grave as dumb as the day I was born. In case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good evening and goodnight!

Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: AtomicDog on January 13, 2020, 10:10:22 PM
Ignorant of photography, ignorant of physics, ignorant of geology, ignorant of history, proud of his ignorance, and no desire to learn.

Cambo, if you desire to make this flounce permanent, you won't be missed.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on January 13, 2020, 10:35:12 PM
...until you come up with some hard evidence to back up your theories, then that’s all you have, an opinion and nothing more.

The hard evidence is what you're frantically trying to explain away.  And your "explanations" are vacuous expressions of ignorant disbelief.  I'm not a "wannabe scientist."  I've been a professional aerospace engineer for nearly 30 years.  I don't understand Apollo because I've been "told" things.  I understand it because I live its legacy every day.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Count Zero on January 13, 2020, 11:00:30 PM
<Willful ignorance>

(https://media.makeameme.org/created/amazing-every-word.jpg)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Obviousman on January 13, 2020, 11:19:16 PM
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTN9WAcc2Zhc1BjQjj6vuLzvoBclweDCT_k7_w7frTBBD-NElGT)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: VQ on January 14, 2020, 02:49:41 AM
I have now came to the conclusion that if space does in fact exist in the manner we have been educated to believe, then all space flight would be pointless, as controlled navigation would be impossible due to there being no air to stabilize the craft.

And you alone were smart enough to figure it out. Yup.

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You think I’m talking out of my rear end, simply because you believe I lack the intelligence to understand how things work as you perceive them to work, but receiving a higher education and passing your exams, just means that you had a good enough memory to put down on paper all the BS fed to you in class.

Testing memorization sounds more reminiscent of grade school than higher ed to me.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: smartcooky on January 14, 2020, 04:10:40 AM
<irrelevant ignorance snipped>

Edit: I wrote the above comment some months back, but never got around to posting it as I had grew bored arguing with a bunch of fools who’s only defence is blind faith. Since then however it suddenly hit me that I myself were only half awake, as I now realise the full extent of this “global” deception, so I’ll leave you to live out this ridiculous fantasy that you call reality. We will all go to our graves, not knowing the true reason for our existence, but at least I won’t go to my grave as dumb as the day I was born. In case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good evening and goodnight!

Projection; the last resort of conspiracy theorists everywhere.

Good night and good riddance. I hope your flounce is permanent!
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Bryanpoprobson on January 14, 2020, 06:31:02 AM
I always try to produce rational arguments with conspiracy theorist, but sometimes you just have to laugh at them. This is one of those occasions.   
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: TippedIceberg on January 14, 2020, 07:58:49 AM
the picture below shows a rock with its shadow side in total darkness. Did the person taking that photo forget to don his ultra-reflective spacesuit?

(https://i.imgur.com/IEEluXM.png)

AS17-145-22163 - High resolution version shows the rock is illuminated, likely by the reflective spacesuit.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/5676/21476148998_6aaa4b1066_h.jpg)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on January 14, 2020, 08:48:02 AM
I mean, one of the skills they taught me in higher education was how to analyze primary documentation, including when not to trust it, but sure, blind memorization.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on January 14, 2020, 09:49:17 AM
the picture below shows a rock with its shadow side in total darkness. Did the person taking that photo forget to don his ultra-reflective spacesuit?

(https://i.imgur.com/IEEluXM.png)

AS17-145-22163 - High resolution version shows the rock is illuminated, likely by the reflective spacesuit.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/5676/21476148998_6aaa4b1066_h.jpg)

The high resolution images are a great way to help show HBs their errors.   :)
But in the end it is like talking to a wall the evidence gets lost on the surface and never sinks in where it could do good.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on January 14, 2020, 10:07:55 AM
Here it's not resolution that's the issue so much as the contrast modifications inherent to (and in some cases, intended by) film duplication.  Even when great care was taken with the dupe masters, there's still considerable difference in contrast and detail between the Roll 39 dupe master and the original Roll 39.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on January 14, 2020, 10:53:49 AM
Here it's not resolution that's the issue so much as the contrast modifications inherent to (and in some cases, intended by) film duplication.  Even when great care was taken with the dupe masters, there's still considerable difference in contrast and detail between the Roll 39 dupe master and the original Roll 39.

I stand corrected in this instance.  :)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on January 14, 2020, 12:10:05 PM
I stand corrected in this instance.  :)

Not too corrected.  Your most important point remains valid:  if you want to use photographs as evidence, use the best version or copy of the photograph you can obtain.  Depending on the analysis required, you may need multiple copies of the photograph and an understanding of the parameters that affect each copy.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: smartcooky on January 15, 2020, 03:04:36 AM
AS17-145-22163 - High resolution version shows the rock is illuminated, likely by the reflective spacesuit.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/5676/21476148998_6aaa4b1066_h.jpg)

Actually, that makes a lot of sense.

Firstly, the lens flares top left are a tell-tale for the approximate position of the sun. The white spacesuit will reflect directly down at about the correct range of angles to illuminate the shadow sides of those nearby rocks

Second, and perhaps, most important of all, notice how the nearest rock has the greatest level of shadow-side illumination, and it falls off for the more distant rocks? That's the inverse square law in action; the fall in intensity of the illumination is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source. That the drop off is so dramatic means that the source must be close to the nearest rock, for example, the space suit or perhaps the LRV. If the source of the illumination was some distant bright floodlight as HBs erroneously claim, then those shadow faces would be, relatively speaking, more equi-distant from the source, and would therefore, show roughly equal illumination.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Matt D on January 15, 2020, 12:25:10 PM
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You see, this is the problem with you people, as you take everything you are told as the gospel truth and therefore no one is allowed to question it
...
There are people who swear they have seen the earths curve from a plane, but they only see it because they want to see it, simply because their minds are too gullible and weak to distinguish between reality and fantasy. (I’m still not a flat-earther, but I’m getting there).
...
I have now came to the conclusion that if space does in fact exist in the manner we have been educated to believe,
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but receiving a higher education and passing your exams, just means that you had a good enough memory to put down on paper all the BS fed to you in class.

For somebody making a point to clarify that he is "not a flat earther," it's interesting that when reading this post I was struggling to dab the squares on my "Flat Earth Bingo" card fast enough to keep up.  Hopefully, he returns to talk about how the spectacles of sunrise and sunset are just illusions caused by "perspective" and how moonlight is colder than darkness, so I can call bingo and collect my prize (which is presumably a Coolpix P900 camera, FE signature series). 

Anyway, the use of the above rhetorical beats - copied verbatim from the FE manifesto - would seem to indicate that the poor guy has been hanging out in Youtube's anti-science ghettos of late.  If you think Apollo denial is sad, you ain't seen nothin' yet... yikes. I did notice a few months ago this guy was already posting videos from "popular" flat earth channels to make his spurious Apollo arguments, which perhaps was a harbinger of things to come. I just hope he's not clicking the Patreon links on those videos; he may have cast away his critical thinking faculties, but there's no reason why he needs to cast away his money as well.  It's always truly sad to see people get caught in this kind of tractor beam.  Doubly so for a guy of his apparent age, who is now probably looking at spending his twilight years undermining his personal relationships in a conspiratorial tailspin. 


 

 

Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on January 15, 2020, 01:42:05 PM

Actually, that makes a lot of sense.

Firstly, the lens flares top left are a tell-tale for the approximate position of the sun. The white spacesuit will reflect directly down at about the correct range of angles to illuminate the shadow sides of those nearby rocks.

Yes.  As I said, I tested with modern Beta cloth, which by casual inspection has noticeably different optical properties than Apollo-era Beta cloth.  I have access to an A7L ITMG, but not so much access that I can do detailed albedo measurements at different angles.  My off-the-cuff guess is that modern Beta cloth is more diffuse a reflector.  Fig. 12 here http://www.clavius.org/bibzz2.html, is illustrative.

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Second, and perhaps, most important of all, notice how the nearest rock has the greatest level of shadow-side illumination, and it falls off for the more distant rocks? That's the inverse square law in action; the fall in intensity of the illumination is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source.

Indeed, and at least one of my tests reflected this (pun intended).  Any effect from the suit will be most visible on the closest objects.  If the effect is profound, the difference will be profound.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on January 15, 2020, 02:48:31 PM

Actually, that makes a lot of sense.

Firstly, the lens flares top left are a tell-tale for the approximate position of the sun. The white spacesuit will reflect directly down at about the correct range of angles to illuminate the shadow sides of those nearby rocks.

Yes.  As I said, I tested with modern Beta cloth, which by casual inspection has noticeably different optical properties than Apollo-era Beta cloth.  I have access to an A7L ITMG, but not so much access that I can do detailed albedo measurements at different angles.  My off-the-cuff guess is that modern Beta cloth is more diffuse a reflector.  Fig. 12 here http://www.clavius.org/bibzz2.html, is illustrative.

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Second, and perhaps, most important of all, notice how the nearest rock has the greatest level of shadow-side illumination, and it falls off for the more distant rocks? That's the inverse square law in action; the fall in intensity of the illumination is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source.

Indeed, and at least one of my tests reflected this (pun intended).  Any effect from the suit will be most visible on the closest objects.  If the effect is profound, the difference will be profound.

You are referring to your video shoot in the desert?
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on January 15, 2020, 03:24:29 PM
You are referring to your video shoot in the desert?

Yes.  The picture I cite is where I first noticed just how pronounced the reflective effect was, since we could see the illumination pattern clearly.  Then I got hold of some Beta cloth (it's not just for space suits) to do some more controlled experiments.  I know I have that somewhere...
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Zakalwe on January 16, 2020, 08:12:34 AM
Cambo's not a flat earther yet but he's getting there.

I'm shocked. Shocked, I tells thee. ::)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on January 16, 2020, 09:11:26 AM
<snip BS>
In case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good evening and goodnight!

Don't let the door hit you in the rear end as you depart, TROLL.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: gillianren on January 16, 2020, 10:50:45 AM
For somebody making a point to clarify that he is "not a flat earther," it's interesting that when reading this post I was struggling to dab the squares on my "Flat Earth Bingo" card fast enough to keep up. 

Oh, most conspiracists use the same rhetoric.  And all of them think they're saying things we've never heard before.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: smartcooky on January 16, 2020, 02:12:07 PM
<snip BS>
In case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good evening and goodnight!

Don't let the door hit you in the rear end as you depart, TROLL.

Yeah. We'll have a going away party, and put up a big banner that says "Nice to see ya back!"
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on January 16, 2020, 02:19:39 PM
<snip BS>
In case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good evening and goodnight!

Don't let the door hit you in the rear end as you depart, TROLL.

Yeah. We'll have a going away party, and put up a big banner that says "Nice to see ya back!"
Unfortunately you will correct in the long term.  >:(
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: NthBrick on January 16, 2020, 04:31:39 PM


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You think I’m talking out of my rear end, simply because you believe I lack the intelligence to understand how things work as you perceive them to work, but receiving a higher education and passing your exams, just means that you had a good enough memory to put down on paper all the BS fed to you in class.

Testing memorization sounds more reminiscent of grade school than higher ed to me.
Geez, if my engineering exams were based on just some mediocre memorization of facts rather than actual understanding of the subject matter, they'd be a lot easier. Even cambo might be able to pass them.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Matt D on January 16, 2020, 04:47:21 PM
Geez, if my engineering exams were based on just some mediocre memorization of facts rather than actual understanding of the subject matter, they'd be a lot easier. Even cambo might be able to pass them.

Perfunctory memorization of factoids, definitions, formulas, etc. is a method I recall many of my engineering classmates trying to use as a way of "squeaking by" some tough courses and exams.  Presumably, the idea was to try to fake it just enough to earn course credit, while putting in minimum up front effort.   

Of course, most of those classmates struggled to maintain passing grades, and many of them flunked out at or before 3rd year.  My 3 roommates in 2nd year are glowing examples of this.  They thought they were cheating the system with their lazy methods but eventually the material got too deep and they sunk like rocks, ultimately going home with a mountain of student debt and no degree to show for it. 

That's why I always have a chuckle when uneducated conspiracy addicts try to characterize education in science and engineering as nothing but an elaborate indoctrination scheme where everybody is just told what is what, and they blindly believe it without ever working through anything themselves.  Of course, these delusional conspiracy types are, almost without exception, so far removed from having such an education that they have no way of knowing just how silly they sound.   


 
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: jfb on January 16, 2020, 05:06:19 PM
I can't at all see anything "ridiculously insane" about this boot print argument. Could you please enlarge on that comment? I would like to understand why you've said that. Perhaps you just don't know enough about it (which is the most common trait of hoax-believers)

The question asked was “How did the regolith produce the famous bootprint if dry sand was used?”

Maybe it’s the original question that’s the confusing part, as it implies that I’m suggesting that dry sand was used in the photo. My claim is that dry sand was used in the film footage, so I’m pretty sure that the question he was asking should have read “How did the regolith produce the famous bootprint if dry sand was used in the film footage?” So to me, it implies that he is under the illusion that the boot print photo had to be taken under the same conditions as the film footage, and therefore disproving the dry sand claim. I’m sorry, but I can’t think of a way to make it any clearer, and if I could, then I suspect my neighbours’ cat would understand. Maybe the gentleman who asked the question could clarify what he meant, as I’m sure that paint should have dried by now.

You see, this is the problem with you people, as you take everything you are told as the gospel truth and therefore no one is allowed to question it, even though there is no real evidence to support these alleged facts. Your arguments are all based on the assumption that your idols would never lie to us, so you only see what you want to see. There are people who swear they have seen the earths curve from a plane, but they only see it because they want to see it, simply because their minds are too gullible and weak to distinguish between reality and fantasy. (I’m still not a flat-earther, but I’m getting there).

Babble.

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You are told that the alleged moon regolith, as you wannabe scientists like to call it, reacts differently than it would on earth, which blinds you to the fact that it reacts in exactly the same way as sand does in an indoor environment on earth. You think a short video segment showing people in Zero G proves that they are in space because you are assured that only 30 seconds max is possible in a Zero G plane.

I've done the math on that before, but we'll do it again. 

Typical civilian airliners cruise between 39,000 to 41,000 feet (11800 to 12500 meters), but we'll start at an even 50000 feet (15240 meters).  To simulate weightlessness, the aircraft flies in a parabolic arc, using engines to compensate for drag, such that you are accelerating towards the ground at 9.8 m/s2

Distance formula is d = d0 + v0t + 0.5at2.  We'll assume d0 and v0 of 0 at the top of the arc, so that simplifies to d = 0.5at2.  Solving for t, we get t = sqrt(2d / a). 

Plugging in 15240 for d and 9.8 for a, we get 55 seconds to fall 50000 feet (neglecting air resistance, which again the aircraft does by using its engines to compensate for aerodynamic drag).  However, that assumes we fly all the way into the ground, which aircraft tend not to do if they can help it.  The actual gravity trainer aircraft tend to limit the maneuver to 2500 meters (falling from 9700 down to 7200 meters, at least based on the chart on the Wikipedia page).  That gives us a total "weightless" (free fall) time of around 22 seconds. 

I don't believe that just because i've been told that.  I believe it because that's how it is.  If you drop something while standing on the Earth's surface, it will be accelerated towards the ground at 9.8 m/s2, neglecting air resistance or other effects.  That means it will hit the surface in a finite amount of time.  It takes less than a minute for something to fall 50000 feet (again, neglecting air resistance). 

You have a problem with any of that, take it up with Newton and Galileo and the thousands of people who've replicated basic mechanics since then.

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You accept that the moons’ surface is so reflective that we can see a man descending a ladder on the shadow side of the LM, lit up like a Christmas tree, while the picture below shows a rock with its shadow side in total darkness. Did the person taking that photo forget to don his ultra-reflective spacesuit?

(https://i.imgur.com/IEEluXM.png)

Jay already covered this one.  The rock in the original image is indeed illuminated.  The copy you're looking at is more contrasty than the original. 

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You think the moon rocks are genuine because you believe that geologists from around the world have confirmed their authenticity, but they’ve confirmed nothing of the sort. The only people that could possibly vouch for their authenticity are the people directly involved in the alleged collection of the samples. An alleged moon rock doesn’t contain one single property that can’t be found or manufactured on earth,

Except for having been bombarded by solar wind for the last couple of billion years, but hey...

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but you still insist that they would be impossible to fake. We are assured that it would be impossible to find or manufacture 850 pounds of moon rock, but you have no proof of this amount of rock and soil actually existing.

You assume that steering a craft in space is easy because you are told so, and you think you have the science to back you up, and there is even one “dude” on here that seems to think a jet aircraft would work in space. People like that should be locked up for their own safety. Let’s take the Trans-lunar injection as an example, because when that rocket engine bursts into life, the sudden jolt would be like inflating a party balloon and releasing it,

How much of a jolt?  Quantify your answer. 

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and that on-board computer coupled with those mechanical gimbals wouldn’t stand a chance of keeping up with the corrections that would be required,

Why not?  Even the most primitive 1960s-era computer was faster than a human's reaction time.  Even if it's only updating a few dozen times a second, that's far faster than any human could hope to achieve.

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and the same goes for the lift-off from the moon. I have now came to the conclusion that if space does in fact exist in the manner we have been educated to believe, then all space flight would be pointless, as controlled navigation would be impossible due to there being no air to stabilize the craft.

You've heard of Isaac Newton, right?  Smart dude.  Figured out that momentum is conserved - that is, if you push something away from you, that thing pushes back with equal force in the opposite direction.  If you fire a rocket engine in space, it pushes you in a direction opposite of its exhaust.  If you place tiny rocket engines at strategic places on your spacecraft, then you can steer in a vacuum.

For a current example, see the Falcon 9 booster in the following video after separation (timestamp 17:39, or T+2:40):



You see the booster using its cold-gas nitrogen thrusters to re-orient itself for entry (being outside of the Earth's sensible atmosphere already).
 
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You think I’m talking out of my rear end, simply because you believe I lack the intelligence to understand how things work as you perceive them to work, but receiving a higher education and passing your exams, just means that you had a good enough memory to put down on paper all the BS fed to you in class. Intellect isn’t something you learn in class as we are all born with a smidgen of intellect, which grows as we get older and wiser, but sadly for some, this intellect is suppressed and not allowed to grow, probably due to a sheltered upbringing and a lack of real life experiences.

So listen carefully, it was 1969, do you understand? Ok I’ll say it again, it was 1969, you children have been conned. You are simply too young to understand, as you were born after the indoctrination started back in the sixties, and you have no first-hand experience of those events.

You know, some of us were born before 1969.  At least a few people here were already in their teens and twenties by then. 

1969 wasn't the goddamned Dark Ages.  We had supersonic aircraft and nuclear-powered submarines and aircraft carriers and ICBMs in 1969.  We had spy satellites and digital computers.  The technology was there to go to the Moon.  It wasn't easy, but it was more than possible. 

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Anyone my age who believes in the moon landings must have been too high on LSD to take any notice and the rest of you have been conditioned to think in a way that ignores logic. You have the right to have an opinion, but until you come up with some hard evidence to back up your theories, then that’s all you have, an opinion and nothing more.

Edit: I wrote the above comment some months back, but never got around to posting it as I had grew bored arguing with a bunch of fools who’s only defence is blind faith. Since then however it suddenly hit me that I myself were only half awake, as I now realise the full extent of this “global” deception, so I’ll leave you to live out this ridiculous fantasy that you call reality. We will all go to our graves, not knowing the true reason for our existence, but at least I won’t go to my grave as dumb as the day I was born. In case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good evening and goodnight!

More projection than an IMAX, there.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Britmax on January 16, 2020, 06:27:16 PM
"You are simply too young to understand, as you were born after the indoctrination started back in the sixties, and you have no first-hand experience of those events."

 I was 12 in 1969. I was surprised at your memory of a lot of Midwich Cuckoos wandering about hanging on the Government's every word. The hippies I saw putting flowers in the barrels of rifles, the students protesting about political changes and for Civil  Rights must not have happened.

Do yourself a favour, though. I would recommend some listening: "For What it's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield or "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, perhaps.

A British professor called David Caute wrote a book about the times. Well, he may have written more that one but try this one specifically. It's called "1968: The Year of the Barricades". I wonder why he would call it that when everyone was as compliant as you imply?

Oh, and I'm sure I heard about something called the "Aldermaston Marches". You may want to  find out what they were.

Yeah, no-one questioned the Government in the sixties. Riiiiight.   
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Peter B on January 17, 2020, 08:48:21 AM
My turn...

I can't at all see anything "ridiculously insane" about this boot print argument. Could you please enlarge on that comment? I would like to understand why you've said that. Perhaps you just don't know enough about it (which is the most common trait of hoax-believers)

The question asked was “How did the regolith produce the famous bootprint if dry sand was used?”

Maybe it’s the original question that’s the confusing part, as it implies that I’m suggesting that dry sand was used in the photo. My claim is that dry sand was used in the film footage, so I’m pretty sure that the question he was asking should have read “How did the regolith produce the famous bootprint if dry sand was used in the film footage?” So to me, it implies that he is under the illusion that the boot print photo had to be taken under the same conditions as the film footage, and therefore disproving the dry sand claim. I’m sorry, but I can’t think of a way to make it any clearer, and if I could, then I suspect my neighbours’ cat would understand. Maybe the gentleman who asked the question could clarify what he meant, as I’m sure that paint should have dried by now.

Even though the photographic evidence shows the surface of the Moon is covered by a very fine powder - a substance which holds boot prints excellently, even when it's dry. That's why you can have fun with talcum powder or flour, creating detailed impressions in a dry substance.

And for bonus points you can recreate the effect of rocket exhaust on the lunar surface by spraying air down at your choice of powder. I've done it (you know, done it rather than accepted someone else's description), and the appearance of the powder after the air has sprayed it is remarkably similar to the surface of the Moon around the LM engine bells.

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You see, this is the problem with you people, as you take everything you are told as the gospel truth...

But we're supposed to blindly accept your evidence-free assertions "as the gospel truth". Double standard much?

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...and therefore no one is allowed to question it, even though there is no real evidence to support these alleged facts. Your arguments are all based on the assumption that your idols would never lie to us, so you only see what you want to see.

Seriously? Even in high school science we were generating and reproducing physical phenomena in our experiments, rather than simply accepting what our teachers told us. Gravitational acceleration on Earth? Calculated by dropping weights attached to a ticker-tape off a balcony (with a lookout to let us know if a teacher was approaching we could drop the weight onto) and measuring the distances between marks on the tape. Temperature of Absolute Zero? Calculated as part of a gas experiment I don't remember well.

So when jfb says that gravitational acceleration is 9.8 m/s/s I know that's right because I calculated it.

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There are people who swear they have seen the earths curve from a plane, but they only see it because they want to see it, simply because their minds are too gullible and weak to distinguish between reality and fantasy. (I’m still not a flat-earther, but I’m getting there).

Well, before you get there, why not try this little experiment...

1. Pull out your favourite flat earth map (you can choose because apparently FEers haven't worked out what shape the continents are...funny that).

2. On your FE map, draw lines connecting these three cities: Santiago, Chile; Sydney, Australia; and Los Angeles, USA. Note that the line Santiago-Sydney passes close to Los Angeles.

3. Using the search engine of your choice, find out the flight times for Santiago-Sydney, Santiago-Los Angeles and Los Angeles-Sydney.

4. Explain why the flight time for Santiago-Sydney is much less than the combined flight times Santiago-Los Angeles and Los Angeles-Sydney.

5. Explain why anyone would want to perpetrate a "globe earth conspiracy". Seriously, if the Earth is flat, what's the point of hiding this? For bonus points, explain the existence of Norie's Epitome of Practical Navigation, first published in 1805. (Seriously, look it up, it's actually on the Internet!)

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You are told that the alleged moon regolith, as you wannabe scientists like to call it, reacts differently than it would on earth, which blinds you to the fact that it reacts in exactly the same way as sand does in an indoor environment on earth.

Nope, it doesn't. Explain why the lunar rover didn't leave a suspended dust trail behind it like vehicles do when they drive down dirt roads.

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You think a short video segment showing people in Zero G proves that they are in space because you are assured that only 30 seconds max is possible in a Zero G plane.

So how do you explain the half-hour long videos of astronauts in Zero G on board the International Space Station?

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You think the moon rocks are genuine because you believe that geologists from around the world have confirmed their authenticity, but they’ve confirmed nothing of the sort. The only people that could possibly vouch for their authenticity are the people directly involved in the alleged collection of the samples. An alleged moon rock doesn’t contain one single property that can’t be found or manufactured on earth...

Yeah, um, remember that "gospel truth" thing? Evidence, please.

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...but you still insist that they would be impossible to fake. We are assured that it would be impossible to find or manufacture 850 pounds of moon rock, but you have no proof of this amount of rock and soil actually existing.

Yeah, actually we do.

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You assume that steering a craft in space is easy because you are told so, and you think you have the science to back you up, and there is even one “dude” on here that seems to think a jet aircraft would work in space. People like that should be locked up for their own safety. Let’s take the Trans-lunar injection as an example, because when that rocket engine bursts into life, the sudden jolt would be like inflating a party balloon and releasing it, and that on-board computer coupled with those mechanical gimbals wouldn’t stand a chance of keeping up with the corrections that would be required...

Evidence please.

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...and the same goes for the lift-off from the moon.

Evidence please.

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I have now came to the conclusion that if space does in fact exist in the manner we have been educated to believe, then all space flight would be pointless, as controlled navigation would be impossible due to there being no air to stabilize the craft.

Evidence please.

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You think I’m talking out of my rear end, simply because you believe I lack the intelligence to understand how things work as you perceive them to work, but receiving a higher education and passing your exams, just means that you had a good enough memory to put down on paper all the BS fed to you in class. Intellect isn’t something you learn in class as we are all born with a smidgen of intellect, which grows as we get older and wiser, but sadly for some, this intellect is suppressed and not allowed to grow, probably due to a sheltered upbringing and a lack of real life experiences.

No, we think you're wrong because (a) you assert things without providing any evidence to support your assertions, (b) you assert things we can independently check for ourselves, and conclude to our satisfaction that you're wrong, (c) you refuse to accept that people can prove you wrong in multiple ways, and (d) you refuse to accept that you might be wrong.

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So listen carefully, it was 1969, do you understand? Ok I’ll say it again, it was 1969, you children have been conned. You are simply too young to understand, as you were born after the indoctrination started back in the sixties, and you have no first-hand experience of those events. Anyone my age who believes in the moon landings must have been too high on LSD to take any notice and the rest of you have been conditioned to think in a way that ignores logic. You have the right to have an opinion, but until you come up with some hard evidence to back up your theories, then that’s all you have, an opinion and nothing more.

Ri-i-i-ight. Apart from all the people who have all this "hard evidence" you claim doesn't exist...

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Edit: I wrote the above comment some months back, but never got around to posting it as I had grew bored arguing with a bunch of fools who’s only defence is blind faith. Since then however it suddenly hit me that I myself were only half awake, as I now realise the full extent of this “global” deception, so I’ll leave you to live out this ridiculous fantasy that you call reality. We will all go to our graves, not knowing the true reason for our existence, but at least I won’t go to my grave as dumb as the day I was born. In case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good evening and goodnight!

Oh come on, share with us what this deception is. Please don't say we're too dumb to understand.

Remember, we mightn't accept it, but we should just about be able to understand it. (I'm assuming you understand the difference... :-) )
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: NthBrick on January 17, 2020, 02:35:58 PM

Perfunctory memorization of factoids, definitions, formulas, etc. is a method I recall many of my engineering classmates trying to use as a way of "squeaking by" some tough courses and exams.  Presumably, the idea was to try to fake it just enough to earn course credit, while putting in minimum up front effort.   

Of course, most of those classmates struggled to maintain passing grades, and many of them flunked out at or before 3rd year.  My 3 roommates in 2nd year are glowing examples of this.  They thought they were cheating the system with their lazy methods but eventually the material got too deep and they sunk like rocks, ultimately going home with a mountain of student debt and no degree to show for it. 

That's why I always have a chuckle when uneducated conspiracy addicts try to characterize education in science and engineering as nothing but an elaborate indoctrination scheme where everybody is just told what is what, and they blindly believe it without ever working through anything themselves.  Of course, these delusional conspiracy types are, almost without exception, so far removed from having such an education that they have no way of knowing just how silly they sound.   


 
Entirely true. That isn't to say you don't need to have some formulas in mind (or quick ways to derive them), but without a fundamental understanding of what they mean and how they operate, you're just setting yourself up for failure.

And it's quite telling about how much "research" these hoax believers do when they pretend to be authorities on things that they don't have even the most basic understanding of. Cambo, of course, is a great example of not having any understanding of basic physics to the point that he believes zero-g airplanes can sustain the zero-g effect for longer than about 30 seconds, when a little bit of math using formulae students learn in high school (and that are applied routinely in industry) show that he's wrong. The ignorance and sheer hubris are staggering.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Abaddon on January 17, 2020, 04:08:44 PM
Ze flounce, she is hard to steek.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: smartcooky on January 17, 2020, 09:29:37 PM
Yeah, no-one questioned the Government in the sixties. Riiiiight.   

Yes, right, absolutely no-one questioned the Government in the 1960s.....

Sheeple bring compliant in the 1960s (https://www.google.co.nz/search?safe=active&hl=en&biw=1600&bih=718&tbm=isch&sxsrf=ACYBGNQld0pxz9PE_wmb-6rRf4uIaU9u7A%3A1579314230703&sa=1&ei=NmwiXoPOKpbtz7sP3Nul2AQ&q=civil+rights+1960s&oq=civil+rights+1960s&gs_l=img.3..0l3j0i8i30l7.5332.5332..11964...0.0..0.225.668.2-3......0....1..gws-wiz-img.62gRA76KlR0&ved=0ahUKEwiDwdb9i4znAhWW9nMBHdxtCUsQ4dUDCAY&uact=5)

or the 1970s....

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NOTE: On May 4 it will be 50 years since that particular effing disgrace

More sheeple bring compliant in the 1970s (https://www.google.co.nz/search?safe=active&hl=en&biw=1600&bih=718&tbm=isch&sxsrf=ACYBGNQvlhhc8QjpNIXCzcFa24fDUCqJvA%3A1579314243976&sa=1&ei=Q2wiXoqWO-SdmgfilayoAw&q=vietnam+war+protests&oq=vietna&gs_l=img.3.3.0i67l9j0.65434.68456..70337...2.0..0.319.2176.2-6j2......0....1..gws-wiz-img.......0i8i30.Mp17RimHMjU)
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on January 18, 2020, 12:54:00 PM
Perfunctory memorization of factoids, definitions, formulas, etc. is a method I recall many of my engineering classmates trying to use as a way of "squeaking by" some tough courses and exams.

I remember wishing for shortcuts while I was trying to cram all that information into my head.  You're absolutely right that the successful graduates were the ones that found some way to let the deeper understanding "click."    These days the equivalent behavior seems to be frantic Googling for specific formulas and techniques.  In the face of that, my response tends to be, "You can Google for information, but you can't Google for understanding."  The cargo-cult approach simply doesn't work no matter what side of an issue you stand on.

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That's why I always have a chuckle when uneducated conspiracy addicts try to characterize education in science and engineering as nothing but an elaborate indoctrination scheme where everybody is just told what is what, and they blindly believe it without ever working through anything themselves.

I speculate there are two reasons for that.  Ideologically, they want to believe that the Establishment is just as you say:  rote indoctrination and unthinking obedience.  They want to set up a situation where they're the ones who are the deep thinkers and the astute observers.  Practically, they want to believe that people who represent themselves as qualified are just frantically Googling for rote answers too, and are just momentarily better at it than they.  Which is to say, they want to believe that there's no real expertise to be had -- i.e., that there is no such thing as actual expertise -- and that their ad hoc methods are just as good a way of exploring any problem.

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Of course, these delusional conspiracy types are, almost without exception, so far removed from having such an education that they have no way of knowing just how silly they sound.

They really do sound silly, don't they?  It's worth mentioning that at least a couple claimants we've seen here and elsewhere seem to have had some engineering education, and perhaps even received degrees and professional credentials.  I surmise they are probably more of your former roommates' ilk.  They seem to be trying to misapply shortcuts and half-baked methods.  The vast majority of claimants, however, really do seem to be faking it.

The general pattern is one we see over and over again.  The claimant arrives with some set of specific claims that sound in engineering and science.  The regulars -- who are variously qualified in pertinent subjects like aviation, engineering, geology, scientific methods, photography, TV and stage production, history, and so forth -- criticize the claim.  The claimant flounders for a while trying to rehabilitate the claim without having to demonstrate too much actual knowledge.  Then at a certain point there's an inflection in the argument.  The claimant appeals to "common sense" or to some other (supposedly higher) form of thinking by which he is still somehow right.  The post-inflection argument basically says, "Your knowledge, experience, and expertise in the details of my argument doesn't matter.  I'm just more in tune with things than you are, or I have more common sense."

You have to laugh, because it's such a blatant change of horse.  The initial argument is, "I know more about the science than you do."  Then the argument literally turns to, "The science doesn't matter."  Of course it matters.  It always matters.  And it was obvious that it mattered to the claimant when he first arrived and tried to play the expert.

Other openings like the Just Asking Questions approach still rely on the premise that the questions have scientific foundation -- which they rarely do.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on January 18, 2020, 12:57:42 PM
Yes, right, absolutely no-one questioned the Government in the 1960s.....

People were questioning Apollo at the time.  Not its authenticity, but its propriety.  They wanted to know why so much money was being spent on a program that was perceived to be taking money away from social programs, etc.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Obviousman on January 18, 2020, 05:13:43 PM
To go a little off-topic, the discussion regarding 'rote learning' versus 'understanding' was demonstrated to me when undergoing seamanship training in the Navy. You could see some people who knew the 'rules of the road' (AKA International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea or COLREGs) by rote but could not apply the rules.

On the bridge simulator a situation is developing and the instructor can see the student wasn't taking the required action. They might prompt the student:

"What does Rule 8e say?"

And the student would reply:

"If necessary to avoid collision or allow more time to assess the situation, a vessel shall slacken her speed or take all way off by stopping or reversing her means of propulsion."

The instructor would wait but the student isn't reacting. They'd ask the student to describe the situation and what the student needed to do. The student doesn't know, so again the instructor asks about the rule.

Again the student recites it by rote... but still doesn't understand it and therefore cannot apply the rule to a situation.

The funny thing was that the COLREGs had to be memorised word perfect. You were tested regularly and the pass mark was 100%. There were people who could memorise them but not apply them, and others who always got some little thing wrong (e.g. saying '... must be taken...' instead of '...shall be taken...') but were excellent at shiphandling and could be relied upon to safely navigate the ship.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: smartcooky on January 19, 2020, 02:23:07 PM
These days the equivalent behavior seems to be frantic Googling for specific formulas and techniques.  In the face of that, my response tends to be, "You can Google for information, but you can't Google for understanding."

That is a very nice variation on a Samuel Johnson theme

"Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding."

The claimant flounders for a while trying to rehabilitate the claim without having to demonstrate too much actual knowledge.  Then at a certain point there's an inflection in the argument.  The claimant appeals to "common sense" or to some other (supposedly higher) form of thinking by which he is still somehow right.  The post-inflection argument basically says, "Your knowledge, experience, and expertise in the details of my argument doesn't matter.  I'm just more in tune with things than you are, or I have more common sense."

And that is a real trap for young players. Sometimes in engineering; more often in physics and other sciences, the truth/reality can be counter-intuitive. On  those occasions, common sense needs to be set aside because it becomes a hindrance to understanding.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: bknight on January 27, 2020, 07:29:59 PM
Well I'm disappointed in American Heroes Channel as they present Chasing Conspiracies--Cold War in Space S1E8.  Here they trotted out Bart, Marcus and some guy named DeGroot, new to me, pushing forth their old tired clap trap.  At least they have do have some individual debunking the idiocy.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: Ranb on January 27, 2020, 10:42:31 PM
Gerard Degroot?  I started reading his book, Dark Side of the Moon.  It was okay until I got to the part about the Space Pen.  He repeated the "NASA spent millions on a pen that works in space v the Soviets used a pencil" myth; so I stopped reading at that point.
Title: Re: Faking the moon landings
Post by: JayUtah on January 28, 2020, 12:13:26 AM
Gerard Degroot?  I started reading his book, Dark Side of the Moon.  It was okay until I got to the part about the Space Pen.  He repeated the "NASA spent millions on a pen that works in space v the Soviets used a pencil" myth; so I stopped reading at that point.

Oh, that guy.  Yeah, I gave him about ten minutes' attention before figuring out he didn't really have the mental wattage to make even a plausible conspiracy theory.