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| Sigh...yes we HAVE walked on the Moon...SIX times...and with TWELVE people! | ||
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AT LAST! See photographic evidence of the Apollo missions on the Moon |
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A cool email exchange (23 Sept 2005) on
Dome-L: Bob Martino: Sorry, Jim, but I
have to disagree with you here. Simply put, it will be IMPOSSIBLE to "prove
beyond a shadow of a doubt" that we've really gone to the Moon. At least, if
un- deniable recent history isn't sufficient proof, then no proof will be
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| Questions to pose to Apollo
hoax believers (HBs)... By K. Michael M Nov 2004 Do you know how many times we landed on the moon? Six. Why would we fake a moon landing SIX TIMES? (The more people who know about a secret, the harder it is to keep.) The whole point of Apollo was to prove that the USA has better technology, resources and managerial competence than the USSR. So why didn't the Russians blow the whistle if it was a hoax? The USSR was fully capable of tracking missions to and from the moon. Radio and television transmissions from the Apollo spacecraft was an international undertaking. In fact, amateurs were also tracking the flights using both optical and radio. Several amateur ham radio enthusiasts were capable of listening in on the Apollo mission in flight using highly directional antennas and did just that. (see the websites below). Both professional and amateur astronomers were optically tracking many objects in space, including the Apollo missions. The individuals (not government or military personnel) participating in the SAO Moonwatch program at the time were monitoring satellites, satellite reentries and the Apollo missions and their dump clouds. Predictions of look angles could be quickly generated for individual observers with the help of computers existing at the time and were supplied through a mail subscription service available to volunteer participants. Professional astronomers associated with the SAO, the US Naval Observatory, the Fernbank Science Center (Atlanta, GA) and the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (USSR) also had active programs of optical spacecraft tracking that included monitoring the Apollo missions.See the Sky & Telescope issues of March 1971 and October 1971 for more information. HBs would also have you believe that the technology existed in 1969 to fake the thousands of photos, hours of film and hundreds of hours of low and zero gravity video. What did they use to fake all this? In fact, given the computer technology of the 1960s, it would be harder to fake the Apollo missions in a convincing way than it would be to actually do them. HBs also have to believe that EVERY planetary scientist & geochemist is on this hoax or too stupid to tell that the samples examined so far of the more than 800 lbs. of moon material returned by Apollo are fake, even after 30 years of examine them with ever more sophisticated methods of analysis by scientists all over the world. Not only that - the USSR also returned much smaller amounts of lunar material during their Luna program of robotic sample return missions to the moon and could compare their samples with USA samples of lunar material. Again, the USSR, our competitor, had a first hand way to directly expose any such hoax. I know of no scientists engineers or other qualified academics (such as historians) in or outside of the USA that have *ever* voiced *any* doubts about the authenticity of the Apollo flights. So we are to believe the producers of this FOX-TV show over them? Since most people that currently believe Apollo was hoax got their information from that FOX-TV Moon Hoax television broadcast, here is a page that debunks many of the claims in that show: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html The best Apollo Hoax debunking website is this one: http://www.clavius.org/ Five Reasons to Believe We've Been to the Moon: http://www.thursdaysclassroom.com/15mar01/proofpositive.html Moon rocks and common sense prove Apollo astronauts really did visit the Moon: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast23feb_2.htm NON-FAKED MOON LANDINGS ! (Apollo Hoax debunking web sites & pages) http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/NOT_faked/ (general) http://www.redzero.demon.co.uk/moonhoax/ http://www.apollo-hoax.co.uk/ http://www.astronomy.org.nz/aas/MonthlyMeetings/MeetingNov2002.asp http://www.seawana.com/conspiracy_apollo_hoax.php http://www.nasastooge.fsnet.co.uk/ http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/NOT_faked/moon.htm http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/hoax.html http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mmoonhoax.html Apollo Hoax and other cranks http://www.crank.net/apollo.html Photography & Apollo - Are Apollo Moon Photos Fake? http://www3.telus.net/summa/moonshot/index.htm http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/iangoddard/moon01.htm http://www.clavius.org/perspshdw.html http://www.apollo-hoax.co.uk/strangeshadows.html Hasselblad's web site information about cameras used on Apollo http://www.hasselblad.com/company/HBSpaceFirst.asp?secId=584 Re: Is it impossible to travel to the moon, because of the Van Allen Belt? http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may2000/959341359.As.r.html The Van Allen Belts and Travel to the Moon http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/waw/mad/mad19.html RADIATION PROTECTION AND INSTRUMENTATION http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/books/apollo/S2ch3.htm Can we see Apollo hardware on the moon? http://www.tass-survey.org/richmond/answers/lunar_lander.html Quick Analysis of Lunar Retroreflector Use http://home.austin.rr.com/broadb/chris/Lunar_Retroreflector_Use.html Lunar Laser Ranging at McDonald Observatory http://www.csr.utexas.edu/mlrs/dda.html Optical Tracking of Apollo Flights http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/space/apollo.html http://c2.com/optic/ http://c2.com/optic/singer-link.jpg http://www346.pair.com/mackella/hsk/other_stations/ARIA.html Australian tracking and reception of signals from Apollo on the moon http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/apollo11/tv_from_moon.html Ham Radio Space Tracking Notes http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/trackind/trackin1.htm Ham Radio Tracking of Apollo 17 http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/trackind/Apollo17/APOLLO17.htm A Short History of the "Kettering Group" (amateur radio tracking of spacecraft) http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/trackind/getstart/oldcyts.htm Satellite watching as a hobby: http://www.hobbyspace.com/SatWatching/index.html |
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| Is this another hoax? -
Oh look, a photo taken
from the International Space Station (ISS), with no stars visible in the
black sky! Crikey, surely this must mean the ISS is also a HOAX...!!! |
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| Epic Myth, Wonderful Truth: Walking on the
Moon By Michael Gilmore It seems almost too wonderful to be true. A generation ago, humans in white suits of armor walked and ran upon a mysterious other world. As a professional doubter, a skeptic, a scientist, it amazes me to think that we went to the moon. That first moon landing, in July of 1969, still fuels my spirit of adventure and my hope for our future. Although little known, hundreds of astronomers watched the Apollo missions go to and from the moon, not on television, but from observatories and backyards around the world. As one of those lucky astronomers, I began my space adventure tracking Apollo from an observatory in the central desert highlands of Oregon. That sight of Apollo, in the night sky on its way to another world, remains for me a symbol of the grand triumph of the scientific imagination over our fear and superstition. Even as our nation became a complacent witness, each Apollo journey was a marvel. Just one 12-day mission, Apollo 17, returned more data than did Charles Darwin's 5-year voyage on HMS Beagle. Although young Darwin was no slouch at collecting specimens and making observations, he had only a microscope, his notebooks, and the wind, not the incentive of a space race, or the technology of a NASA. Like Darwin's voyage, only time will measure the true value of Apollo. But for now, the world has the fruits of nine Apollo voyages to the moon, including six landings. From just a single commonly available CDROM, one can view nearly 1,400 pictures from the Apollo 11 mission. Or, even better, check out the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal at www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/ and explore a vast treasure trove of images and reports from the Apollo missions. And yes, they seem almost too good to be true. The collection is stunning. Consider the 840 pounds of moon rock and soil harvested and brought back to Earth by the astronauts. These treasures, which rested on the lunar surface for four billion years awaiting our arrival, are still being studied today. Clearly not of this world, these rocks continue to reveal, bit by bit, the rich history of our Earth-Moon system. And this only begins to list the treasure of Apollo. The 19th century physicist, Michael Faraday, who knew a thing or two about experiment, observation, and proof, remarked that "Nothing is too wonderful to be true." Being a good scientist, he was a hard-nosed skeptic, but he also had a great sense of both imagination and the future. Beyond those still fresh footsteps on our moon lies a universe rich beyond measure. The exploration of that universe demands Faraday's tools of skepticism and imagination, the very tools that made Apollo possible. With these most basic implements of science, we can again shake off our malaise, defeat the rising tide of pseudoscience and superstition, and eventually journey to the stars. Then, a thousand years or so from now, the story will be told. A story from the old home-world of Earth. An amazing story of a brief dozen years, from the October shock of Sputnik to the July landing at Tranquility Base. A story of knights in shining space suits, who were the first to journey to another world. Such a story, even now, has the sound of epic myth. But it certainly is not too wonderful to be true. --------- Michael Gilmore, a physicist who has worked on the space program, is a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society. |
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