Comments on: Episode 104: NASA Moon Landing

By: R Cohn

R Cohn — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:22:14 +0000

Not sure why this is still such an emotionally charged issue. First off, I witnessed the first moonlanding when I was 6 years old. It looked like a smudgy glare. Now I have come to doubt what I witnessed. This makes me a baboon, a dunce and a crazy I suppose. But let’s look at all the circumstantial evidence in favor of a faked landing and put it against the empirical evidence of a successful landing. Then throw in the motives and the political considerations. I think it was masterfully done…I just don’t think it was done on the surface of the moon.

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:13:30 +0000

“Mary:
I am a physicist with NASA…going on 16 years now. I just wanted to say to all those still trying to discredit NASA, “shame on you”! Instead of waisting your time on trying to show we (not just NASA but the USA) didn’t go to the moon, try going to school and learning how we can go back again.”

- Let me get this straight. You are a NASA physicist and you type “waisting” instead of “wasting” in the same sentence that you tell people to go to school and learn?

By: John Dee

John Dee — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:20:19 +0000

I’m beginning to find myself a bit of a pain now, but this query has been gnawing at me, so can someone please furnish an explanation. I think I mentioned it in part in an earlier post.
The moons surafce, the regolith, appears to a fine grained material soft enough at least in the first few inches of depth to take a clear impression, of, for instance a visitors boot.
That said, there appears to be many, in some areas, smallish rocks and pebbles lying about, begging a question.
From my understanding, given the abscence of wind and water weathering and deposition, the only way for those rocks to be there are from flight, either directly from space or as ejecta from the impact craters from meteorite strikes.
Surely, virually all of those rocks should have created craters of their own as they impacted or left gouges if they rolled.
It is reasonable to guess that a few might have gently bounced out of their impact holes and come to rest softly on the surface, but surely only a very few. Most, one would reason, would be partially or completely buried by the regolith built up over millions of years or in the case of recent arrivals,in some sort of a decent crater. The rocks in the photograph look for all the world like the classic arid alluvial pans common here on earth where the stones have been exposed by weathering and sit neatly on the surface.
Small meteorite strikes of course would leave massive craters relative to their size. It surprises me that given the abscence of an atmosphere, and if the regolith is as impressionable as we are led to believe, the surface isn’t just a maze of craters from direct hits from meteorite strikes and from the massive volumne of ejecta blasted out of the lunar surface.
A lot of the impact craters seem to belie the impression given that the soft regolith is only a few inches deep.

By: John Dee

John Dee — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:02:39 +0000

ceo, I’m just a bit curious if the camera, apparently mounted on the leg of the lander and deployed by the astronauts actually got a mention in the check lists. E.G. “Neil, don’t forget to deploy the camera, this is a big moment!!!!!…or “Control, I am deploying the camera now…..O.K. camera deployed…….I’m descending the steps now”. Or something to that effect.

I don’t know, honestly, so, just asking.?

By: ceo

ceo — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:31:55 +0000

Wow, it amazes me the ignorance that still exists. Why is it so hard to believe what humans are capable of?

Men did go to the moon.

And ignorant people will always finding conspiracy theory. Like the idiot above who wrote “…If Neil Armstrong was the first person to step on the moon, than who was the guy on the ground filming the landing?” Gheez, what an idiot.

You all conspiracy theorists disrespect the human intelligence and what this country USA have accomplished.

Conspiracy Theorist == Ignorant Idiots… and if the future of the USA lies on your shoulders then we all are screwed!

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:51:47 +0000

After reading all the pro and con arguments, I believe the landings were faked. We just can’t survive in deep space from all the radiation. No country sends people past the belts, we just stay close to Earth where it’s safe.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:03:17 +0000

Thanks John, like you I sincerely wish the manned moon landings were beyond doubt. So I’m not a sceptic per se.. Its just on the balance of probability the evidence for it just dosn’t stack up.. I personally favor your view that it was a mutually (Russ-Amer) beneficial project. Having said that I’d love to be proved wrong.. Your argument about a persons willingness to believe is pretty good we were children of the 60’s and were pretty much spoon fed without question the then goverments philosophys and doctrines.. Its an interesting fact that of the beleivers and disbelievers the age groups vary wildly i.e. most, if not all, believers are over 30 years old whilst unbelievers are predominantly in thier teens to early 20’s. Why such a huge disparity outside normal social paradigms? Is there some correlation here? As a former teacher I’d suggest there is.. Todays youth are taught to think and to question, we were taught to repeat and believe. Maybe its the surrender of those latter ideals that those of us (of a certain age :) ) find to painful to part with that prohibit greater questioning.

In essence, do I believe the moon landings happened ? Yes.. Do I believe they were manned? No.

Regards and no disrespect to anyone intended.

By: John Dee

John Dee — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:58:58 +0000

Mike, I think your reasoning is sound. Personally, I dont believe we are anywhere even close to being able to land and return humans from the lunar surface, even with an unlimited budget. I sincerely wish that the Apollo programnes successes were as stated, but, there you have it.
What is fascinating, is not that we were all convinced intially of the truth of what we were shown.
It was perfectly reasonable, to accept at face value the imformaion we were provided.
What is truly interesting is the inability by many to confront blatant contradictory evidence clearly demonstrating that lunar landings were indeed staged.This is not a lack of intelligence being demonstrated here, but a profound insight into the workings of the mind.
If anyone has any interest, I am going to suggest a site, but first, a warning, some may find it an extremely challenging site. I make it clear that the purpose of this suggestion is only to access an essay by Larry Burk M.D. and I make no inference that Dr Burk has any opinion either way regarding the Apollo programne, and this should not be seen as an attempt to divert the moon landing debate. I apologise in advance to Dr Burk, but point out that I consider that his essay is informed and edifying, and should be considered in examining our belief sytems.
The site at which his essay may be accessed is “Medical Professionals for the Truth 911″.
I withold my own opinion on the premise of that site as it would be innapropriate to discuss it on this forum.
To everybody………..Please think????????

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:55:36 +0000

Some of the arguments here are excellent.. and the maths equations are humbling.. However if we revert to Occams razor.. would it not be easier to fake a moon landing (at that time) than actually going there? Personally, I’d have to come down on the side of fake.

And an other thing I’d love to know, and no doubt some of you guys can tell me.. if it was do-able 40 years ago on less computer power than a C64 why is it such a big deal now?

If you went to buy a car today and the dealer said, well yeh its a great car but it can’t do what the the ‘68 model could, wouldn’t you think what ??????

Just my two cents…

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Walking on the moon - Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:12:21 +0000

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