no the camera was attached to the leg of the lander. it was set up to watch the ladder before they left earth.
NASA releases high res film of moon walk
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no the camera was attached to the leg of the lander. it was set up to watch the ladder before they left earth.
The reason things don't get done so quickly and out of the blue like the moon landings is we just don't try as hard to do iit anymore.
In 1960 when Kennedy announced he was going to land a man on the moon by the end of the century, America contribued roughly 30billion a year on the Apollo program or around 5% of its year budget. In todays comparisons and i think im right here, it works out to be about 150billion a yr for 9 years = 1.35trillion.
In 1960 when Kennedy announced he was going to land a man on the moon by the end of the century, America contribued roughly 30billion a year on the Apollo program or around 5% of its year budget. In todays comparisons and i think im right here, it works out to be about 150billion a yr for 9 years = 1.35trillion.
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To those who are saying there's no reason to go back to the moon, that's not exactly true.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium3
Also anyone seriously considering sending man to Mars in the near future would do well to build a base on the moon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium3
Also anyone seriously considering sending man to Mars in the near future would do well to build a base on the moon.
until we actually get a working fusion reactor threes little point in going there for the small amounts of Helium 3 we could get for a massive cost.
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Hey I've got a great idea American tax paying public, because there are some stupid idiots we are going to spend billions and billions of your tax dollars and send a probe to photograph the flag and tracks of the first landing. Of course American tax payers that when the probe comes back these idiots will still claim that the new probe pictures were filmed in a studio.
Azagoth already knows, that's why he smiled
God bless it. Every time this subject comes up, all the really, really, really, really, really.....
...some time later....
....really, really dumb people come out in support of the bizarre theories about hoaxes regarding the lunar landings. Haven't you people had enough of having your theories, and misconceptions, and idiocies debunked by now? By "you people", I mean you people dumb enough to think they've outwitted some of the best scientists and engineers the world has ever seen while still managing to forget basic concepts such as how dust behaves in a vacuum, and how camera exposure times lead light objects to bleed into dark ones on photos, and that parallax exists. Oh, and you people dumb enough to think that you're oh so incredibly smart when you don't even know how quickly the Apollo spacecraft travelled through the Van Allen belts (and y'all seem to ignore Van Allen himself saying that it wouldn't be all that dangerous.....funny, that). You people dumb enough to mistake a flap on John Young's PLSS on the lunar surface (during the Apollo 16 mission) for a completely different one (I reduced a conspiracy theorist to tears over that one, quite a proud moment). You people who ignore the fact that 33 out of the 36 people who went out that far have developed cataracts thanks to exposure to cosmic rays, be a bit hard to do that if they never went out to the Moon guys! You people who seem to think that the ******* Russians wouldn't have been monitoring the American progress and wouldn't have set off an almighty ruckus if they'd been faking it!
Christ, read the air-to-ground transcripts guys. Who would have made up all that chatter for all those missions? Apollos 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 went out as far as the Moon. Were they all faked? Really? At some point, faking it becomes harder than actually going up there and landing on the ******* Moon! They'd have had to send something up for all those independent tracking stations and astronomers to follow, had to have routed communications through a satellite or similar piece of equipment on an Apollo-esque flightpath, had to have filmed the EVAs on the lunar surface in a ******* enormous hanger with all the air pumped out and faked 1/6th mavity (which, by the way, doesn't look like slow motion unless you're a complete imbecile who doesn't understand physics), and kept many hundreds of thousands of people completely silent about the whole affair. It couldn't bloody happen! There's just no way to fake it!
They actually had to go there!
I've just about lost the (very little) patience I had before for morons who think the lunar landings were hoaxed. One of mankind's greatest achievements, and you want to think it was faked and are prepared to ignore all evidence to the contrary. You're all ****s. Every last one of you. And when I'm elected supreme overlord of this world, you're all going to be first up against the wall to face the firing squad. Anyone that dumb has forfeited their right to take up valuable oxygen.
Dislaimer - I'm just drunk enough right now to say exactly what I'm thinking. If I've threatened death to anyone, I didn't mean it.
Unless you think the Moon landings were hoaxed, in which case I do mean it.
...some time later....
....really, really dumb people come out in support of the bizarre theories about hoaxes regarding the lunar landings. Haven't you people had enough of having your theories, and misconceptions, and idiocies debunked by now? By "you people", I mean you people dumb enough to think they've outwitted some of the best scientists and engineers the world has ever seen while still managing to forget basic concepts such as how dust behaves in a vacuum, and how camera exposure times lead light objects to bleed into dark ones on photos, and that parallax exists. Oh, and you people dumb enough to think that you're oh so incredibly smart when you don't even know how quickly the Apollo spacecraft travelled through the Van Allen belts (and y'all seem to ignore Van Allen himself saying that it wouldn't be all that dangerous.....funny, that). You people dumb enough to mistake a flap on John Young's PLSS on the lunar surface (during the Apollo 16 mission) for a completely different one (I reduced a conspiracy theorist to tears over that one, quite a proud moment). You people who ignore the fact that 33 out of the 36 people who went out that far have developed cataracts thanks to exposure to cosmic rays, be a bit hard to do that if they never went out to the Moon guys! You people who seem to think that the ******* Russians wouldn't have been monitoring the American progress and wouldn't have set off an almighty ruckus if they'd been faking it!
Christ, read the air-to-ground transcripts guys. Who would have made up all that chatter for all those missions? Apollos 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 went out as far as the Moon. Were they all faked? Really? At some point, faking it becomes harder than actually going up there and landing on the ******* Moon! They'd have had to send something up for all those independent tracking stations and astronomers to follow, had to have routed communications through a satellite or similar piece of equipment on an Apollo-esque flightpath, had to have filmed the EVAs on the lunar surface in a ******* enormous hanger with all the air pumped out and faked 1/6th mavity (which, by the way, doesn't look like slow motion unless you're a complete imbecile who doesn't understand physics), and kept many hundreds of thousands of people completely silent about the whole affair. It couldn't bloody happen! There's just no way to fake it!
They actually had to go there!
I've just about lost the (very little) patience I had before for morons who think the lunar landings were hoaxed. One of mankind's greatest achievements, and you want to think it was faked and are prepared to ignore all evidence to the contrary. You're all ****s. Every last one of you. And when I'm elected supreme overlord of this world, you're all going to be first up against the wall to face the firing squad. Anyone that dumb has forfeited their right to take up valuable oxygen.
Dislaimer - I'm just drunk enough right now to say exactly what I'm thinking. If I've threatened death to anyone, I didn't mean it.
Unless you think the Moon landings were hoaxed, in which case I do mean it.
There are too many idiots in this thread
are you part of this thread
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Yeah, but the reason it moves about is due to air resistance holding back the less rigid parts. With no air, there would be no air resistance to stop the bottom of the cloth flag from following the top bit.
I'm no physicist, but I assume the reason it swayed is because the middle of the middle of the flag acts as an axis, so when the top, rigid bit moves, the bottom part moves the opposite way, which would explain the mythbusters test.
ok just checking. cause last time i checked you get banned for name calling on ocuk
not when your stating fact
Idiot
n.
1. A foolish or stupid person.
2. A person of profound mental retardation having a mental age below three years and generally being unable to learn connected speech or guard against common dangers. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
Glad someone thinks so. That wasn't some of my best prose I'll grant you, but I always get like this around the anniversary of Apollo 11 - too many morons spouting too much oft-debunked crap thinking that they are oh so smart.
Well they're not. They're idiots. And if it gets me suspended for flaming those idiots on here, so be it.
This isn't going to descend into direct personal insults, my comment was a generalisation not aimed at any particular individual, anything else would obviously be wrong.
I get very frustrated in the same way that JRS does when any thread about man's journey to the moon is derailed by conspiracy nuts.
So frustrated in fact that this garbage isn't going any further in this thread.
I get very frustrated in the same way that JRS does when any thread about man's journey to the moon is derailed by conspiracy nuts.
So frustrated in fact that this garbage isn't going any further in this thread.
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