Another moon landing for... some people not to believe

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John F said:
Compressed gasses expand when pressure is dropped causing an equal and opposite force at the nozzle where the pressure is released. You experience this with your garden hose. Without a nozzle, the hose can lie on the ground motionless. Put a nozzle on the hose and it will flop around on the ground. The same is true of an air hose at high pressure, and any other compressed gasses released from high pressure to low pressure through a nozzle. This physical process works the same from high pressure gasses released into a vacuum. So the engine used in a vacuum is designed to cause rapid expansion of gasses (the exhaust from burned rocket fuel) into the vacuum of space causing a thrust force to move the rocket.

Rotating the craft is accomplished with small jets of compressed gas vented through a nozzle to exert just enough force to cause a spin. A counter force in the opposite direction slows / stops rotation. Once the main engine is pointed in the direction opposite travel, the engine is ignited to slow/stop motion.

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Conspiracy theory 1: shadows in the Moon landing photos prove the images were faked​

Take a look at the image below, and at the full panorama on the NASA website. Look closely at the shadows cast by astronaut Neil Armstrong and another object just out of shot. What's wrong with them?

Apollo 11 Moon landing shadows


Conspiracy theory 2: Apollo astronauts could not have survived Earth's radiation field​

Earth is surrounded by a zone of charged particles known as the 'Van Allen' radiation belt.

"These are regions surrounding the Earth in our magnetic field where high energy trapped particles from the Sun tend to get confined," Prof Ojha says. "What that means is if you are going into these regions, there are extremely high radiation concerns."

If that is the case, how did the Apollo astronauts travel through the Van Allen radiation belt and out of Earth's orbit unharmed? Surely the amount of radiation would have killed them? Doesn't this prove that the Moon landings were a hoax?

Prof Ojha has a killer reply.

"My answer to that is... firewalking," he says.

"If you’ve ever done firewalking, you’ll know the one thing you don’t do is linger around in the middle of the firepit. You cross as quickly as you can. From a science point of view, as long as you walk across quite quickly, looking at the thermal conductivity of your feet, you are not going to have enough thermal energy going into the soles of your feet to burn you. You’re absolutely fine. Just don’t hang around in the middle!

"In a similar way, the transit time through the Van Allen radiation belt right at the beginning of the Apollo voyages was incredibly short. Travelling through the Van Allen radiation belt if you are going fast enough – which you need to be if you’re going to the Moon – is no problem whatsoever."

Conspiracy theory 3: why are there no stars in pictures of the NASA Moon landings?​

Here is another Moon landing photograph which has caught conspiracy theorists' eye.

Apollo 11 Moon landing
Buzz Aldrin carries experiment equipment during the Apollo 11 Moon landing (NASA)
If the image really was taken on the Moon, shouldn't the sky be filled with stars? After all, there is no atmosphere to distort the image, no clouds to interrupt that glorious view.

Conspiracy theorists argue that the lack of stars in the Apollo 11 mission photographs prove that the event was staged. NASA could not have faked the full wonder of the lunar sky, and so they simply chose not to include any stars at all.

Here's another solution: both the astronauts and the lunar landscape itself are brightly lit by the Sun. The sky may look black, but remember, this is in fact daytime on the Moon.

If you're going to take a photo of a brightly lit scene, your camera's shutter speed needs to be fast and your aperture incredibly small. In that situation, faint objects like stars simply aren't going to show

Conspiracy theory 4: the Apollo 11 US flag is waving in the wind... but there's no wind on the Moon​

"One of the crowning moments in terms of US national pride was seeing the Stars and Stripes on the surface of the Moon," Prof Ojha says.

Apollo 11 Moon landing US flag
Buzz Aldrin salutes the US flag during the Apollo 11 Moon landing (NASA)
Buzz Aldrin saluting the proudly waving American flag on the Moon remains one of the iconic images of the Apollo 11 mission, a declaration of US supremacy over space race rivals the Soviet Union.

But if there is no atmosphere on the Moon, there is no wind - so why is the flag waving? Is this the proof that conspiracy theorists have been seeking?

Look again at the image, and in particular along the top edge of the flag, and you will find the answer. A telescopic pole has been extended along the top in order to make the flag fly proudly (yes, NASA really did think of everything).

"Because it’s been set up like this, it appears to be waving in the wind," Ojha explains. "All the wrinkles are there because it’s literally been screwed up for four days en route to the Moon."

Conspiracy theory 5: if we really went to the Moon in 1969, why have we never been back?​

Apollo 17, the last Apollo mission to land astronauts on the Moon, took place in 1972. Since then, humans have never returned.

Maybe that's because we never went to the Moon in the first place?

Apollo 17 wasn't meant to be the end of the story, of course. Throughout the 1970s there were ambitions to establish a permanent lunar base before turning to the next major space exploration challenge: Mars.

It never happened. But this was no grand conspiracy; this was geopolitics.

"The answer is we changed our priorities," Ojha says. "From a combination of the Vietnam War, but also there was this geopolitical element of thinking, 'We’ve won the race'. Just as we’d got good at doing science on the Moon, we abandoned it."

Instead, attention turned to the Space Shuttle programme and, latterly, the International Space Station, which has been permanently inhabited by teams of astronauts since November 2000. But that doesn't mean humans couldn't return to the Moon in the future...
 
Don’t shoot the messages pls. I am just trying to enlighten ppl. Not cause a war.

I just posted what I found on this. My personal beliefs have nothing to do with this.
 
Lola said:
Don’t shoot the messages pls. I am just trying to enlighten ppl. Not cause a war.

I just posted what I found on this. My personal beliefs have nothing to do with this.
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Not aimed at you at all :)


The sheer unadulterated (and, to my mind at least) unforgivably brain-dead, fatuous, and uneducated stupidity inherent in flat-Eartherism should disqualify all concerned as being multiple evolutionary levels below Dermaptera, let alone Dermoptera.
 
Wyzard said:
Not aimed at you at all :)


The sheer unadulterated (and, to my mind at least) unforgivably brain-dead, fatuous, and uneducated stupidity inherent in flat-Eartherism should disqualify all concerned as being multiple evolutionary levels below Dermaptera, let alone Dermoptera.
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Dude, the Nu-Lectuals are more informed than you. Where does that leave you on your "evolutionary level"? I'm not a flat earther but the one's I've heard of are more intelligent than normal people. If you want to ride the short bus through life, you can but don't stop and give me a ride!
 
I was doing research today on Stealth bombers. Don’t ask me why? Lol They are just crazy. They are capable of just over 1000 Km. Undetectable in the air unless the enemy is directly below them. The missiles that they can project and fire are insane. Been watching videos about them. Really fascinating! I couldn’t even fathom a ride in one of those things if it were ever possible. Just cool technology. They are planning to put them out of service in 2032 because another type of stealth will take it’s place. My adrenaline is pumping just watching what they are capable of. Wingsuit jumpers suits are almost shaped like a Stealth.

I finally felt better tonight so I indulged a bit and I feel the weight of world is gone. Evaporated, Poof! Lol :) every stupid thought gone along with feeling NO physical pain.

 
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