Posted on 07/21/2019 7:36:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Our nation yesterday rightly treated itself to a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. Vice President Pence summed it up this way: "This may be the only event of the 20th century that will be remembered in the 30th.
But it wasn’t celebrated by everybody. Even for an event like this, there are conspiracy theorists. They claim that the Apollo program never happened, that it was all faked by the United States government, as in the movie Capricorn-1. Examples: Some conspiracy theorists talk about the fluttering in the flag planted by Buzz Aldrin. (Explanation: it was vibrations in the wires holding it, after Aldrin pounded it into the regolith.) Others object to the lack of stars in the photos taken from the Moon’s surface (Explanation: the Moon’s surface was so bright, a quick f-stop exposure time on the camera was needed.) Footprints on the moon would require moisture, right? (No, they wouldn’t.) Trivial objections are raised to “prove” that the mission was faked, and the debunking explanations are ignored.
Buzz Aldrin once had to punch out a heckler calling him a liar who had participated in a faked Apollo mission.
What can one say? It is reminiscent of the Roman Catholic Church’s doctrine of studied or affected Vincible Ignorance, meaning stubborn resistance to the truth and refusal to accept it, no matter how overwhelming the evidence in its favor is.
This writer personally saw the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket a month before it launched from Cape Kennedy. It was part of a guided tour given to NROTC midshipmen doing their summer training cruises. So there the rocket was, as tall as a football field is long including the end zones. Let’s suppose it was a fake, that it was a plywood fabrication.
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Absolutely not true. The space program cost about one penny of every tax dollar paid. For that you received improvements in computers, a rapidly developing IC environment, heart telemetry, advancements in materials, introduction of new communications, among many others
Not even as powerful. The computer was 4K if memory on an eight bit chip
Here’s the kill shot. Get a good telescope. Spot the remainder of the LM still on the moon...also the flag of the US
Precisely correct
Nicely played
I mean, the world is THAT crazy....
we have seen with our own eyes and heard with our own ears how the media can distort anything at all, or not report something, or completely change any event to fit their narrative...
The Space program enjoyed about a &:1 payback in technological gains.
Think about it the next time you use styrofoam.
No, the average smartphone today could manage 200,000 moon trips without batting an eye lash. The Apollo 11 astronauts had to manually program in every program in machine language and not make a mistake. . . entering it in hexadecimal code, each time they needed it. IIRC, the onboard computer had 4k of RAM. . . and no storage. Watch the movie Apollo 11 on Amazon Prime. It covers this.
Yeah, but there’s no convection of that surface heat below the surface to any appreciable depth. If it’s in shadow, it’s not heated.
Flight computer ROM memory hand wired (programmed) thru ferrite cores! (By “Girls”...non-politically correct references to employees by the tour guide at Raytheon)...great video on the Apollo computer:
Rebooting the last actual Apollo flight computer in 2019...40 years after it’s last boot-up:
A commodore Vic 20 had a hundred times the computing power the Apollo 11 flight had on board.
We didn’t go back because the Democrats were in the ascendancy, and Nixon was embattled, and the Liberals defunded NASA and manned space exploration to spend money on earth instead of throwing it away in space. I know of no money shot into space. . . but that was the rhetoric. By the time Reagan got into office, the infrastructure was gone.
Most of the flat earth nonsense (including the celebrities) is people playing dumb on the internet (like ‘imma eat a tide pod now, nom nom nom’ and the plan to ‘storm’ area 51).
But the 9-11 truthers are special breed of haters just as the Holocaust deniers are.
Thanks SeekAndFind. Still not as dumb as Flat Earth.
Moonwalker Charlie Duke said much the same thing -- why fake it so many times if it were just a fake? Humans visited lunar orbit (and sometimes more) nine times -- Apollo 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17.
Apollo is man's greatest achievement to date. The ingenuity and will of the human mind and spirit is embodied in it.
There were 6 manned landings so 5 returns after Apollo 11. Essentially I see the hoax claim as an anti American thing. It would be interesting to see the political breakdown of hoax believers. My guess would be heavy dim and those dims who do think the landings happened think it was a racist enterprise like the NY slimes recently opined.
IF it were faked it's the biggest conspiracy theory ever.
Yep - all the news agencies would have had to have been co-opted...then, there’s them pesky reflectors up there (3 from manned missions and 2 from other vehicles) which says “Kilroy was there” every time a laser is reflected off it...
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