posted on Dec, 4 2008 @ 07:49 PM
I decided to do a running commentary here as I watch the video while I wait for some moon footage I shot tonight to download to my desktop.
I love how the video starts out with qualifying itself, you just know it's going to be "good" when they say "these are only a few anomalies, there
are many more" - translation, if you debunk me bit by bit you're still wrong. Oh, and the computer voice narration drove me nuts, it was terrible.
I'll just show how inaccurate their facts are, their speculation from there could only be worse. The facts are dead wrong from the get go. The
radiation in the Van Allen belt is not deadly to astronauts just passing through, they never provide a shred of evidence that it would be, only fear
mongering. The shuttle and space station both encounter a low hanging part of the radiation belt called the south atlantic anomaly on a regular
basis. As a result, the space station astronauts are exposed to more of the same radiation trapped in the belts more often and for a longer total
period of time than any apollo astronaut ever spent passing through them on the way to and from the moon. The particle radiation trapped in the belts
is best blocked by metals with low atomic numbers, not lead, which leads to heavy secondary radiation which in turn must be blocked by yet more lead.
Aluminum, like that found on the outer part of the apollo command module is perfect for the job. The fibrous insulation in the command module's
frame is also perfect for stopping much of the radiation. No serious physicist or astronomer would suggest that the Van Allen belts are
insurmountable to astronauts in the apollo spacecraft. By the way, the flashes of light seen by astronauts in 1998 inside the space shuttle were
first reported by Apollo's astronauts. Thanks guys, you just destroyed your own argument; the shuttle astronauts verified what Apollo reported. I
didn't much appreciate them trying to make Allen Bean out to be a liar, the apollo astronauts reported this phenomenon first, many years ago, long
before 1998. They specifically ran experiments on later apollo missions to detect these flashes of light:
www.myspacemuseum.com...
That he didn't understand what the questioner was getting at at first does not make him a liar. That they're saying the shuttle verified what
happened in Apollo does destroy their argument, however.
Wow, all that before we hit the first photo "anomaly," I don't have time to deal with the entirety of this nonsense. But their first claim, that
the earth is mishapen in the apollo footage is freaking hilarious. It's called gibbous! I guess they've never looked at what the moon looks like
during a gibbous phase. Unless you're directly between the earth and the sun, guess what, you'll see part of the night side of the earth, so it'll
look less than "full." I "cannot stress this point enough" - a gibbous earth is perfectly consistent with what apollo SHOULD have seen on the way
to the moon given the trajectory they took. How many minutes are they going to waste trying to make an invalid point about this shot? The camera
brushed up against the side of the window and caused some blockage for like a second, big deal, that's not why the earth looks gibbous guys, it's
called "it's hard to hold a camera perfectly steady in zero g with just your hand." Ugh, alright I've had enough and my download is done, I can't
imagine what other nonsense they have in the other 45 minutes, but if someone wants to bring up a point they think somehow disproves apollo, I'll
happily address it.