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Originally posted by jra
Plus Geologists are still discovering new things with the Lunar samples. Those would have to be some pretty amazing fakes, if that were the case.
Originally posted by wmd_2008
reply to post by AnjeluvDeath
So you have technical papers on the Starship Enterprise WOW!
the only thing is those technical papers are B***SH*T you could not use them to build a working enterprise could you, just because you choose to live in a FANTASY world doesn't mean we have to.
With regards to you PHOTO collection can you actually prove any of them are real bigfoot ,ufo's (with little green men) etc I DOUBT IT!
Some people on here look for PROOF, evidence that can be scrutinized and confirmed as real, not like some on here who make comments such as"
Originally posted by AnjeluvDeath
You mean discovering things such as the moons gravity is vastly different than 1/6 the earths because the calculations used to derive that number would lacking from the very start? Do you mean those kinds of new discoveries scientists are always making?
What is it that I originally asked for? Proof we went to the moon. None has been supplied. Sorry if you do not like how the game works but if you assert something as improbable as the idea that we went to the moon, then you are the one who needs to prove it and none of you have.
Originally posted by AnjeluvDeath
You mean discovering things such as the moons gravity is vastly different than 1/6 the earths because the calculations used to derive that number would lacking from the very start? Do you mean those kinds of new discoveries scientists are always making?
Originally posted by AnjeluvDeath
No kidding? What is it that I originally asked for? Proof we went to the moon. None has been supplied. Sorry if you do not like how the game works but if you assert something as improbable as the idea that we went to the moon, then you are the one who needs to prove it and none of you have.
You go build working models from the NASA scematics you have and tell me how it works, ok!
Originally posted by AnjeluvDeath
Yep, that sure is what they have been telling you. I am glad you believe it. Have you personally seen any of this?
You cannot recreate the parts? Come on, i was told it was really easy. Why can't you? Why can't NASA?
Originally posted by AnjeluvDeath
reply to post by ngchunter
Yep, that sure is what they have been telling you. I am glad you believe it. Have you personally seen any of this?
You cannot recreate the parts? Come on, i was told it was really easy. Why can't you? Why can't NASA?
Originally posted by ngchunter
Personally seen any of what? What other amateur astronomers saw? No, but I see similar things with today's spacecraft in my scope. Armadillo aerospace? No, but many others have witnessed their feats in person.
Originally posted by AnjeluvDeath
Aside from the "astronauts" in collusin, who was possible a first hand withness to ANY of tthis? PLEEEEEEEEEEEEASE ex[lain that whole concenpt to me.
As far as amature photos go, seen one lately? They look no more like a pacecraft than the dust that attacks me camera when I break out the tree each yea.
Does it really bother you so much that we "faked" it first? Do some history researc hand ckinh gor.
Originally posted by Donny 4 million
"The first mission canceled was Apollo 20, because the budget had been cut "
Did you mean transferred or switched to orbital missions?
NASA'S budget has been huge since it's inception.
Originally posted by seb2882
However, I can't understand how not taking a photo with his partner and Earth at the same time is a clear indicator of hoax.
Originally posted by ngchunter
Originally posted by seb2882
However, I can't understand how not taking a photo with his partner and Earth at the same time is a clear indicator of hoax.
Actually they did just that on Apollo 17, so the claim isn't even correct:
history.nasa.gov...
Originally posted by ngchunter
Originally posted by Donny 4 million
"The first mission canceled was Apollo 20, because the budget had been cut "
Did you mean transferred or switched to orbital missions?
NASA'S budget has been huge since it's inception.
I would like to get this out where you can read it and not pass it by as a link. Mind you I can find a ton of this stuff.
Snips from an article in Space Daily 2003
We had of course all seen the 1968 Kubrick/Clarke movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the facilities depicted there seemed entirely reasonable. In our lifetimes, we expected to see hotels in orbit, translunar shuttles operated by commercial airlines, and settlements on the Moon. Only the alien monolith was questionable.
None of this has happened.
Despite cutbacks, NASA has spent a total of $450 billion since Apollo 11 (adjusted for inflation to 2003 dollars). That very large sum was more than enough to fund the developments that Wernher von Braun predicted for the end of the 20th Century, but we have not even started on any of them.
If it had been spent wisely, as seed money to stimulate commercial development, we could have established a growing, self-sustaining extraterrestrial enterprise, offering opportunities for thousands of people to live and work off Earth - but the sad truth is that we have less capability in human spaceflight now than in 1970.
In 1969, we landed on the Moon, but now we cannot leave low Earth orbit (LEO). NASA claimed that the shuttle would be fifteen times cheaper to fly (per pound of payload) than the Saturn vehicles used in Apollo, but it is actually three times more expensive.
The average cost of each flight is a staggering $760 million. After a mission, the time required to prepare a shuttle for the next flight was supposed to be less than two weeks, but in practice tens of thousands of technicians spend three to six months rebuilding each "reusable" shuttle after every flight. Worst of all, the shuttle is a needlessly complex, fragile and dangerous vehicle, which has killed fourteen astronauts so far.
In 1973, we had a space station called Skylab, with berths for three astronauts. NASA let it reenter and break up over Western Australia. A second Skylab was built, which could have become the Earth terminal of a lunar transportation system.
It is now a tourist attraction at the Air and Space Museum in Washington, and the Saturn V to launch it is nothing more than a monstrous lawn ornament, moldering on its side at Johnson Space Center (JSC).
They are surprised and disappointed that the public are unimpressed by the shuttle and ISS, despite their technical virtuosity. The Giant Leap delusion persists today, in the form of proposals for a flags-and-footprints mission to Mars.
In reality, of course, Apollo existed because Jack Kennedy and Nikita Khruschev chose to make space a principal arena for competition between the superpowers. The purposes of the program were to overcome the perceived Soviet lead in space, and to foreclose the possibility that the USSR would reach the Moon first and claim it as Soviet territory. No Congress was willing to spend more than the minimum needed to achieve those objectives.
The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 relieved concerns about Soviet hegemony by banning weapons and territorial claims on the Moon. This allowed Congress to respond to Lyndon Johnson's simultaneous expansion of social programs and the war in VietNam by slashing funding for NASA. As shown in Figure 1, the budget peaked in 1966, and then fell precipitously.
Despite these obvious trends, NASA developed grandiose visions of the post-Apollo program, which culminated in the Space Task Group Report of 1969. (3)
The STG proposed three options. The most ambitious called for
a reusable Earth-to-orbit shuttle and a small space station by 1975;
a reusable orbit-to-orbit tug and a lunar orbit station in 1976;
a nuclear-powered tug and a lunar surface base in 1978;
a 50-man space base in Earth orbit in 1980;
a manned Mars mission in 1981;
and expansion of the Earth orbit space base to 100 people by 1985.
The other options retained all these objectives, but reduced the cash flow by delaying some of them for up to five years.
Figure 1 also shows the funding profiles required by the STG proposals (in 2003 dollars). Richard Nixon responded immediately, making it perfectly clear that the whole STG Report was sheer fantasy, and that NASA should expect less money, not more. "