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Originally posted by ppk55
If you're not interested in debating how they can and have found Moon and Mars rocks on earth, Antarctica specifically, then you really shouldn't be participating on ATS. Why don't you take the time to read the full post above and watch the videos. It won't hurt you.
Originally posted by AgentSmith
your little crew of miscreants ignore the scientific rebuttels to your deeply flawed theories.
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Originally posted by jra
Again, I remind you about the Constellation Program. But going to the Moon is very expensive and requires a lot of political and public support, if there isn't much, then it simply won't happen.
Because of the on-going dispute over the future of human space exploration, I have been reminded of the longstanding perception that in the 1960s NASA’s Apollo program enjoyed great public support. That is a misconception. The belief that Apollo enjoyed enthusiastic support during the 1960s and that somehow NASA has lost its compass thereafter still enjoys broad appeal . This is an important conception, for without the active agreement of political leaders and at least public acquiescence no exploration effort may be sustained for any length of time.
The level of popular support that most people believe the public held for the Kennedy decision to undertake the Moon landings are, therefore, perceived as something that must be gained for the present space exploration agenda to succeed. Repeatedly a chorus of remorse for the lukewarm popular support enjoyed by specific space exploration activities is followed with a heavy sigh and the conclusion, “if only our current efforts had the same level of commitment enjoyed by Apollo, all would be well.”
Apollo—wrapped as it was in the bosom of American virtue, advocated by the most publicly wholesome of astronaut heroes, and hawked by everyone from journalists to Madison Avenue marketers—enjoyed consistent popularity. There is some evidence to suggest this, but it is, on the main, untrue. From the 1960s to near the present, using the polling data that exists, there is little evidence to support an expansive lunar exploration and colonization program. One must conclude from these results that the United States undertook and carried out Apollo not because the public clamored for it during the 1960s, but because it served other purposes. Furthermore, this polling data suggests that should the United States mount another human mission to the Moon in the future it will also be because the mission serves a larger political, economic, or national defense agenda.
While there may be reasons to accept that Apollo was transcendentally important at some sublime level, assuming a generally rosy public acceptance of it is at best a simplistic and ultimately unsatisfactory conclusion. Indeed, the public’s support for space funding has remained remarkably stable at approximately 80 percent in favor of the status quo since 1965, with only one significant dip in support in the early 1970s. However, responses to funding questions on public opinion polls are extremely sensitive to question wording and must be used cautiously.
Originally posted by ppk55
Originally posted by AgentSmith
your little crew of miscreants ignore the scientific rebuttels to your deeply flawed theories.
So you've ignored the previous page of debate.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
You don't want anyone to read the post about how they've discovered Moon AND Mars rocks in Antarctica ?
Fair enough, it is devastating to the Apollo believers.
Funny, I had a similar opinion on every occasion you and your little crew of miscreants ignore the scientific rebuttels to your deeply flawed theories.
So metorites can be found on the Earth that originated from the Moon, try telling us something we don't know. I feel sorry for you if this is somehow news to you and can't help wondering why you even bother trying to discuss anything astronomy related when you consistantly demonstrate your lack of understanding in the subject.
Originally posted by AgentSmith
Do you guys have some sort of 'Ultimate Quote Mining Championship Award'
If they can find Moon / Mars rocks on earth, then how how do we know they came from Apollo and not from Antarctica?
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Thousands...yes thousands of professionals around the world who have had occasion (by now) to examine the Apollo lunar samples KNOW, and have no doubt, as to how they were acquired. Never has anyone said, after being granted the opportunity to study them, that they questioned their origin, nor did they question the method.
Fake Dutch 'moon rock' revealed
BBC News
28 August, 2009
A treasured piece at the Dutch national museum - a supposed moon rock from the first manned lunar landing - is nothing more than petrified wood, curators say.
It was given to former Prime Minister Willem Drees during a goodwill tour by the three Apollo-11 astronauts shortly after their moon mission in 1969.
When Mr Drees died, the rock went on display at the Amsterdam museum.
At one point it was insured for around $500,000 (£308,000), but tests have proved it was not the genuine article.
The Rijksmuseum, which is perhaps better known for paintings by artists such as Rembrandt, says it will keep the piece as a curiosity.
"It's a good story, with some questions that are still unanswered," Xandra van Gelder, who oversaw the investigation that proved the piece was a fake, was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.
"We can laugh about it."
The "rock" had originally been been vetted through a phone call to Nasa, she added.
The US agency gave moon rocks to more than 100 countries following lunar missions in the 1970s.
US officials said they had no explanation for the Dutch discovery.
...the U.S. ambassador gave the Dutch prime minister what he said was a moon rock. When an expert saw the rock in the museum, he didn't think it was real. Geologists have identified the moon rock as petrified wood.
Originally posted by ppk55
reply to post by DJW001
Professor Monica Kress' research that Moon and Mars rocks have been found in Antarctica has not been posted before.
The video is above. Why won't any of you comment on it.
Original post with ALL the videos
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Professor Monica Kress' research that Moon and Mars rocks have been found in Antarctica has not been posted before.
The video is above. Why won't any of you comment on it.
Originally posted by ppk55
You don't want anyone to read the post about how they've discovered Moon AND Mars rocks in Antarctica ?
Fair enough, it is devastating to the Apollo believers.
Dr. Laurie Leshin has been interested in Mars rocks since she was a ten-year-old girl, when the Viking images of the Martian surface caught her attention. At the time, it was her dream to touch the Martian Rocks; today, she is one of the few scientists who have been fortunate enough to study and personally handle Mars rocks.
Since we have yet to send a human to collect samples from Mars, all of our “Mars rocks” come from Martian meteorites that have landed on earth. There are an estimated three-dozen meteorites from Mars. One may question how scientists are able to differentiate between meteorites from Mars and meteorites from other planets and the rest of space. Several years ago, small black particles were identified in meteorites. These particles were tested, and the concentration of the gases in the particles was a perfect match to the concentration of the gases in the Martian atmosphere. Therefore, scientists conclude that the rocks are from Mars.
These Martian rocks have enabled scientists to study three important aspects of Mars. Firstly, since the rocks are igneous, and formed fairly recently (geologically speaking) this proves that there are active volcanoes on Mars. Therefore, Mars is geologically alive. Secondly, chemical analysis has revealed water crystals in Martian asteroids. Mars has a water cycle as complex as the water cycle of Earth. Therefore, Mars is hydrologically alive. Lastly, and possibly most significantly, some scientists speculated that they found fossils in Mars rocks. Although recent studies have shown that these fossils were not actually real, they have opened the door to the possibility of life on Mars and have forced people to question, “Is Mars biologically alive?”
while she was in Antarctica, and it was a lot of snow! In fact, it is because Antarctica is completely covered in snow that Dr. Leshin and several other scientists endured the harsh weather conditions and lack of amenities to spend six weeks in the highest, driest place on Earth. In search for meteorites, Dr. Leshin would speed across the arctic flatland on a snowmobile. Dark meteorites stood out on Antarctica’s icy white surface, so Dr. Leshin could easily identify and collect samples. All together, she and other scientists found over 400 meteorites. That made the lack of bathing, (they could not shower once the entire six weeks), small living quarters, (one 6’x 6’ tent for two people) and almost unbearably cold temperatures, (temperatures dropped to as low as –20° F with a wind-chill of –80° F), well worth it!
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Brian H. Mason, 92, a Smithsonian scientist who was internationally known for his study of meteorites and moon rocks and who was the first to discover that a rock found in Antarctica came from the moon, died of renal failure Dec. 3 at his home in Chevy Chase.
In 1962, he wrote what became a standard text on meteorites, and in 1970, he co-wrote a 179-page report on the lunar rocks collected by Apollo astronauts. He edited a seminal book of mineralogy that described every mineral known to science, where each was found and all its physical properties, an exhaustive work in 1,800 pages.
While examining meteorites collected by U.S. expeditions to Antarctica, he wrote in his notes that they seemed to be rocks from the moon, an idea that astrophysicists had said was impossible.
Unwilling to show up other scholars in the field, his published comment was that they "had a passing resemblance to certain Apollo 15 lunar rocks." Within a year, other scientists agreed. It wasn't the first or last time his work forced a reconsideration of an entire field.
As principal investigator of the Apollo moon rock findings, his interest in extraterrestrial matters was so great that while watching astronaut Neil Armstrong on the lunar surface, he groused that Armstrong "was talking to President Nixon when he would have been better occupied picking up rocks."