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Originally posted by Exuberant1
Anyone else believe that going to the moon is easier than filming a convincing moonwalk here on earth?
Keep in mind answering 'yes' means you are saying that the Nation who went to the moon could not even film a convincing moonwalk scene here on earth.
Blasting craters for a new section of the Cinder Lakes outside Flagstaff, Ariz. (July 1968). USGS Astrogeology constructed a mockup of a section of the moon’s Sea of Tranquillity in a cinder field to aid with training and time-and-motion studies. USGS Astrogeology Science Center image.
Unfortunately, the prediction and forecasting of solar activity and space weather are severely hampered by incomplete understanding of how the Sun affects interplanetary space and the local environments of Earth, the Moon, and Mars.
Originally posted by hateeternal
Originally posted by 001ggg100
Maybe they set up a stage for simultanious broadcast. I mean, we can't see the astronauts faces when they are being photographed. Is it possible that when the astronauts are actually on the moon sending back their audio, that NASA didn't just sync up their audio with what was being shot on a sound stage?
No!!
Both audio and video were being received from the moon!!!!!
In Australia, Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station monitored the transmissions from Apollo missions, from:
* Tidbinbilla radio telescope made observations.
* Carnarvon received radio transmissions
* Deaking Switching Station was the switching station for the Apollo television broadcasts.
the antennas were pointed at the moon, this was not NASA. this is 3rd party
DSN currently consists of three deep-space communications facilities placed approximately 120 degrees apart around the world[3]. They are:
the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex outside of Barstow, California, United States;
the Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex, 60 kilometres (37 mi) west of Madrid, Spain; and
the Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex (CDSCC) in the Australian Capital Territory, 40 kilometres (25 mi) southwest of Canberra, Australia near the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve.
DSN is part of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
Eberhardt Rechtin suggested what is now known as the "wing concept". The wing approach involves constructing a new section or "wing" to the main building at each of the three involved DSN sites. The wing would include a MSFN control room and the necessary interface equipment to accomplish the following: i. Permit tracking and two-way data transfer with either spacecraft during lunar operations. 2. Permit tracking and two-way data transfer with the combined spacecraft during the flight to the Moon 3. Provide backup for the collocated MSFN site passive track (spacecraft to ground RF links) of the Apollo spacecraft during trans-lunar and trans-earth phases. With this arrangement, the DSN station could be quickly switched from a deep-space mission to Apollo and back again. GSFC personnel would operate the MSFN equipment completely independently of DSN personnel. Deep space missions would not be compromised nearly as much as if the entire station's equipment and personnel were turned over to Apollo for several weeks.
...the astronots
The network is a facility of NASA, and is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The Interplanetary Network Directorate (IND) manages the program within JPL.
Originally posted by FoosM
NASA during Apollo, a Nazi ridden racist organization
All of a sudden Nazis are trustworthy because they via NASA claim to have sent men to the moon? What did Hitler say about the "bigger the lie..."?
Communication:
All info came via NASA and its partners.
All the photos, all the footage, all the samples, everything
NASA has a chart of all the communication centers that managed to chart Apollo to the moon. The chart shows that most centers only covered only parts of the trip. Most covered, from what I recall, LEO. And any center that managed to cover the entire trip were NASA run stations.
What about the radio HAMs?
Jarrah W covers it in his Ham Sandwich series
And I like to see some REAL debunking of his findings.
Originally posted by Exuberant1
Anyone else believe that going to the moon is easier than filming a convincing moonwalk here on earth?
Keep in mind answering 'yes' means you are saying that the Nation who went to the moon could not even film a convincing moonwalk scene here on earth.
Originally posted by debunky
Originally posted by Exuberant1
Hey Fellas,
According to the Internet Occam's Razor the moonwalks were faked.
What is easier, doing a lunar EVA or faking one? Exactly.... Internet Occam's Razor says as it is easier to fake [at least] the moonwalk portion of the missions and simpler; therefore the moonwalks we saw were faked.
[edit on 7-5-2010 by Exuberant1]
Erm... Occams razor states that if 2 theories exist to explain a phenonemon, the one that introduces the least external variables is to be preferred... says nothing about easier or harder.
Anyway: you got a current computer, don't you? And in 1969 CGI didn't exist yet, so this should be a piece of cake in 2010, right?
Please: make me a fake video with a bag flying like the one from apollo 16? Or if thats to hard kicking dust and have it fly in a perfect parabolic arc? If those things were easy to fake in the 60ies and 70ies, i am sure a proponent of your side of the debate has recreated such movies? Can you point me in the right direction? (and don't give me the hammer & feather thing, cause, as you know holding the feather horizontally does make a slight difference in an atmosphere.)
The Space Power Facility (SPF) is a vacuum chamber built by NASA in 1969. It stands 122 feet high and 100 feet in diameter, enclosing a bullet-shaped space. When completed, it was the world's largest vacuum chamber.
Space Environmental Simulation Laboratory
The SESL Chamber A is the largest of the Johnson Space Center thermal-vacuum test facilities. Its usable test volume and high-fidelity space simulation capabilities are adaptable to thermal-vacuum tests of a wide variety of test articles. The major structural elements of the chamber are the rotatable floor, the 40-foot diameter access floor and the dual manlocks at the floor level and at the 31-foot level. Test articles are normally inserted into the chamber by means of overhead cranes and a dolly and track. The dual manlocks are chambers that provide a means for the test crew to move from ambient air pressure to the thermal-vacuum environment and back. When the inner door is bolted, either of the manlocks can be used as an altitude chamber for independent tests.
In mid-1968, prior to the first manned Apollo mission, astronauts Joe Engle, Vance Brand, and Joe Kerwin spent a week (16-24 June) in a simulated mission using an Apollo CSM designated “Block II thermal vacuum test article”, or “2TV-1” (which was identical, except for some flight-qualified equipment, to Apollo 7’s CSM-101) inside SESL chamber A.
The larger of the two chambers provides simulated space and lunar surface environments... simulating a lunar plane 45 feet in diameter... the lunar plane can be controlled...
SESL houses two large thermal-vacuum chambers with solar simulation capabilities... carbon arc modules simulate the unfiltered solar light/heat of the Sun
Originally posted by FoosM
But if they really wanted to fake it in a vacuum it was quite possible.
Presenting:
The Space Power Facility (SPF) is a vacuum chamber built by NASA in 1969. It stands 122 feet high and 100 feet in diameter, enclosing a bullet-shaped space. When completed, it was the world's largest vacuum chamber.
After Apollo, the MSFN no longer needed the large antennas that had been used for lunar communication, which were eventually given over to the DSN. In 1985, the antenna at Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station was moved to the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) DSN site, and the antenna at Fresnedillas was moved to the existing Robledo DSN location. The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex antenna is still in its original location.[3]
The solution came in early 1965 at a meeting at NASA Headquarters, when Eberhardt Rechtin suggested what is now known as the "wing concept". The wing approach involves constructing a new section or "wing" to the main building at each of the three involved DSN sites.
Originally posted by FoosM
Eberhardt Rechtin suggested what is now known as the "wing concept". The wing approach involves constructing a new section or "wing" to the main building at each of the three involved DSN sites.
Originally posted by davidmann
reply to post by WWu777
Thanks for putting some common sense in this thread...
I agree that the media only allow what tptb can use. It surprises me that no one mentions this here.
It is a sad time to be alive, right here at the cusp on the 'digital revolution', as bono calls it.
My belief is that other civilizations have been here, and will be here again.
... chooses to use electricity in a sacred way...
... not in a smiling bob extenze fashion ...
... general scorn of wonder and perfection ...
... been made in to a mold which determines whether you are.. fit for society...
... I attended some classes on machining using CNC programming...
... One day, I asked if it were possible to create not a perfectly flat surface...
... Before I could even get a response there was laughter...
... the instructor wanted to know what the hell I was getting at..
... instead of glimpsing my reason for asking, there was a bit of derision...
... I was doomed to return to a metal manufacturing shop ...
... owned and operated -and destroyed- by human savages ...
... Rather than using technology (electricity) to enlighten each other,
it is being used to machine-gun us all to death....
Originally posted by DJW001
Flash of insight: the reason why it is so hard to prove the reality of the moon landing to some people is because it's usually based on science, of which people are proudly ignorant. What about approaching it from the other angle: film production! It's very easy to say "it was all special effects." Okay, here are the production requirements: a full week of 24/7 scripted dialogue. No improvisation is permitted, because there are numerous exact cues that must be hit precisely every few minutes for the whole production to stay in synch. Numerous SFX sequences requiring multiple processes must be edited together seamlessly and streamed to multiple distribution points in "real time." The footage on the lunar surface must be shot from multiple angles (eg; TV camera, 16mm camera, still camera) and be absolutely identical, lest some community college drop-out in Australia notice a continuity error. Every radio-telescope and ham radio on the planet must simultaneously be disrupted and the bogus programming be fed to them. A gigantic rocket needs to be constructed and launched into the air, but made to disappear afterwards. A bogus "space capsule" has to be delivered, on live TV, to the middle of the Pacific Ocean and dropped in by parachute. All FX must be done "practical," not CGI... if only because CGI didn't exist at the time. Now, just how easy do you suppose all this is? And, BTW, where are all the out-takes? Most films have a 12:1 shooting ratio. This means each shot gets done twelve times to get just the right take. By that standard, each mission would produce twelve weeks worth of out-takes. Not one minute of out-takes exists anywhere.
[edit on 7-5-2010 by DJW001]
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by FoosM
Problem you have, with this sort of cognitive disconnect, is you are relying on WAY too many YouTube cartoons!
This is the same old, same old claptrap that they just keep repeating, and you're falling for it.
BUT, inundating your post with several (junk) videos means that now it is going to take a heck of a lot of time to discuss properly.
[edit on 7 May 2010 by weedwhacker]
Aron Ranen - Directed Did We Go?, co-produced with Benjamin Britton and selected for the 2000 "New Documentary Series" Museum of Modern Art, NYC, the 2000 Dallas Video Festival Awards and the 2001 Digital Video Underground Festival in San Francisco. He received a Golden Cine Eagle and two fellowships from the National Endowment for Arts.
Ranen states in Did We Go? "at this point right now I'm about 75% believing we went". On July 20, 2009, Ranen appeared on Geraldo at Large to argue that no one has landed on the moon.