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Originally posted by miniatus
Not only that but due to lack of atmosphere on the moon there's no real ambient light..
The stuff is very valuable (essentially priceless, and a national treasure), and you're wondering why the federal government would swoop in to reclaim it after it was stolen? They'd do that for any valuable item that was stolen from the government.
Originally posted by KnightFire
My question is: What is it about a little moon dust that's so super top secret that the Feds acted so quickly to snatch it up?
Originally posted by CodyOutlaw
There are ruins here on earth that, as a historian, I cannot explain.
What's so freaky about there being the same sort of evidence on the moon, too?
Originally posted by Blue Shift
Originally posted by CodyOutlaw
There are ruins here on earth that, as a historian, I cannot explain.
What's so freaky about there being the same sort of evidence on the moon, too?
Well, it might be because we do not have any real proof that there are any other intelligent beings in the entire universe but ourselves, and finding ruins on the Moon would mean that there are others, and possibly even more intelligent than us, and it would put 5,000 years of cosomology and most of our major religions into question.
Just a little thing like that. Are you purposely trying to be obtuse?
Originally posted by Pervius
There must be an atmosphere on the moon. You can hear the Apollo astronaut hammering the metal stake in the moon for the lunar surface experiments.
Sound only travels if there is an atmosphere. You can hear the "twangs" when he beats the stake with a hammer.
Then again maybe they forgot to remove the sound from the stage recording out in the desert where they hoaxed the Apollo missions.
is not accurate. Sound also travels through solid objects.
Sound only travels if there is an atmosphere.
There was a total of 382 kg of lunar samples brought back by the Apollo missions. That's not a lot of material, certainly not enough to distribute it to any researcher who wants it while still holding on to some to wait for better analysis techniques to be developed in the future. I believe NASA puts a value of about $1.5 million per once on the material.
Originally posted by KnightFire
reply to post by nataylor
That makes sense to me. As for priceless, it is to us, but from what I understand, the US goverment has plenty of moon dust and rocks. And, I recall as a kid, and even to this day, moon dust can be purchased at the Wyatt-Patternson Air Force Musem. Makes me ask, is it really moon dust that's for sale?