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reply to post by FlySolo
NASA is a government agency and works with (for?) the Department of Defense. It's not civilian. SETI is civilian (and, I think they're covering up discoveries too!)
Originally posted by ZIPMATT
reply to post by syrinx high priest
dont be ridiculous you want people to dance to your tune. lets haul it back to the footage, and the small matter of humans requiring a certain magnetic field to even stay alive 1 hour in space (ie outside the magnetosphere)
you disprove MY theory > you cant see when a landing pod is not taking off by being hauled up by a crane? how did it dock with the capsule they floated back in then? got any evidence that happened? no but you want me to respond to laser thingys? what ?
Originally posted by Darkmask
SETI protocol requires all employees to report any unusual signals to the appropriate government authorities before releasing any information to the general public. So no, we will not hear about any ET signals from SETI.
Prior to making a public announcement that evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence has been detected, the discoverer should promptly inform all other observers or research organizations that are parties to this declaration, so that those other parties may seek to confirm the discovery by independent observations at other sites and so that a network can be established to enable continuous monitoring of the signal or phenomenon. Parties to this declaration should not make any public announcement of this information until it is determined whether this information is or is not credible evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. The discoverer should inform his/her or its relevant national authorities.
After concluding that the discovery appears to be credible evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence, and after informing other parties to this declaration, the discoverer should inform observers throughout the world through the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams of the International Astronomical Union, and should inform the Secretary General of the United Nations in accordance with Article XI of the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Bodies. Because of their demonstrated interest in and expertise concerning the question of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence, the discoverer should simultaneously inform the following international institutions of the discovery and should provide them with all pertinent data and recorded information concerning the evidence: the International Telecommunication Union, the Committee on Space Research, of the International Council of Scientific Unions, the International Astronautical Federation, the International Academy of Astronautics, the International Institute of Space Law, Commission 51 of the International Astronomical Union and Commission J of the International Radio Science Union.
A confirmed detection of extraterrestrial intelligence should be disseminated promptly, openly, and widely through scientific channels and public media, observing the procedures in this declaration. The discoverer should have the privilege of making the first public announcement.
Apollo missions tracked by independent partiesAside from NASA, a number of entities and individuals observed, through various means, the Apollo missions as they took place. On later missions, NASA released information to the public explaining where third party observers could expect to see the various craft at specific times according to scheduled launch times and planned trajectories.[23]
[edit] Observers of all missionsThe Soviet Union monitored the missions at the Space Transmissions Corps, which was "fully equipped with the latest intelligence-gathering and surveillance equipment".[24] Vasily Mishin ("The Moon Programme That Faltered."), in Spaceflight. 33 (March 1991): 2-3 describes how the Soviet Moon programme lost energy after the Apollo landing.
The missions were tracked by radar from several countries on the way to the Moon and back.[25]
The NASA Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN) was a world-wide network of stations that tracked the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Skylab missions. Most MSFN stations were only needed during the launch, Earth orbit and landing phases of the lunar missions, but three "deep space" sites with larger antennas provided continuous coverage during the trans-lunar, trans-earth and lunar mission phases. Today, these three sites form the NASA Deep Space Network: the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Goldstone, California; the Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex near Madrid, Spain; and the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, in Tidbinbilla, near Canberra, Australia.
Although most MSFN stations were NASA-owned, they employed many local citizens. NASA also contracted the Parkes Observatory in New South Wales, Australia, to supplement the three deep space sites, most famously during the Apollo 11 EVA as documented in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia[26][27] and portrayed (humorously and not quite accurately) in the movie The Dish. The Parkes Observatory is not NASA-owned; it is, and always has been, owned and operated by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), a research agency of the Australian government.
Several other Australian sites which are no longer part of the Deep Space Network were also involved in relaying Apollo lunar transmissions. The deep space (lunar) tracking station was originally Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station. Carnarvon Tracking Station was one of the smaller and more numerous MSFN sites used primarily to support the near-earth segments of Apollo missions, though it also relayed data from the ALSEP lunar surface experiments. Due to its location on Australia's west coast, Carnarvon played a special role in the Apollo trans lunar injection and atmospheric reentry phases. Deakin Switching Centre routed the Apollo television broadcasts.[28]
It would have been relatively easy for NASA to avoid using the Parkes Observatory to receive the Apollo 11 EVA television signals by scheduling the EVA at an earlier time when the Goldstone station could provide complete coverage.
[edit] Apollo 8Main article: Apollo 8
On December 21, 1968 at 18:00 UT, amateur astronomers (H.R. Hatfield, M.J. Hendrie, F. Kent, Alan Heath, and M.J. Oates) in the UK photographed a fuel dump from the jettisoned S-IVB third rocket stage.[23]
Pic du Midi Observatory (in the French Pyrenees); the Catalina Station of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (University of Arizona); Corralitos Observatory, New Mexico, then operated by Northwestern University; McDonald Observatory of the University of Texas; and Lick Observatory of the University of California all filed reports of observations.[23]
Dr. Michael Moutsoulas at Pic du Midi reported an initial sighting around 17:10 UT on December 21 with the 1.1-metre reflector as an object (magnitude near 10, through clouds) moving eastward near the predicted location of Apollo 8. He used a 60-cm refractor telescope to observe a cluster of objects which were obscured by the appearance of a nebulous cloud at a time which matches a firing of the service module engine to assure adequate separation from the S-IVB. This event can be traced with the Apollo 8 Flight Journal, noting that launch was at 0751 EST or 12:51 UT on December 21.[23]
Justus Dunlap and others at Corralitos Observatory (then operated by Northwestern University) obtained over 400 short-exposure intensified images, giving very accurate locations for the spacecraft.[23]
The 2.1m Struve telescope at McDonald, from 01:50-2:37 UT, observed the brightest object flashing as bright as magnitude 15, with the flash pattern recurring about once a minute.[23]
The Lick Observatory observations during the return coast to Earth produced live television pictures broadcast to United States west coast viewers via KQED-TV in San Francisco.
An article in the March 1969 issue of Sky & Telescope contained many reports of optical tracking of Apollo 8.[23]
The first post-launch sightings were from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) station on Maui, and observed the trans-lunar injection burn near 15:44 UT on December 21.
Table Mountain Observatory, a Deep Space Network station in California, reports that they tracked all the Apollo lunar missions except 17.[23]
Bernard Scrivener at Honeysuckle Creek recorded 45–50 hours of radio conversation between Houston and Apollo 8. These are recordings of the raw audio, not what was released to the public through NASA.[29]
[edit] Apollo 10Main article: Apollo 10
A list of sightings of Apollo 10 were reported in "Apollo 10 Optical Tracking" by Sky & Telescope magazine, July 1969, pp. 62–63.
[edit] Apollo 11Main article: Apollo 11
The Bochum Observatory director (Professor Heinz Kaminski) was able to provide confirmation of events and data independent of both the Russian and U.S. space agencies.[30]
A compilation of sightings appeared in "Observations of Apollo 11" in Sky and Telescope magazine, November 1969, pp. 358–359.
The Madrid Apollo Station, part of the Deep Space Network, built in Fresnedillas, near Madrid, Spain tracked Apollo 11.[31]
Goldstone Tracking Station in California tracked Apollo 11.[32]
At Jodrell Bank Observatory in the UK, the telescope was used to observe the mission, as it was used years previously for Sputnik.[33] At the same time, Jodrell Bank scientists were tracking the unmanned Soviet spacecraft Luna 15, which was trying to land on the Moon.[34]
In July 2009, Jodrell released some recordings they made.[35]
Larry Baysinger, a technician for WHAS radio in Louisville, Kentucky, independently detected and recorded transmissions between Apollo 11 astronauts on the lunar surface and in the command module.[36]
Recordings made by Baysinger share certain characteristics with recordings made at Bochum Observatory by Heinz Kaminski (see above), in that both Kaminski's and Baysinger's recordings do not include the capsule communicator in Houston and the associated Quindar tones heard in NASA audio and seen on NASA Apollo 11 transcripts. Kaminski and Baysinger could only hear the transmissions from the Moon, and not transmissions to the Moon from the earth.[30][37]
[edit] Apollo 12Main article: Apollo 12
Surveyor 3 camera brought back from the Moon by Apollo 12, on display at the National Air and Space MuseumPaul Maley reports several sightings of the Apollo 12 Command Module.[38]
Parts of Surveyor 3, which landed on the Moon in April 1967, were brought back to Earth by Apollo 12 in November 1969.[39] These samples were shown to have been exposed to lunar conditions.[40]
[edit] Apollo 13Main article: Apollo 13
Chabot Observatory calendar records an application of optical tracking during the final phases of Apollo 13, on 17 April 1970:
“ "Rachel, Chabot Observatory's 20-inch refracting telescope, helps bring Apollo 13 and its crew home. One last burn of the lunar lander engines was needed before the crippled spacecraft's re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. In order to compute that last burn, NASA needed a precise position of the spacecraft, obtainable only by telescopic observation. All the observatories that could have done this were clouded over, except Oakland's Chabot Observatory, where members of the Eastbay Astronomical Society had been tracking the Moon flights. EAS members received an urgent call from NASA Ames Research Station, which had ties with Chabot's educational program since the 60's, and they put the Observatory's historic 20-inch refractor to work. They were able to send the needed data to Ames, and the Apollo crew was able to make the needed correction and to return safely to Earth on this date in 1970."[23] ”
[edit] Apollo 14Main article: Apollo 14
Elaine Halbedel, from the Corralitos Observatory photographed Apollo 14.[23]
[edit] Apollo 15Main article: Apollo 15
Paul Wilson and Richard T. Knadle, Jr. received voice transmissions from the Command Service Module in lunar orbit on the morning of August 1, 1971. In an article for QST magazine they provide a detailed description of their work, with photographs.[41]
[edit] Apollo 16Main article: Apollo 16
Jewett Observatory at Washington State University reported sightings of Apollo 16.[23]
Honeysuckle Creek tracked Apollo 16 and recorded the audio of the landing.
At least two different radio amateurs, W4HHK and K2RIW, reported reception of Apollo 16 signals with home-built equipment.[42][43]
Sternwarte Bochum Observatory in Germany tracked the astronauts and intercepted the television signals from Apollo 16. The image was re-recorded in black and white in the 625 lines, 25 frames/s television standard onto 2-inch videotape using their sole quad machine. The transmissions are only of the astronauts and do not contain any voice from Houston, as the signal received came from the Moon only. The videotapes are held in storage at the observatory.[44]
Originally posted by purplemer
I don't really know if this is true or not but this guy Ken Johnston, is saying that there are artifacts and buildings on the moon and that NASA is covering them up.
Either way there are some interesting photos there. Some of which I recognize.
Personally I think there may well be stuff on the moon and I think it is probably man made from previous earth civilizations. I read somewhere that NASA is a branch of the American military. If they found stuff they are not likely to share it. Which is a shame as it is our heritage...
beforeitsnews.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
Originally posted by ZIPMATT
apollo astronauts brought what back? < source quotes apollo.
and nasa are covering this up ?
how far can you get away from the truth ? THERE WAS NO APOLLO MISSION > just to make it clear
this ats> you cannot be serious if you think they really actually went to the moon, or ever did
we worked all this out years and years ago.
you've been lied to before, you're being lied to again. is anyone who takes that seriously really worth their salt?
beforeitsnews < thats a rubbish source if i rememeber rightly
I just dont see how there could be any cities on the moon..... Dont you think amateur astronomers, with their powerful telescopes, would of seen something by now??? But who knows, maybe I'm wrong....
I just dont see how there could be any cities on the moon..... Dont you think amateur astronomers, with their powerful telescopes, would of seen something by now??? But who knows, maybe I'm wrong....
Originally posted by Qwenn
The strange thing is the Astronauts could take PERFECT photographs on the Moon, yet they can't take even a slightly good picture when it comes to Robot Heads etc, if they had found a head there, they would have bought it back with them. Hey perhaps what they were talking about when they said they had football size rocks to bring back. I just find it strange that they take all of these touristy pictures which can be made into all sorts of merchandise, yet a good old Moon Robot Head mouse mat would have been better, except the picture is rubbish.
Perhaps it was just a leftover C3PO head which they found in the studio and just happened to take a photo of it with a carpy little camera which was filled with out of date film, but I doubt it
Originally posted by purplemer
NASA Whistleblower: Alien Moon Cities Exist
beforeitsnews.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
Over the past 40 years other scientists, engineers and technicians have accused NASA of cover-ups and obscuring data.
The growing number of accusers' allegations range from hiding information about anomalous space objects and lying about the discovery of artifacts on the surface of the Moon and Mars, to denying the evidence of life reported back by the Viking lander during the mid-1970s.
According to Johnston, Apollo astronauts brought back photographic evidence of the artifacts they found....
It sure could. Will they? Probably not.
To lay this idea to rest why wouldn't NASA/Govt just photograph the hell out of the moon surface with the Hubble telescope before they bring it back down to Earth? If that telescope can get clear pictures from other galaxies, I'm sure it could get us clear pictures of the moon, right?
Originally posted by Darkmask
reply to post by Phage
The DOD requires SETI to report any unusual signals to them as a matter of national security before being permitted to release the information to the public.
Just because they publicly proclaim something doesn't make it so. Do you really believe that any of the alphabet agencies would be so lax as to permit a civilian organization to go public with such sensitive information? Come on Phage!
I'm not going to waste my time trying to find a link to prove I'm right.
Originally posted by charlyv
The best earth based telescope can only resolve a moon image about the size of Mt. Everest and determine it is a mountain. The Earth atmosphere causes such distortion and aberration, that it is useless to look for anything smaller. Now... Hubble is a totally different ballgame.
Originally posted by jhn7537
To lay this idea to rest why wouldnt NASA/Govt just photograph the hell out of the moon surface with the Hubble telescope before they bring it back down to Earth? If that telescope can get clear pictures from other galaxies, I'm sure it could get us clear pictures of the moon, right?
a radio wave used to transmit and receive messages radio emission, radio radiation, radio wave - an electromagnetic wave with a wavelength between 0.5 cm to 30,000 m
1. Precise and continuous position-finding of targets by radar, optical, or other means. (DOD) 2. In air intercept, a code meaning, "By my evaluation, target is steering true course indicated."