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Originally posted by HowardRoark
Originally posted by natew100
then...ok, nobody has been ot the moon since apollo 17 i think, correct me if im wrong... apollo 13 did NOT land because of oxygen tank explosions. and apollo 11 was the very 1st to touch down. i think there was a 15 and 16, maybe 12 and 14, but i havent really researched it enough.
If you don�t know, why do you even bother to post on the subject. A simple google search and 1 minute of your time reading about the history of the Apollo program would have saved you from looking silly.
Originally posted by Murcielago
from mattison0922 quote
Other sources also refused to comment --even when told that the Chinese expert has copies of over 1,000 NASA photographs that clearly show bare human footprints and a human skeleton on the lunar surface.
, funny how this guy gets his hands on over one thousand pics and not even 1 makes it in a newspaper or the internet. Sorry but i'm skeptical, especially when it comes to claims with no proof.
What about those few hundred kilograms of rocks with different composition than Earth rocks?
Originally posted by optimus fett
I do believe the original moon landings were faked after looking at the evidence availble from the dodgy NASA photos
Originally posted by E_T
What about those few hundred kilograms of rocks with different composition than Earth rocks?
Originally posted by optimus fett
I do believe the original moon landings were faked after looking at the evidence availble from the dodgy NASA photos
Originally posted by Off_The_Street
Gernesiss says:
"i believe that they were supposed to be simpley rocks that were exposed to radiation and high pressure..."
I assume you wouldn't make this assertion unless you had some evidence as well as some knowledge of geology to back it up.
So you're saying that the moon rocks are earth rocks that were exposed to radiation and high pressure, and now they're isotopic (still radioactive) as well as metamorphic?
I mean that's what they'd b if they were exposed to high doses of radiation and pressure, right? Radioactive and metamorphic?
But i've seen them at the Smithsonian, and I can tell basalt from gneiss, and this wasn't gneiss i saw.
So where do you get your information about these rocks being metamorphic and radioactive? Do you have any evidence at all for your assertions?
"... dont forget that only specific nasa authorized scientists have examined them..."
Rubbish. Just about every scientist from just about every country )indlucing the PRC and the then-Soviet Union) has examined them, and they all agree that, yes, they're actually moon rocks, and no, they're not metamorphic.
So where's your evidence, Genesiss?
Originally posted by genesiss
IM not going to be a grammar nazi like Howard but u did butcher my screename a lot,,
but that not really a big deal i just thought i would mention that, i would like to point out that "I" believe that the moon rocks NASA has possession of "may" be fakes and if they are that's one way they "may" have been created,, I don't know and I don't pretend to know, i have heard this theory before and I was simpley posting it as such, if u have a list of credited scientists that have seen the rocks that are not associated with NASA or a government office let us know but personally all that may be even provable remotely is that the rocks are unusual, that supposedly were exposed to high radiation and no atmosphere and that's it and that's based on tests as far as i know performed by people on NASA's budget or on a government budget which doesn't say a lot, but please prove me wrong that's why IM here so i can learn and be enlightened
Originally posted by HowardRoark
I am pretty sure that this k=link as been posted before, but it is worth the while to visit the Clavius Base site, an excellent debunkatorium of the faked landing hoax.
And genisiss, there is a page devoted to Dr. Groves� film experiments in there also.
Rather than repeat the arguments presented there, you can just read for yourself about the errors in Dr. Groves� experiments.
I would also like to point out another error in the Groves� argument.
Based on Dr. Groves data one would have to assume that any form of film based photography is impossible in outer space. This would include manned as well as unmanned missions.
Remember that digital photography was decades away in the 60�s and 70�s. Television camera technology was very limited, also. How then did the Surveyor probes, the early mariner probes ect. Take pictures? Well, �each carried an imaging system that could develop exposed film, scan the photos, and broadcast them back to Earth. Five Lunar Orbiters were launched between August 1966 and August 1967. All were highly successful, and in total, mapped roughly 99 percent of the lunar surface. Lunar Orbiter 1 became the first spacecraft to take a picture of the Earth from the Moon. � source
But according to Dr. Groves, this would have not been possible.
In fact, it would not surprise me that if we were to subject the television imaging systems that were used on the mariner probes to the same unrealistic and excessive radiation that Dr. Groves subjected the film to, that the images produced by these systems would also be degraded to the point of being unusable. Yet we know that these systems produced hundreds of thousands of images. Can Dr. Groves explain this?
here is some more info on the good doctor.
Originally posted by genesiss
omg howard that site is more crackpot then the one that i sent u,, ill look forward to posting all the double talk nonsense it claims later tonite
Dr. Groves' study contains a number of serious errors.
Although Dr. Groves gives figures for the x-ray dosage to which he submitted his test films, he does not in any way show that this is the expected amount of x-ray energy that exists anywhere in cislunar space or on the lunar surface. This key omission makes Dr. Groves' study of questionable applicability.
Dr. Groves used a Bronica ETRSi 120 roll film camera in his tests. He does not explain why he did not use a Hasselblad EL/500 or EL/700 camera, the type of camera supplied to NASA for use in the Apollo missions. It is still manufactured by Hasselblad and suitable period examples of which can be obtained easily from second-hand dealers. Use of a dissimilar camera limits the extent to which Dr. Groves' results can be applied to Apollo photographs.
Further, Hasselblad claims they added additional protection to the film magazines. Dr. Groves does not document any similar changes he may have made to the film magazine of his test camera. Nor does he comment upon the possible effect of any of those modifications. Dr. Groves' inattention to the specifics of the Apollo camera design questions his ability to accurately simulate the effects of x-rays on Apollo film.
Dr. Groves first took pictures of a standard color chart, then bombarded that film with x-rays. Then he used standard procedures to develop the film and observe the results. He found that the images were significantly fogged in some cases, and completely obliterated in more extreme cases.
He provided absolutely no shielding around the film during its exposure to the x-rays. It is unclear whether he left the film inside its magazine as the Apollo astronauts would have done. Since the Hasselblad magazines were modified to provide thicker material for the casing, and the film was kept in the magazines during the entire mission, it is not clear whether Dr. Groves' procedure constitutes an adequate comparison.
What is clear, however, is that Dr. Groves exposed the film to x-rays thousands of times more intense than what occurs in space. He used a linear accelerator to bombard the film with an 8 MeV (million electron-volts) beam of x-rays. X-ray astronomers say the x-rays from celestial sources radiate at energy levels of less than 5 keV (thousand elecron-volts). The measurement of x-ray energy is similar to the rating of light bulbs by wattage. The difference between five thousand electron volts -- ambient x-rays in space -- and eight million electron-volts -- Dr. Groves' experiment -- is obviously very large. This factor alone invalidates Dr. Groves' study as an accurate depiction of the ambient x-ray conditions in space.
Energy level is quite important. Not only do more energetic x-rays fog film to a greater extent, they also penetrate various substances to a greater extent. This makes the question of shielding very acute. 3 keV x-rays, for example, will not even penetrate air for more than a dozen centimeters.
The experiment subjected the film to three levels of exposure, all at the absurdly intense 8 MeV energy level. The levels are given in the study as "25 rem", "50 rem" and "100 rem". Those who have read the primer and studied the nomenclature of radiation will immediately realize that this is the wrong unit. "Rem" applies only to absorbed radiation in human tissue. It is completely inapplicable to radiation absorbed by photographic film. The appropriate unit of measure for this study would be either "rads" or "Grays". It so happens that for x-rays 1 rad is equivalent to 1 rem, but Dr. Groves' apparent misunderstanding of the concepts of absorbed dose is very much out of place in a study purporting to give an expert opinion on radiation exposure.
If we graciously correct Dr. Groves' error of nomenclature and assume he means exposures in rads, we are still faced with two further questions. First, how was absorbed dose computed? It is notoriously difficult to measure the amount of radiation actually absorbed by any given substance.
Second, the 25-100 rads to which Dr. Groves exposed the films is quite excessive. It would take nearly six years in a spacecraft in cislunar space -- barring any serious solar events -- to absorb 25 rads of dosage from all sources combined, not just from x-rays.
Dr. Groves' study contains far too many egregious errors to be considered predictive in any way of the behavior of Ektachrome film under the conditions experienced during Apollo space flights. He has employed levels of radiation far in excess of what can be defensibly claimed for ambient x-ray radiation in cislunar space.
Originally posted by genesiss
That's fine Howard and I will check out that web site tonight when IM off work but u seem to be adamant about "your" belief in the science that states we went to the moon, and I commend u on a very nice and polite post in response but considering your views on the subject can we all have "your" input on the 32 questions posed on the questionable website mentioned earlier? if not that's fine but i would like to understand your belief system and trust in nasa's story's