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SayonaraJupiter
Here is a graphic that shows all the manned space flights from 1960-2012. en.wikipedia.org...
I think this graphic speaks for itself quite eloquently. It shows that the Apollo missions are statistical outliers, they are aberrations with respect to all known human spaceflight data; the Apollo missions have never been independently confirmed nor has anyone ever attempted to duplicate them, therefore, it is suggested that the Apollo missions must have a super-extraordinary narrative to support the super-extraordinary claims.
The Apollo program does, in fact, have a super-extraordinary narrative. There are medical miracles! There are millionaires! There are military industrial connections going back to Operation Paperclip! There are Apollo films with no floating objects! There are 700+ boxes of missing Apollo telemetry tapes! We are let to believe that when NASA/ASU is erasing the cross-hairs from the Apollo images that they are doing us a great service!
We are let to believe that Keep Out Zones are un-enforceable, when in fact, the LRO and LADEE spacecrafts are equipped with highly advanced laser weapons. We all know who funded the research for lasers it was Howard Hughes in the early 1960's.
We all know who had robots/mobots in the late 1950's it was Howard Hughes, again. And it was Hughes who screwed the government for $365 Millions for the 7 Surveyor spacecraft, but he probably had opportunities to build at least 10.
We all know who hated Communists more than anybody it was Howard Hughes and again Richard Nixon, both of them at the height of their political/economic power during Nixon's presidency.
We all know and agree on who killed the Apollo program it was Richard Nixon who made that decision and he made that decision less than 4 years after James Webb quit NASA.
Nixon allegedly based that decision on economics but only a few months down the road he was spending $4 Billion to bomb North Vietnam back to the stone age during the Christmas bombings of Linebacker II.
Money is nothing. Political will is everything. And there has been no political will (from any leader or any nation) to return a man to the moon since Nixon. That's why Nixon belongs in this thread.
onebigmonkey
Yes there is, and not just in that one tiny clip that you're pinning your hopes on. That clip is part of a long sequence from an EVA, all of which shows astronaut movement and lunar material behaving just as it should in a low gravity environment. The lunar material behaves just as it should in a zero atmosphere environment.
We also have lunar experiments from Apollo 16 planted on the surface that sent information back to Earth, we have images of Earth taken on film and on TV broadcasts that exactly match what should be there, we have lunar surface features that they could only know about by actually being there, and so on and so on. Taking one tiny fragment and failing to understand what it shows ignores all of the other evidence that supports it.
onebigmonkey
Oh, and 'arguments from authority' is not necessarily wrong. Sometimes authorities on a subject, like geologists, engineers, physicists, selenologists and many other disciplines are actually correct and it is an idea to at least listen to them before you automatically dismiss them in favour of subjective and prejudiced opinion and lack of authority.
turbonium1
It's another nail in Apollo's coffin.
Young's jump is (supposedly) impossible to replicate on Earth. Only one jump was needed to show it was very much possible. A 0.3 second difference, only found in super-duper slo-mo, as the only jump done, never meant to replicate Young's jump whatsoever.
You tried all the excuses for it.
'The jump by Young is 0.3 seconds slower than the jump by a Mythbusters guy'. Therefore, the jump by Young cannot have been done on Earth.'
It was so goofy. To suggest that ANY two jumps, done by two different people, will be an exact match!!
You've just switched it to a dust/dirt claim.
No. The reality is that most people are automatically accepting them!
That's exactly what you've done.
It's a type of 'group-think'. The authorities that know all truths, about all things - and nobody else is qualified to make any claims.
Apollo is assumed to be genuine by all the scientists. It's deemed to be all true, all factual - let's all move along, now!
Think for yourself, but don't you ever make any waves!
Apollo is a massive sacred cow, never to doubt or to question.
But I question it, as many others do.
onebigmonkey
The only reason Nixon belongs in this thread is to give you something to talk about.
choos
you are not understanding.. it is the original and has been scrutinised over for over 40+ years.. the new claim is that the dust falls faster than the astronaut..
different resolutions will lead to different pixel counts.. just use the one from NASA and stick to the one resolution when you are trying to confirm.. if you dont want to count pixels overlay a grid..
and yes it is all about the physics.. what matters is the distance travelled over the time taken.. the PLSS is a fixed object with a known size and can be used as a reference..
turbonium1
You made the first claim about dust/dirt falling at the same speed as Young falls. You brought it up on this thread.
And you still have not supported your claim.
You say the new claim is that the dust falls faster. So what the f&^$ is your point here??
Anyone can say 'He claimed ___ first, back in 2005!' Sheesh.
Show your claim holds up, if you can..
onebigmonkey
How about you question the arguments you believe in - that;s how progress is made an what you insist we do. Look at your own arguments and ask how you would disprove them.
The act of questioning something does not automatically prove it wrong, so you have nothing to be afraid of right?
e2a: Here, have half an hour or so of continuous footage from the LRV TV camera showing the photography session to put it in proper context.
turbonium1
onebigmonkey
How about you question the arguments you believe in - that;s how progress is made an what you insist we do. Look at your own arguments and ask how you would disprove them.
The act of questioning something does not automatically prove it wrong, so you have nothing to be afraid of right?
e2a: Here, have half an hour or so of continuous footage from the LRV TV camera showing the photography session to put it in proper context.
A great example, indeed..
How would hours of continuous footage be done, if it was a hoax?
So I wanted more info about the issue...
I found there was a film by Warhol, all shown in slow-motion. Hours of continuous footage in slo-mo. The film was made before any Apollo 'lunar' footage. to boot.
Do you know what else I found out?
The Warhol film was the exact same speed - as Apollo's footage was!
It was at 66.66% speed.
A film shot at 24 fps, shown at 16 fps, which makes it 66.66% speed.
That's why it was possible to have hours of continuous footage in slo
-mo in Warhol's movie, and in the Apollo 'movies'!
It's certainly not peculiar to find that Young's jump matches up so well to the Mythbusters jump at the exact same 66.66% speed, right?
Nothing odd to find every Apollo moonwalk is at that speed, except for Apollo 11.
Apollo 11 was at 50% speed. It didn't have hours of continuous footage, right? Hmm..
choos
first up.. the first part of the jump was too difficult for me to see where the dirt lands it lands somewhere far away and dissipated and was too hard for me to see follow the dust/dirt frame by frame the dust/dirt lands somewhere here as shown in the circle in my opinion:
so i didnt bother with the first jump..
turbonium1
All this time, you've been claiming how the dust/dirt falls at the same rate as Young falls. You posted a video which supposedly measured dust and Young fallling an identical 37 pixels over 12 frames.
In the FIRST jump.
Now, you're telling me that you cannot accurately measure the dust/dirt falling in the first jump!!?!!
How do you expect to be taken seriously? You make a claim, never support it, yet unwittingly crap all over it with another claim?
It's both sad and funny.
choos
you can now leave with your troll physics and return to your bridge..
you have been proven wrong.. the dust/dirt falls at 1.92m/s^2..
and if sped up 1.5x or 66.66% its still only 4m/s^2 no where near 9.81m/s^2..
take your troll physics with you as well.
turbonium1
Now, now..hurling insults won't make the painful truth go away.
Btw, thanks for the link to virtualdub.
You claim "the dust/dirt falls at 1.92m/s^2.. and if sped up 1.5x or 66.66% its still only 4m/s^2 no where near 9.81m/s^2.."
You claim 1.5x speed makes the dust fall at 4m/s^2 speed, right?
So I used virtualdub to get 1.5x speed, and it looks exactly the same speed as dust falling on Earth - 9.81m/s^2
See for yourself.
However, you may still believe the dust is falling at 4m/s^2, or need more evidence on it.
Put the 1.5x sped up footage, which you say is at 4m/s^2 speed, to 2x speed. That is close enough to Earth's gravity, right?
You will not see dust falling near Earth's speed.
Ignore the astronaut, if you want. The dust is falling much, much faster than it does on Earth.
Obviously, your calculations fail to hold after testing them with the clip.
Back to the old drawing board...
turbonium1
choos
you can now leave with your troll physics and return to your bridge..
you have been proven wrong.. the dust/dirt falls at 1.92m/s^2..
and if sped up 1.5x or 66.66% its still only 4m/s^2 no where near 9.81m/s^2..
take your troll physics with you as well.
Now, now..hurling insults won't make the painful truth go away.
Btw, thanks for the link to virtualdub.
You claim "the dust/dirt falls at 1.92m/s^2.. and if sped up 1.5x or 66.66% its still only 4m/s^2 no where near 9.81m/s^2.."
You claim 1.5x speed makes the dust fall at 4m/s^2 speed, right?
So I used virtualdub to get 1.5x speed, and it looks exactly the same speed as dust falling on Earth - 9.81m/s^2
See for yourself.
However, you may still believe the dust is falling at 4m/s^2, or need more evidence on it.
Put the 1.5x sped up footage, which you say is at 4m/s^2 speed, to 2x speed. That is close enough to Earth's gravity, right?
You will not see dust falling near Earth's speed.
Ignore the astronaut, if you want. The dust is falling much, much faster than it does on Earth.
Obviously, your calculations fail to hold after testing them with the clip.
Back to the old drawing board...
onebigmonkey
The video I linked to of the jump salute was a live TV broadcast. Not video. Not film. Live TV.
Half an hour of just one part of that broadcast to Earth showing astronauts who you seem to thank are all harnessed up with no evidence of those harnesses at all, and with dust, flags and the astronauts behaving just as they would in a zero atmosphere low gravity environment.
onebigmonkey
As for your Warhol nonsense, again you spectacularly miss the point. No-one disputes variable frame rates are possible. You hae proved nothing there. I have pointed out to you before that the DAC cameras used variable frame rates.
onebigmonkey
The youtube footage you keep referring to, however, are TV, not film. The TV broadcasts were not recorded in advance, as proven by every picture of Earth they show.
turbonium1
onebigmonkey
The video I linked to of the jump salute was a live TV broadcast. Not video. Not film. Live TV.
Half an hour of just one part of that broadcast to Earth showing astronauts who you seem to thank are all harnessed up with no evidence of those harnesses at all, and with dust, flags and the astronauts behaving just as they would in a zero atmosphere low gravity environment.
It was not live. Harnesses were simply edited out, it was not really hard to 'remove the evidence' of them. I've shown you a few movies, which edited out harnesses - well before Apollo.
The astronauts don't behave at all like they would in a true 1/6 lunar gravity. You assume they do because they are your reference for 'genuine' 1/6 g behavior, in the first place! It's circular reasoning.
They move at the same speed throughout the footage, which is a few hours total. It is impossible for all the astronauts to move deliberately, and consistently, at the same slow speed. Only slowing down movements done on Earth to 66.66% (or 50%) can explain this.
Now, there are TWO different speeds the astronauts move at, during the Apollo missions. Apollo 11 astronauts all move at 50% speed. At 2x speed they become normal Earth speed in all their movements. The other missions are all at 66.66% speed. At 1.5x speed, all their movements become normal Earth speed. Hours of continuous footage is possible at 66.66% speed, as we know.
Here's the kicker - Apollo 11 only looks normal at 2x speed - the astronauts move TOO SLOW at 1.5x speed compared to movements on Earth.
Any movements will be consistent, within the same environment. In 0g, or 1/6 g, or 1g.
They can be sped up 2x, or 1.5x, or slowed to 50%, or 66.66%, and the movements will all be at the same speed!
Who hasn't seen what people on Earth look like moving around at 2x speed, or slowed to 1/2 speed? Their movements are consistent with ANY speed. All move equally as fast, or as slow.
Really thats amazing since the beginning of film they played with the speed to slow it down or speed it up because it doesnt look the same. In a movie they can speed it up for humor like chaplin did or slow it down for dramatic effect.But obviously everyone sees a difference or they wouldn't do it that makes no sense.
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But the Apollo 11 astronauts do not match with the other astronauts. Which means they are not on the moon.[/Quote]
So now there other astronauts are real and apollo 11 is faked?
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As for your Warhol nonsense, again you spectacularly miss the point. No-one disputes variable frame rates are possible. You hae proved nothing there. I have pointed out to you before that the DAC cameras used variable frame rates.
I've proven hours of continuous slow-motion footage was done before Apollo, which your side claimed could not be done. And I've shown it's the exact same speed - 66.66% - as Apollo's footage. I suppose this proves nothing to you Apollo-ites, right?[/Quote]
No we said live footage not pre recorded film again your not paying attention.
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We had unmanned probes, back then. But you go ahead believing it was done by Apollo as they flew to the moon.
choos
reply to post by turbonium1
since you dont believe me ill bump the video up to 44.96fps up from the original 29.97fps which is 1.5x or 66.66% faster ill use the same frames as the first calculations frames 336 and frames 347..
frame 336 @44.96fps correlates to a time of 7.473 seconds
frame 347 @44.96fps correlates to a time of 7.718 seconds
the difference is 7.718-7.473= 0.245 seconds to drop the same 11.61cm..
which correlates to an acceleration due to gravity of 0.1161=0.5*a*0.245^2
a=3.87m/s^2
ask yourself this, is earths gravity around 4m/s^2??????
for reference:
frame 336 @29.97fps correlates to a time of 11.211 seconds
frame 347 @ 29.97fps correlates to a time of 11.578 seconds..
time difference 11.578-11.211=0.367
which correlates to an acceleration due to gravity of 0.1161=0.5*a*0.367^2
a=1.72m/s^2edit on 2-2-2014 by choos because: (no reason given)
turbonium1
I'm going to post the clip at 1.5x speed, and the 1.5x clip at 2x speed. You can do the same, if you'd like.