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It's odd how we're much more advanced we are technologically now, yet we haven't gone back. Shouldn't it be much easier now than in the late 60s?
Its kind of like how everyone says todays cell phones and computers are as powerful as the ones NASA used in the first space venture, but if thats true, why arent people doing things equal in scope with their computers?
Its kind of like how everyone says todays cell phones and computers are as powerful as the ones NASA used in the first space venture, but if thats true, why arent people doing things equal in scope with their computers?
Probably because they don't understand the fundamentals of science and physics let alone propulsion, orbital mechanics, and spacecraft design.
Its kind of like how everyone says todays cell phones and computers are as powerful as the ones NASA used in the first space venture, but if thats true, why arent people doing things equal in scope with their computers?
Go play Kerbal Space Program and you’ll get a taste of the mechanics involved.
Note that the Apollo Guidance computer was very limited, you weren’t playing solitaire on it. Here are its commands -
If it was a hoax then we would have already known about it. It would be practically impossible to fake live footage of six moon landings way back in the 60's and 70's, when technology was much more limited. Not even today would it be that easy to fake those moon landings in a way that looked completely natural to a physicist or geologist - you would have to make sure that the astronauts moved exactly like they are supposed to move in 1/6 gravity, you would have to create an extremely huge vacuum chamber to get rid of all possible traces of an atmosphere, and you woul have to somehow darken the sky and and at the same time keep the sun.
And even if you were to use cutting edge CGI, it would still be insanely hard to make everything look completely realistic, down to the smallest detail - any hint of fakery would be immediately obvious to any scientist.
The reason why some images look strange and suspicious is because a lot of things work differently on the moon.
For example, there is a hoax myth that they "moved" the lunar lander between photos because it seems to have very different foregrounds and still have the same backgrounds, but the explanation for this is that those photos were taken from different angles, and the background was actually very far away so it changed very little - there is no atmosphere on the moon, so distant objects will look just as crystal clear as close objects, and this creates an illusion that they appear to be closer than they actually are.
Also, all my physics teachers in college have on at least one occasion used footage from the moon landings to explain various physical phenomena.
Even my university physics book treats the moon landings as given facts, and often mentions them in the chapter about gravitation.
It even explained the reason for why astronauts almost always appear to be running on the moon:
you start running when the force that you exert on the ground becomes bigger than your own weight, and for this reason you will start running at much lower speeds on the moon than on the Earth, since it's much easier to exert a force larger than your own weight on the moon because your weight is 1/6 of your Earth weight.
This part of the pro-moon landing argument makes no sense at all. Saying that the state of 60s/70s era technology would have made it impossible to fake a moon landing makes it even more impossible with that same technology to actually make it to the moon. If we did not have the technology to fake it, we also did not have the technology to actually do it.
IMO, the moon landings were a hoax. The technology at the time was not up to the task, it would even be difficult to do today. I think we sent up some empty rockets and capsules and that the manned landing part was completely faked and staged. Other countries did not call us out on it because we either paid them off or now that the US had 'sent' men to the moon, their governments were not going to be pressured by their own citizens to light billions of dollars on fire to do it first.
This part of the pro-moon landing argument makes no sense at all. Saying that the state of 60s/70s era technology would have made it impossible to fake a moon landing makes it even more impossible with that same technology to actually make it to the moon. If we did not have the technology to fake it, we also did not have the technology to actually do it.
IMO, the moon landings were a hoax. The technology at the time was not up to the task, it would even be difficult to do today. I think we sent up some empty rockets and capsules and that the manned landing part was completely faked and staged. Other countries did not call us out on it because we either paid them off or now that the US had 'sent' men to the moon, their governments were not going to be pressured by their own citizens to light billions of dollars on fire to do it first.
Ignorance is bliss. So thousands of engineers kept quiet, all of the documented tracking by governments and individuals were faked, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data and images were faked, and the Soviet Union, desperate to beat the US to the moon was somehow placated or bought off.
Good thing opinions don’t count, science does. And the science is definitely on the side that it did happen.
I listened to Neil DeGrasse Tyson talk about this, he said it would be more difficult to fake than it would be to just to go there. I believe we went. I don't think we went back because there really wasn't a reason to. Not much there.
The interesting thing is THERE IS NO WAY WE CAN VERIFY IF THEY REALLY WENT OR NOT!!
We wanna think YES they made that first trip but do we have any HARD EVIDENCE they did??
The interesting thing is THERE IS NO WAY WE CAN VERIFY IF THEY REALLY WENT OR NOT!!
We wanna think YES they made that first trip but do we have any HARD EVIDENCE they did??
IT HAS BEEN VERIFIED. Unmanned orbiters have been sent back (look-up Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO), and they have photographed the landing sites. The hardware and lunar rover tracks are visible in the photographs. What on earth do they teach in school these days?????
OK, so IF someone can prove "beyond reasonable doubt", there are aliens on the Moon, then it DOES call into question whether we were allowed to go there and land multiple times. Doesn't it?
If that is so, then some of the rumours about us being warned off might just be true.
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