Truth – Out of context

Comment on Apollo Moon Landing Hoax – Scientific Evidence by ner0.

Those are by far the two best quotes I found about the moon landing hoax:

“The author [of a book] observed one of the Apollo 14 astronauts in a movie film of the mission. The astronaut was running in semi slow-motion in an otherwise perfectly normal manner. The discrepancy arises when I considered that the astronaut went no higher off the surface and went no farther with each step than he would have on Earth.”

Of course it’s only the author opinion, one shared by many by the way. When talking about moon landing hoax, video slow-motion is an unavoidable subject, and a strong one. Physics here!

“The Rover encountered mostly loose dust and rocks on the Moon. This type of surface would have less traction than ordinary pavement. The Rover had a loaded Earth weight of 1,540 lbs. Under one-sixth gravity, only 128 lbs. of force would be required to make the vehicle slide. Therefore, in going the maximum speed of 10.2 MPH, the vehicle would begin to slide if the wheels were turned enough to make a radius of curvature of less than 84 feet.
Even at 5 MPH, the minimum curvature would be 20 feet. The operator would have to be extremely careful not to make any abrupt changes in direction since a sharp turn could tip it over.”

I’m surprised that Mr. LunarOrbit(er) didn’t comment on this one, it’s a big slap, oh yeah… I can’t really think outside the box about some matters that I can’t relate to but when it comes to driving a four wheel vehicle in near “0 gravity” I can understand how gravity can affect friction, even though I never drove anything in near “0 gravity” I suppose that having less gravity gives you less friction pretty much like driving on an icy terrain with earth’s gravity. Hoax or not, there’s at least a 50% chance either way.

When some debunker talks about the fact that the astronauts placed a mirror on the moon for the purpose of bouncing back laser beams, and that constitutes proof of man moon landings, I’ll say this: That is a fact that is always out of context, even if valid it doesn’t prove anything more than hoaxers arguments do. That’s because when we approach the subject from a hoaxer point of view we tend to speculate on recorded events (video, images). Debunkers (believers) tend to refute an hoaxer argument with higher truths, such as the mirrors. One may not be able to deny there are mirrors on the moon but can certainly speculate about who or what put them there. Allegedly, the first mirror was left by Aldrin and Armstrong after they landed on the Sea of Tranquility on 21 July 1969, one of five known as “corner mirrors” or “retro-reflector arrays” that were taken to the moon in the later 1960s and early 1970s. Two other corner mirrors were brought to the moon by astronauts on later manned lunar flights, on the Apollo 14 and the Apollo 15 missions. In addition, a second pair was built by French scientists and flown to the moon by the Soviet Union on their robot Luna probes. That’s right, probes can deliver mirrors too!

Also there is this curious recent discovery about a lunar rock that was given to a former Dutch Prime Minister by the name of Willem Drees during a goodwill tour by the three Apollo-11 astronauts shortly after their moon mission in 1969. When Mr Drees died, the rock went on display at the Amsterdam museum. After all this time and for an unknown reason some researchers at Amsterdam’s Free University looked at it skeptically and were able to tell at a glance that the rock was unlikely to be from the moon, a conclusion that was borne out by tests. The results tell that this rock is nothing more than petrified wood. The US space agency gave moon rocks to more than 100 countries following lunar missions in the 1970s. To the other gifted countries I would say: test them and find out.

For me it is that easy to say that the moon landings never happened. And in a sense they never did because I wasn’t born yet when they occurred. I’ll believe in what I want because I find it more easy to believe it was a hoax and someday be convinced otherwise than having to believe above any doubt in something that could someday be proven fake. Yes, I’m a pessimistic guy and I live happily by having low expectations about almost everything. Question: When will we really go to the moon? And to what purpose?