Reply to post: Re: Dumbest = religiously dumb. ;-)

It's 50 years to the day since Apollo 10 blasted off: America's lunar landing 'dress rehearsal'

MrReal

Re: Dumbest = religiously dumb. ;-)

1) Bremsstrahlung. What happens in a radioactive environment such as on the lunar surface that NASA describes is that any piece of aluminium becomes an X-ray generator (as well as secondary radiation products such as neutrons etc, depending upon the type of particles hitting it).

Essentially the camera, the film canister, the CM and much of the LM is a giant X-ray generator in space.

2) The vacuum is irrelevant, the lighting is very different without a sky. The Minolta light meter is interesting. The only small detail is that only picks out a 1 degree field of view, the ASA knob is too small to use when switch between colour and B&W (different ASAs) in a suit and there's no record or photo of Buzz ever using it.

4) The winch certainly isn't proof of fakery no, it's just a very very odd thing to do for a 1/6g use environment. It makes perfect sense if it's faked, it makes no sense if they went.

5) The NASA video of the Rover speeding around is with the rover unladen. It goes at IIRC 8mph. Not only does it never slide sideways even under maximum cornering but the driver is always rigid, unmoving and never turns to or waves at the camera like they often do on non rover video clips. It has all the appearance of a dummy. BTW 1/6 of the grip is about what you get here on ice.

6) There is a russian analysis of the sonic cone shape that gives just over 1000 m/s. If only NASA gave us a film of the Apollo 11 launch we could calculate the speed it was travelling and compare it to the Apollo 11 Flight Plan. NASA however have redacted that information: There is no Apollo 11 launch video on any NASA or JPL website anywhere.

7) If they were escaping from the CM is a pre-arranged move they wouldn't need to be wearing the suits, they'd just leave them in the CM and sneak out. Video of areas close enough to view this were controlled by NASA. The press didn't even get a direct video feed of anything, the Apollo 11 'Giant leap' of faith was filmed from a monitor, conveniently obscuring much of the detail, detail that NASA made sure was destroyed later. No quality video of Apollo 11's EVA remains thanks to NASA.

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