In sci.physics.relativity, Eric Gisse
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on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:29:11 -0700 (PDT)
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On Apr 24, 2:52*am, "CWatters"
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On Apr 24, 7:33 am, BradGuth wrote:
Certain individuals were focusing exclusively on the "no stars"
argument and they turned out to be agents. No wonder.
Certain individuals who concentrate on the radaition issue are agents as
well.
Am I the only one who is impressed by the sheer complexity of the
arguments supporting the conspiracy theory? Now it has reached the
point where a rocket /was/ launched, and the rocket went to one of the
Earth-Moon Lagrange points [why? who knows] and the corner cube arrays
were deposited by unmanned landers.
'course the fact there were several Moon missions seems to go un-
mentioned, but hey - conspiracy theory!
More than several.
Apollo 1: 3 fatalities during a ground test.
Apollo 2: unmanned, circumnavigated Earth but pressurization test
failed.
Apollo 3: informal name of AS-202. Unmanned, suborbital.
Apollo 4: First Saturn V flight, first launch from Launch Complex 39.
Unmanned.
Apollo 5: Unmanned. "Abort fire" test successful.
Apollo 6: Unmanned, Second Saturn V flight.
Apollo 7: Manned, circumnavigated Earth.
Apollo 8: Manned, circumnavigated Luna. Famous "Earthrise" picture.
Apollo 9: Manned, circumnavigated Earth, tested LM and CSM.
Apollo 10: Manned, circumnavigated Luna. Came within 8.4 naut. miles
of Luna's surface.
Apollo 11: That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
Apollo 12: Landed on Luna.
Apollo 13: Massive failure precluded lunar landing; no casualties.
Apollo 14: Landed.
Apollo 15: First "J mission". Landed.
Apollo 16: Landed.
Apollo 17: Landed, first night launch.
Apollo 18-21: Cancelled.
There have been subsequent unmanned missions as well;
Clementine comes to mind. There are hints of a commercial
venture involving robotic Earth-controlled rovers, which
anyone will be able to "rent". (Relatively simple, that,
since Luna's near face always faces us.)
If there is a conspiracy afoot, a number of astronomers
are in on it; there were a number of pictures taken through
telescopes of the space hardware in orbit.
http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/space/apollo.html
aren't horribly clear but do show some interesting artifacts.
I've personally seen part of one of the Saturn Vs, in the
"Rocket Garden" (my understanding is that it has since been
moved to another facility for restoration/preservation,
and of course it had no working parts). While not proof
of anything in particular beyond the ability to build such
hardware, it's impressively big.
Of course part of the problem is that no one can *prove*
this. Best I can do is build my own rocket, take myself
and the doubter up to the moon, and leave him there for a
time to examine the evidence (among other things, at least
one of the lunar rovers on Apollos 15-17). Of course,
once I take him back (you wouldn't think I'd *leave* him up
there, would you? :-) ) , he gets to somehow prove to his
peers that he was up there...
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