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| In sci.physics.relativity, Eric Gisse
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| wrote
| 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:
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| Certain individuals were focusing exclusively on the "no stars"
| argument and they turned out to be agents. No wonder.
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| Certain individuals who concentrate on the radaition issue are agents
as
| well.
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| 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.
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| 'course the fact there were several Moon missions seems to go un-
| mentioned, but hey - conspiracy theory!
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| More than several.
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| 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.
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| 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.)
Don't leave out Lunokhod.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_1
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| 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.
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|
http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/space/apollo.html
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| 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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