Moon landing debate - why?

[CorCentral]

It's the same reason some of the numbnuts today believe the U.S. Government blew up the Twin Towers with bombs

 

[yllus]

Originally posted by: yllus
It's pretty easy to put the moon conspiracy theory to rest. We have physical proof in the form of rocks whose molecular structure is impossible to duplicate on Earth.

Apollo program - Samples returned

Apollo returned 381.7 kg (841.5 lb) of rocks and other material from the Moon, much of which is stored at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory in Houston.

In general the rocks collected from the Moon are extremely old compared to rocks found on Earth, as measured by radiometric dating techniques. They range in age from about 3.2 billion years old for the basaltic samples derived from the lunar mare, to about 4.6 billion years for samples derived from the highlands crust.[25] As such, they represent samples from a very early period in the evolution of the Solar System that is largely missing from Earth. One important rock found during the Apollo Program was the Genesis Rock, retrieved by astronauts James Irwin and David Scott during the Apollo 15 mission. This rock is composed almost exclusively of the mineral anorthosite, and is believed to be representative of the highland crust. A geochemical component called KREEP (an acronym for rocks with high abundances of potassium, rare earth elements, and phosphorus) was discovered that has no known terrestrial counterpart. Together, KREEP and the anorthositic samples have been used to infer that the outer portion of the Moon was once completely molten (see lunar magma ocean).

Almost all of the rocks show evidence for having been affected by impact processes. For instance, many samples appear to be pitted with micrometeoroid impact craters, something which is never seen on earth due to its thick atmosphere. Additionally, many show signs of being subjected to high pressure shock waves that are generated during impacts events. Some of the returned samples are of impact melt, referring to materials that are melted in the vicinity of an impact crater. Finally, all samples returned from the Moon are highly brecciated as a result of being subjected to multiple impact events.

 

[Maiora]

How old were you guys upon the commencement of this mission? I'm willing to bet I was older than most of you are now, then. I was 27 when Neil Armstrong said those famous words.

Since so many believe it was a fake please use your "expertise" to explain how this got there.

The comments regarding x radiation enabling someone to "see" through things just demonstrates the obvious lack of technical ability/discipline(s) needed for such a debate yet those individuals seemed to be so inclined to ramble on utter rubbish. It's beyond annoying; it just plain hurts. :|

 

[FlashG]

Originally posted by: Maiora
How old were you guys upon the commencement of this mission? I'm willing to bet I was older than most of you are now, then. I was 27 when Neil Armstrong said those famous words.

Since so many believe it was a fake please use your "expertise" to explain how this got there.

The comments regarding x radiation enabling someone to "see" through things just demonstrates the obvious lack of technical ability/discipline(s) needed for such a debate yet those individuals seemed to be so inclined to ramble on utter rubbish. It's beyond annoying; it just plain hurts. :|

Unfortunately you?re just wasting your time trying to convert these ?flat earth society people?.

 

[imported_Tick]

Originally posted by: Maiora
How old were you guys upon the commencement of this mission? I'm willing to bet I was older than most of you are now, then. I was 27 when Neil Armstrong said those famous words.

Since so many believe it was a fake please use your "expertise" to explain how this got there.

The comments regarding x radiation enabling someone to "see" through things just demonstrates the obvious lack of technical ability/discipline(s) needed for such a debate yet those individuals seemed to be so inclined to ramble on utter rubbish. It's beyond annoying; it just plain hurts. :|

Those cube corners occured naturally! :frown:

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: DescartesI do recall astronauts talking about "seeing" things while sleeping. What they saw were little pulses of light in their eyes. These pulses were later determined to be from cosmic particles, protons of a certain wavelength (whether they were x-ray or not, I don't recall; doubt it). Anyway, the eye doesn't care how the protons hit the cones/rods, so it will transmit those impulses to the visual cortex just as it would if your eyes were open.

I'm being pedantic, but it's photons, not "protons". Entirely different things. A proton is a positively-charged atomic particle, while a photon is something that exhibits wave/particle duality and is currently believed to be what makes up what we generally know as "light".

ZV