Astronomy & Space - August 2006

I have been interested in Astronomy for most of my life and was thrilled watching the 1st Moon Landing, now 37 years later, after Capricorn One and recent documentaries, I am now beginning to wonder what the truth is. When Buzz Aldrin was talking about the Moon Landing, my wife says he was very uncomfortable with some of the questions he was being asked. Now we have had a documentary, after all this time stating that the Moon Landing crew were saved by Buzz Aldrins "Ball Point Pen", if this happened why has it taken so long to come out into the open. I may be an amateur astronomer, but I really don't know what to believe. Can anybody shed any light for me on this. Genuine replies only please.

2006-08-23 01:12:20 · 29 answers · asked by patch 2

How can X-rays, Gamma and other forms of radiation escape from the event horizon.

2006-08-23 01:01:35 · 12 answers · asked by gymfreak 2

2006-08-23 00:55:14 · 22 answers · asked by decimus maximus 1

Grigory Perelman a topologist has made a breakthrough in the study of shapes that experts say might help scientists figure out the shape of the universe. So if the universe has a shape does that mean it has an edge and is therefore not infinite.

2006-08-23 00:14:18 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-23 00:06:48 · 19 answers · asked by izabella h 1

2006-08-22 23:59:35 · 31 answers · asked by davy_rob7 2

Further the article states that our Earth was hit by a Mars sized planet; the impact of which finally resulted in the moon!
Is it not possible that the direction of the turning of earth on it's axis may have changed also?

2006-08-22 22:54:51 · 8 answers · asked by differentguy2u 2

redshift with the nebulas/nebulae

2006-08-22 22:54:00 · 11 answers · asked by Mayank 2

2006-08-22 22:42:35 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

For example, today there are specially designed jets (fromNASA) which create the sensation while diving in an steep angle!
Please exclude the method of weightlessness under water!!

2006-08-22 22:17:08 · 9 answers · asked by TIGER 1

2006-08-22 21:38:52 · 6 answers · asked by Lutfor 3

Sort of shows you how difficult it would be to see earth like planets round other stars

2006-08-22 21:17:06 · 11 answers · asked by bwadsp 5

how comes we dont fly off into space like when you spin a roundabout too fast and your m8 gets flung off?

2006-08-22 20:58:44 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

an example would be something like this
http://www.mansonusa.com/photo/promo/03-04/58.jpg
http://www.nachtkabarett.com/art/Mansontheknife.jpg

2006-08-22 20:45:55 · 6 answers · asked by Spetsnaz 2

Thanks for your detailed answer...tom science

2006-08-22 20:25:34 · 3 answers · asked by tom science 4

What was it? Only serious answers please!!

2006-08-22 20:22:56 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

SO........WHO SAYS STRING THEORY IS RIGHT?

2006-08-22 20:10:49 · 8 answers · asked by David F 2

2006-08-22 20:03:11 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

i heard there were.

2006-08-22 19:40:32 · 10 answers · asked by Big hands Big feet 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nhVGMtwc3w

2006-08-22 19:33:15 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

All you youngins and old folks too, Discovery science channel has three good programs on in about thirty minutes!

2006-08-22 19:29:47 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Their could be life out their we just dont know...i mean come on have we been on the moon and favorite they tooken was on the same damn spot

2006-08-22 18:42:53 · 9 answers · asked by Thrash and Destroy 1

2006-08-22 18:30:32 · 5 answers · asked by CPCFC 1

2006-08-22 17:47:03 · 7 answers · asked by CPCFC 1

2006-08-22 17:32:09 · 14 answers · asked by luie8luis 1

I am happy, and a little bit frightened, to see that I may have started an avalanche about Man on the Moon. Does planting the Stars and Stripes on this piece of rock mean that the US own every right to e.g. sell me a cold beer, should I pass by some day?

Like Sputnik, like Jurij Gagarin, the landing on the Moon was felt by anybody excactly as Neill Armstrong said: One great step for Humanity.

2006-08-22 17:18:41 · 14 answers · asked by Lars Hundevad M 1

I think it is all just hype. I don't consider them planets.

2006-08-22 17:14:30 · 6 answers · asked by Jimdog 4

I know the scientific understandings of how the solar system was started, by why, and who/what created the solar system? Explain yourself. If you think it was god, who is god? Explain yourself.

2006-08-22 17:03:18 · 9 answers · asked by michael m 2

2006-08-22 17:02:12 · 8 answers · asked by precioustreasure2001 1

I just read an article that brought up some really good points:

The flags planted by the astronauts appear to be wave in the wind when the moon is supposed to have no atmosphere.

In some photos, shadows point in different directions as if there were more than one light source.

The astronauts seemed to be unable to jump more than a half foot even though gravity on the moon is only one-sixth that of earth's.

There is no fog on the film from the immense temperature variation from the warm landing module to the freezing or sizzling hot temperatures on the surface on the moon, no discoloration from passing through radiation belts.

No stars seen in the pitch black sky lunar sky, stars that should have appeared brighter than anywhere on earth.

I often wondered how back in a time when computer technology wasn't even invented, we so easily walked on the moon. Now with all our technology we have never attempted to do this again.

Did we really walk on the Moon?

2006-08-22 16:13:09 · 16 answers · asked by Cassy 2