lets say if it is a hoax.if we didin get through the atmosphere n reach the moon bcos of radioactive belts.then how did china too get through it?izzit a hoax they join up together 2make?
2006-11-02 02:14:39 · 9 answers · asked by mR questiOn 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
1) Twelve 12 American astronauts have walked on the moon.
Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin
Apollo 12: Pete Conrad & Alan Bean
Apollo 13: << failed to land on the moon >>
Apollo 14: Alan Shepard & Edgar (Ed) Mitchell
Apollo 15: David Scott & James Irwin
Apollo 16: John Young & Charles Duke
Apollo 17: Eugene (Gene) Cernan & Harrison Schmidt
2) What about the Van Allen radiation belts? Wouldn't it have killed the astronauts?
The existence of the Van Allen radiation belts postulated in the 1940s by Nicholas Christofilos. Their existence was confirmed in *1958* by the Explorer I satellite launched by the USA.
The radiation in the Van Allen radiation belts is not particularly strong. You would have to hang out there for a week or so in order to get radiation sickness. And, because the radiation is not particularly strong, a few millimeters of metal is all that is required for protection. "An object satellite shielded by 3 mm of aluminum will receive about 2500 rem (25 Sv) per *year*."
"In practice, Apollo astronauts who travelled to the moon spent very little time in the belts and received a harmless dose. [6]. Nevertheless NASA deliberately timed Apollo launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimise the radiation." When the astronauts returned to Earth, their dosimeters showed that they had received about as much radiation as a couple of medical X-rays.
3) Why haven't we been back?
a) The "moon race" was an extension of the cold war. It was mostly about national prestige. We got there first and achieved our primary objective. There was some good science: surveys, measurements, sample collection. But it was mostly about being there first. Once we achieved our primary objective, there was no political will to go back. There still isn't. Perhaps, if we discover He3 or something else valuable, there will be.
b) I used to travel to Crested Butte, Colorado every year to ski. Because I don't go anymore, does it mean that I never went?
4) The U.S. government scammed everyone?
In 1972, there was a politically motivated burglary of a hotel room in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. There were only about six or eight people who knew about it. However, those people, including Richard M. Nixon, the President of the United States, failed to keep that burglary a secret. It exploded into a scandal that drove the President and a number of others from office.
If six or eight people couldn't keep a hotel room burglary a secret, then how could literally thousands of people could have kept their mouths shut about six faked moon landings? Not just one moon landing, but six of them!
5) What about the USSR?
Even if NASA and other government agencies could have faked the six moon landings well enough to fool the general public, they could NOT have fooled the space agency or military intelligence types in the USSR. The Soviets were just dying to beat us. If the landings were faked, the Soviets would have re-engineered their N-1 booster and landed on the moon just to prove what liars Americans are. Why didn't they? Because the landings were real and the Soviets knew it.
6) Why does the flag shake? Where are the stars?
Take a look at the first two websites listed below. They deal well with all of the technical questions.
7) Finally, please tell us what you would accept as definitive evidence that the six moon landings were real. Is there anything?
2006-11-02 02:27:51 · answer #1 · answered by Otis F 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Although my wife's father performed fuel calculations for the original Apollo landing, I'll spare you that speech. Instead, I will encourage you to watch two programs. The first show is called Conspiracy Moon Landing that it currently showing on the National Geographic Channel and it pretty much obliterates all of the popular conspiracy theories.
I would also encourage you to watch a movie called Capricorn One. Made it 1978, it is a fictional story about a fake mission to Mars. Although it is a science fiction story, it is a good example of how utterly impossible it would be to fake a moon landing for any length of time.
12 men walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972 and we have neither the resources nor the technology to pull off that big of a hoax for so long. Hundreds of thousands of people have worked on the space program. It would be far easier to put someone on the moon than to try and fake it and keep it secret for nearly 40 years.
The landings came at a time when our space program was ultra competitive with the former Soviet Union. Remember how big of a deal it was when Sputnik was put into orbit? They had the technology to monitor our moon shots and transmissions. Don't you think they would have called us out if they had evidence that it was all fake?
Perhaps the most definitive proof of our trip to the moon is what we left behind. For the last 35+ years, scientists have been beaming lasers to the moon and measuring the return times. How are they doing this? The beams are reflected back by equipment left on the moon on at 3 different locations.
Case closed.
2006-11-02 11:36:14 · answer #2 · answered by Carl 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
1. Christmas 2. For the female characters, I'd invite Elizabeth Bennet and Milady de Winter. Male characters would be Erik and Cardinal Richelieu. Heidi would come, and the animal would be Boxer. As for mythological creatures, nixes and elves of course! A plant? Hmm...perhaps the womping willow or mistletoe! The author I'd invited would either be Jane Austen or George Orwell. 3. My family always reads The Best Christmas Pageant Ever together. We take turns reading it, except we're usually laughing half the time from the Herdmans' antics. 4. Christmas Waltz by Michael W. Smith and I listen to Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker more than usual. 5. My books would taste like candy canes. 6. Tough choice here, but I think I would go with oranges, candy canes, and gingerbread men. 7. I love "The Gift of the Magi", "How the Grince Stole Christmas" and "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever". But I think I would choose "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever". I spend most of the book laughing, except at the end when I cry at the touching ending. 8. Pineapples, in season? I really don't know. 9. Don't know of any. 10. I'm asking for, not sure if I'm receiving, and right now too poor to give. 11. Hmm...I can't just name any off the top of my head. I need more time for this one, so I'll be sure to come back to it. (I want to get off soon, my family is watching The Best Christmas Pageant Ever right now. I like the book much more, of course.) Bonus: Right now, I'm too poor to give you something for Christmas. If I could, I'd give you an A for your finals. This was a lot of fun! Thanks for posting.
2016-03-19 02:47:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A dozen astronauts (laden with cameras) walked on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. Nine of them are still alive and can testify to their experience. They didn't return from the Moon empty-handed. Apollo astronauts brought 841 pounds of Moon rock home to Earth.
Even if scientists wanted to make something like a Moon rock by, say, bombarding an Earth rock with high energy atomic nuclei, they couldn't. Earth's most powerful particle accelerators can't energize particles to match the most potent cosmic rays, which are themselves accelerated in supernova blastwaves and in the violent cores of galaxies.
"I have here in my office a 10-foot high stack of scientific books full of papers about the Apollo Moon rocks," added McKay. "Researchers in thousands of labs have examined Apollo Moon samples -- not a single paper challenges their origin! And these aren't all NASA employees, either. We've loaned samples to scientists in dozens of countries [who have no reason to cooperate in any hoax]."
Even Dr. Robert Park, Director of the Washington office of the American Physical Society and a noted critic of NASA's human space flight program, agrees with the space agency on this issue. "The body of physical evidence that humans did walk on the Moon is simply overwhelming."
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast23feb_2.htm
2006-11-02 05:58:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Check out www.badastronomy.com.
NASA could easily make a spacecraft that could provide more than sufficient shielding for the astronauts to make the trip to the moon and back.
You get as much radiation exposure by flying cross-country in a commercial airliner.
Next phony objection, please.
2006-11-02 05:07:29 · answer #5 · answered by Dave_Stark 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, we did go to the moon. It has been called a hoax for years, with conspiracy theorists pointing to many bits of "evidence," all of which have been successfully countered. Follow the links below for a more thorough discussion.
2006-11-02 02:30:10 · answer #6 · answered by whtknt 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there were really people on the moon. The cost of such a hoax would be beyond reason.
2006-11-02 02:42:17 · answer #7 · answered by ? 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
we did go to the moon
2006-11-02 02:21:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
huh!
2006-11-02 02:21:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Oh please!
2006-11-05 11:51:25 · answer #10 · answered by gone 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋