No, it does not make sense... neither your question nor the conspiracy theory stated within your very poor grammatical demonstration.
2006-11-06 09:00:39
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answer #1
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answered by Telesto 3
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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) Why haven't we been back?
a) American astronauts visited the moon on six occasions.
b) 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.
c) 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?
3) 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.
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?
2006-11-07 08:59:37
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answer #2
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answered by Otis F 7
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If I understand the question correctly, you're wondering how the spacecraft could keep from constantly rolling during the trip to the moon.
First, a little background. The flight to the moon brought the craft out of low Earth orbit and placed it in direct sunlight for much of the journey. In order to keep the spacecraft and astronauts from overheating, a technique was developed called "Passive Thermal Control", or PTC. Basically, this "barbeque roll" entails keeping the craft in a slow, constant roll during the flight to avoid overheating any one section of the craft. How do they keep this roll going? They don't really need to work hard at it. Newton's first law of motion states that an object in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside force. Unless the astronauts or some random piece of space debris were to halt the roll, the spacecraft would pretty much keep rolling forever.
So in short, the roll is a good thing, and they didn't need to actively maintain it.
2006-11-06 17:03:47
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answer #3
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answered by Joseph Q 2
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What in the heck are you on about? This may be the single most disjointed, random nonsense I have ever read on this site, and that says alot!
2006-11-06 17:48:05
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answer #4
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answered by Dave_Stark 7
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Tin foil hat alert!
2006-11-06 17:02:08
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answer #5
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answered by Anonymous
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Holy crap... and I thought I'd seen everything...
Thank you for helping me to lose my faith in humanity all over again.
2006-11-06 18:34:17
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answer #6
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answered by AresIV 4
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Huh?
2006-11-06 16:57:27
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answer #7
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answered by Anonymous
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What the problem is?
2006-11-06 21:54:04
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answer #8
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answered by Its not me Its u 7
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I am perplexed, distressed and ever so confused. Could you EDIT your question and re-post it. Thanks.
2006-11-06 17:18:27
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answer #9
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answered by Anonymous
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Of course, how obvious!
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2006-11-06 17:02:58
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answer #10
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answered by RationalThinker 5
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