The Russians always claimed that the moon landings were not possible because of a big belt of radiation you need to fly through to get there, but the US claim to have landed a man on the moon.
What story do you believe. Ten points to the most paranoid conspiracy theorist!
2006-12-05 07:38:11 · 20 answers · asked by badgerbeetle 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Kennedy needed to fake his own death to make off with Marilyn so came up with a fake assassination. He thought after time though people would get suspicious so he came up with this cracking idea of distracting people by putting someone on the moon. So instead of focusing on the inaccuracies of his death folk would be too interested in the moon landings.
Also note Moon landing / ML / Marilyn lives
When he got off on the moon Armstrong said one giant leap for mankind. Why man and not human? He was referring not to going to the moon but to mans new ability to fake his own death and run off with his mistress.
2006-12-05 07:48:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
The Russians never claimed any such thing. They were quite maganimous and gracious after the American landings on the moon in 1969.
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? Who took the video of Neil Armstrong?
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?
2006-12-05 08:19:22 · answer #2 · answered by Otis F 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I go with he russians (also because I am Asian although I live in the U.S.). The moon is not just a rock that we can go and stay. It is a...well, completely difrent world.
Want some proof?
I saw this movie about a U.S. guy trying to figure out if the moon landing was true. Well this is what he got:
1. The American Flag was moving
2. There were no stars in the background
3. The moon is also covered by a atmosphere which almost doesn't allow anything to pass.
4. Moon is so cold or so hot tha it almost burns...the astronomres didn't show sign of that.
5. Not much craters around...and the craters looked fake.
Well, that is the evidence I have. I don't care if noone belives me but I belive it!!!
2006-12-05 08:28:28 · answer #3 · answered by AD 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Your talking about the van Allen belts?. They are low rad and easy to pass through. The U.S did land on the moon, but not their first mission. Way back in the 60's U.S and Russia were paranoid about each other. Was the dawn of nuc weapons, and the race was on to control the world. Us Brits had the much vaunted Polaris and a vast array of subs (4) to protect the country lol. World was on brink of who launched first win mode. So alleged moon landing was made to imply threat nukes were up there. gawd and we complain about todays teens lol
2006-12-05 08:24:27 · answer #4 · answered by naplusultra 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Imagine if they faked it, then got caught out with THAT big lie. It's unthinkable.
No, of course the Americans landed on the moon. Only an idiot would think otherwise. The only strange thing, looking back, is how LONG ago they did it- I mean, 1969?
I think what happened is that we forget how confident and innovative the States were, back then. Anything was possible. So to today's generation looking at today's American generation, it hardly look sfeasible. But these were different times.
The only reason to say you DON'T believe it, is to playfully irritate Americans. Boy, this is one subject that gets them awful annoyed!
2006-12-05 07:44:12 · answer #5 · answered by Not Ecky Boy 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The Russians believed no such thing. Van Allen himself (the scientist for which the belts are named after) believed it possible for humans to survive that radiation for the amount of time it took for the shuttles to pass through it, plus it isn't like the radiation found on earth. There is not one piece of evidence to suggest we faked the whole moon landings, and tons of evidence that we did land on the moon. Now what do you believe?
2006-12-05 07:42:50 · answer #6 · answered by johngrobmyer 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The band of radiation is so narrow and any vehicle going to the moon passes through it so quickly that it's not a threat to human life. If the Russians were so worried about it, they wouldn't have been trying to get there themselves. Plus if its so dangerous, why are we planning to go back.
2006-12-05 07:41:02 · answer #7 · answered by Gene 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
You're completely inaccurate. The Russians have never questioned the moon landings.
2006-12-05 23:57:03 · answer #8 · answered by Melok 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
1969: My dad was dreaming of a car that gave 5 miles to a liter and did a top speed of 60-90
2006: my kid whizzes past me in a run-of-the mill car that gives over 15 miles to a liter and touches Sonic speeds
1969: It cost you a fortune to sit on a plane and cross the atlantic
2006: There are as many planes in the air as there were cars in 1969
1969: You needed godowns to store a hard disk of 50 MB
2006: I carry 120 GB in an IPOD and another 600 in a portable hard disk
1969: We were still flying probe missions
2006: People go to space stations for vacations
1969: Man Lands on Moon on July 20
2006: I am yet to hear of another manned expedition crossing the Van Allen radiation belt (If the analogies above are true, I would have expected a solarium and a massage parlour on the Andromeda by now)
Would you still say we landed there in 1969?
2006-12-05 08:06:33 · answer #9 · answered by Professor Khanna 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Yes the Van Halen belt is real. But we have successfully sent stuff past it so there for the Russians are sorry losers.
2006-12-05 09:10:47 · answer #10 · answered by brandon_fargerson 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋