What happened on the moon?

Question

Please look at this and debate.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8585273531105072202

Take a look on the 59th minute please and debate

Extended for more debate.

Answer 1

The moon landings are a fact without any reasonable doubt. What is amazing is that the criticism comes from USA sources. The moon landings happened at the height of the cold war. The soviets were on it from the beginning,If there was any doubt whatsoever the Soviets would have exposed it way back then. All the arguments for a hoax have been discredited with ease. However it does make for a good program to sell. The human race is a weird animal. We believe with absolute certainty unbelievable things like Ghosts, God, Astrology, Afterlife etc but going to the moon is a hoax! These are the Von Daineken crowd. Humans can not achieve great things. So when great things happen they are either a hoax or alternatively achieved by somebody else. Preferably Aliens from outer space. The Pyramids-aliens of course! Stonehenge-aliens of course! it's all bunk. We did all those great things. The von Dainekens sell books and TV entertainment.

Answer 2

This video, and their "experts" have no real scientific experience or knowledge. That is painfully obvious.

I really don't want to go into everything that was wrong in the 5 minutes I watched this video, but I will say that nothing said by any of them is accurate at all.

The exhaust jet on the LEM had no color. It was a hypergolic fuel mixture that burned clear with no flame (just for the reason mentioned in the video... so that astronauts could see while landing). A hypergoilc fuel mixture basically means that when the two chemicals of the fuel come together they automatically ignite. The shuttle's RCS (Reaction Control System) IS hypergolic, but uses a different fuel mixture that burns a cloudy white.

Now, about a "cloud of dust" being kicked up by the LEM, this just cannot happen. Sure, on Earth, if the LEM were to set down it would kick up an enormous dust cloud... however, that is because of Earth's atmosphere. The dust would interact with the air and billow up and around as particulate contacts with air molecules and gets bounced around. This is not so on the Moon. Any dust "kicked up" by the descent engines would just go straight outward and away from the craft, it would not billow or cloud up (the Moon has no atmosphere for the dust to interact with).

The only thing I heard that they got right on this video is the fact that the LEM had a throttlable 10,000 lbf thrust engine. THIS much is true. However, THROTTLABLE is the key word there. The engine was NOT at full power when it landed. It was throttled back to probably 35 percent of its full power. For a blast crater to be created, it would take an enormous amount of pressure from the engines. Sure it was running at maybe 3500 lb of force, but that was spread over a very large area of the nozzle. The actual pressure that the Moon's surface saw wouldn't even crush a human.

The video goes into something about turning the surface to molten rock... this is ludicrous. They were right in saying that the engine burns at extremely high temperatures, however, these are IN the engine and in the exhaust. The video "experts" shot themselves in the foot, when they admitted that due to the vacuum of space the exhaust plume would fan out and dissipate quickly... This is very true, and is what we call over expansion of the exhaust from the nozzle. This overexpansion causes the exhaust to fan out to the sides and not create a focus of energy directly below the craft. This is why the surface was left essentially undisturbed and was not turned to molten rock.

I tire of hearing these moon hoax theories as they undermine the greatest accomplishment in mankind's history. Please, if you have any other questions, I will be happy to debunk any hoax theories that may be steering you away from the truth.

Answer 3

That's a good question. Its possible we landed but its nearly certain the pics are fake. More importantly ask your self WHY? if the us and USSR were enemy's during the cold war why would we share our most important science with them Hm mm.
I know the answer!!!! and why would the FCC make a law that says all electronic devises made here must not interfere with other devices,while at the same time saying that this devise must accept interference from other things.Hmmm.
interference from where? from somewhere that doesn't have devises that dont inter fear.like space maybe!!!! hm mm.
so lets,fake cold war,joint space program,equipment everywhere that must accept unknown interference,oh i almost forgot,evidence of psychological torment placed on people who thought the world was being invaded during the Orson wells broadcast of war of the worlds,
lets just say if you knew something of overwhelming importance and felt you had to do something with out causing a panic, but couldn't do it alone what would you do.
think about it awhile!

Answer 4

No solar flares that passed through the Earth-Moon system occurred while Apollo missions were in flight.

Answer 5

Obviously nothing of the sort which was of concern to the narrator. Radiation from solar flares is not that much of a hazard -- too low.

Answer 6

Without being able to hear the sound it is hard to tell. I don't think anything happened on the moon.

Answer 7

Nothing just a lot of space

Answer 8

Nothing, so why waste your breath

Answer 9

just chill