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Re: OK conspiracy theorists - get out of this! Moon landings

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Sep 08, 2011 8:23 am

Crumple is seriously pulling some legs here, folks. :doh:
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Re: OK conspiracy theorists - get out of this! Moon landings

Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Sep 08, 2011 8:27 am

Gawdzilla wrote:Crumple is seriously pulling some legs here, folks. :doh:
That's what they want you to think....
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Re: OK conspiracy theorists - get out of this! Moon landings

Post by Atheist-Lite » Thu Sep 08, 2011 8:27 am

Gawdzilla wrote:Crumple is seriously pulling some legs here, folks. :doh:
I'm strengthening my argumention skills from a losing position. I'm not taking sides - I do keep saying. On the other hand that flag did move? :smoke:
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Re: OK conspiracy theorists - get out of this! Moon landings

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Gawdzilla wrote:Crumple is seriously pulling some legs here, folks. :doh:
That's what they want you to think....
Yeah? Why do you want us to think that? :what:
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Re: OK conspiracy theorists - get out of this! Moon landings

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FBM wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:Crumple is seriously pulling some legs here, folks. :doh:
That's what they want you to think....
Yeah? Why do you want us to think that? :what:
They knew you would ask that
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Re: OK conspiracy theorists - get out of this! Moon landings

Post by Robert_S » Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:14 am

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Re: OK conspiracy theorists - get out of this! Moon landings

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:13 am

Crumple wrote: On the other hand that flag did move? :smoke:
It bounced a little when they were installing it on the base pole. For some reason Newtonian physics was imported from Earth for that occasion. I told them not to, but they did it anyway.
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Re: OK conspiracy theorists - get out of this! Moon landings

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Gawdzilla wrote:Crumple is seriously pulling some legs here, folks. :doh:
That's what they want you to think....
Yeah? Why do you want us to think that? :what:
They knew you would ask that
Did they know that you were going to dodge the question?
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Re: OK conspiracy theorists - get out of this! Moon landings

Post by Coito ergo sum » Thu Sep 08, 2011 12:34 pm

Crumple wrote:Back to diagnostics. At 18s of the orignal flag waving vid you can see the astrounat hold the flagpole at arms length and being sideways to the camera he is quite clearly shorter than the flag. Here is one explanation that almost seems credible until you realise that a suddent directed jet of air would have altered the astronauts trajectory just like a nozzle jet on the space shuttle. This would have been taken into account in the design of any 'pressure release valve' on the suit and the force element dispersed with a back plate?

But, the flag didn't wave.
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Re: OK conspiracy theorists - get out of this! Moon landings

Post by Coito ergo sum » Thu Sep 08, 2011 12:36 pm

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Gawdzilla wrote:Crumple is seriously pulling some legs here, folks. :doh:
That's what they want you to think....
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Re: OK conspiracy theorists - get out of this! Moon landings

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Coito ergo sum wrote:
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Gawdzilla wrote:Crumple is seriously pulling some legs here, folks. :doh:
That's what they want you to think....
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Re: OK conspiracy theorists - get out of this! Moon landings

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Gawdzilla wrote:
Coito ergo sum wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:Crumple is seriously pulling some legs here, folks. :doh:
That's what they want you to think....
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Re: OK conspiracy theorists - get out of this! Moon landings

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Gawdzilla wrote:
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Gawdzilla wrote:Crumple is seriously pulling some legs here, folks. :doh:
That's what they want you to think....
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Re: OK conspiracy theorists - get out of this! Moon landings

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Sep 08, 2011 12:58 pm

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Re: OK conspiracy theorists - get out of this! Moon landings

Post by mistermack » Thu Sep 08, 2011 2:51 pm

Only two things bothered me when the conspiracy theory came out.

The first was how they filmed the take off, when they left.
They left behind a camera, and it successfully panned upwards, keeping the lander in shot.
And those pictures were somehow transmitted to the lander. ( I presume ).
At first sight, it seems impossible for the technology at the time. But I believe it's been debunked, though I don't know the details. It's odd that the camera panned upwards on some missions, but not on others :
First Apollo takeoff from the moon?
Apollo 15 takeoff from the moon
Apollo 17 takeoff

The second thing was why the video was of such poor quality. Given the budget, I don't know the answer to that, but I'm prepared to acknowledge that there were good reasons.
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