Originally posted by WulebgrI was lucky enough to have held a genuine moon rock in my hand at Goddard Space Flight Center, I worked on the Apollo ATT, Apollo Tracking and Timing, (transponder that measured the distance to the Apollo's and atomic clocks). It would be hard to miss a a petrified wood specimen. I guess nobody looked closely at it.
Shattered my faith in television
Originally posted by sonhouseYou're in on the hoax, aren't you? Talk about getting caught red-handed only 40 years after the fact.
I was lucky enough to have held a genuine moon rock in my hand at Goddard Space Flight Center, I worked on the Apollo ATT, Apollo Tracking and Timing, (transponder that measured the distance to the Apollo's and atomic clocks). It would be hard to miss a a petrified wood specimen. I guess nobody looked closely at it.
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Originally posted by Wulebgr"Most significant deception"? Apart from the entertainment value, what impact would finding out that the moon landings were a hoax have? Would it be more significant than say the various deceptions that were carried out during major wars? Would it be more significant than some of the deceptions carried out by various presidents? I certainly wouldn't come close to some of the major religions, but whether you choose to call those deceptions is debatable.
Yep, it casts doubt on everything else sonhouse says, too. He's part of one of history's most significant deceptions.
Originally posted by twhiteheadThe number of people that had to be in on the moon landing hoax, and the length of time they needed to continue to lie, makes the hoax larger in important respects than the aliens hidden near Roswell, the saboteur that took out the USS Maine so McKinley could take us to war, and even the location of the Holy Grail.
"Most significant deception"? Apart from the entertainment value, what impact would finding out that the moon landings were a hoax have? Would it be more significant than say the various deceptions that were carried out during major wars? Would it be more significant than some of the deceptions carried out by various presidents? I certainly wouldn't come ...[text shortened]... to some of the major religions, but whether you choose to call those deceptions is debatable.
Originally posted by WulebgrDon't forget Pearl Harbor, Roosie knew all about it........
The number of people that had to be in on the moon landing hoax, and the length of time they needed to continue to lie, makes the hoax larger in important respects than the aliens hidden near Roswell, the saboteur that took out the USS Maine so McKinley could take us to war, and even the location of the Holy Grail.
Originally posted by sonhouseActually a piece of petrified wood could have been picked up off the lunar surface. We get mars rocks here so the moon could surely get an occasional earth rock that was blasted into space by meteor impacts. Do they want to return the rock for a new one?
I was lucky enough to have held a genuine moon rock in my hand at Goddard Space Flight Center, I worked on the Apollo ATT, Apollo Tracking and Timing, (transponder that measured the distance to the Apollo's and atomic clocks). It would be hard to miss a a petrified wood specimen. I guess nobody looked closely at it.
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Originally posted by joe beyserIf something like that was genuine it would have made headlines when it was found, a storm would be brewing amongst geologists and planetary scientists trying to figure out where on earth it came from, what year, etc.
Actually a piece of petrified wood could have been picked up off the lunar surface. We get mars rocks here so the moon could surely get an occasional earth rock that was blasted into space by meteor impacts. Do they want to return the rock for a new one?
To bad it was a goof, accidental or otherwise. As relatively easy it is for rocks to be blasted off the lunar surface by meteorites or asteroid or comet strikes, lunar gravity being 1/6 th that of earth and the earth having a much larger gravitational attraction volume, a lot of material would have ended up on earth but the other way round, 6 times the initial escape velocity plus atmospheric drag plus the smaller volumetric gravity well of the moon would have made it at least ten times less likely to find earth rocks on the moon, but no doubt they are there but geologists would have to pick around on the moon for years, maybe decades before such a find was discovered. Eventually they might even find fossil lifeforms like bacteria blasted from earth.
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Originally posted by twhiteheadYou ever watch Myth busters? They did a show on the moon landing
"Most significant deception"? Apart from the entertainment value, what impact would finding out that the moon landings were a hoax have? Would it be more significant than say the various deceptions that were carried out during major wars? Would it be more significant than some of the deceptions carried out by various presidents? I certainly wouldn't come ...[text shortened]... to some of the major religions, but whether you choose to call those deceptions is debatable.
hoax, they took all the major things that people use and showed that
on the moon this is exactly what would happen. It seemed like they
proved it occured well over the fact that TV and a million people would
have to be in on a hoax.
Kelly