Originally posted by sonship
It is known that considerable staging, simulation, stage setting apparatuses for simulated moon flight training exist. Models of the surface of the moon, rail like tracks for simulated camera shots.
Now I doubt any kind of videoed dramatizations of Napoleon's battle with the Duke of Wellington exist to be broadcast as history. But there is some frequ ...[text shortened]... ul tests is realistically compared to the sheer gamble of an unsuccessfully tested Lunar Lander.
Why don't you say it straight out, you NEVER thought the moon landings real. I don't know how old you are or whether you saw the broadcasts in 1969. You must have at least seen the rebroadcasts.
I keep telling you there was no computer tech in 69, our cell phones are a million times better than the so-called computers of the day. I know that for a fact, having worked on them and I know you know I was an Apollo tech at Goddard. The tech I saw was no simulation. My classroom exercise of using a small student antenna dish to locate and lock on to a 5 watt signal from an orbiting Mars craft was no simulation, there was nobody in a secret room making up simulations to fool all us techs at Goddard and elsewhere. The tech involved in my equipment, tracking and timing was real, and REAL expensive. Atomic clocks are not and were not cheap and we had two of them plus a tertiary advanced quartz clock in the mix also and there were a dozen of those devices in radio telescope sites around the world along with the analog digital coding to send a signal to Apollo which rebroadcasted that signal when analyized allowed them to pinpoint the distance to Apollo within 50 feet. That was not simulated and there were a thousand other such devices on Apollo and ground stations that would never have been necessary if it was to be faked. I have said it once and I will say it again, the people who started this crap were AMERICAN. Not Russian, not Chinese. Both of those countries had advanced radar that tracked Apollo coming and going and you don't fake a fireball coming in from space making a 10,000 degree ball of fire, protected from Apollo by ablating heat shields. They came in going far faster than if it was some kind of low orbit re-entry trick. They came in at 25,000 miles per hour not 15,000 or so from low orbit.
But of course none of that will make the slightest bit of difference to you or any of the other moon landing deniers. I fully suspect you like the man said, just don't want mankind to be doing things thought to be the realm of a god. I think that is the bottom line and you don't have enough honesty about it to acknowledge that effect.
I think you fear some kind of godly retribution if we continue to show ourselves capable of doing what you only thought possible for gods.
I think that is the bottom line of your hesitation to declare the moon landings real.
What are you going to say when we start going back and even CHINA photographs the Apollo landing sites and the footprints and car tracks therein? Will you also deny the Chinese going to the moon? Or the Russians? Or Elan Musk who claims he will launch tourists around the moon in a couple of years. That fake too?