by SFDukie » Fri 30 Apr 2010, 03:48:29
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', 'O')ops I just realized the link takes you to different pages depending on location.
Here is a specific vid link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgQDZbFM62MThe writer/producer of this vid starts off with a distortion-that Clinton doubts the authenticity of the moon landings. That is NOT what the quoted passage from Clinton's autobio says-he says he saw some things on TV in his 8 years in the White House which made him wonder if the carpenter's claim (word for word, the claim is that "them television fellers could make things look real that weren't) is correct.
Then, between 4 and 7 minutes, he repeatedly asserts that sending men 240k miles from earth, when all we do today is send them a few hundred mile above earth, "is just not plausible". Uh-not plausible, why? Well he doesn't say, but he implies that because we haven't gone that far since, we didn't then. Pretty flawed logic, of course.
Around 9 minutes, he argues that the Van Allen radiation belts in a simplistic fashion. He quotes Van Allen's 1959 Scientific American article, which states that the maximum radiation in the belts is between 10 and 100 roetgens/hr, and that someone exposed to 10 R/hr for 2 days would receive an LD50. Multiple problems with that-crossing the Van Allen belts didn't take any where near two days (belts are a couple of thousand miles "wide" and only that "hot" above the equator-because they're formed by the earth's magnetic filed, poles are different and not as "hot". Van Allen numbers assumed NO shielding, Apollo trajectory was designed to avoid the hot part of the belts (because they're belts, not spheres), etc.
He then repeats a straw man-that no one else has gone as far from earth as Apollo, Apollo didn't happen, and the claimed reason by "Apollo apologists" is that everyone else was "too stingy and stupid" to do so-then he says "it is more likely that we do not have the technology to go further at this time"
At about 17 minutes, he asserts, essentially, that spacesuits and the LM on the moon would be unable to stay cool in the sun's direct light on battery power.
REALLY? Then how does he explain spacewalks by both US and Soviet astronauts in earth orbit-where the same problems would exist?
Etc.
Why hasn't a SINGLE astronaut come clean, if they were faked? How did NASA arrange for radio tranmissions from the moon? How do you explain the age, and similar composition of moon rocks from both Apollo and the unmanned Soviet Luna probes? How about telescopic sightings of Apollo? Why didn't the Soviets question the landings? Why aren't there any prominent astronomers who say the landings were faked, since this vid claims that it is patently obvious that 1969 technology wasn't up to the task. How did NASA keep 400k engineers, technicians. etc fooled?
Do me a favor please-spend 15 minutes reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_evidence_for_Apollo_Moon_landings, and tell me why you disagree with those points.
Thanks.