Moon Landing. Fact or Fiction.
Posted by: _charlie on 08 October 2007
Until recently I had never heard of the conspiracy theory that we never landed on the moon. Given recent fuel by a Fox documentary that gave credence to those who doubted we ever landed on the moon and that the whole thing was filmed in a studio. I've even heard one theory that has movie director Stanley Kubrick directing the whole enterprise. He was apparently rewarded by with use of a special NASA camera worth one million to film interiors of 'Barry Lyndon'.
If you look at the rock labeled R you will notice a the letter C carved in the rock. Perhaps a gag left by the props department?
A recent poll of Americans revealed that fully 20% of them believe the Apollo Missions were faked.
Anyone familiar with these or similar claims ?
Bizarre stuff and, I think, a rather poor reflection of the times. People, it seems, have so little faith in their higher institutions.
If you look at the rock labeled R you will notice a the letter C carved in the rock. Perhaps a gag left by the props department?
A recent poll of Americans revealed that fully 20% of them believe the Apollo Missions were faked.
Anyone familiar with these or similar claims ?
Bizarre stuff and, I think, a rather poor reflection of the times. People, it seems, have so little faith in their higher institutions.
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A recent poll of Americans revealed that fully 20% of them believe the Apollo Missions were faked.
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A recent poll of Americans revealed that fully 50% of them believe a god created the earth in 7 days.
Go figure as they say over there.
Stephen
quote:Originally posted by Stephen Bennett:
A recent poll of Americans revealed that fully 50% of them believe a god created the earth in 7 days.
Go figure as they say over there.
Stephen
This from a fellow whose country is setting up an official embassy in a computer-generated fantasy world. Go figure, indeed.
Malky,
it is really need to know something about this before someone express some thoughts.
Of course that there is many impossible theories, but also it is evident that many of them are possible and once happened.
Daivd is realy not a psycho and he does not suffer from some prophet syndrom.
You know, for me under conspiracy group belongs let's say the fact that vaccine which is invented for dental caries many years ago is not available to buy anywhere in the world.
conspiracy theory for me is also the fact that in WWII american financial minister brother have been german minister of war and so on.
The thing is that you need to find your own rationality theorem.
Oz
it is really need to know something about this before someone express some thoughts.
Of course that there is many impossible theories, but also it is evident that many of them are possible and once happened.
Daivd is realy not a psycho and he does not suffer from some prophet syndrom.
You know, for me under conspiracy group belongs let's say the fact that vaccine which is invented for dental caries many years ago is not available to buy anywhere in the world.
conspiracy theory for me is also the fact that in WWII american financial minister brother have been german minister of war and so on.
The thing is that you need to find your own rationality theorem.
Oz
quote:Originally posted by jayd:
This from a fellow whose country is setting up an official embassy in a computer-generated fantasy world. Go figure, indeed.
Hey, my country is England. I just live in Sweden. I can't help it that they are all crazy here.
Stephen
PS I'm a total Americophile.
quote:Originally posted by Simon Matthews:
Ozren
So you believe more in the idea of a global conspiracy run and coordinated by large lizards as opposed to believing the combined efforts of over 1 million people over the period of a decade in creating the apollo space program?
Man oh man where did we go wrong?
No it's not Lizards, but the DOLPHINS who rule Earth
quote:Originally posted by Stephen Bennett:quote:
A recent poll of Americans revealed that fully 20% of them believe the Apollo Missions were faked.
.
A recent poll of Americans revealed that fully 50% of them believe a god created the earth in 7 days.
Go figure as they say over there.
Stephen
I'd love to see where all these figures actually come from. Having lived and worked in the US for 3 years I found the people to be largely polite, well educated (if a bit on the insular side but that's not too surprising in a country of that size) and no more prone to extreme beliefs than anywhere else.
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It's an LP.
Scenes From Earth, Greetings From Earth, Music and the Sounds Of Earth.
"In the upper left-hand corner is an easily recognized drawing of the phonograph record and the stylus carried with it. The stylus is in the correct position to play the record from the beginning. Written around it in binary arithmetic is the correct time of one rotation of the record, 3.6 seconds, expressed in time units of 0,70 billionths of a second, the time period associated with a fundamental transition of the hydrogen atom. The drawing indicates that the record should be played from the outside in. Below this drawing is a side view of the record and stylus, with a binary number giving the time to play one side of the record - about an hour.
"The information in the upper right-hand portion of the cover is designed to show how pictures are to be constructed from the recorded signals. The top drawing shows the typical signal that occurs at the start of a picture. The picture is made from this signal, which traces the picture as a series of vertical lines, similar to ordinary television (in which the picture is a series of horizontal lines). Picture lines 1, 2 and 3 are noted in binary numbers, and the duration of one of the "picture lines," about 8 milliseconds, is noted. The drawing immediately below shows how these lines are to be drawn vertically, with staggered "interlace" to give the correct picture rendition. Immediately below this is a drawing of an entire picture raster, showing that there are 512 vertical lines in a complete picture. Immediately below this is a replica of the first picture on the record to permit the recipients to verify that they are decoding the signals correctly. A circle was used in this picture to insure that the recipients use the correct ratio of horizontal to vertical height in picture reconstruction.
"The drawing in the lower left-hand corner of the cover is the pulsar map previously sent as part of the plaques on Pioneers 10 and 11. It shows the location of the solar system with respect to 14 pulsars, whose precise periods are given. The drawing containing two circles in the lower right-hand corner is a drawing of the hydrogen atom in its two lowest states, with a connecting line and digit 1 to indicate that the time interval associated with the transition from one state to the other is to be used as the fundamental time scale, both for the time given on the cover and in the decoded pictures.
"Electroplated onto the record's cover is an ultra-pure source of uranium-238 with a radioactivity of about 0.00026 microcuries. The steady decay of the uranium source into its daughter isotopes makes it a kind of radioactive clock. Half of the uranium-238 will decay in 4.51 billion years. Thus, by examining this two-centimeter diameter area on the record plate and measuring the amount of daughter elements to the remaining uranium-238, an extraterrestrial recipient of the Voyager spacecraft could calculate the time elapsed since a spot of uranium was placed aboard the spacecraft. This should be a check on the epoch of launch, which is also described by the pulsar map on the record cover."
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