Martin Brown wrote:
> On 29/01/2013 14:18, Bast wrote:
>> Martin Brown wrote:
>
>>> You choose a very bad time to claim that no-one has been to the moon.
>>> The Chinese are not all that far off being able to launch their own
>>> moon shot now and you can bet your bottom dollar that on at least one
>>> trip they will like good tourists go and visit an existing Apollo
>>> site. The Hasselblad museum would pay good money for one of its cameras
>>> returned after 40 years of exoatmospheric sunburn.
>>>
>>> I expect their first priority will be to stick a Chinese flag in some
>>> bit of virgin lunar landscape. Some fresh moon rocks would be nice.
>>>
>> Are you telling me that 50 years later the Japanese don't have a
>> camera good enough ?
>
> Their survey instrument Kaguya isn't intended to do that task, and their
> resolution is borderline for features as small as a LEM. But it can show
> through its 3D imaging survey capability that the Apollo mission
> photographs were taken on the lunar surface. See for example
>
>
http://www.universetoday.com/15579/japanese-selene-kaguya-lunar-mission-spots-apollo-15-landing-site-images/
>
> The topography is right when modern 3D data is compared against NASA
> pictures taken on the lunar surface with mountains in the background.
>
>> Or that the hubble hasn't the resolution ?
>
> Hubble is not even close. Apart from the fact that it cannot target or
> track the moon without suffering motion blur its resolution limit at the
> lunar surface is in the ball park of 1/16 mile or 110 yards.
>
>> Or that the Russians wouldn't have raised the bar by sending a whole
>> colony if it were possible.
>
> Why bother? It looks like the Chinese will be the next to do it.
>
>> That no one has "publicly" been to the moon in the 50 years since
>> offers only two explanations.
>>
>> That it was never possible to begin with due to death by radiation.
>>
>> OR
>>
>> The Aliens there said to F-off and don't come back or they would blow
>> our pathetic little blue planet into oblivion.
>
> There is a third much more mundane explanation. It was phenomenally
> expensive to do moon shots. We won and the public quickly lost interest
> after the first few. The samples obtained were relatively unexciting
> rocks and there was no trace of water or interesting minerals. Job done.
>
> I do think it is disappointing that no-one has been back to the moon but
> I expect to see another visit within this decade.
You can't go back if you were never there in the first place.
And it's far more likley they realized the odds of them pulling off the
scams forever was pretty slim, so cancelled the program.
Also amazing that NASA lost much of the records.
For something so historic, you would think they would have made 10 copies of
everything,....unless they lost records on purpose so no one could check.
The real question is why when interviewed would the astronaouts who were
alledgely there (ALL OF THEM) "do not recollect seeing stars".
Good LORD,...any human would have most certainly spent at least 5 minutes
just gawking at how amazing the sky must have looked with no atmosphere to
block the view.
It's almost the same type of lies that they used after 9/11 when the next
day hundreds of cars parked around the towers were completely burned out to
just shells, but only covered by some dust with no other damage.
Heat like that is not caused by buildings collapsing on their own.
But it would be explained by burning thermite filled buildings coming down.
And guess what,.... we never were able to look at all the records there
either.