Comments by "MRA" (@yassassin6425) on "Spark" channel.

  1. Anita, why are you attempting to sound authoritative and feel the need to pass comment about subjects you demonstrably have zero knowledge about whatsoever?
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  2. You seem to be very confused as to why the Apollo missions didn't film and photograph stars though.
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  3. As explained to you on innumerable occasions it was captured by the RCA 'Ground-Commanded Television Assembly' operated by Ed Fendall in Houston. Y'know - something you claimed was 'impossible' but were unable to explain why when challenged.
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  4. You mean conspiracy theory? You Tube has been forced to crack down on it.
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  5. Oh Jeez First off, your caps lock key seems to be permanently engaged or jammed. "YES AND NOW WE CANNOT GO FURTHER THAN FOUR HUNDRED KLMS OUT.WE MUST BE GOING BACKWARDS AS FAR AS OUR TECHNOLOGY." Apollo was cancelled by Nixon. The technology left to lie fallow and the tooling, plants, processes, r&d all abandoned and shut down whilst the expertise, retired. The impetus was diverted to low earth orbit, the development of the Space Shuttle and the construction of the ISS. It has been a protracted and painful process defined by a lack of political will and piecemeal funding. During which time the technology or Apollo has become largely obsolete and defunct. Project Artemis has superseded this with modern technology which have due to a paucity of funding, taken years to develop and test. Perhaps take a look at that craft called Orion that is right now perched atop a hardly insignificant or inconspicuous 321ft 70-metric-ton rocket that you are oblivious to, capable of 8.4 million pounds of thrust at liftoff and carrying 154,000 pounds of payload into orbit that is currently sitting on the same pad complex that launched the Saturn Vs to the moon and awaiting its first test flight next month. Artemis 3 pledges to place mankind back on the lunar surface by 2025. "THEY SURE HAD REALLY GOOD REMOTE CONTROLS THOSEDAYS FOR CAMERAS" You think that a remotely controlled tilt head camera mount was a technical impossibility in 1969? Ok then. "AND CAMERAS WAITING OUTSIDE FOR THE FIRST MAN TO COME OUT" Nothing gets past you does it genius? What is it about attaching one thing to another that baffles and confounds you so? "AND ALSO ON THE TAKEOFF." Everyone agreed that Ed Fendell did a great job in the end.
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  6.  @Bibiisachildkiller  Fascinating. Now demonstrate why - no use simply saying it. In your own time.
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  7.  @Bibiisachildkiller  Nope. Nothing to do with me and it is not my claim - it doesn't work like that. I have explained that the ascent of the lunar module was filmed remotely through operation of the pan/pivot mount on the lunar rover camera. This is independently verifiable. You have replied with the following: "That "remote controlled" scene was IMPOSSIBLE, zero (0) chance, therefore fake." Thereby the burden of proof is incumbent upon you to demonstrate why. The onus does not lie with me to establish an absent based upon your arguments from ignorance and personal incredulity. You are stating that something is false, therefore you need to falsify it. The design, workings and function of the RCA 'Ground-Commanded Television Assembly' can be clarified via schematics and academic papers which are readily available. I suggest you commence with the following publication: Soltof B, Journal of the SMPTE (Volume: 81, Issue: 12, December 1972). For the benefit of all reading this, please explain and show why it was as you claim "impossible". When you're ready.
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  8.  @JamesOberg  From memory actually you are correct, or at least partially - Eisele Apollo 10 , not sure about Cunningham though. Didn't he leave NASA prior to the final two Apollo missions after provisionally heading the astronaut office for the upcoming Skylab project?
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  9. And no one noticed barring a self-appointed community of armchair internet experts over half a century later.
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  10.  @davidkeenan5642  Or mixed footage of Saturn V launches.
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  11. I'm sure they're currently inconsolable at the news.
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  12. That settles it then. Thanks genius.
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  13. Nothing to do then with the fact that these platforms were compelled to do so? After years of incubating and supporting lucrative misinformation and conspiracy theory, YT amongst others faced increasing criticism. Fearing brand damage, the platform inserted the wiki advisory to placate critics and very much as a conciliatory gesture through gritted teeth and under duress. You can still satisfy your confirmation bias and find all of this conspiratorial bollocks through a routine search on Google - and guess who owns You Tube genius?
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  14. Yes I greatly enjoyed 2001.
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  15. What 'tin foil' lander?
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  16. No - you are completely wrong, as evidenced by that craft called Orion that is right now perched atop a hardly insignificant or inconspicuous 321ft 70-metric-ton rocket capable of 8.4 million pounds of thrust at liftoff and carrying 154,000 pounds of payload into orbit that is currently sitting on the same pad complex that launched the Saturn Vs to the moon and awaiting its first test flight on the 29th. Artemis 3 pledges to place mankind back on the lunar surface by 2025.
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  17.  @hughzapretti-boyden9187  "neither, just this 🐂💩!" So that'll be both then. "Next they'll tell us that the war in 'Nam was a victory for the US!" No one would tell you that - no political scientist, not historian, no journalist and not even those with even a cursory knowledge of the conflict. What's your point?
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  18. A concerningly growing proportion of the public think that space exploration and even space itself is fake - and the world is flat. Unfortunately, we cannot deny such idiots connection to the internet.
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  19. Which one would that be then? - in over half a century, none of these conspiracy clowns can agree.
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  20. Said the online conspiracy believer.
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  21. Said the Man from Atlantis.
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  22. Actually it did - as did Intrepid, Antares, Falcon, Orion and Challenger.
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  23. And you still don't understand why.
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  24. That'll be entire branches of science such as astrophysics and astronomy, specialist fields including aerospace engineering and rocketry ...versus a random illiterate nobody posting on the comments section of a video entertainment platform. Who to feel sorry for? Tough one that.
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  25. 1.2 And your dumb conspiracy theory is entirely honest, dependable, consistent and true? Righto then. 3.4 Project Artemis sends its regards 5.6. CGI in 1969? Righto. 7.8. 52 years since Apollo 17. And no, NASA have been far from procrastinating. 9.10. What's your second favourite conspiracy theory?
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  26. "PROVE THIS SCIENTIFICALLY WRONG" Nope. Since this contravenes known physics the burden of proof is incumbent upon you. When are you planning to publish your paper that overturns known science and claim your Nobel Prize in the process? You're going to need more than a crap conspiracy video that told you what to think kid.
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  27. Speak up. I can't hear you.
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  28. Do you people have anything vaguely reminiscent of an original thought or idea ever entering your vacuous heads?
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  29. "Can anyone tell me why there isn’t one shot of the sun or other stars? Yet, on planet earth on any given day/night, you can easily see the sun and other stars/planets, sometimes even dozens of stars." No you can't. That is demonstrably false.
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  30.  @tanujSE  🤦‍♂
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  31. California desert is it now? I thought it was Area 21, Arizona or a Hollywood film studio? Make your minds up. Which California desert are you referring to? There are three main ones. I'd also be fascinated to know where precisely in these deserts bear an uncanny resemblance to Theophilus in The Sea of Tranquility; the Head Crater vicinity, Ocean of Storms; the Fra Mauro Formation near Cone Crater; the eastern edge of Mare Imbrium, Hadley Rille; The Descartes Highlands; and the eastern edge of Mare Serenitati in the Taurus Littrow Valley. In your own time.
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  32. Because your signal to your friend isn't being received by a 26 metre diameter tracking dish.
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  33. Any further copy and paste conspiratorial clichés?
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  34.  @trendynow1369  Never ceases to amuse that the ones that feel the need to parrot 'wake up' at others are those that invariably slept through science classes.
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  35.  @trendynow1369  "my friend, I have two science degrees and my grandfather worked for nasa" Of course you have and of course he did. Isn't the internet a wonderful thing? What's even funnier, is when conspiracy believers attempt to appeal to their own authority. You, together with your false claims are irrelevant. The science behind Apollo is supported by mathematical axioms and governed by physical laws meaning that it has a voice of its own. Known science is not a question of 'belief' - that would be dumb conspiracy theory for which you are a poster child. Do better.
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  36.  @trendynow1369  "well you didn't dispute what I said" You are a conspiracy believer - and therefore impervious to evidence logic and reason. "You're into scientism, not science." I am completely irrelevant to this exchange. As I said, the Apollo programme is supported by mathematical axioms and physical laws which speak for themselves. Nothing to do with me. Do you parrot this conspiratorial nonsense in the real world?
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  37.  @trendynow1369  Your comment is shadow banned, which is a shame because such stupidity on show may actually deter others from similarly entertaining such nonsense. I will summarise here: "Yet there's no real photo of the earth from space. All the ones that were claimed to be real are obviously fraudulent." Because again, you are the self-proclaimed expert, you know better? There are something in the region of 18,000 pictures taken of the earth by the Apollo missions alone that you would have had to sift through. 'Earthrise' captured by Apollo 8 and 'The Blue Marble' taken by the crew of Apollo 17 are not simply famous photos, but are amongst the most widely distributed pictures of all time. And since then, while some of the autonomous spacecraft destined for other worlds turned their sensors around for a parting shot, their cameras weren’t designed for the job, producing inferior images. In contrast, as the Apollo astronauts travelled out towards the Moon, they reached the perfect distances for planetary portraiture and were provided with some of the world’s best equipment for photographing Earth: Hasselblad 500 EL cameras, Zeiss lenses and 70mm Kodak Ektachrome film. They were thus able to faithfully record Earth’s true colours as they appeared to the human eye. The last image of the whole Earth taken by a human being, during Apollo 17, on the 17th December 1972. However, sitting in geosynchronous oribit, 22,000 miles from out planet Himawari-8 captures a full-disk image of Earth every 10 minutes. "Keep believing the lies instead of trusting your own eyes" As I said,, I am irrelevant to this exchange and at no stage have I mentioned any 'belief' - far less my own The known science that you detest is not about that. That would be the junk online conspiracy theory that you gullibly consume and regurgitate in a lame attempt to sound informed, discerning and clever.
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  38. I think you mean 'straight' - and why have you apostrophised 'lies'? Quick tip. If you really feel the need to troll these videos at least master the rudiments of basic written English first.
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  39. It would be the seventh time. There were six moon landings in total.
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  40.  @SpaceTime773  I think you may have replied to the wrong person as opposed to the OP.
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  41. "They have not went there" 🤦
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  42.  @samiblank6761  Indeed I can, in spite of your appalling command of written English, which is why I am questioning the nonsense you typed. It seems that you are equally as scientifically illiterate, preferring instead to parrot dumb online conspiracy theory, which is the only reason that you've even heard of the Van Allen belts in the first place. Could you explain why the transit taken by the Apollo astronauts would have meant that they would have been "cooked like a volcano" substantiating your answer with the physical laws that determine this? Thanks.
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  43. You're probably going to need more than that.
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  44. Not Nevada, Hollywood, Death Valley, New Mexico? You people at the very least need to get your story straight.
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  45.  @hermanschweizer9717  How have you established that "as a fact" and yet entire branches of science and related specialist fields such as aerospace/propulsion engineering, orbital mechanics, petrology and astrophysics all state otherwise? State your singular most compelling piece of evidence. You will naturally be shrewd enough to avoid the trap of self-proclaimed overnight armchair 'expertise' based upon squandered evenings consuming junk You Tube videos, cherry picked click bait confirmation bias, quote mining and the same old circular self-referencing pseudoscientific conspiracy websites which as a professed critical and independent thinker you will have already tested the validity of the claims made and summarily dismissed them. Your own thoughts and observations then please. Go ahead. Also, if you don't really care about replies, then why post in the first place?
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  46.  @stalri4170  What? The colour television cameras mounted to the Lunar Rovers were provided by RCA communicated with the Earth using a high-gain antenna on the rover. These television cameras could transmit footage directly to Earth via the Lunar Communications Relay Unit (an antenna) using the power sources aboard the rovers. Researchers and scientists on Earth could even remotely-control the television cameras to examine the lunar surface for themselves and track the astronauts when they parked their rovers to explore nearby areas on foot. It used a field-sequential color system, and a ground-station signal processing and color decoding techniques to produce a broadcast NTSC color video signal. There was a slight time delay for the radio waves to travel (a couple of seconds) between the Earth and the Moon. Engineers suggested moving the rover a certain distance from the lunar module (it had been too close to capture Apollo 16, and the tilt mechanism failed for Apollo 15). The setting on the camera was instructed to automatically tilt to show the lunar liftoff when commanded from Earth. A controller called Ed Fendall punched in pre-set commands that needed to be precisely sent to compensate for the delay.
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  47. That would be a lovely touch - although the Apollo 11 Command Module was also called Columbia.
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  48. What a wonderful account - thank you. I loved reading this until I arrived at this part - "It's kept in my gun safe" - A terribly sad reminder of the realities of modern day America.
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  49. @smeeself It would be nice to inhabit a world in which they didn't have either.
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  50.  @douglasgriffiths3534  "What's so wrong with having guns?"_* You just answered your own question!
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