Comments by "w71 w72" (@gives_bad_advice) on "Free Documentary - History" channel.

  1. Probably they would have, especially the Soviets. But, yeah, even Putin or Xi.
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  2. The problem going on now is one failure against how many successful crewed forays into orbit? A hundred? More? I mean, Boeing is also having problems with their airliners--does that lead you to believe that America is struggling to put people into the air?
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  3. "not one picture had the wrong exposure" Where did you come up with that idea?
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  4.  @aok4418  "it eventually settles" No, dust doesn't settle in a vacuum. It freefalls at the same rate as a bowling ball.
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  5. "have been faked" How, on Earth, does one simulate dust flying around in an airless 1/6 g environment?
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  6. Well, maybe the reason for not going is something other than a lack of technology.
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  7. He's a troll and not a clever one at that.
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  8. Charlie Duke was interviewed for a nifty new video called "Moon astronaut reacts to moon landing deniers." Perhaps not the most inspired title but it's a cool interview and includes some interviews of Deniers on the street--in one memorable comment a young woman says that "it was probably AI." Kinda puts a face on some of the more amusing comments seen on this board.
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  9. Not my favorite bit of evidence, since it's circumstantial and speculative--exactly what this debate does not need more of. If both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. were faking it then maybe neither would want to call out the other for fear of being called out themselves in turn.
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  10. Airliners malfunction to this day. Still believe in what happened at Kitty Hawk?
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  11. What's the big deal about "lag"? It's the speed limit of the universe--the speed of light. It takes at least 1.3 seconds for information of any kind to travel from the moon to Earth.
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  12. My car broke, therefore rockets don't exist.
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  13. Do any of these techniques hold up to close ballistic analyses? There is a mathematically predictable and precise trajectory that an object in freefall will follow. It would be surprising to me that no one has been able to do a rigorous analysis showing trajectory abnormalities, if indeed trajectories were approximated by NASA using wires. The limitations of underwater buoyancy are obvious. And to simulate a zero-air resistance 1/6 g plume of dust with enough precision to fool every physicist on Earth for 55 years would require.... what? How could that be done? What we've learned here, from the OP, is the inadequacy of having ChatGPT do one's thinking for him.
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  14. Safer, cheaper, and debunked in about three minutes by anyone with a passing understanding of physics.
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  15. What modern technologies should make it easy? Computing speed are much faster but that just means they will want to reinvent and automate everything. It might actually be harder to go now, for that reason, given humanity's obsessive need to computerize everything that can possibly be computerized.
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  16. Six countries have sent spacecraft to the moon. Four of them accomplished soft landings on the surface. But it's true that only the U.S. have managed to get humans beings there and back. Part of the reason others haven't attempted it is that there's not much motivation to take the risk and spend the money, since there's not much a human can do there that s robot cannot.
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  17. ​ @occhamite "he said the CIA had tried to assassinate him" Really?!
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  18. That's a pretty weird reason to come to a conclusion.
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  19. With that stuff you could make a hat for yourself.
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  20. I'm guessing that you don't speak Hebrew.
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  21. Can i use this to show students what a strawman is? It is an elegant example.
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  22.  @cappy2282  Guess again, Sherlock.
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  23.  @trekscape8550  "no matter how much you try or how much evidence you present" How much evidence did he present? Maybe "none at all" isn't quite enough.
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  24. "Let me out this in simple terms..." As if you have a choice.
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  25. "only children and infantile adults" And also every aerospace engineer who's ever published anything in the past 55 years. But think you know better than they do.
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  26. You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the word "fact."
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  27. "We landed on the moon, discovered nothing and since then nothing's happened What a waste of taxpayers money!" Apollo was one of the biggest American victories in the Cold War and it may have kept us out of a hot war. Not to mention the fact that understanding more about the origin of the moon has led to understanding of the origins of Earth. You may not care where our planet came from, but a lot of people do.
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  28. You might be misremembering. At times the screen would indicate "animation" or "simulation", but I'm not aware that there were astronauts acting in a "reenactment." There would be no need to do so , given that they had the real thing on tape.
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  29. ​ @franknorthcuttmusic "Hsu et al., 2012" Cool! Now THAT'S what I'm talkin about--numbers! Thanks for the tip!
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  30. I've been to India but I've never been in my neighbor's basement. HOW??
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  31. Von Braun was talking about using a direct ascent approach, but in fact they did a lunar orbit rendezvous and docking.
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  32.  @Igoriann  "than to try to convince them that they're being fooled" Two things there. 1. You haven't offered any evidence to convince anyone of anything, and 2. This pithy cliche applies to all human beings, including you and others who naively believe in fantastical conspiracy stories.
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  33. "Von Braun stated before we went to the moon that it would take a fuel tank the size of the Empire State building to get there and back." Are you sure Von Braun was talking about lunar orbit-rendezvous when he said that, or was it direct ascent?
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  34. Yes. It's also funny that none of the criticism comes from physicists or engineers. For 60 years. Despite hundreds (thousands) of published papers analyzing the data generated by Apollo.
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  35. "there wasn't Internet yet they can beam from the moon" This is one of my favorite misconceptions because it's SO EASY to explain--they used radio.
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  36. The Titanic sank, therefore no one crossed the Atlantic on a ship prior to 1912.
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  37. Sounds like you're a fellow who bases his beliefs on those of the herd.
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  38. I want to hear more about the space mouse.
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  39. "The moon landing isn’t even something taught at schools." Here's a graduate course offered at MIT this fall: "Engineering Apollo: The Moon Project as a Complex System." I dare you to find a major engineering college or aerospace program on the planet that doesn't include Apollo in its curriculum.
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  40. It's proven long ago. And in the last 20 years, five countries have photographed the landing sites. If someone is hellbent on a particular belief, these things don't penetrate.
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  41. "WHERE ARE ALL OF THE STARS IN THE SKY" Looks like you've answered your own question.
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  42. If the question was "Is it possible to create a moon stage" you'd have a point. But i think the real question is "Is it possible to fool 10,000 aerospace engineers with your moon stage."
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  43.  @michaelstillman1171  One reason i admire the early U.S. space program is their openness. Unlike the Soviets, the U.S. put everything on the table and announced what they were doing before they did it. This contrast with the secrecy of the Soviet approach was more than just a nice thing--it was the very primary objective: to show the world that an open society works.
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  44. The rocks have probably been analyzed in labs all over the world by many geologists.
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  45. 100% is pathetic. Talk to me when you make it 1000%.
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  46. "why not take pictures of the stars?" They did from lunar orbit and from the surface during A16. "math and physics would quickly disprove" Too late for quickly. It's been 55 years and no one has been able to yet.
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  47. If it were fake, why would they make the hatches too narrow? Are you sure you've thought this through?
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  48. I find it interesting the difference between "It doesn't make sense" and "It doesn't make sense to me."
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  49. Look again. There's dust at touchdown. And lift off.
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  50. The mics are inside the spacesuits which are full of oxygen which carries sound waves. Vibrations travel from the hammer strike and through gloves (full of oxygen) and also through the astronauts' bones. It didn't sound like a normal hammer strike, does it? Kind of muted.
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