Comments by "MRA" (@yassassin6425) on "Voice of America"
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"It just doesn’t make sense to me that we haven’t gone back ONCE?!?"
They did though - on five more occasions. It would have been nine or more, had it not been for the aborted Apollo 13 landing and the premature cancellation of the Apollo Programme and with it Apollo 18, 19 and 20.
"It doesn’t make sense."
It makes perfect sense when you understand the reasons why the Apollo Programme was cancelled and the emphasis that was placed elsewhere. Project Artemis that will return crewed missions to the surface of the moon was only approved as recently as 2018.
"Also all the evidence could have been planted there via shuttles & robots etc"
Could it? And how have you established this when you clearly know nothing about the science and technology of Apollo? How do you account for the ALSEP packages and in particular, The SW, SEP, PSE, ASE, HFE, CPLEE and the LPME? Also, the lunar rovers were designed to be unfolded and deployed by hand. Additionally, there is the third of a ton of moon rock returned within the space of three years which is utterly impossible by robotic means in such a time span. To date, there has been a total of 301 grams of lunar soil returned by robotic missions - the USSR's Luna 16, 20 and 24. Moreover, the Apollo 12 astronauts landed only 600ft from Surveyor 3 and brought the camera back to Earth with them which is now exhibited in the National Air and Space Museum. The astronauts also collected a scoop from the probe's soil mechanics-surface sampler.
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"Biggest human feat in human history but yet no calendar day to celebrate"
There is though. July 20th, it's called 'National Moon Day'.
"face timing from the moon with no delay"
Facetime? I do hope you're joking. Nope. Radio transmission, it's a thing - newsflash, bloke called Marconi, 1895. And what on Earth are you talking about, there was a delay.
"riding dune buggies"
No, using purpose built lunar rovers during the later J missions, Apollo 15, 16 and 17, in order to extend the areas covered during EVA.
"playing golf on the moon in the 60s"
Wrong again - Apollo 14 1971. Al Shepherd, a keen golfer, smuggled a six iron head that was affixed to the shaft of his sampling tool and hit three balls. He scuffed the first two shots owing to the fact that there was obviously no tee, was restricted in movement due to his spacesuit and had to use on hand. So what?
"brainwashed people believe that crap"
Said the gullible junk online conspiracy believer with demonstrably no knowledge of the subject whatsoever.
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"It's a shame that all world leaders are in cahoots."
Are they? Tell that to Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin, or Benjamin Netanyahu and Ali Khamenei.
"The people with critical thinking know full well we've never been to the moon."
Whilst entire scientific disciplines; physics, mathematics, geology, branches of science such as astrophysics, astronomy, related specialist fields including rocketry, aerospace engineering, orbital mechanics and petrology - in short, all comprising highly skilled expertise, knowledge and individuals substantially more informed, accomplished and clever than a random conspiracy believer on the comments section of You Tube, do not? Ok then.
Incidentally, watching crap online conspiracy videos is the diametric opposite of 'critical thinking'.
"I've not mentioned this before"
Do you really think that you're that important or that the rational world gives two shits about your personal incredulity? You're nothing more that an insignificant self-aggrandising nobody on the comments section of a video entertainment platform afflicted by gross illusory superiority and a chronic case of Dunning Kruger syndrome.
"but that moon dust must be super heavy, while the astro nots were falling around and jumping and bouncing around they kicked up dust or sand that was not affected by the lower gravitation, it fell like sand at the beach while the astro nots were 'seemingly' relatively weightless"
Of course it was affected by the lunar gravitation, which is why it fell back to the surface. On the moon, the dust is just like a projectile motion. It goes up and it comes right down which is why there are no dust trails left by the lunar rover. It fell at the same rate of any other object but not necessarily at the same trajectory of the astronauts. Apollo 15's Dave Scott demonstrated that in the absence of air resistance a feather fell at the same rate as his geology hammer, as Galileo had concluded hundreds of years before - all objects released together fall at the same rate regardless of mass. This is precisely what we observe in the footage.
"what is probably the funniest part of this whole thing is people still believing anyone ever went to the moon"
Incorrect. What is "the funniest part of this whole thing" is people with zero knowledge about the topic gullibly consuming and regurgitating junk online conspiracy theory in the belief that they are informed and clever whilst deriding experts that are infinitely more accomplished than themselves.
Stick to making your crap comedy skits son.
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"I think their problem is they can’t figure out how we went through the van Allen belt"
Firstly, there are two belts, with a third that is transitory. You need to understand that these are toroidal diffuse volumes around the Earth's equator within which radiation levels are elevated by the planet's magnetic field trapping charged particles from the sun. The inner torus is populated by energetic protons which they passed through in mere minutes and against which the hull of the CM was an effective shield. The hull of an Apollo command module rated 7 to 8 g/cm2. The Apollo craft took an hour and a half to traverse the more extensive outer torus but this region has mainly low energy electrons and so was less of a concern to mission planners. Also the inclination of the trajectory being in the plane of the Moon's orbit avoided the strongest regions of the belts near the equator.
When NASA commenced its lunar spaceflight program, its scientists already knew about the belts and their spatial and energy distribution. Electrons below about 1 MeV were unlikely to be dangerous, as were protons below 10 MeV. For example, a proton with an energy of 3 MeV could penetrate about 6 mm of aluminium (a typical spacecraft material) whereas one of 100 MeV could penetrate up to 40 mm. So engineers fashioned shielding that consisted of a spacecraft hull and all the instrumentation lining the walls. Further, knowing the belts’ absence above the poles, the altitude of the lower edge of the inner belt being 600 km (well above the LEO) and the location of the South Atlantic anomaly, where doses are at a high 40 mrads/day at an altitude of 210 km allowed NASA to design the Apollo translunar injection (TLI) orbit in a way that the spacecraft would avoid the belts’ most dangerous parts. This was all understood in the early 1960s. To quote James Van Allen directly:
"The outbound and inbound trajectories of the Apollo spacecraft cut through the outer portions of the inner belt and because of their high speed spent only about 15 minutes in traversing the region and less than 2 hours in traversing the much less penetrating radiation in the outer radiation belt. The resulting radiation exposure for the round trip was less than 1% of a fatal dosage – a very minor risk among the far greater other risks of such flights. I made such estimates in the early 1960s and so informed NASA engineers who were planning the Apollo flights. These estimates are still reliable."
"nasa’s space station astronauts keep saying they are trying to figure out how to get through the dangerous radiation without damaging equipment or killing them but will have the answer soon."
No 'space station astronaut' has said anything of the sort. Terry Virts and Don Pettit discussed the loss of a heavy lift capability following the cancellation of Apollo. Also, in 2014, prior to the test flight of the (then) new Orion capsule, engineer Kelly Smith in a video called 'Orion: Trial by Fire" discussed the challenges posed by radiation to the sensitive electronics and systems that are used in spacecraft today in comparison to the radiation hard Apollo spacecraft.
Stop listening to junk online conspiracy theorists and
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