Comments by "rockethead7" (@rockethead7) on "Real Stories"
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First of all, what do you mean "not questions"? You clearly linked a video, and asked me a question about it!!! Now, you're pretending you didn't ask me a question??
I told you a million times I wasn't going to take on new questions until/unless you answered the million questions you were avoiding. You refuse to address your own topics, that YOU brought up, and all you do is shift topics constantly to duck and dodge any return questions. Why would I want to play your Gish Gallop game?
But, fine, I'll answer your one additional question now, since you seem all bothered by it. And, the answer is that you need to understand where they were. That video was taken on a very steep slope. Go look at the entire mission. That clip is from the Lee-Lincoln scarp and the base of the South Massif mountain. The reason why it's difficult to understand it is because the rover (and its camera) is parked on that exact same steep slope. So, the ground looks "level" (so to speak) because the camera is also on the same slope, but, it's not actually level ground. It's a very steep angle. All of this is charted out in the mission logs, and you can map out each station stop along the rover traverses. That one was from EVA 2 on Apollo 17. But, conspiracy videos will never tell you that, and will never show you the topographical map of where they were. I mean, don't you think it's suspicious at all that they just talk over the audio? In that clip, you don't hear what the astronauts are saying. You only hear what the hoax nuts are saying. If you go watch the entire original clip, you will hear the astronauts talk about how steep the slope is, and how difficult it is to keep their footing.
If you look at all of the Hasselblad photos from the Lee-Lincoln scarp area, and from the base of the South Massif, you'll see the slope they were on. But, I don't think you're capable of any of that simple stuff. So, let's make this easier: "Top 10 Places on Earth Where Gravity Appears Broken." That's exactly the same thing that's going on in the video clip you're complaining about. It's basically like an optical illusion, because the camera is angled with the hill that it's on, and this makes it look like gravity isn't working correctly.
You should be angry at the makers of the conspiracy video for editing out the audio, and presenting a dishonest picture of what's going on. Go watch the original Apollo videos, not the edited clips from dishonest video makers. Listen to the astronauts talking about the steep slope. Go look at the photos from that same location. Look at the topography at that station stop. Stop just blindly accepting nonsense that the conspiracy videos feed you. Fact check them.
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Dewdrop, why did you ask me to explain what's going on in the video clip, if you didn't actually want the explanation? It's been like a whopping 10 minutes since I posted my reply. And, already, you are rejecting it. You clearly didn't go watch the video showing how camera angles can trick you into thinking gravity is sideways or diagonal. You clearly didn't go hunt down all of the Apollo 17 videos from the 2nd EVA to see the terrain and listen to what the astronauts were saying about it. You clearly didn't go look at the archive photos from the Apollo 17 mission at the Lee-Lincoln scarp and the base of the South Massif mountain. You only had about 10 minutes. And, in that amazingly short amount of time, you didn't do a single thing I said, which would prove you wrong. Nope. Instead, you stuck with the dishonest presentation from a conspiracy video that won't explain this stuff. You have made it 100% clear that you don't want answers to your own questions. Your mind is SO closed to input, that you have discarded whatever was left of any of your thinking faculties (if you ever had any), and you have decided to ask questions (then deny you even asked them), and reject the answers before even getting them. Any honest person would want to explore the answers to their own questions. Not you, though. I told you to watch the videos in their entirety, not the edited clips from a conspiracy video that talk over what the astronauts are saying. I told you to look at the photo archives to see the slope they were on. I told you to look at the topographical maps of the lunar surface, so you can see the slopes that way also. And, I pointed you to a 10 minute video showing you other examples of how the camera angles can make it seem like people are leaning in impossible ways, defying gravity, just as seen in the Apollo video you're talking about. And, instead, you looked at NONE of that. NONE. Clearly, you do not want answers to your own questions.
I probably shouldn't have even bothered answering your new question in the first place. You've refused to address a single challenge or question about anything you wrote prior. In one ear, out the other. Stick your head in the sand. Change topics. Duck and dodge. Change topics again. Duck and dodge again. It's ridiculous. I guess I should know better than to engage a high school dropout who has severe addiction problems.
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@kathy888
YOU SAID: "NASA had the schematics of the rover online and they matched perfectly to a Jeep (forget which one)"
== Ridiculous dribble. That's what your favorite conspiracy videos claim. But, you obviously have never looked at the rover schematics for yourself. You simply regurgitate what conspiracy videos tell you.
YOU SAID: "It was on the youtube site Lift the Veil."
== Sorry, conspiracy sites aren't rover schematics. It's even funnier because GM and Boeing designed and built the rovers. Yet, you think they'd use a Jeep? Tell me, dummy, which jeeps use wire mesh wheels, four electric motors (one on each wheel), and fold up to fit into a tiny compartment on the lunar module? Funny you'd "forget which one" (your words) - yeah, because what you're claiming is insanity.
YOU SAID: "Six million for each Rover."
== $38 million each.
YOU SAID: "We were screwed!"
== You sure were. But, not by NASA. You were screwed by the lousy education you've received, and you were screwed by your parents when they lied and said you were a smart child.
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Oh, and about the size of the Earth in the photos, same thing, you simply don't even understand what you're looking at. But, you can do that math also. Look up the lens used for each photo you have in question, the focal length to the 70mm film, look at the original photo (not the cropped version in this video), and do the math. Why are you on YouTube??? You can mathematically prove Apollo was fake by simply doing the math about these photos!!! Publish your results in science journals!!! Such a discovery would result in 7-8 figure book deals, prime speaking engagements at $70K per week on the lecture circuits, being a paid witness in congressional hearings that would result in shutting NASA down permanently, being a paid witness in international fraud trials from allied countries that spent billions to support Apollo. You'll be on all of the talk shows (paid). You'll never work another day in your life. I fail to understand why you amazing geniuses think that YouTube comments is the correct forum to publish your amazing findings, when you'd easily make about $35 million over the next 5 years by publishing your math in actual science journals.
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@stevegagnon1539
Where did I get 40 degrees?
Where'd you get 20 degrees? Where'd you get 30 degrees? First, you opened the thread by not even knowing the coordinates. You just blindly asserted the angle without even knowing it. That's how dishonest you are. Then, when told the coordinates were 30° 44' 58.3" east longitude by 20° 9' 50.5" north latitude, what did you do? You ignored the bigger number, and stuck with the smaller one, and just said it needed "correction" from the bigger number, but still asserting that, somehow, magically, the smaller number was the one that mattered (which is backward, illustrating your level of dishonesty... need to protect that delusion at all costs). Then, once corrected again, you increased the angle to the bigger of the two numbers (how generous of you), and ignored the smaller number, and actually thought that somehow it was more like an average between the two numbers or something like that (which is wrong), or that only the bigger number mattered (which is wrong). Now, you're coming here with your "lol" comments, as if you know things I don't know?? What? Not that it matters, the facts stand as they are with or without me telling you anything, but, yes, one of my degrees is in mathematics (highest honors, all kinds of awards, nobody cares, including me, that's long in my past, and even though I probably could call myself a mathematician because I have the degree for it, I have never called myself one). Anyway, I know how to calculate angles. You do not. And, you have already revealed quite well that you don't even understand basic geometry. Like, you're basically saying that if you go 30 degrees east... ok, that angle is 30... now, if you add on going 20 degrees north on top of the 30 degrees east, you somehow think that the net number is LESS??? I mean, you certainly don't add the two numbers together. But, any thinking person should know that if you go 30 east, and then 20 north, the net degree is MORE than 30. I need to dumb this down, apparently. So, forget the sphere, and start by just thinking of it like a simple rectangle. If the top/bottom sides of a rectangle are 30, and the left/right sides of a rectangle are 20, do you think magically that the diagonal is LESS than 30? No, of course not. The diagonal is A^2 + B^2 = C^2. C is bigger than either A or B. Well, a sphere is not the exact same formula as a rectangle, and requires some trig to calculate it, but, yes, when you have 30 east and 20 north, the net number is LARGER than either of those two.
So, how did I calculate it? At first, in the earlier postings, I just spitballed, knowing that the angle had to be almost 40 because the two angles that fed it were 30 and 20. But, later, after a couple of messages, I wanted more accuracy, but, I was too lazy to do the actual trig, so, instead, I used a mathematical shortcut. I simply used a Haversine calculator to get the diagonal distance for the same dynamic on Earth, then divided for the circumference of the moon instead of Earth, and converted that back to degrees. That came out to about 36.5 degrees. Then, I, again, was too lazy to adjust for the fact that such an answer focuses on infinity from the "central" moon coordinates (0 degrees by 0 degrees), and that I'd need to add a bit more for the fact that the Earth isn't an infinite distance, it's only 238,000 miles, thus, we'd need a bit extra to accommodate. But, I didn't feel like making that exact calculation. So, I just figured the total is around 37-38 degrees, which was close enough to 40 to just say "almost 40." So, yes, subtracting from 90 (the only thing you did correctly), the moon to Earth angle in the sky was around 52 degrees (give or take a degree). But, now we have to deal with the 10 degree wobble (which I originally said was 8 degrees, and was wrong about). Well, you can only use half of that, because it wobbles in both directions from the "center" point. So, the maximum wobble from the 0/0 coordinate is 5 degrees. Thus, if the moon happened to wobble away from Apollo 17 during this mission, this easily puts the angle at around 43 degrees (or, in other words, 47 degrees from vertical once you subtract from 90). This is nowhere near the 70 degrees you opened by insisting.
Anyway, you're a lost cause. Go publish. I cannot help you any further. You clearly have come to your conclusions without doing the math... or... frankly... before even *understanding* the math. You are deluded beyond hope.
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@stevegagnon1539
Steve, let me honestly thank you for saying this. (Not joking.) 99.9% of the conspiracy nuts on YouTube will NEVER admit being wrong, even about a single aspect, no matter how much evidence you throw at them. Frankly, I shouldn't be shocked when finding someone on YouTube who admits being wrong, but, I am shocked anyway. So, thanks for the pleasant shock that you're admitting being wrong.
Beyond that, remember, we have to also accommodate for the moon's wobble of 10 degrees (which is up to 5 degrees off-center). Again, I didn't try to hunt down where the moon was in the wobble cycle during Apollo 17. But, yes, this can mean that you might have to add up to 5 degrees more to your calculations, depending on the wobble cycle.
Did you view the TV video I pointed out, showing Cernan taking the exact photo you're talking about? It clearly shows Cernan bending over really low, angling the camera upward. And, did you view the uncropped photo?
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It has blocked my reply (yet again, for the 49587398573498th time). So, again, I need to trim my response, and avoid stating anything about where/how to find things. You need to look at three hours, forty six minutes, nine seconds, into the video. That's the very second this photo was snapped. You will see Cernan bending way down, pointing the camera on an upward angle, to get Schmitt, the flag, and the Earth, all in frame. I hope this puts an end to any issues you have with that photo.
A photo of Apollo 17 with the Earth and a boulder... catalog number or timestamp?
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Is this the one you're talking about?
AS17-137-20910
If so, yes, the angles are deceptive there too. And, what you need to understand is that the entire ground there was really slanted. The entire wide surface in that area was fairly steeply sloped (for something that wide/big). That's the Lee Lincoln Scarp area of the moon. You think you're looking on a "flat" surface behind, but, it's not flat. It's like, if you're on Earth, and you're standing on a massive sloped hill, and you take a photo up the hill. The photo might look like a typical "flat" horizon line, but, no, it's actually uphill. Go research the Lee Lincoln Scarp slope. And, if that's not enough, look at a photo taken in the opposite direction. And, this "problem" is magnified by the cratering and meandering of the surface. Let me give you an example:
AS17-137-20900
That's looking in the "downward" direction. Look at where the astronaut is in the photo, relative to the one taking the photo. Note: that's not the same exact boulder, but, it gives you an idea of the type of terrain they were dealing with, and really emphasizes the overall slope.
Bottom line: the Earth is still at around 45 or 50 degrees (whatever we agreed upon), but, the photo itself is being taken "uphill" to begin with.
Let me make this clear: they took that photo BECAUSE it was weird. They took the photo BECAUSE it looks amazing from those weird angles on the weird slope with the weird terrain. Go look up the Lee Lincoln Scarp, and then you'll see what I mean. These sorts of amazing geographic features are why they landed in Taurus Littrow in the first place.
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Here if you want to understand why the Earth looks so low in the sky in the boulder photo you're talking about, this picture will explain it.
a17pan22382-90ic
This photo (pan) was taken from across the valley from that boulder/Earth photo you're undoubtedly worried about. See that huge wide flat massif (mountain) that is dead center in the pan? OK, well, that's where they went on EVA3, over to that huge wide flat massif you see in the distance of this pan photo I'm providing. Huge. Wide. Flat-faced mountain. And, your boulder picture was taken from there, looking up the flat/wide mountain. That's why it looks like a flat horizon line. But, it's not. It's a very steep angle. That's undoubtedly the photo you're worried about, because you think the Earth is low in the sky. But, it's not low in the sky in reality. It's just that the photo is being taken from that wide wide wide huge massif, that is quite "flat" looking on that side. Get it?
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And, sorry, but the image ID catalog number I gave you will apparently not be found on the Journal in the format I specified. Unfortunately, I just referred to my own library catalog on my personal NAS, and not the Journal. But, just for the sake of being thorough, I just checked the Journal, and they don't identify the photo the same way. Ugh. So, you won't find it under the name I gave. You'll find it under:
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"Ian Cossor has assembled a high-resolution, partial pan ( 1.9 Mb ) showing Bear Mountain, the South Massif and (West) Family Mountain. The frames are 22382 to 22390."
If you look at that photo, you will see the wide/flat massif (in the distance) that they were looking upward in the boulder photo you're worried about. The wide flat face of that massif is the reason it appears to be "flat" toward a horizon line. But, in reality, they were at that massif/mountain, looking upward toward Earth, when they took the boulder/Earth photo. And, the massif is so wide and flat, it looks like a regular flat ground... but it's not. It's super steep.
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@Andre
YOU SAID: "You made this just up."
== Sadly, no, he didn't make it up. In some of the conspiracy videos, some of the "evidence" they present is the testimony of an old woman in Australia who claimed she saw a Coke can/bottle on the surface of the moon on the TV broadcast. No, she didn't have any special television connection to out-of-band broadcasting. No, she didn't have access to any behind-the-scenes stuff. Her actual claim was that she was watching the very same TV broadcast as millions of others were watching, and she saw a Coke can/bottle. And, conspiracy believers will attach themselves to any viewpoint that supports their delusions, no matter how ridiculous, and this is merely one of those examples. One old woman out of millions of viewers (watching the same exact thing) said she saw a Coke can/bottle, therefore Apollo was fake. Tangible evidence? No, of course not. Because an old woman in Australia thought she saw a Coke can/bottle, it's a conspiracy.
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A) How is that an answer to anything I asked? Have you looked for the telemetry? Which telemetry? Where have you looked so far?
B) Like all hoax nuts, you are clueless. In 2006, NASA said they wanted to find two backup video tapes from the Apollo 11 moonwalk. Those two tapes had never been watched, not even once. They never even built a device capable of playing those two tapes. Those two tapes were from the pre-NTSC conversion. They made those two tapes in the event that the NTSC conversion didn't work. So, if the NTSC conversion failed, they would construct a machine capable of reading the tapes. But, the NTSC conversion worked, so, there was no need for those two tapes. Decades later, someone wanted to take a look at those two backup tapes, and intended on building a machine capable of reading them. But, he discovered they were missing. They searched for a year or two, to no avail. Their best guess is that the tapes were somehow mixed in with a bunch of similar tapes, and were recorded over. But, nobody really knows for sure.
Over the years since then, you hoax nuts have decided that those two tapes are somehow important. None of you people wanted to watch those two backup tapes before, and, as I said, those two backup tapes had never even been viewed by ANYBODY. But, now, oh, they mean something to you? Why? What makes them important to you? How does this mean Apollo was fake? Over the years, the hoax nut videos keep increasing what was actually lost. First, they decided that the primary copies were missing, rather than the truth that they were backup copies. Then, magically, they concluded it was the data, and not just the video. This is because the hoax nuts don't realize that the word "telemetry" also applies to video, and, they blindly assumed that if "telemetry is missing," this means data. But, the hoax nuts are wrong. No data is missing. Why would you blindly trust a conspiracy video? What possible reason would you have to think any of that claptrap is actually true?
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Esthersar, let me guess... you watched all of Bart Sibrel's movies, and not once did he show you the rover fitting into the lander, right? As I said to you before, you're not actually studying Apollo. You're just watching anti-Apollo videos, and believing every single word, no questions asked, never once fact-checking any of them. And, now you come here, first declaring the rover wouldn't fit, and then asking questions second.
Ironically, you are correct. The rover didn't fit. But, they still got it to the moon, with the rover hanging off the side of the descent stage, some of it sticking out, because, yeah, it didn't fit all the way. There are a million photos and videos. But, sorry, you're not going to find them in any of Sibrel's videos. ap15-KSC-71PC-415 is a fine example. See those gold colored wheel fenders sticking out?
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@lorichet
Sorry, you don't get to pretend you know ANYTHING. I mean, how far gone are you when you think that the rover didn't fit? I mean, yeah, it didn't fit, as I illustrated. It couldn't tuck all the way in (exactly as I said). How would that even happen? Don't you think any of the the thousands of engineers and technicians might notice if they never made a mechanism to bring the rover to the moon? And, given the amount of gibberish you've quoted from Bart Sibrel (in other threads of yours), yeah, it's 100% clear that you're just going to swallow anything you see, that aligns with your predetermined conclusions. His nonsense has been debunked a million times over, and, as I pointed out in the other thread, debunks ITSELF. Yet, you buy it, hook line and sinker. So, don't sit here and pretend you know anything. The rover almost fit into the lander, and the bits that didn't fit, simply hung off the side. If you can't figure this out after 50 years, your credibility is zero.
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