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Title: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Venus on June 02, 2016, 06:59:03 PM
If you visit this website https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums you can view 14,223 photos taken during the Apollo missions from 1963 to 1972.

Now if you are old enough you will remember that in the 1960's and 1970's photographs were taken with a camera which had film in it. In fact digital cameras were not available until the late 1990's.
The film from a camera was developed to create a negative, and the negative was used to print a photo. The rolls of film from these missions were developed and printed when that particular mission returned to earth. And the best of them were made available to the public at that time - on television, in magazines and in books.

Also at the time the best computer graphics were along the lines of this 1975 rendering of a teapot - this one was the best ever produced at that time, and this is the original size it was created.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Utah_teapot.png/180px-Utah_teapot.png)

So there was no CGI used in any of these photographs, it was just not possible to create images with CGI such as the ones from the Apollo mission, and computer photo editing was not pioneered until the 1980's (Adobe Photoshop was not released until 1987), so they were not digitally enhanced or created or "faked" in any way.

These photos were not drawn or painted - grab a copy of "the blue marble" (below) and enlarge it and try to prove it is a painting!! You can't because it is a real photograph, taken on December 7th 1972 from a distance of 45,000 km (28,000 miles) from the earth with a 70-millimeter Hasselblad camera with an 80-millimeter Zeiss lens!!! It has been digitally scanned so it can now be viewed by anyone !!
(http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/55000/55418/AS17-148-22727_lrg.jpg)

In the 60's and 70's photos could only be changed by actually painting out any blemishes etc, and this was always so obvious that it was never done for magazine covers or advertisements the way it is today. There is no way that any of these photographs were either manually or digitally manipulated in the 60's or 70's. At that time everyone was fascinated by space and space travel, and anyone my age will remember seeing many of these photos at the time. They have not been created just for the internet !!

Fourteen thousand two hundred and twenty three photographs of proof that man landed on the moon, and the earth is a globe !!
Enjoy them :-)
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: juner on June 02, 2016, 07:54:42 PM
So your stance is that photo editing software was not publicly available, therefore it didn't exist. That's a cool story. A non sequitur, but still a cool story...

You haven't actually provided any evidence that shows the photos to be legitimate.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Luke 22:35-38 on June 02, 2016, 08:01:38 PM
So your stance is that photo editing software was not publicly available, therefore it didn't exist. That's a cool story. A non sequitur, but still a cool story...

You haven't actually provided any evidence that shows the photos to be legitimate.

You haven't shown them to be fake.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: İntikam on June 02, 2016, 09:02:55 PM
surely surely.  :)
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: juner on June 02, 2016, 09:41:55 PM
So your stance is that photo editing software was not publicly available, therefore it didn't exist. That's a cool story. A non sequitur, but still a cool story...

You haven't actually provided any evidence that shows the photos to be legitimate.

You haven't shown them to be fake.

I wasn't the one making the claim.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: TotesNotReptilian on June 02, 2016, 10:24:05 PM
So your stance is that photo editing software was not publicly available, therefore it didn't exist. That's a cool story. A non sequitur, but still a cool story...

You haven't actually provided any evidence that shows the photos to be legitimate.

You haven't shown them to be fake.

I wasn't the one making the claim.

Most people would agree that the burden of proof is on you.

You are the one claiming that a huge organization is lying about everything they do.
You are the one claiming that photo editing software existed long before that technology was known to exist.

Personally, I prefer to have actual evidence before I call something fake or someone a liar.

He offered compelling reasoning why it would have been difficult/impossible to fake. Is it 100% proof? No, of course not. How exactly would you expect him to prove over the internet that something is 100% not faked?
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: juner on June 02, 2016, 10:50:29 PM
So your stance is that photo editing software was not publicly available, therefore it didn't exist. That's a cool story. A non sequitur, but still a cool story...

You haven't actually provided any evidence that shows the photos to be legitimate.

You haven't shown them to be fake.

I wasn't the one making the claim.

Most people would agree that the burden of proof is on you.

You are the one claiming that a huge organization is lying about everything they do.
You are the one claiming that photo editing software existed long before that technology was known to exist.

Personally, I prefer to have actual evidence before I call something fake or someone a liar.

He offered compelling reasoning why it would have been difficult/impossible to fake. Is it 100% proof? No, of course not. How exactly would you expect him to prove over the internet that something is 100% not faked?

I'm sorry, where did I make any of the claims you're suggesting here?
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 03, 2016, 12:03:54 AM
The tools in Photoshop are analogous to the analog tools found in an art studio. There were definitely art studios in the 60's and 70's.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Luke 22:35-38 on June 03, 2016, 12:05:59 AM
The tools in Photoshop are analogous to the analog tools found in an art studio. There were definitely art studios in the 60's and 70's.

That doesn't automatically mean the photos were fake. It'll be like me saying that picture of your mother from that time period was faked because they had the technology to do so.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 03, 2016, 12:11:26 AM
The tools in Photoshop are analogous to the analog tools found in an art studio. There were definitely art studios in the 60's and 70's.

That doesn't automatically mean the photos were fake. It'll be like me saying that picture of your mother from that time period was faked because they had the technology to do so.

The OP's argument was that digital manipulation was in its infancy. I'm pointing out that Photoshop is replicating the tools in an art studio, which existed during the time period.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: TotesNotReptilian on June 03, 2016, 01:46:31 AM
The tools in Photoshop are analogous to the analog tools found in an art studio. There were definitely art studios in the 60's and 70's.

That doesn't automatically mean the photos were fake. It'll be like me saying that picture of your mother from that time period was faked because they had the technology to do so.

The OP's argument was that digital manipulation was in its infancy. I'm pointing out that Photoshop is replicating the tools in an art studio, which existed during the time period.

True. But the OP also asserted that this type of image couldn't be created in a a traditional art studio. However, I am not nearly as certain as he is that this isn't possible. Hand made realistic movie backdrops (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matte_painting) have been used for a long time in the film industry. I have no idea if its possible to pass one off as a real photo though.

That being said, we still have no reason to believe the image is faked in the first place.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Venus on June 03, 2016, 01:35:13 PM
The tools in Photoshop are analogous to the analog tools found in an art studio. There were definitely art studios in the 60's and 70's.

That doesn't automatically mean the photos were fake. It'll be like me saying that picture of your mother from that time period was faked because they had the technology to do so.

The OP's argument was that digital manipulation was in its infancy. I'm pointing out that Photoshop is replicating the tools in an art studio, which existed during the time period.

So Tom ... what you are virtually saying is that these photos have been manipulated! So you are admitting the photos aren't fakes.... !!!

In my original post I virtually challenged anyone to take any of the 14,233 photos on the NASA flickr page to look at each photo at maximum zoom and point out where the flaws were that would prove the photos were either totally fake, or manipulated by painting or whatever ... To date nobody has done that...

I am claiming the NASA flickr page presents 14,233 real photos... it is up to you and your FE mates to prove me (and NASA) wrong by showing that if these are not CGIs (which they cannot be) and they are not real photos... then how were they created ??

Personally I doubt whether you or any of the other flatearthers who have contributed to this topic have even open the NASA flickr page at all ...
Because you really don't want to know the spherical earth truth do you ???
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Venus on June 03, 2016, 01:41:00 PM
So your stance is that photo editing software was not publicly available, therefore it didn't exist. That's a cool story. A non sequitur, but still a cool story...

You haven't actually provided any evidence that shows the photos to be legitimate.

In actual fact photo editing software relies on PHOTOS, so if it was used in these 14,233 photos then you must conclude that 14,233 photos of and from the Apollo missions existed.

The photos can't be faked because
(1) CGI was not capable of producing these photos
(2)They are too good to be paintings or drawings

So it is up to you guys to find a photo that you can show exactly where and why it is either CGI, painted or drawn.
Then find the same anomolies in another 1000 or so and then I might start to believe that they are not real.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: juner on June 03, 2016, 03:19:36 PM
Actually, it is up to you to prove your points 1 and 2. Using subjective phrasing such as "they are too good..." is not proof, which is why I said you haven't provided evidence, because you haven't.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Rama Set on June 03, 2016, 03:43:23 PM
Actually, it is up to you to prove your points 1 and 2. Using subjective phrasing such as "they are too good..." is not proof, which is why I said you haven't provided evidence, because you haven't.

He showed an example of CGI from 1975 that was not remotely close to photo realism. That's a good indicator that photo realism was not available 6 years prior.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: TheTruthIsOnHere on June 03, 2016, 03:52:34 PM
So your stance is that photo editing software was not publicly available, therefore it didn't exist. That's a cool story. A non sequitur, but still a cool story...

You haven't actually provided any evidence that shows the photos to be legitimate.

You haven't shown them to be fake.

I wasn't the one making the claim.

Most people would agree that the burden of proof is on you.

You are the one claiming that a huge organization is lying about everything they do.
You are the one claiming that photo editing software existed long before that technology was known to exist.

Personally, I prefer to have actual evidence before I call something fake or someone a liar.

He offered compelling reasoning why it would have been difficult/impossible to fake. Is it 100% proof? No, of course not. How exactly would you expect him to prove over the internet that something is 100% not faked?

I'm starting to get an inkling that you're not who you say you are... Send us a video of your eyes so we can see if they transform or not.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: juner on June 03, 2016, 04:38:04 PM
Actually, it is up to you to prove your points 1 and 2. Using subjective phrasing such as "they are too good..." is not proof, which is why I said you haven't provided evidence, because you haven't.

He showed an example of CGI from 1975 that was not remotely close to photo realism. That's a good indicator that photo realism was not available 6 years prior.

Irrelevant.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Rama Set on June 03, 2016, 04:55:44 PM
Actually, it is up to you to prove your points 1 and 2. Using subjective phrasing such as "they are too good..." is not proof, which is why I said you haven't provided evidence, because you haven't.

He showed an example of CGI from 1975 that was not remotely close to photo realism. That's a good indicator that photo realism was not available 6 years prior.

Irrelevant.


Incorrect.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: TheTruthIsOnHere on June 03, 2016, 05:09:37 PM
Actually, it is up to you to prove your points 1 and 2. Using subjective phrasing such as "they are too good..." is not proof, which is why I said you haven't provided evidence, because you haven't.

He showed an example of CGI from 1975 that was not remotely close to photo realism. That's a good indicator that photo realism was not available 6 years prior.

Irrelevant.


Incorrect.

No one said it was CGI.

(http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/2001_pic2.jpeg)

This is a still from "2001: A Space Odyssey," Circa 1968.

Don't discount what is possible to do for a group of highly motivated individuals. The idea that it would be just too darn hard to pull off, or inconceivable that someone would even try, is basically the first line of defense for every unthinkable thing that has ever been done.

It was thought to be highly unlikely or impossible to land on the moon in the first place, why would faking it be even harder?
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Rama Set on June 03, 2016, 05:39:27 PM
I'm not saying it is impossible, I'm saying it is most likely not CGI
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: TheTruthIsOnHere on June 03, 2016, 06:27:43 PM
I'm not saying it is impossible, I'm saying it is most likely not CGI

Do you think the image I posted was CGI?

Or the product of many talented individuals using whatever process was available at the time to create an image that was life-like and believable?
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: UnionsOfSolarSystemPlanet on June 03, 2016, 11:10:56 PM
It was thought to be highly unlikely or impossible to land on the moon in the first place, why would faking it be even harder?
The Soviets were tracking the mission, heck i'm kidding the entire world does. This requires all the country that was tracking it to be in league of NASA or NASA did send an unmanned object to the Moon. Which would brings the question, why wouldn't they send a manned one like they claimed? There were already a speech prepared for them in case they don't make it back to Earth.

We also have the retro reflectors placed on the Moon and brought back Moon rocks, which tasks may seem to be too hard for a machine of that era.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: CableDawg on June 04, 2016, 03:10:20 AM
Actually, it is up to you to prove your points 1 and 2. Using subjective phrasing such as "they are too good..." is not proof, which is why I said you haven't provided evidence, because you haven't.

Yet you will stand on "I saw it with my own eyes." or something similar as your only proof for flat Earth.

How is this not a subjective argument?

What objective evidence has any flat Earth supporter ever produced which proves, beyond a doubt, that Earth is flat?

You can't have it both ways.  You can't deny one person's argument, due to subjectivity, when your own arguments are based in subjectivity.

Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: CableDawg on June 04, 2016, 03:29:29 AM
Actually, it is up to you to prove your points 1 and 2. Using subjective phrasing such as "they are too good..." is not proof, which is why I said you haven't provided evidence, because you haven't.

He showed an example of CGI from 1975 that was not remotely close to photo realism. That's a good indicator that photo realism was not available 6 years prior.

Irrelevant.


Incorrect.

No one said it was CGI.

(http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/2001_pic2.jpeg)

This is a still from "2001: A Space Odyssey," Circa 1968.

Don't discount what is possible to do for a group of highly motivated individuals. The idea that it would be just too darn hard to pull off, or inconceivable that someone would even try, is basically the first line of defense for every unthinkable thing that has ever been done.

It was thought to be highly unlikely or impossible to land on the moon in the first place, why would faking it be even harder?

Just less than 2 years was spent on creating 205 special effects shots for this movie, for an average of 100 special effects shots completed per year.

The math is simple.

At an average of 100 effect shots per year it would have taken 142 years to produce 14,233 photos.  Even if you increase the average to 200 per year it would still have taken 71 years to complete.

Or NASA had 1,425 people on board whose only job was to produce one photo per year over the course of 10 years. 

I'm guessing that you'll go with the second option.  Did they each have their own computer to make this happen?  Considering the cost of computers during this time, that must have been where all the money allocated to NASA went.  They didn't really launch rockets or send people to the moon.  They spent all the money on computers so that 1,500 people could produce some fake pictures for a few years.  This is the most logical train of thought.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: juner on June 04, 2016, 03:49:02 AM
Yet you will stand on "I saw it with my own eyes." or something similar as your only proof for flat Earth.

How is this not a subjective argument?

What objective evidence has any flat Earth supporter ever produced which proves, beyond a doubt, that Earth is flat?

You can't have it both ways.  You can't deny one person's argument, due to subjectivity, when your own arguments are based in subjectivity.

I would legitimately be interested in how you jumped to so many conclusions as to what I think based on this conversation. What subjective argument have I made? You are simply making up things at this point.


Just less than 2 years was spent on creating 205 special effects shots for this movie, for an average of 100 special effects shots completed per year.

The math is simple.

At an average of 100 effect shots per year it would have taken 142 years to produce 14,233 photos.  Even if you increase the average to 200 per year it would still have taken 71 years to complete.

Or NASA had 1,425 people on board whose only job was to produce one photo per year over the course of 10 years. 

I'm guessing that you'll go with the second option.  Did they each have their own computer to make this happen?  Considering the cost of computers during this time, that must have been where all the money allocated to NASA went.  They didn't really launch rockets or send people to the moon.  They spent all the money on computers so that 1,500 people could produce some fake pictures for a few years.  This is the most logical train of thought.

So your assertion is that the shots made for the movie represent the absolute capacity of what could be achieved? At least the capacity where you could extrapolate some generic figures and apply them outside of the context of making this movie? You'll need to provide some evidence of your position on this one... I will hand it to you round earthers, you have really stepped up your mental gymnastic game.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: TheTruthIsOnHere on June 04, 2016, 05:05:03 AM
It was thought to be highly unlikely or impossible to land on the moon in the first place, why would faking it be even harder?
The Soviets were tracking the mission, heck i'm kidding the entire world does. This requires all the country that was tracking it to be in league of NASA or NASA did send an unmanned object to the Moon. Which would brings the question, why wouldn't they send a manned one like they claimed? There were already a speech prepared for them in case they don't make it back to Earth.

We also have the retro reflectors placed on the Moon and brought back Moon rocks, which tasks may seem to be too hard for a machine of that era.

https://www.google.com/search?q=moon+rocks+fake&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 (https://www.google.com/search?q=moon+rocks+fake&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8)

These moon rocks?
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: rabinoz on June 04, 2016, 06:23:35 AM
It was thought to be highly unlikely or impossible to land on the moon in the first place, why would faking it be even harder?
The Soviets were tracking the mission, heck i'm kidding the entire world does. This requires all the country that was tracking it to be in league of NASA or NASA did send an unmanned object to the Moon. Which would brings the question, why wouldn't they send a manned one like they claimed? There were already a speech prepared for them in case they don't make it back to Earth.

We also have the retro reflectors placed on the Moon and brought back Moon rocks, which tasks may seem to be too hard for a machine of that era.

https://www.google.com/search?q=moon+rocks+fake&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 (https://www.google.com/search?q=moon+rocks+fake&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8)

These moon rocks?

These  ::) moon  ::) rocks?
Read all about it!
Part of Why the Moon Landings Could Have Never EVER Been Faked: The Definitive Proof (http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread919364/pg33). Make of it what you will!

Quote
Neither NASA, nor the US Astronauts gave that rock to anyone. It was a US ambassador.
All 135 Apollo Moon Rocks that were handed out to nations were very small and massed at 1.1 grams. This fake rock massed 89 grams! It was also glued to a piece of cardboard.
The official Apollo Moon Rocks were encased in plastic globes.
The actual real Apollo moon Rocks are safe at the National Museum in Holland and are still there.
Here's the original story. Make sure you read ALL of it:  USA Today Fake Moon Rock 2009. (http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2009-09-14-moon-rock_N.htm)
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Rounder on June 04, 2016, 03:01:59 PM
The guy in your video makes two really telling points.
1. About the "Apollo photos/videos are fake" crowd he says this: "When you listen to them, they seem not to know very much about photography, or video, or lighting, or even perspective; and I think they're hoping you don't either."  He's probably never been HERE in particular, but I think he would find plenty of justification for making that statement if he ever did visit here.

2. After examining the tech and devices that existed at the time and extrapolating from that to the hypothetical hardware that would have been required to actually make and televise the supposed Stanley Kubrick fake moon film in such a way as to make it look the way it looked on TV, he says this: "Once you're forced to hypothesize whole new technologies to keep your conspiracy possible, you've stepped over into the realm of magic. It demands a deep and abiding faith in things you can never know."  In the same vein, he points out that while moon hoaxers mock the tech of the day as insufficient for the job of an actual moon landing, they conveniently ignore that the same tech would not have been up to the job of pulling off the fake.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Rama Set on June 04, 2016, 08:18:39 PM
Yet you will stand on "I saw it with my own eyes." or something similar as your only proof for flat Earth.

How is this not a subjective argument?

What objective evidence has any flat Earth supporter ever produced which proves, beyond a doubt, that Earth is flat?

You can't have it both ways.  You can't deny one person's argument, due to subjectivity, when your own arguments are based in subjectivity.

I would legitimately be interested in how you jumped to so many conclusions as to what I think based on this conversation. What subjective argument have I made? You are simply making up things at this point.


Just less than 2 years was spent on creating 205 special effects shots for this movie, for an average of 100 special effects shots completed per year.

The math is simple.

At an average of 100 effect shots per year it would have taken 142 years to produce 14,233 photos.  Even if you increase the average to 200 per year it would still have taken 71 years to complete.

Or NASA had 1,425 people on board whose only job was to produce one photo per year over the course of 10 years. 

I'm guessing that you'll go with the second option.  Did they each have their own computer to make this happen?  Considering the cost of computers during this time, that must have been where all the money allocated to NASA went.  They didn't really launch rockets or send people to the moon.  They spent all the money on computers so that 1,500 people could produce some fake pictures for a few years.  This is the most logical train of thought.

So your assertion is that the shots made for the movie represent the absolute capacity of what could be achieved? At least the capacity where you could extrapolate some generic figures and apply them outside of the context of making this movie? You'll need to provide some evidence of your position on this one... I will hand it to you round earthers, you have really stepped up your mental gymnastic game.

It is completely reasonable to think that 2001 was at or near the cutting edge of such visual effects, considering it was marveled at as a major cinematic achievement. What reason is there to think these reactions are unreasonable? 

Unlike FEers we will not posit a secret conspiracy to keep cutting edge photo manipulation away from the public eye, without evidence.

Title: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: juner on June 04, 2016, 09:01:52 PM

It is completely reasonable to think that 2001 was at or near the cutting edge of such visual effects, considering it was marveled at as a major cinematic achievement. What reason is there to think these reactions are unreasonable? 

Unlike FEers we will not posit a secret conspiracy to keep cutting edge photo manipulation away from the public eye, without evidence.

Please just admit that you (or OP) have no evidence. Continuing the discussion with phrases like "reasonable to think" doesn't get anywhere. Or just continue to make up things and present them as fact, doesn't really matter at this point.

Who is talking about a conspiracy? You guys have gone off the rails at this point.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: rabinoz on June 04, 2016, 11:01:01 PM
Please just admit that you (or OP) have no evidence. Continuing the discussion with phrases like "reasonable to think" doesn't get anywhere. Or just continue to make up things and present them as fact, doesn't really matter at this point.

Who is talking about a conspiracy? You guys have gone off the rails at this point.

Since the Flat Earthers (and other deniers of the moon missions) are the accusers the onus is on you (and them) to prove their case, but so often it is simply stated as "it has been accepted that" (or words to that effect), when it most certainly has not been proved!.

These "fake" claims have been answered numerous times. I suppose you have studied:
Examination of Apollo Moon photographs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examination_of_Apollo_Moon_photographs#Inconsistent_color_and_angle_of_shadows_and_light)
and
Moon Base Clavius (http://www.clavius.org/) and refuted in detail the answers to many of the fake "fake" claims.

Until then I think it fair you "admit that you . . . .  have no evidence."
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: juner on June 04, 2016, 11:12:31 PM
Please just admit that you (or OP) have no evidence. Continuing the discussion with phrases like "reasonable to think" doesn't get anywhere. Or just continue to make up things and present them as fact, doesn't really matter at this point.

Who is talking about a conspiracy? You guys have gone off the rails at this point.

Since the Flat Earthers (and other deniers of the moon missions) are the accusers the onus is on you (and them) to prove their case, but so often it is simply stated as "it has been accepted that" (or words to that effect), when it most certainly has not been proved!.

These "fake" claims have been answered numerous times. I suppose you have studied:
Examination of Apollo Moon photographs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examination_of_Apollo_Moon_photographs#Inconsistent_color_and_angle_of_shadows_and_light)
and
Moon Base Clavius (http://www.clavius.org/) and refuted in detail the answers to many of the fake "fake" claims.

Until then I think it fair you "admit that you . . . .  have no evidence."

I get that you round earthers don't do logic very well, but please make an attempt. I'd suggest starting at the beginning of this thread, and then point out any claim made by a FE proponent that would put the onus on us. I have faith that you'll realize there were no claims made by us (hint: see the OP). You'll find the only claim that needs supporting evidence was made by the RE side. You'll also see the only thing provided is conjecture.

I really don't understand what's so difficult about this, but I imagine you'll keep dodging like RErs are known to do.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Rounder on June 05, 2016, 12:13:28 AM
I'd suggest starting at the beginning of this thread, and then point out any claim made by a FE proponent that would put the onus on us...
You are a former moderator here, Junker, surely you are familiar with the Wiki?  Long before this thread began, and before many of us RE folks arrived here, your wiki made the following claims:

People have been into space. How have they not discovered that the earth is flat? (http://wiki.tfes.org/FAQ#People_have_been_into_space._How_have_they_not_discovered_that_the_earth_is_flat.3F)
The most commonly accepted explanation of this is that the space agencies of the world are involved in a conspiracy faking space travel and exploration. This likely began during the Cold War's 'Space Race', in which the USSR and USA were obsessed with beating each other into space to the point that each faked their accomplishments in an attempt to keep pace with the other's supposed achievements.

Project Apollo (http://wiki.tfes.org/The_Conspiracy#Project_Apollo)
The Apollo program was a fraudulent NASA spaceflight endeavor which allegedly landed the first men on the moon.

You can't say "We're not making any claims" when you have a whole section of the site devoted to making claims.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: TotesNotReptilian on June 05, 2016, 12:28:31 AM
You can't say "We're not making any claims" when you have a whole section of the site devoted to making claims.

His point is that they haven't made any claims in this particular thread. The point of this thread was to prove that the photos couldn't be faked, not to debunk evidence that they are fake.

In general, I agree with rabinoz: the burden of proof is on flat earthers to show evidence that these images are faked. (Which they haven't, as far as I can tell. You would think that a website like this would be full of evidence... it's conspicuously empty.)

However, for the purpose of this thread, I agree with junker: the burden of proof is on the people claiming that the photos could not have been faked. If you want to backtrack to the original "but there is no evidence that they are faked to begin with" argument, that's fine. But it defeats the purpose of this thread.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Unsure101 on June 05, 2016, 12:29:10 AM
Please just admit that you (or OP) have no evidence. Continuing the discussion with phrases like "reasonable to think" doesn't get anywhere. Or just continue to make up things and present them as fact, doesn't really matter at this point.

Who is talking about a conspiracy? You guys have gone off the rails at this point.

Since the Flat Earthers (and other deniers of the moon missions) are the accusers the onus is on you (and them) to prove their case, but so often it is simply stated as "it has been accepted that" (or words to that effect), when it most certainly has not been proved!.

These "fake" claims have been answered numerous times. I suppose you have studied:
Examination of Apollo Moon photographs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examination_of_Apollo_Moon_photographs#Inconsistent_color_and_angle_of_shadows_and_light)
and
Moon Base Clavius (http://www.clavius.org/) and refuted in detail the answers to many of the fake "fake" claims.

Until then I think it fair you "admit that you . . . .  have no evidence."
Rab, from a quick scan of the debate forum, the majority of the threads are started by Round Earthers making claims and Flat Earthers demanding evidence. There are minimal threads started by FEs, with the exception of Intikam, and they usually end up with REs making counter claims and the FEs again demanding evidence.
The only place where FEs make their claims is in the other forums where debate is discouraged.
If you think about it, the whole site is a perfect FE environment as essentially the FEs can make their claims without rebuttal and the REs have to support their claims with evidence that the FEs refuse to accept.

Then again, the website is called The Flat Earth society.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: TotesNotReptilian on June 05, 2016, 12:33:03 AM
The only place where FEs make their claims is in the other forums where debate is discouraged.
If you think about it, the whole site is a perfect FE environment as essentially the FEs can make their claims without rebuttal and the REs have to support their claims with evidence that the FEs refuse to accept.

I doubt that's by design. That's just what naturally happens when one side is completely incapable of supporting their side of the argument. They retreat to a safe place.

Edit:
I'm starting to get an inkling that you're not who you say you are... Send us a video of your eyes so we can see if they transform or not.

I have special eyes, and a minor skin condition. (https://media.giphy.com/media/xTiTnmuDsR7NtN9XWw/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Unsure101 on June 05, 2016, 04:56:13 AM
I doubt that's by design. That's just what naturally happens when one side is completely incapable of supporting their side of the argument. They retreat to a safe place.
I wonder how many FEs would comment on a forum dedicated to a round earth?
I have special eyes, and a minor skin condition. (https://media.giphy.com/media/xTiTnmuDsR7NtN9XWw/giphy.gif)
You lied to us, you totesAREreptilian!!
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Venus on June 05, 2016, 06:27:12 AM
Actually, it is up to you to prove your points 1 and 2. Using subjective phrasing such as "they are too good..." is not proof, which is why I said you haven't provided evidence, because you haven't.

He showed an example of CGI from 1975 that was not remotely close to photo realism. That's a good indicator that photo realism was not available 6 years prior.

Irrelevant.


Incorrect.

No one said it was CGI.

(http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/2001_pic2.jpeg)

This is a still from "2001: A Space Odyssey," Circa 1968.

Don't discount what is possible to do for a group of highly motivated individuals. The idea that it would be just too darn hard to pull off, or inconceivable that someone would even try, is basically the first line of defense for every unthinkable thing that has ever been done.

It was thought to be highly unlikely or impossible to land on the moon in the first place, why would faking it be even harder?

This hardly looks like a PHOTOGRAPH !!!
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: CableDawg on June 05, 2016, 06:39:56 AM
Please just admit that you (or OP) have no evidence. Continuing the discussion with phrases like "reasonable to think" doesn't get anywhere. Or just continue to make up things and present them as fact, doesn't really matter at this point.

Who is talking about a conspiracy? You guys have gone off the rails at this point.



Since the Flat Earthers (and other deniers of the moon missions) are the accusers the onus is on you (and them) to prove their case, but so often it is simply stated as "it has been accepted that" (or words to that effect), when it most certainly has not been proved!.

These "fake" claims have been answered numerous times. I suppose you have studied:
Examination of Apollo Moon photographs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examination_of_Apollo_Moon_photographs#Inconsistent_color_and_angle_of_shadows_and_light)
and
Moon Base Clavius (http://www.clavius.org/) and refuted in detail the answers to many of the fake "fake" claims.

Until then I think it fair you "admit that you . . . .  have no evidence."

I get that you round earthers don't do logic very well, but please make an attempt. I'd suggest starting at the beginning of this thread, and then point out any claim made by a FE proponent that would put the onus on us. I have faith that you'll realize there were no claims made by us (hint: see the OP). You'll find the only claim that needs supporting evidence was made by the RE side. You'll also see the only thing provided is conjecture.

I really don't understand what's so difficult about this, but I imagine you'll keep dodging like RErs are known to do.

We do actual logic perfectly fine.

We don't do your logic at all.  That is where the conflict and disconnect exists.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Venus on June 06, 2016, 12:04:58 PM

It is completely reasonable to think that 2001 was at or near the cutting edge of such visual effects, considering it was marveled at as a major cinematic achievement. What reason is there to think these reactions are unreasonable? 

Unlike FEers we will not posit a secret conspiracy to keep cutting edge photo manipulation away from the public eye, without evidence.

Please just admit that you (or OP) have no evidence. Continuing the discussion with phrases like "reasonable to think" doesn't get anywhere. Or just continue to make up things and present them as fact, doesn't really matter at this point.

Who is talking about a conspiracy? You guys have gone off the rails at this point.

I am still waiting for a half decent answer from any FE'er which proves the 14,233 photos from the Apollo missions are fake.

I very much doubt that any of you have even visited the link (after all you don't want to risk having to admit you were wrong by looking at absolutely amazing photos which might convince you that the earth really is a sphere!!)

1. Man DID go to the moon ... in fact SIX of the Apollo missions landed on the moon, and a total of 12 men have walked on the moon !!
AND
2. The earth is a sphere,

The "evidence" that proves 1. and 2. above are the 14,223 photographs taken by the Apollo missions and uploaded to the NASA flickr account.

I believe that we are agreed that no CGI was available at that time (1968-1972), which would have been capable of creating these photographs.
However even I will admit that perhaps some incredibly skilled artists could have drawn or painted some of them, but my view is that these photos are real.

So I am still waiting for you to point out which of these 14,223 photos are faked, and how they are faked.
You might want to especially focus (no pun intended!) on the photos which show the earth either from the Apollo spacecraft or from the moon.

NASA has uploaded these photos to flickr, so are obviously claiming that they are real.
Whereas you (FE'ers) claim they are fake... so the burden of proof is for you to show us how have they been faked... I want links to the exact photos, descriptions of the exact anomalies in the photos and an explanation of how these anomalies prove the photo or photos are faked.

Over to you !!

PS I might remind you that in a court of law a video or photos of a robbery or murder happening or of a person leaving the scene (eg CCTV surveillance) is accepted as proof and thousands and thousands of convictions have been made on the basis of CCTV footage. The burden of proof would be on the defendant's lawyer to prove that the CCTV footage had been tampered with in some way to have it removed from the court case.

The ball is in your court !
 
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: juner on June 06, 2016, 12:48:18 PM
RE: Prove me wrong!

FE: You're the one making a claim, the burden lies with you to prove it.

RE: I don't know what you're talking about, prove me wrong!

Lather, rinse, repeat.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: sandokhan on June 06, 2016, 01:41:38 PM
One of the most informative works on the fake nasa missions...

http://web.archive.org/web/20080104131143/http://www.futuresunltd.com/sudarshan/MoonShadows/MoonShadows.htm#Videos

A brief excerpt.

How did they fake so many trips to Venus and Saturn, Mars, etc.?

Well, one day around 1978 I was also wondering the same thing myself. I had seen the pictures of Saturn and it's rings and moons and I was also wondering, wow, 10's of 1,000's of electronic photos were being transmitted from, what was it, Voyager?. I kept wondering, How?  Of course, they could just be models and photos were taken. But, then, one day, just after Star Wars II came out and Star Trek the movie (# 1) came out I had got hold of a movie industry magazine that was called Business Pictures. In it were ads from special effects companies who work for Hollywood. This was the dawn of computer graphics being used in motion pictures. Star Wars I was made using mostly models, but, after Star Wars I, George Lucas used some of the profits to set up a new lab called Pixar, which strove to push the technology and create stunning effects using state of the art Computer Workstations. CG, or Computer Graphics. I was looking at some of the ads and articles in the magazine and I found a peculiar one. Unfortunately I do not recall the name of the company running the ad. But, they were selling computer graphics "programming", not a finished program, but the algorythms and 'basic mathematical building blocks' used to create a program. What they claimed to be was a company that does contract work for JPL, NASA and the military. What they were selling were the software foundations and routines that did texture mapping and perspective, surface reflection, shadow mapping, etc. Then, what really caught my eye and peaked my interest was that the ad stated that the information they were selling had been developed over 10 years prior by NASA and the US military and had, up until now, been considered highly classified and secret information. With this technology and the use of super computers they claimed it was possible to create virtually any special effects scene. The reason given that the information was now being declassified and being offered for sale was that the movie industry (specifically the work done by Lucas's Pixar team - which became the foundation for Industrial Light and Magic, the premiere computer graphics company of the entire industry), had begun to catch up with the secret technology and it was decided there was no longer any reason to keep the information classified.

Wow. The same technology that helped to produce the visual effects of space, planets, and space crafts used for Star Wars II and Star Trek I had been developed and used by NASA and JPL for over 10 years earlier. That would mean that NASA and JPL had the ability to create virtual reality graphics effects as early as the late 1960's. Texture mapping, shadow mapping, light reflection, etc. Then I instantly realized how JPL was turning out 10's of 1,000's of electronic photos of Saturn and space. They had CG technology for a long time before Hollywood finally caught up and learned how to do it. The 'fly-by' probes that mapped Venus and Saturn, etc. all sent back to earth electronic data and photos. It was feasible to generate all of this on computer. JPL had at it's disposal the fastest and most powerful super-computers of the day, like the Cray. All they had to do was bounce signals off a distant satellite so that the ground crews would receive real signals that they thought were coming from deep space.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Venus on June 06, 2016, 03:42:31 PM
RE: Prove me wrong!

FE: You're the one making a claim, the burden lies with you to prove it.

RE: I don't know what you're talking about, prove me wrong!

Lather, rinse, repeat.

In other words you CAN'T prove them to be fake in any way... if all 14,223 photos were fakes you should be able to easily prove it but you can't !

Just like you can't provide a map of the flat earth which shows all continents, countries and oceans in their correct sizes and proportions as they were mapped out by surveyors and sailors (the Australian coastline was mapped in 1810 so we know that it is not the shape on either of your maps!) And providing a flat earth map on a flat piece of paper should be an easy straightforward task if indeed the earth IS flat ! But you can't!

And why on earth can't rabinoz and I see Polaris? Because we live in the southern hemisphere, so explain that!!! But you can't!!

So when faced with difficult questions ... you avoid them, and turn the tables ...

Did you know that 222 individuals have made 379 spaceflights to the ISS ... are they all dead now? Living a life of luxury on their NASA payouts??

533 people have been to space and have orbited the earth ... are they all dead now? Living a life of luxury on their NASA payouts??

Who bribed all of the astronomers to lie about the shape of the earth before NASA came into existence ?? You know the ancient Greeks 2500 years ago who knew the earth was a sphere ... and all of the ones listed on this website who died before NASA was created in the late 1950's and all believed the earth was a sphere !!
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=famous+astronomers&rlz=1C1CHWL_enAU637AU638&oq=famous+astronomers&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i65l3j0l2.3816j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 (https://www.google.com.au/search?q=famous+astronomers&rlz=1C1CHWL_enAU637AU638&oq=famous+astronomers&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i65l3j0l2.3816j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)

But the thing that I hate the most ... is that all of those thousands of astronomers since 500BC who spent every night for years and years looking at the night sky, collectively spent hundreds of thousands of hours, whole lifetimes spent observing, recording those observations, hypothesising ... and you FE'ers come along and after a couple of hours spent watching YouTube videos think you know more than 2500 years of astronomy, ... because... NASA, or because ... God (or the Bible...whatever)

Yet none of you know as much as Aristarchus did in 200BC !! And he knew then that the earth and other planets went around the sun, and the moon went around the earth, he even knew that the earth was the third planet from the sun, and the correct order of the rest of them which were visible to the naked eye (no telescopes until the 1600's!!). And he knew that the stars were much further away than any of the planets or the sun. He didn't figure all of that out by sitting on his ass in front of a computer ... he went out and looked at the night sky ... probably every night !! He worked all of this out by observing the paths of the sun, moon, stars and planets in the night sky!! Night after night after night !!
But you guys can't do that can you?? Hands up those FE'ers who own a telescope or have even used one??

And yet I bet most of you northerners could not go outside on a cloudless night and actually find Polaris !!! You are an insult to the intelligence, the patience and the sheer determination of all of those astronomers that contributed so much to our knowledge of our beautiful planet, our solar system, our galaxy and our universe, from Aristarchus and Eratosthenes to Hubble and Einstein !!

You give the world nothing !! If any of you had another brain cell you would have a binary system !!

Next time you go to your doctor tell him you don't want him to use the germ theory to treat your infection... tell him you want to be treated using the miasma theory of disease !!
Because if you want to reject the Copernican Theory, and the Theory of Relativity, gravity, space travel, satellites, you may as well reject the rest of what hard working Scientists have given us over the last 2500 years.

Oh and next time you need to use Velcro, or need a Cat scan, or use a cordless drill, or any device which uses a microchip, or have your temperature taken with an ear thermometer, or buy freeze dried food, or use a joystick, or install an LED light globe, or buy a mattress or pillow made of memory foam, or buy scratch resistant lenses, or a new smoke detector, or a water filter, or flame resistant clothing for your children ... thank NASA !!!

Over and out of here ... love to all the RoundEarthers from the girl downunder !!
Title: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: juner on June 06, 2016, 03:51:50 PM
RE: Prove me wrong!

FE: You're the one making a claim, the burden lies with you to prove it.

RE: I don't know what you're talking about, prove me wrong!

Lather, rinse, repeat.

In other words you CAN'T prove them to be fake in any way... if all 14,223 photos were fakes you should be able to easily prove it but you can't !

Just like you can't provide a map of the flat earth which shows all continents, countries and oceans in their correct sizes and proportions as they were mapped out by surveyors and sailors (the Australian coastline was mapped in 1810 so we know that it is not the shape on either of your maps!) And providing a flat earth map on a flat piece of paper should be an easy straightforward task if indeed the earth IS flat ! But you can't!

And why on earth can't rabinoz and I see Polaris? Because we live in the southern hemisphere, so explain that!!! But you can't!!

So when faced with difficult questions ... you avoid them, and turn the tables ...

Did you know that 222 individuals have made 379 spaceflights to the ISS ... are they all dead now? Living a life of luxury on their NASA payouts??

533 people have been to space and have orbited the earth ... are they all dead now? Living a life of luxury on their NASA payouts??

Who bribed all of the astronomers to lie about the shape of the earth before NASA came into existence ?? You know the ancient Greeks 2500 years ago who knew the earth was a sphere ... and all of the ones listed on this website who died before NASA was created in the late 1950's and all believed the earth was a sphere !!
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=famous+astronomers&rlz=1C1CHWL_enAU637AU638&oq=famous+astronomers&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i65l3j0l2.3816j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 (https://www.google.com.au/search?q=famous+astronomers&rlz=1C1CHWL_enAU637AU638&oq=famous+astronomers&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i65l3j0l2.3816j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)

But the thing that I hate the most ... is that all of those thousands of astronomers since 500BC who spent every night for years and years looking at the night sky, collectively spent hundreds of thousands of hours, whole lifetimes spent observing, recording those observations, hypothesising ... and you FE'ers come along and after a couple of hours spent watching YouTube videos think you know more than 2500 years of astronomy, ... because... NASA, or because ... God (or the Bible...whatever)

Yet none of you know as much as Aristarchus did in 200BC !! And he knew then that the earth and other planets went around the sun, and the moon went around the earth, he even knew that the earth was the third planet from the sun, and the correct order of the rest of them which were visible to the naked eye (no telescopes until the 1600's!!). And he knew that the stars were much further away than any of the planets or the sun. He didn't figure all of that out by sitting on his ass in front of a computer ... he went out and looked at the night sky ... probably every night !! He worked all of this out by observing the paths of the sun, moon, stars and planets in the night sky!! Night after night after night !!
But you guys can't do that can you?? Hands up those FE'ers who own a telescope or have even used one??

And yet I bet most of you northerners could not go outside on a cloudless night and actually find Polaris !!! You are an insult to the intelligence, the patience and the sheer determination of all of those astronomers that contributed so much to our knowledge of our beautiful planet, our solar system, our galaxy and our universe, from Aristarchus and Eratosthenes to Hubble and Einstein !!

You give the world nothing !! If any of you had another brain cell you would have a binary system !!

Next time you go to your doctor tell him you don't want him to use the germ theory to treat your infection... tell him you want to be treated using the miasma theory of disease !!
Because if you want to reject the Copernican Theory, and the Theory of Relativity, gravity, space travel, satellites, you may as well reject the rest of what hard working Scientists have given us over the last 2500 years.

Oh and next time you need to use Velcro, or need a Cat scan, or use a cordless drill, or any device which uses a microchip, or have your temperature taken with an ear thermometer, or buy freeze dried food, or use a joystick, or install an LED light globe, or buy a mattress or pillow made of memory foam, or buy scratch resistant lenses, or a new smoke detector, or a water filter, or flame resistant clothing for your children ... thank NASA !!!

Over and out of here ...

Did anyone in this thread say they were fake? Why would anyone have to prove a claim that hasn't been made? The only person making a claim is you, and you've provided no evidence for it.

I'm not even going to read the rest of the nonsense you've posted. This is a fairly common RE tactic; realize you've been called out for a poor argument, then change the subject all while ignoring reasonable replies to your poor argument. Have fun with that.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: andruszkow on June 06, 2016, 04:00:17 PM
RE: Prove me wrong!

FE: You're the one making a claim, the burden lies with you to prove it.

RE: I don't know what you're talking about, prove me wrong!

Lather, rinse, repeat.

In other words you CAN'T prove them to be fake in any way... if all 14,223 photos were fakes you should be able to easily prove it but you can't !

Just like you can't provide a map of the flat earth which shows all continents, countries and oceans in their correct sizes and proportions as they were mapped out by surveyors and sailors (the Australian coastline was mapped in 1810 so we know that it is not the shape on either of your maps!) And providing a flat earth map on a flat piece of paper should be an easy straightforward task if indeed the earth IS flat ! But you can't!

And why on earth can't rabinoz and I see Polaris? Because we live in the southern hemisphere, so explain that!!! But you can't!!

So when faced with difficult questions ... you avoid them, and turn the tables ...

Did you know that 222 individuals have made 379 spaceflights to the ISS ... are they all dead now? Living a life of luxury on their NASA payouts??

533 people have been to space and have orbited the earth ... are they all dead now? Living a life of luxury on their NASA payouts??

Who bribed all of the astronomers to lie about the shape of the earth before NASA came into existence ?? You know the ancient Greeks 2500 years ago who knew the earth was a sphere ... and all of the ones listed on this website who died before NASA was created in the late 1950's and all believed the earth was a sphere !!
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=famous+astronomers&rlz=1C1CHWL_enAU637AU638&oq=famous+astronomers&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i65l3j0l2.3816j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 (https://www.google.com.au/search?q=famous+astronomers&rlz=1C1CHWL_enAU637AU638&oq=famous+astronomers&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i65l3j0l2.3816j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)

But the thing that I hate the most ... is that all of those thousands of astronomers since 500BC who spent every night for years and years looking at the night sky, collectively spent hundreds of thousands of hours, whole lifetimes spent observing, recording those observations, hypothesising ... and you FE'ers come along and after a couple of hours spent watching YouTube videos think you know more than 2500 years of astronomy, ... because... NASA, or because ... God (or the Bible...whatever)

Yet none of you know as much as Aristarchus did in 200BC !! And he knew then that the earth and other planets went around the sun, and the moon went around the earth, he even knew that the earth was the third planet from the sun, and the correct order of the rest of them which were visible to the naked eye (no telescopes until the 1600's!!). And he knew that the stars were much further away than any of the planets or the sun. He didn't figure all of that out by sitting on his ass in front of a computer ... he went out and looked at the night sky ... probably every night !! He worked all of this out by observing the paths of the sun, moon, stars and planets in the night sky!! Night after night after night !!
But you guys can't do that can you?? Hands up those FE'ers who own a telescope or have even used one??

And yet I bet most of you northerners could not go outside on a cloudless night and actually find Polaris !!! You are an insult to the intelligence, the patience and the sheer determination of all of those astronomers that contributed so much to our knowledge of our beautiful planet, our solar system, our galaxy and our universe, from Aristarchus and Eratosthenes to Hubble and Einstein !!

You give the world nothing !! If any of you had another brain cell you would have a binary system !!

Next time you go to your doctor tell him you don't want him to use the germ theory to treat your infection... tell him you want to be treated using the miasma theory of disease !!
Because if you want to reject the Copernican Theory, and the Theory of Relativity, gravity, space travel, satellites, you may as well reject the rest of what hard working Scientists have given us over the last 2500 years.

Oh and next time you need to use Velcro, or need a Cat scan, or use a cordless drill, or any device which uses a microchip, or have your temperature taken with an ear thermometer, or buy freeze dried food, or use a joystick, or install an LED light globe, or buy a mattress or pillow made of memory foam, or buy scratch resistant lenses, or a new smoke detector, or a water filter, or flame resistant clothing for your children ... thank NASA !!!

Over and out of here ...

Did anyone in this thread say they were fake? Why would anyone have to prove a claim that hasn't been made? The only person making a claim is you, and you've provided no evidence for it.

I'm not even going to read the rest of the nonsense you've posted. This is a fairly common RE tactic; realize you've been called out for a poor argument, then change the subject all while ignoring reasonable replies to your poor argument. Have fun with that.

But you do mostly the same. It's always very meta with you, or semantics. Never any content.

Sandokhan, isn't his "testimony" a bit easy? "I once saw an ad bla de bleh" - And even so, it proves nothing.

Edit: Bounce signals off distant satellites. I'm confused. Your AFET and various posts on the subject state that there's no such thing, and we've never gone higher than 20 km
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Rama Set on June 06, 2016, 04:45:45 PM
Please just admit that you (or OP) have no evidence. Continuing the discussion with phrases like "reasonable to think" doesn't get anywhere. Or just continue to make up things and present them as fact, doesn't really matter at this point.

Who is talking about a conspiracy? You guys have gone off the rails at this point.

Since the Flat Earthers (and other deniers of the moon missions) are the accusers the onus is on you (and them) to prove their case, but so often it is simply stated as "it has been accepted that" (or words to that effect), when it most certainly has not been proved!.

These "fake" claims have been answered numerous times. I suppose you have studied:
Examination of Apollo Moon photographs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examination_of_Apollo_Moon_photographs#Inconsistent_color_and_angle_of_shadows_and_light)
and
Moon Base Clavius (http://www.clavius.org/) and refuted in detail the answers to many of the fake "fake" claims.

Until then I think it fair you "admit that you . . . .  have no evidence."

I get that you round earthers don't do logic very well, but please make an attempt. I'd suggest starting at the beginning of this thread, and then point out any claim made by a FE proponent that would put the onus on us. I have faith that you'll realize there were no claims made by us (hint: see the OP). You'll find the only claim that needs supporting evidence was made by the RE side. You'll also see the only thing provided is conjecture.

I really don't understand what's so difficult about this, but I imagine you'll keep dodging like RErs are known to do.

Well based on this history of CGI (http://computerstories.net/a-computer-generated-imagery-cgi-history-698) we see no evidence of photorealistic CGI being even remotely close to possible, with 1968 mainframes being required to create a 100 frames of extremely basic 2D imagery. It is obviously extremely difficult to prove a negative, which is why I have stayed away from trying to do so and have never claimed definitively that the photos could not be CGI; that would be an intellectually dishonest position.

It just seems that unless there is some sort of elaborate cover up going on, there is no good reason to think that the Apollo photos are other than what they say they are considering the scrutiny they have been put under and not to be found wanting, except by the hoaxsters, whose claims have been dealt with thoroughly in other venues.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: TheTruthIsOnHere on June 06, 2016, 04:48:38 PM

It is completely reasonable to think that 2001 was at or near the cutting edge of such visual effects, considering it was marveled at as a major cinematic achievement. What reason is there to think these reactions are unreasonable? 

Unlike FEers we will not posit a secret conspiracy to keep cutting edge photo manipulation away from the public eye, without evidence.

Please just admit that you (or OP) have no evidence. Continuing the discussion with phrases like "reasonable to think" doesn't get anywhere. Or just continue to make up things and present them as fact, doesn't really matter at this point.

Who is talking about a conspiracy? You guys have gone off the rails at this point.

I am still waiting for a half decent answer from any FE'er which proves the 14,233 photos from the Apollo missions are fake.

I very much doubt that any of you have even visited the link (after all you don't want to risk having to admit you were wrong by looking at absolutely amazing photos which might convince you that the earth really is a sphere!!)

1. Man DID go to the moon ... in fact SIX of the Apollo missions landed on the moon, and a total of 12 men have walked on the moon !!
AND
2. The earth is a sphere,

The "evidence" that proves 1. and 2. above are the 14,223 photographs taken by the Apollo missions and uploaded to the NASA flickr account.

I believe that we are agreed that no CGI was available at that time (1968-1972), which would have been capable of creating these photographs.
However even I will admit that perhaps some incredibly skilled artists could have drawn or painted some of them, but my view is that these photos are real.

So I am still waiting for you to point out which of these 14,223 photos are faked, and how they are faked.
You might want to especially focus (no pun intended!) on the photos which show the earth either from the Apollo spacecraft or from the moon.

NASA has uploaded these photos to flickr, so are obviously claiming that they are real.
Whereas you (FE'ers) claim they are fake... so the burden of proof is for you to show us how have they been faked... I want links to the exact photos, descriptions of the exact anomalies in the photos and an explanation of how these anomalies prove the photo or photos are faked.

Over to you !!

PS I might remind you that in a court of law a video or photos of a robbery or murder happening or of a person leaving the scene (eg CCTV surveillance) is accepted as proof and thousands and thousands of convictions have been made on the basis of CCTV footage. The burden of proof would be on the defendant's lawyer to prove that the CCTV footage had been tampered with in some way to have it removed from the court case.

The ball is in your court !

How about the sheer number of photographs? Compared to the amount of time supposedly spent on the surface. The math brings the rate of photos being taken at something like one every 50 seconds.

Just accept the possibility that it could have been faked. This desperate allegiance to an entity that is apart of an entity that isn't necessarily known for being forthcoming, honest, or trustworthy is clouding your judgement.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: UnionsOfSolarSystemPlanet on June 06, 2016, 05:35:00 PM
How about the sheer number of photographs? Compared to the amount of time supposedly spent on the surface. The math brings the rate of photos being taken at something like one every 50 seconds.
Every argument you can think of, we already have explanation of it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examination_of_Apollo_Moon_photographs#High_number_of_photographs)

And please, if you don't want to refute the existing explanation, simply don't do it. Don't even try an Ad hominem, even if the page "seems" biased.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: TheTruthIsOnHere on June 06, 2016, 06:19:11 PM
How about the sheer number of photographs? Compared to the amount of time supposedly spent on the surface. The math brings the rate of photos being taken at something like one every 50 seconds.
Every argument you can think of, we already have explanation of it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examination_of_Apollo_Moon_photographs#High_number_of_photographs)

And please, if you don't want to refute the existing explanation, simply don't do it. Don't even try an Ad hominem, even if the page "seems" biased.

"We?" Are you part of some kind of online NASA defense brigade or something?

All I said was to attempt to open your mind to the possibility that it could have been faked. Not to believe that it has been, or campaign to prove that it was faked. Just to crack the window a little to let some fresh air in. Being so stubbornly adherent to a concept which you couldn't possibly validate personally, even with a hundred wikipedia articles and apologist websites, seems illogical to me. We're in a debate section, that isn't an ad hominem attack, that is a questioning of your logic itself, not of your character.

Apollo 17 photo archive (http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/images17.html) (approx 1,986 taken on the actual surface)

Apollo 17 video gallery (https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+%22Apollo+17%22&tbm=vid&tbo=p&source=vgc&num=100&gws_rd=ssl)  (Some of this is very comical in its own right)

As you can see the astronauts are doing many things in the extensive amount of video available from the mission, constantly taking photos is not one of them.

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Mission Objective

The lunar landing site was the Taurus-Littrow highlands and valley area. This site was picked for Apollo 17 as a location where rocks both older and younger than those previously returned from other Apollo missions, as well as from Luna 16 and 20 missions, might be found.

The mission was the final in a series of three J-type missions planned for the Apollo Program. These J-type missions can be distinguished from previous G- and H-series missions by extended hardware capability, larger scientific payload capacity and by the use of the battery-powered Lunar Roving Vehicle, or LRV.

Scientific objectives of the Apollo 17 mission included, geological surveying and sampling of materials and surface features in a preselected area of the Taurus-Littrow region; deploying and activating surface experiments; and conducting in-flight experiments and photographic tasks during lunar orbit and transearth coast. These objectives included deployed experiments, such as the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package, or ALSEP, with a heat flow experiment; lunar seismic profiling, or LSP; lunar surface gravimeter, or LSG; lunar atmospheric composition experiment, or LACE; and lunar ejecta and meteorites, or LEAM. The mission also included lunar sampling and lunar orbital experiments. Biomedical experiments included the Biostack II experiment and the BIOCORE experiment.

Above is the stated mission for Apollo 17. Seems like a lot of tasks to be completed, and you'd see a lot of photographs of these tasks happening. However there seems to be very little photographic documentation of any of this stuff happening.

If taking photos was the only mission for the apollo landings, then yes, the amount of photos might make sense. But there was a ton of other tasks that astronauts were supposed to complete, such as constructing the rovers etc. It doesn't add up. Thus, there is cause for doubt. You'd have to be a fool to believe there isn't.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Luke 22:35-38 on June 06, 2016, 07:22:38 PM
Here's something I was wondering about. If they had advance technology to fake the landings, shouldn't they have the technology to actually land on the moon?
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: UnionsOfSolarSystemPlanet on June 06, 2016, 07:31:24 PM
As you can see the astronauts are doing many things in the extensive amount of video available from the mission, constantly taking photos is not one of them.

If taking photos was the only mission for the apollo landings, then yes, the amount of photos might make sense.
Again
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All that was needed to take a picture was to open the shutter. Film winding was automatic.


But there was a ton of other tasks that astronauts were supposed to complete, such as constructing the rovers etc.
It was already constructed, they just deploy it:
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Deployment of the LRV from the LM's Quadrant 1 bay by the astronauts was achieved with a system of pulleys and braked reels using ropes and cloth tapes. The rover was folded and stored in the bay with the underside of the chassis facing out. One astronaut would climb the egress ladder on the LM and release the rover, which would then be slowly tilted out by the second astronaut on the ground through the use of reels and tapes. As the rover was let down from the bay, most of the deployment was automatic. The rear wheels folded out and locked in place. When they touched the ground, the front of the rover could be unfolded, the wheels deployed, and the entire frame let down to the surface by pulleys.

The rover components locked into place upon opening. Cabling, pins, and tripods would then be removed and the seats and footrests raised. After switching on all the electronics, the vehicle was ready to back away from the LM.

I have not checked the entire picture collection, do you mean that most of their task are not pictured such as deploying the rover?

It doesn't add up. Thus, there is cause for doubt. You'd have to be a fool to believe there isn't.
Considering the rovers were deployed early, they may have not yet start taking pictures, i'd pick the most simple explanation and an explanation that the landing was fake for something so minor facts should be the least to consider as it's hard to be consistent with the major facts.

"We?" Are you part of some kind of online NASA defense brigade or something?
It's my choice of wording, again you should take the complicated explanation as the least to consider.
And no, i may be a NASA enthusiast here, but i'm not their defender.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Rama Set on June 06, 2016, 08:58:40 PM
Here's something I was wondering about. If they had advance technology to fake the landings, shouldn't they have the technology to actually land on the moon?

Not really.  Doctoring photos is much different than rocket propulsion.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Luke 22:35-38 on June 07, 2016, 01:54:43 AM
Here's something I was wondering about. If they had advance technology to fake the landings, shouldn't they have the technology to actually land on the moon?

Not really.  Doctoring photos is much different than rocket propulsion.

But rocket propulsion is feasible. You but them every Fourth of July.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Rama Set on June 07, 2016, 04:38:49 AM
Here's something I was wondering about. If they had advance technology to fake the landings, shouldn't they have the technology to actually land on the moon?

Not really.  Doctoring photos is much different than rocket propulsion.

But rocket propulsion is feasible. You but them every Fourth of July.

True, but that has nothing to do with your original argument.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: TheTruthIsOnHere on June 07, 2016, 09:34:18 PM
Here's something I was wondering about. If they had advance technology to fake the landings, shouldn't they have the technology to actually land on the moon?

Not really.  Doctoring photos is much different than rocket propulsion.

Much, much easier.

Can you tell me how me how they calculated A. The gravity of the moon prior to going there B. The rotational speed of the moon C. How much fuel they would need to reach a horizontal escape velocity and D. how they were so perfectly precise to rendezvous with the orbiter

Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: andruszkow on June 07, 2016, 10:10:32 PM
Here's something I was wondering about. If they had advance technology to fake the landings, shouldn't they have the technology to actually land on the moon?

Not really.  Doctoring photos is much different than rocket propulsion.

Much, much easier.

Can you tell me how me how they calculated A. The gravity of the moon prior to going there B. The rotational speed of the moon C. How much fuel they would need to reach a horizontal escape velocity and D. how they were so perfectly precise to rendezvous with the orbiter

A: 1) Newtons Law of Universal Gravitation, and 2) Going from lithobraking probes to circularizing probes in orbit around the Moon

B: Rotational as in it's rotation around it's own axis, or it's orbital speed around Earth? In the latter, by observation. Observing an orbital period of 27.32 days, and knowing the radius and gravitational constant of the Earth, you can calculate a fairly precise orbital speed.

C: Horizontal escape velocity? Please elaborate. However, calculating delta-V budgets has been possible since the rocket equation was derived in 1903 (and even earlier than that IIRC)

D: With help of the satellites/probes, they knew the gravitational constant of the Moon. Taking off from a body with 1/6th the gravity of Earth is a major feat, but also much easier than taking off from Earth. You "only" fight the weak gravity of the Moon, where as on Earth, you also muscle your way through the soupy atmosphere. This allows you to adjust your path during ascent pretty precisely.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Luke 22:35-38 on June 07, 2016, 10:52:06 PM
Here's something I was wondering about. If they had advance technology to fake the landings, shouldn't they have the technology to actually land on the moon?

Not really.  Doctoring photos is much different than rocket propulsion.

But rocket propulsion is feasible. You but them every Fourth of July.

True, but that has nothing to do with your original argument.

My original point was if they had this secret technology to doctor pictures then why couldn't they have the same advanced technology to send someone to the moon? Did they spent all of their technology to doctor pictures and not build anti gravity machines?
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Rama Set on June 08, 2016, 12:23:13 AM
Here's something I was wondering about. If they had advance technology to fake the landings, shouldn't they have the technology to actually land on the moon?

Not really.  Doctoring photos is much different than rocket propulsion.

But rocket propulsion is feasible. You but them every Fourth of July.

True, but that has nothing to do with your original argument.

My original point was if they had this secret technology to doctor pictures then why couldn't they have the same advanced technology to send someone to the moon? Did they spent all of their technology to doctor pictures and not build anti gravity machines?

This doesn't help
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: rabinoz on June 08, 2016, 01:43:34 AM
Here's something I was wondering about. If they had advance technology to fake the landings, shouldn't they have the technology to actually land on the moon?

Not really.  Doctoring photos is much different than rocket propulsion.

Much, much easier.

Can you tell me how me how they calculated A. The gravity of the moon prior to going there B. The rotational speed of the moon C. How much fuel they would need to reach a horizontal escape velocity and D. how they were so perfectly precise to rendezvous with the orbiter

Your whole attitude since I have seen you posting has been "If TheTruthIsOnHere can't understand it, it is impossible! and MUST be a fake."
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: TheTruthIsOnHere on June 08, 2016, 04:44:43 AM
Here's something I was wondering about. If they had advance technology to fake the landings, shouldn't they have the technology to actually land on the moon?

Not really.  Doctoring photos is much different than rocket propulsion.

Much, much easier.

Can you tell me how me how they calculated A. The gravity of the moon prior to going there B. The rotational speed of the moon C. How much fuel they would need to reach a horizontal escape velocity and D. how they were so perfectly precise to rendezvous with the orbiter

Your whole attitude since I have seen you posting has been "If TheTruthIsOnHere can't understand it, it is impossible! and MUST be a fake."
Actually it's more like you pretending I don't understand something because I don't believe it.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: TheTruthIsOnHere on June 08, 2016, 05:05:30 AM
Here's something I was wondering about. If they had advance technology to fake the landings, shouldn't they have the technology to actually land on the moon?

Not really.  Doctoring photos is much different than rocket propulsion.

Much, much easier.

Can you tell me how me how they calculated A. The gravity of the moon prior to going there B. The rotational speed of the moon C. How much fuel they would need to reach a horizontal escape velocity and D. how they were so perfectly precise to rendezvous with the orbiter

C: Horizontal escape velocity? Please elaborate. However, calculating delta-V budgets has been possible since the rocket equation was derived in 1903 (and even earlier than that IIRC)


When you see the video of the lunar lander jerking upwards, without any of the typical ignition blast sequence style propulsion, how exactly does it reach the escape velocity required to be in "orbit" around the moon. You need to be going roughly 25,000 mph to escape Earth's gravity, the moon being about 1/5 of the Earth's gravity, you'd have to travel 5,000mph horizontally to escape its gravity. That's why when you see a rocket launch on earth, they are on a parabolic curve, and release the payload at the perfect time to jettison it horizontally to technically "free fall" faster than the Earth can spin (orbit). The video doesn't show this style of launch, or anywhere near the amount of speed or angle to achieve this.

Anyway guys. Carry on with whatever you want to believe. Deny your own senses and all common sense and logic if that is what truly makes you happy.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: andruszkow on June 08, 2016, 07:23:40 AM
Here's something I was wondering about. If they had advance technology to fake the landings, shouldn't they have the technology to actually land on the moon?

Not really.  Doctoring photos is much different than rocket propulsion.

Much, much easier.

Can you tell me how me how they calculated A. The gravity of the moon prior to going there B. The rotational speed of the moon C. How much fuel they would need to reach a horizontal escape velocity and D. how they were so perfectly precise to rendezvous with the orbiter

C: Horizontal escape velocity? Please elaborate. However, calculating delta-V budgets has been possible since the rocket equation was derived in 1903 (and even earlier than that IIRC)


When you see the video of the lunar lander jerking upwards, without any of the typical ignition blast sequence style propulsion, how exactly does it reach the escape velocity required to be in "orbit" around the moon. You need to be going roughly 25,000 mph to escape Earth's gravity, the moon being about 1/5 of the Earth's gravity, you'd have to travel 5,000mph horizontally to escape its gravity. That's why when you see a rocket launch on earth, they are on a parabolic curve, and release the payload at the perfect time to jettison it horizontally to technically "free fall" faster than the Earth can spin (orbit). The video doesn't show this style of launch, or anywhere near the amount of speed or angle to achieve this.

Anyway guys. Carry on with whatever you want to believe. Deny your own senses and all common sense and logic if that is what truly makes you happy.

You don't need to escape earth's gravity to go to the moon. The moon obviously haven't.

I think you're confusing the rocket trail expected on earth with the rocket trail created when there's no atmosphere. On the moon, you can go straight to near horizontal for horizontal speed from the get-go because your don't have atmospheric drag.

The lander module did not have to reach escape velocity either, it "Only" had to rendezvous with the command module. The lander module were discarded, while the already in lunar orbit command module returned to earth. Reaching escape velocity from orbit is obviously far cheaper than reaching it from the surface

Edit: The lander did a rendezvous with the command module via a direct ascent IIRC. It didn't get into orbit first.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Luke 22:35-38 on June 08, 2016, 07:32:53 PM
Here's something I was wondering about. If they had advance technology to fake the landings, shouldn't they have the technology to actually land on the moon?

Not really.  Doctoring photos is much different than rocket propulsion.

But rocket propulsion is feasible. You but them every Fourth of July.

True, but that has nothing to do with your original argument.

My original point was if they had this secret technology to doctor pictures then why couldn't they have the same advanced technology to send someone to the moon? Did they spent all of their technology to doctor pictures and not build anti gravity machines?

This doesn't help

Why?
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Rounder on June 09, 2016, 05:09:52 AM
When you see the video of the lunar lander jerking upwards, without any of the typical ignition blast sequence style propulsion, how exactly does it reach the escape velocity required to be in "orbit" around the moon. ... when you see a rocket launch on earth, they are on a parabolic curve, and release the payload at the perfect time to jettison it horizontally to technically "free fall" faster than the Earth can spin (orbit). The video doesn't show this style of launch, or anywhere near the amount of speed or angle to achieve this.

Seems to me if they were going to fake the whole thing, they would have made it look the way a non rocket scientist would expect it to look, because the entire watching world is very close to 100% NOT rocket scientists.  What possible reason would they have for inventing a new flight profile?
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: TheTruthIsOnHere on June 09, 2016, 02:56:30 PM
GUYS SERIOUSLY GET A LIFE. U GUYS JUST LOOK OUT TO SEA AND THE WORLD IS OBVIOUSLY NOT FLAT. UR A BUNCH OF SPETHL PEOPLE. HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY BELIEVE SOMTHING SO STUPID! I MEAN FOR GOD SAKE LOOK AT ALL THE EVIDENCE. DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT EVERY SCIENTIST IN THE WORLD IS LYING? HOW RETARDED CAN U GET?

Such rage and anger. Obviously I wouldn't trust your understanding of the world because you lack the basic reading comprehension to see this is a thread about the Apollo moon hoax and nothing at all to do with the shape of the Earth. If I had to rely on you to explain "all the evidence" I don't think I'd ever understand the shape of the world. 
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: TheTruthIsOnHere on June 09, 2016, 03:17:58 PM
When you see the video of the lunar lander jerking upwards, without any of the typical ignition blast sequence style propulsion, how exactly does it reach the escape velocity required to be in "orbit" around the moon. ... when you see a rocket launch on earth, they are on a parabolic curve, and release the payload at the perfect time to jettison it horizontally to technically "free fall" faster than the Earth can spin (orbit). The video doesn't show this style of launch, or anywhere near the amount of speed or angle to achieve this.

Seems to me if they were going to fake the whole thing, they would have made it look the way a non rocket scientist would expect it to look, because the entire watching world is very close to 100% NOT rocket scientists.  What possible reason would they have for inventing a new flight profile?

Or maybe, just maybe it was beyond their ability to fake? Your logic would dictate that NASA believed they could pull a fast one on the public simply because 99.9999% wouldn't know what it's supposed to look like.


Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Rama Set on June 09, 2016, 04:24:56 PM
When you see the video of the lunar lander jerking upwards, without any of the typical ignition blast sequence style propulsion, how exactly does it reach the escape velocity required to be in "orbit" around the moon. ... when you see a rocket launch on earth, they are on a parabolic curve, and release the payload at the perfect time to jettison it horizontally to technically "free fall" faster than the Earth can spin (orbit). The video doesn't show this style of launch, or anywhere near the amount of speed or angle to achieve this.

Seems to me if they were going to fake the whole thing, they would have made it look the way a non rocket scientist would expect it to look, because the entire watching world is very close to 100% NOT rocket scientists.  What possible reason would they have for inventing a new flight profile?

Or maybe, just maybe it was beyond their ability to fake? Your logic would dictate that NASA believed they could pull a fast one on the public simply because 99.9999% wouldn't know what it's supposed to look like.

If I was protecting a worldwide conspiracy with billions on the line (lol) I would not be lazy like that.  Just me though.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: TheTruthIsOnHere on June 09, 2016, 04:43:25 PM
When you see the video of the lunar lander jerking upwards, without any of the typical ignition blast sequence style propulsion, how exactly does it reach the escape velocity required to be in "orbit" around the moon. ... when you see a rocket launch on earth, they are on a parabolic curve, and release the payload at the perfect time to jettison it horizontally to technically "free fall" faster than the Earth can spin (orbit). The video doesn't show this style of launch, or anywhere near the amount of speed or angle to achieve this.

Seems to me if they were going to fake the whole thing, they would have made it look the way a non rocket scientist would expect it to look, because the entire watching world is very close to 100% NOT rocket scientists.  What possible reason would they have for inventing a new flight profile?

Or maybe, just maybe it was beyond their ability to fake? Your logic would dictate that NASA believed they could pull a fast one on the public simply because 99.9999% wouldn't know what it's supposed to look like.

If I was protecting a worldwide conspiracy with billions on the line (lol) I would not be lazy like that.  Just me though.

Interesting you say that because even to this day they get caught being lazy all the time. They just know that space travel and the globe earth are so etched into people's minds, even so far that people actually take some kind of personal satisfaction and pride in the achievements, of which they had absolutely no part, that it is VERY easy to dismiss any idea counter to that, regardless of evidence, common sense, logic etc. All they have to do is aim the magic wand that relegates holders of dissenting opinions to the tin foil conspiracy theory hat rack. It is very commonplace and it is a result of social engineering and conditioning.

They realized that through strong psychological willingness to accept the truth as we are told as true, that we will actually, through some Stockholm syndromesque function, reject anything that takes that truth away, no matter how much evidence there to support it. And controlling all mainstream media doesn't hurt.

Some smart guy from the past said something to the effect that "it is easier to fool someone then to convince someone that they have been fooled. "
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: andruszkow on June 09, 2016, 05:08:39 PM
When you see the video of the lunar lander jerking upwards, without any of the typical ignition blast sequence style propulsion, how exactly does it reach the escape velocity required to be in "orbit" around the moon. ... when you see a rocket launch on earth, they are on a parabolic curve, and release the payload at the perfect time to jettison it horizontally to technically "free fall" faster than the Earth can spin (orbit). The video doesn't show this style of launch, or anywhere near the amount of speed or angle to achieve this.

Seems to me if they were going to fake the whole thing, they would have made it look the way a non rocket scientist would expect it to look, because the entire watching world is very close to 100% NOT rocket scientists.  What possible reason would they have for inventing a new flight profile?

Or maybe, just maybe it was beyond their ability to fake? Your logic would dictate that NASA believed they could pull a fast one on the public simply because 99.9999% wouldn't know what it's supposed to look like.

If I was protecting a worldwide conspiracy with billions on the line (lol) I would not be lazy like that.  Just me though.

Interesting you say that because even to this day they get caught being lazy all the time. They just know that space travel and the globe earth are so etched into people's minds, even so far that people actually take some kind of personal satisfaction and pride in the achievements, of which they had absolutely no part, that it is VERY easy to dismiss any idea counter to that, regardless of evidence, common sense, logic etc. All they have to do is aim the magic wand that relegates holders of dissenting opinions to the tin foil conspiracy theory hat rack. It is very commonplace and it is a result of social engineering and conditioning.

They realized that through strong psychological willingness to accept the truth as we are told as true, that we will actually, through some Stockholm syndromesque function, reject anything that takes that truth away, no matter how much evidence there to support it. And controlling all mainstream media doesn't hurt.

Some smart guy from the past said something to the effect that "it is easier to fool someone then to convince someone that they have been fooled. "
Since you didn't reply to my post about the Apollo mission, but went on with a reply explaining the effects of so-called social engineering (buzz buzz) and implicitly and effectively ranking yourself smarter than the rest of us, do explain how and when NASA got caught being lazy?

Please explain to me how it is possible for organizations not affiliated with NASA to accomplish some of the feats previously reserved for NASA? Blue Origin, SpaceX (pre-contact), Brazilian, Indian and even North Korean space agencies, and the myriad of smaller private, and even amateur space programs like Copenhagen Suborbitals and Dare who launches solid fuel rockets based on candlelight wax, but none of you ever really talk about these accomplishments and/or how they faked them?
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: TheTruthIsOnHere on June 09, 2016, 05:45:50 PM
Since you didn't reply to my post about the Apollo mission, but went on with a reply explaining the effects of so-called social engineering (buzz buzz) and implicitly and effectively ranking yourself smarter than the rest of us, do explain how and when NASA got caught being lazy?

Please explain to me how it is possible for organizations not affiliated with NASA to accomplish some of the feats previously reserved for NASA? Blue Origin, SpaceX (pre-contact), Brazilian, Indian and even North Korean space agencies, and the myriad of smaller private, and even amateur space programs like Copenhagen Suborbitals and Dare who launches solid fuel rockets based on candlelight wax, but none of you ever really talk about these accomplishments and/or how they faked them?

I didn't respond to your post because, besides it being poorly written, was little more than gainsaying without any actual evidence to back it up. Basically filling the function of a NASA apologist, which I have no doubt if I showed you 10 videos or photos of how obvious mistakes were made (or purposefully inserted) you would just list them off and find any possible way to defend your position, in the face of logic evidence and common sense.

I won't go down that road. If you care look into yourself. If not, it's no sweat off my back.

And if you feel that I'm smarter than you for whatever reason then that is an indictment on your own ego.

You don't need to escape earth's gravity to go to the moon. The moon obviously haven't.

I think you're confusing the rocket trail expected on earth with the rocket trail created when there's no atmosphere. On the moon, you can go straight to near horizontal for horizontal speed from the get-go because your don't have atmospheric drag.

The lander module did not have to reach escape velocity either, it "Only" had to rendezvous with the command module. The lander module were discarded, while the already in lunar orbit command module returned to earth. Reaching escape velocity from orbit is obviously far cheaper than reaching it from the surface

Edit: The lander did a rendezvous with the command module via a direct ascent IIRC. It didn't get into orbit first.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Rama Set on June 09, 2016, 05:57:26 PM
Since you didn't reply to my post about the Apollo mission, but went on with a reply explaining the effects of so-called social engineering (buzz buzz) and implicitly and effectively ranking yourself smarter than the rest of us, do explain how and when NASA got caught being lazy?

Please explain to me how it is possible for organizations not affiliated with NASA to accomplish some of the feats previously reserved for NASA? Blue Origin, SpaceX (pre-contact), Brazilian, Indian and even North Korean space agencies, and the myriad of smaller private, and even amateur space programs like Copenhagen Suborbitals and Dare who launches solid fuel rockets based on candlelight wax, but none of you ever really talk about these accomplishments and/or how they faked them?

I didn't respond to your post because, besides it being poorly written, was little more than gainsaying without any actual evidence to back it up.

Kind of like saying "controlling all mainstream media" or claiming psychological conditions collectively experienced by the world without any evidence?

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Basically filling the function of a NASA apologist, which I have no doubt if I showed you 10 videos or photos of how obvious mistakes were made (or purposefully inserted) you would just list them off and find any possible way to defend your position, in the face of logic evidence and common sense.

I won't go down that road. If you care look into yourself. If not, it's no sweat off my back.

I have looked in to the claims and found them wanting.

And if you feel that I'm smarter than you for whatever reason then that is an indictment on your own ego.

You don't need to escape earth's gravity to go to the moon. The moon obviously haven't.

I think you're confusing the rocket trail expected on earth with the rocket trail created when there's no atmosphere. On the moon, you can go straight to near horizontal for horizontal speed from the get-go because your don't have atmospheric drag.

The lander module did not have to reach escape velocity either, it "Only" had to rendezvous with the command module. The lander module were discarded, while the already in lunar orbit command module returned to earth. Reaching escape velocity from orbit is obviously far cheaper than reaching it from the surface

Edit: The lander did a rendezvous with the command module via a direct ascent IIRC. It didn't get into orbit first.
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Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: andruszkow on June 09, 2016, 06:00:59 PM
Since you didn't reply to my post about the Apollo mission, but went on with a reply explaining the effects of so-called social engineering (buzz buzz) and implicitly and effectively ranking yourself smarter than the rest of us, do explain how and when NASA got caught being lazy?

Please explain to me how it is possible for organizations not affiliated with NASA to accomplish some of the feats previously reserved for NASA? Blue Origin, SpaceX (pre-contact), Brazilian, Indian and even North Korean space agencies, and the myriad of smaller private, and even amateur space programs like Copenhagen Suborbitals and Dare who launches solid fuel rockets based on candlelight wax, but none of you ever really talk about these accomplishments and/or how they faked them?

I didn't respond to your post because, besides it being poorly written, was little more than gainsaying without any actual evidence to back it up. Basically filling the function of a NASA apologist, which I have no doubt if I showed you 10 videos or photos of how obvious mistakes were made (or purposefully inserted) you would just list them off and find any possible way to defend your position, in the face of logic evidence and common sense.

I won't go down that road. If you care look into yourself. If not, it's no sweat off my back.

And if you feel that I'm smarter than you for whatever reason then that is an indictment on your own ego.

You don't need to escape earth's gravity to go to the moon. The moon obviously haven't.

I think you're confusing the rocket trail expected on earth with the rocket trail created when there's no atmosphere. On the moon, you can go straight to near horizontal for horizontal speed from the get-go because your don't have atmospheric drag.

The lander module did not have to reach escape velocity either, it "Only" had to rendezvous with the command module. The lander module were discarded, while the already in lunar orbit command module returned to earth. Reaching escape velocity from orbit is obviously far cheaper than reaching it from the surface

Edit: The lander did a rendezvous with the command module via a direct ascent IIRC. It didn't get into orbit first.

I'm sorry English isn't my native tongue, but when did you stop replying to poorly written posts all of the sudden? What's hard to understand from what I wrote?

I don't feel that you're smarter than me, I never said that and you know it. It's beginning to feel more like quite the opposite at this level.

You didn't reply because you know you're wrong, simple as that. A seemingly endless list of titles and achievements thrown at me like "NASA apologist" doesn't change a thing. It's juvenile at best.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Luke 22:35-38 on June 09, 2016, 07:21:51 PM
GUYS SERIOUSLY GET A LIFE. U GUYS JUST LOOK OUT TO SEA AND THE WORLD IS OBVIOUSLY NOT FLAT. UR A BUNCH OF SPETHL PEOPLE. HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY BELIEVE SOMTHING SO STUPID! I MEAN FOR GOD SAKE LOOK AT ALL THE EVIDENCE. DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT EVERY SCIENTIST IN THE WORLD IS LYING? HOW RETARDED CAN U GET?

Actually that's a misconception. You can't see the curvature at sea level. You can however see the horizon which is a result of the curvature. You can also see ships sink and if you far enough you can see cities sink many stories below the horizon. But you're right, FE is stupid.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: TheTruthIsOnHere on June 09, 2016, 07:35:05 PM
GUYS SERIOUSLY GET A LIFE. U GUYS JUST LOOK OUT TO SEA AND THE WORLD IS OBVIOUSLY NOT FLAT. UR A BUNCH OF SPETHL PEOPLE. HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY BELIEVE SOMTHING SO STUPID! I MEAN FOR GOD SAKE LOOK AT ALL THE EVIDENCE. DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT EVERY SCIENTIST IN THE WORLD IS LYING? HOW RETARDED CAN U GET?

Actually that's a misconception. You can't see the curvature at sea level. You can however see the horizon which is a result of the curvature. You can also see ships sink and if you far enough you can see cities sink many stories below the horizon. But you're right, FE is stupid.

Calling something stupid when you equivocated airbrushing and doctoring a picture to escaping Earth's atmosphere safely on a rocket in terms of level of ease.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Rama Set on June 09, 2016, 09:26:21 PM
GUYS SERIOUSLY GET A LIFE. U GUYS JUST LOOK OUT TO SEA AND THE WORLD IS OBVIOUSLY NOT FLAT. UR A BUNCH OF SPETHL PEOPLE. HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY BELIEVE SOMTHING SO STUPID! I MEAN FOR GOD SAKE LOOK AT ALL THE EVIDENCE. DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT EVERY SCIENTIST IN THE WORLD IS LYING? HOW RETARDED CAN U GET?

Actually that's a misconception. You can't see the curvature at sea level. You can however see the horizon which is a result of the curvature. You can also see ships sink and if you far enough you can see cities sink many stories below the horizon. But you're right, FE is stupid.

Calling something stupid when you equivocated airbrushing and doctoring a picture to escaping Earth's atmosphere safely on a rocket in terms of level of ease.

Pro-Tip: You are a couple of words short of a grammatically correct sentence and you misused the word "equivocate". If you want to be righteous, you have to keep your own nose clean.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: rabinoz on June 09, 2016, 11:38:24 PM
When you see the video of the lunar lander jerking upwards, without any of the typical ignition blast sequence style propulsion, how exactly does it reach the escape velocity required to be in "orbit" around the moon. ... when you see a rocket launch on earth, they are on a parabolic curve, and release the payload at the perfect time to jettison it horizontally to technically "free fall" faster than the Earth can spin (orbit). The video doesn't show this style of launch, or anywhere near the amount of speed or angle to achieve this.

Seems to me if they were going to fake the whole thing, they would have made it look the way a non rocket scientist would expect it to look, because the entire watching world is very close to 100% NOT rocket scientists.  What possible reason would they have for inventing a new flight profile?

Or maybe, just maybe it was beyond their ability to fake? Your logic would dictate that NASA believed they could pull a fast one on the public simply because 99.9999% wouldn't know what it's supposed to look like.

And the all-seeing, all-knowing TheTruthIsOnHere knows what 99.9999% of the general public doesn't know? Now, just where does that put your self assessed IQ? From what I can see you are claiming an IQ of about 171, WOW (and I suppose if your IQ is that high, have the smarts to self-assess it -  ::) or think you have  ::)). I thought that I was not all that dull at around 140 ( :( probably lost a bit of grey matter since then  :().

In an earlier post you claimed "That's why when you see a rocket launch on earth, they are on a parabolic curve" - well, no! The "curving over" after launch is simply because almost all launches we see are going into orbit around a spherical earth, and are not trying to "escape earth's gravity".

I don't know which lunar lander launch you have a problem with. This one of Apollo 17 (1972, I believe) looks OK to my admittedly untrained eyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obd_jTO66-0

Just remember that it is not trying to escape the moon's gravity, just rendezvous with the command module in a quite low orbit.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: TheTruthIsOnHere on June 10, 2016, 02:53:26 AM
GUYS SERIOUSLY GET A LIFE. U GUYS JUST LOOK OUT TO SEA AND THE WORLD IS OBVIOUSLY NOT FLAT. UR A BUNCH OF SPETHL PEOPLE. HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY BELIEVE SOMTHING SO STUPID! I MEAN FOR GOD SAKE LOOK AT ALL THE EVIDENCE. DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT EVERY SCIENTIST IN THE WORLD IS LYING? HOW RETARDED CAN U GET?

Actually that's a misconception. You can't see the curvature at sea level. You can however see the horizon which is a result of the curvature. You can also see ships sink and if you far enough you can see cities sink many stories below the horizon. But you're right, FE is stupid.

Calling something stupid when you equivocated airbrushing and doctoring a picture to escaping Earth's atmosphere safely on a rocket in terms of level of ease.

Pro-Tip: You are a couple of words short of a grammatically correct sentence and you misused the word "equivocate". If you want to be righteous, you have to keep your own nose clean.

The word didn't sound right when I wrote it, equate is what I was thinking of. Also the sentence is fine if you understood the implied subject which was the ironic Bible quote I was replying to. But is that where we are now, just picking on each other's grammar and arguing semantics?

When you see the video of the lunar lander jerking upwards, without any of the typical ignition blast sequence style propulsion, how exactly does it reach the escape velocity required to be in "orbit" around the moon. ... when you see a rocket launch on earth, they are on a parabolic curve, and release the payload at the perfect time to jettison it horizontally to technically "free fall" faster than the Earth can spin (orbit). The video doesn't show this style of launch, or anywhere near the amount of speed or angle to achieve this.

Seems to me if they were going to fake the whole thing, they would have made it look the way a non rocket scientist would expect it to look, because the entire watching world is very close to 100% NOT rocket scientists.  What possible reason would they have for inventing a new flight profile?

Or maybe, just maybe it was beyond their ability to fake? Your logic would dictate that NASA believed they could pull a fast one on the public simply because 99.9999% wouldn't know what it's supposed to look like.

And the all-seeing, all-knowing TheTruthIsOnHere knows what 99.9999% of the general public doesn't know? Now, just where does that put your self assessed IQ? From what I can see you are claiming an IQ of about 171, WOW (and I suppose if your IQ is that high, have the smarts to self-assess it -  ::) or think you have  ::)). I thought that I was not all that dull at around 140 ( :( probably lost a bit of grey matter since then  :().

In an earlier post you claimed "That's why when you see a rocket launch on earth, they are on a parabolic curve" - well, no! The "curving over" after launch is simply because almost all launches we see are going into orbit around a spherical earth, and are not trying to "escape earth's gravity".

I don't know which lunar lander launch you have a problem with. This one of Apollo 17 (1972, I believe) looks OK to my admittedly untrained eyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obd_jTO66-0

Just remember that it is not trying to escape the moon's gravity, just rendezvous with the command module in a quite low orbit.

And you... obviously didn't follow the conversation. That was in response to someone saying near 100% of people aren't rocket scientists. And wouldn't NASA fake it a particular way that they are used to seeing.

So let's get this. The lunar lander thing jerks straight up, with all the power of 11 bottle tickets some firecrackers, at just the exact right time to precisely lock into the thing in orbit. Not only that, but for some reason, it seems like a disaster waiting to happen when you have an object traveling nearly vertical trying to link with an object traveling nearly 3000mph. Unless of course, the orbiter wasn't exactly orbiting. Maybe it was just floating there with its advanced anti gravity drive.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: TheTruthIsOnHere on June 10, 2016, 02:57:29 AM
Oh yeah, then they somehow escaped the moon's gravity and let Earth's gravity pull them back? Not to mention the sun's gravity being
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: TotesNotReptilian on June 10, 2016, 05:32:06 AM
When you see the video of the lunar lander jerking upwards, without any of the typical ignition blast sequence style propulsion, how exactly does it reach the escape velocity required to be in "orbit" around the moon. You need to be going roughly 25,000 mph to escape Earth's gravity, the moon being about 1/5 of the Earth's gravity, you'd have to travel 5,000mph horizontally to escape its gravity. That's why when you see a rocket launch on earth, they are on a parabolic curve, and release the payload at the perfect time to jettison it horizontally to technically "free fall" faster than the Earth can spin (orbit). The video doesn't show this style of launch, or anywhere near the amount of speed or angle to achieve this.

Anyway guys. Carry on with whatever you want to believe. Deny your own senses and all common sense and logic if that is what truly makes you happy.

I just wanted to clear up a bunch of misconceptions in this post.

1. You are confusing escape velocity with orbital velocity. They are completely different concepts. You do NOT need to reach escape velocity (or orbital velocity) to escape a planet's gravity, at least not in the way you imagine it.
2. The moon's gravity is about 1/6 that of earth at its surface. (1.6 m/s2)
3. Rockets generally don't travel along a parabolic curve, precisely because they often are trying to reach orbital velocity.

I'm not sure which video you were talking about, but on average, the ascent stage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Module#Ascent_stage) of the lunar module took off at only 1.8 m/s2. As it reached orbit, it could reach accelerations of about 3.4m/s2. At this rate, it takes about 15 minutes to reach the required 5000 mph rendezvous speed. I'm not sure how any of this contradicts any videos. There is less "ignition blast" because the lunar module's ascent engine was much weaker (16,000 N) than the Saturn V's engines (33,400,000 N).

So let's get this. The lunar lander thing jerks straight up, with all the power of 11 bottle tickets some firecrackers, at just the exact right time to precisely lock into the thing in orbit. Not only that, but for some reason, it seems like a disaster waiting to happen when you have an object traveling nearly vertical trying to link with an object traveling nearly 3000mph. Unless of course, the orbiter wasn't exactly orbiting. Maybe it was just floating there with its advanced anti gravity drive.

(see above for comments on the relatively weak lunar module engines)

Just because you don't understand how they did it doesn't mean it is impossible. No offense, but the people at NASA are way smarter than you.

1. It wasn't travelling vertically when they linked. By the time it reached the rendezvous point, it was travelling at almost the exact same speed and direction as the command module. They came together slowly. Both modules were able to make course corrections mid flight.
2. Yes, please enlighten us about this "advanced anti gravity drive".

Oh yeah, then they somehow escaped the moon's gravity and let Earth's gravity pull them back? Not to mention the sun's gravity being

Yes. By moving away from the moon and towards the earth. Why is this hard to understand? What does the sun's gravity have to do with anything? They stayed in roughly the same orbit around the sun the entire time.

Asking questions is fine and good, but claiming to know enough about this subject to proclaim it "impossible and fake" when you barely know anything about orbital mechanics and rockets is just embarrassing to watch.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: UnionsOfSolarSystemPlanet on June 10, 2016, 11:09:51 AM
Oh yeah, then they somehow escaped the moon's gravity and let Earth's gravity pull them back? Not to mention the sun's gravity being
Don't forget the Moon orbits the Earth, which is inside of Earth's Hill sphere. The Hill sphere of the Moon (relative to Earth) extends up to 63,000 km which is always inside the Hill sphere of Earth (relative to Sun) that extends up to 1.5 million km.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Rama Set on June 10, 2016, 01:50:37 PM
What is a hill sphere? (He asked trepidatiously)
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Venus on June 10, 2016, 01:52:09 PM

I didn't respond to your post because, besides it being poorly written, was little more than gainsaying without any actual evidence to back it up. Basically filling the function of a NASA apologist, which I have no doubt if I showed you 10 videos or photos of how obvious mistakes were made (or purposefully inserted) you would just list them off and find any possible way to defend your position, in the face of logic evidence and common sense.



Yes please...links to the videos and photos that you believe we cannot debunk !!
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: andruszkow on June 10, 2016, 01:54:40 PM
What is a hill sphere? (He asked trepidatiously)
Think of it as the point where celestial bodies battles to be the sphere of influence, like the Lagrange points.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: TheTruthIsOnHere on June 10, 2016, 01:56:40 PM
OK I'll play along. How did the module reach 5000mph? We have super sonic jet engines to do that on earth. The lunar module had fire crackers.

Keep pushing a false narrative about how I don't understand, you haven't demonstrated that you do either. At this point I don't really give a fuck what any of you think and I advise you to do the same about my opinion. You guys treat this like a job so it definitely makes it hard not to write you off as a shill. You have way way too much of a vested interest here and it's not even veiled hat so ever.

You want to keep questioning my intelligence I have no choice but to question your credibility.

Anyway I'm done with this forum and forums like these. I'm sure you'll get a nice little shill bonus for every person you turn away from open discussion so make sure you collect.

You've got to be an idiot by the way to watch any Apollo video and think it looks real. Either you are delusional or a liar when you pretend it does.

Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Venus on June 10, 2016, 02:08:16 PM
OK I'll play along. How did the module reach 5000mph? We have super sonic jet engines to do that on earth. The lunar module had fire crackers.

Keep pushing a false narrative about how I don't understand, you haven't demonstrated that you do either. At this point I don't really give a fuck what any of you think and I advise you to do the same about my opinion. You guys treat this like a job so it definitely makes it hard not to write you off as a shill. You have way way too much of a vested interest here and it's not even veiled hat so ever.

You want to keep questioning my intelligence I have no choice but to question your credibility.

Anyway I'm done with this forum and forums like these. I'm sure you'll get a nice little shill bonus for every person you turn away from open discussion so make sure you collect.

Payloads... weight of lunar

You've got to be an idiot by the way to watch any Apollo video and think it looks real. Either you are delusional or a liar when you pretend it does.

Perhaps the size of the payload of what took off from earth (Saturn V plus fuel plus CMS plus LLM etc) compared to the LLM taking off from the moon (and leaving the landing platform behind) ??
I will be the first to admit that I am no rocket scientist but that was my first thought...
http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/nasas-lunar-module-everything-you-need-to-know.html (http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/nasas-lunar-module-everything-you-need-to-know.html)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMBcLg0DkLA
Go to 0:50
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: andruszkow on June 10, 2016, 02:23:14 PM
OK I'll play along. How did the module reach 5000mph? We have super sonic jet engines to do that on earth. The lunar module had fire crackers.

Keep pushing a false narrative about how I don't understand, you haven't demonstrated that you do either. At this point I don't really give a fuck what any of you think and I advise you to do the same about my opinion. You guys treat this like a job so it definitely makes it hard not to write you off as a shill. You have way way too much of a vested interest here and it's not even veiled hat so ever.

You want to keep questioning my intelligence I have no choice but to question your credibility.

Anyway I'm done with this forum and forums like these. I'm sure you'll get a nice little shill bonus for every person you turn away from open discussion so make sure you collect.

You've got to be an idiot by the way to watch any Apollo video and think it looks real. Either you are delusional or a liar when you pretend it does.

Super sonic jet engines use compressed air from the atmosphere so they won't work on the moon to begin with.

As long as the thrust to weight ratio is higher than 1, you can get to orbit if that's what you aim for even if you're only able to accelerate with 1m/s,  given you have enough fuel to do so. TWR rises as the fuel is consumed. The moon has no atmosphere, remember? You would "Only" be fighting gravity.

Guess I'm an idiot then.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Rama Set on June 10, 2016, 02:31:37 PM
The LEM was using powered flight the whole way correct?  It was not a ballistic trajectory?
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: TotesNotReptilian on June 10, 2016, 02:38:15 PM
OK I'll play along. How did the module reach 5000mph? We have super sonic jet engines to do that on earth. The lunar module had fire crackers.

Simple arithmetic:

thrust: 16,000 N (1 N = 1 kg*m/s2)
mass: 4,700 kg
weight at surface: W = mass * gmoon = 4,700 kg * 1.6 m/s2 = 7,520 N
acceleration at takeoff:  a = (thrust-weight)/mass = (16,000 N - 7,520 N) / 4,700 kg = 1.8 m/s2
acceleration in orbit: a = thrust/mass = 16,000N / 4,700 kg = 3.4 m/s2
average acceleration = 2.6 m/s2 (very rough approximation)
 
time to reach 5000 mph (2200 m/s): t = v / a = 2200 m/s / 2.6 m/s = 846 s = 14 minutes (very rough approximation)

The moon has negligible atmosphere, so wind resistance isn't a factor. "Super sonic" refers to the speed of sound, which is irrelevant without an atmosphere. Likewise, jet engines rely on an atmosphere to function. That's why they use rockets instead of jet engines.

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Keep pushing a false narrative about how I don't understand, you haven't demonstrated that you do either. At this point I don't really give a fuck what any of you think and I advise you to do the same about my opinion. You guys treat this like a job so it definitely makes it hard not to write you off as a shill. You have way way too much of a vested interest here and it's not even veiled hat so ever.

You want to keep questioning my intelligence I have no choice but to question your credibility.

My status has absolutely nothing to do with the arguments I make. Never once have I said "trust me, I am a ____ scientist". My arguments stand on their own merit. It isn't a job, but it is mildly entertaining. I post when I am bored.

Furthermore, I never questioned your intelligence. I only questioned your knowledge of this specific subject. It was just friendly advice to not make snap judgements from a position of ignorance.

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Anyway I'm done with this forum and forums like these. I'm sure you'll get a nice little shill bonus for every person you turn away from open discussion so make sure you collect.

Ah, the "rage quit" approach. Classic.

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You've got to be an idiot by the way to watch any Apollo video and think it looks real. Either you are delusional or a liar when you pretend it does.

As I stated in a different thread, I don't put much stock in your gut feelings.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: Luke 22:35-38 on June 10, 2016, 08:02:32 PM
OK I'll play along. How did the module reach 5000mph? We have super sonic jet engines to do that on earth. The lunar module had fire crackers.

Keep pushing a false narrative about how I don't understand, you haven't demonstrated that you do either. At this point I don't really give a fuck what any of you think and I advise you to do the same about my opinion. You guys treat this like a job so it definitely makes it hard not to write you off as a shill. You have way way too much of a vested interest here and it's not even veiled hat so ever.

You want to keep questioning my intelligence I have no choice but to question your credibility.

Anyway I'm done with this forum and forums like these. I'm sure you'll get a nice little shill bonus for every person you turn away from open discussion so make sure you collect.

Payloads... weight of lunar

You've got to be an idiot by the way to watch any Apollo video and think it looks real. Either you are delusional or a liar when you pretend it does.

Perhaps the size of the payload of what took off from earth (Saturn V plus fuel plus CMS plus LLM etc) compared to the LLM taking off from the moon (and leaving the landing platform behind) ??
I will be the first to admit that I am no rocket scientist but that was my first thought...
http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/nasas-lunar-module-everything-you-need-to-know.html (http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/nasas-lunar-module-everything-you-need-to-know.html)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMBcLg0DkLA
Go to 0:50

I believe we went to the moon but I always wondered who took the shot of them leaving.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: andruszkow on June 10, 2016, 08:08:34 PM
OK I'll play along. How did the module reach 5000mph? We have super sonic jet engines to do that on earth. The lunar module had fire crackers.

Keep pushing a false narrative about how I don't understand, you haven't demonstrated that you do either. At this point I don't really give a fuck what any of you think and I advise you to do the same about my opinion. You guys treat this like a job so it definitely makes it hard not to write you off as a shill. You have way way too much of a vested interest here and it's not even veiled hat so ever.

You want to keep questioning my intelligence I have no choice but to question your credibility.

Anyway I'm done with this forum and forums like these. I'm sure you'll get a nice little shill bonus for every person you turn away from open discussion so make sure you collect.

Payloads... weight of lunar

You've got to be an idiot by the way to watch any Apollo video and think it looks real. Either you are delusional or a liar when you pretend it does.

Perhaps the size of the payload of what took off from earth (Saturn V plus fuel plus CMS plus LLM etc) compared to the LLM taking off from the moon (and leaving the landing platform behind) ??
I will be the first to admit that I am no rocket scientist but that was my first thought...
http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/nasas-lunar-module-everything-you-need-to-know.html (http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/nasas-lunar-module-everything-you-need-to-know.html)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMBcLg0DkLA
Go to 0:50

I believe we went to the moon but I always wondered who took the shot of them leaving.
No one did for Apollo 11 (and 12). There's no lunar ascent footage from those missions, but the Apollo missions that brought rovers had cameras mounted on them that were remote controlled from earth.
Title: Re: Apollo mission photos are NOT fake !
Post by: rabinoz on June 10, 2016, 11:48:57 PM
Here's something I was wondering about. If they had advance technology to fake the landings, shouldn't they have the technology to actually land on the moon?

Not really.  Doctoring photos is much different than rocket propulsion.

Much, much easier.

Can you tell me how me how they calculated A. The gravity of the moon prior to going there B. The rotational speed of the moon C. How much fuel they would need to reach a horizontal escape velocity and D. how they were so perfectly precise to rendezvous with the orbiter
I know I'm late, but haven't you worked this out yet? I tried months ago to explain it. I guess I failed!

Remember this?
And they calculated the moons gravity how? Because as far as I can tell there is still debate about earths which should be a lot easier to detect because a. Its a lot bigger and b. Were actually on it. Now that wouldn't be too big of a deal if we assume it is a certain level and overcompensate but getting the "command module" to orbit seems a complicated task.

Its all bullshit you can live in fantasy space land but I'll stay down here in reality.
I don't see any debate on "there is still debate about earths" gravity. Even TFES says it is 9.8m/s^2. Who's debating?
The launch from earth was far more than "getting the 'command module' to orbit".
You write as though you no idea of what was involved, and I am certainly not going into the details that you look up yourself.

Orbiting is based on the principle of a "free fall" which means a vessel is traveling so fast it effectively falls "over" the horizon. Earth's gravity being 9.8m/s^2 is the way they determined just how fast a vessel would have to be to "orbit" Earth.

Now did someone send a "cavendish" device to the moon? And a scientist check its results after a year? If not, how did we know the density of the moon to be able to create a "command module" that is capable of reaching exactly the right speed to orbit the moon?

I think you are underestimating my perception of the principles of orbit. Maybe it's easier to paint me with the idiot brush but you can't say I'm wholly ignorant of the concepts.

I guess I failed back there, so as they say in the classics: If at first you don't succeed, try again - after that don't be a fool, GIVE UP! Still I'll try.

You ask: "Can you tell me how me how they calculated:"
Just because you or I calculate these things, does not mean it cannot be done. How are you at:

Surely you can look this stuff as easily as most people.

Your attitude seems to be "I don't understand these things, so they must be fake".  The trouble is you never accept any explanations give.

You just have to accept that there will always be numerous things that you and I will never understand fully. If it is something you think is important, you can research it, but no one person has ever understood everything!

Really I think your trouble is that you are convinced "Its all bullshit you can live in fantasy space land but I'll stay down here in reality", so there is really no point explaining anything to you - I believe the best description of you is "Brainwashed" - nothing could possibly convince you.

BTW Decided if the earth is Flat or a Globe yet? Hint,
          Look a t a good sunrise or sunset (or moonrise or moonset) over the ocean and try to explain that with perspective or whatever TFES uses lately!
          Consider that both the sun and moon stay essentially the same size as they (appear to) move across the sky from rising to setting!
          See if you can find ANY flat earth map that has the correct shapes for all the countries and continents AND the correct distances between them.