For The Morons Who Think The Moon Landings Were Faked.....

[ToraToraTora]

watch "click" on the BBC this week. The usual "anomalies" explained, again, but some interesting new explanations demonstrating that it was actually more difficult to fake than to go there.

[jim360]

I can't find any sources for Clarion's claim about the lasers, but I suspect it's based on a misunderstanding. Even though lasers would be affected by Earth's gravity enough for their paths to change, you can calculate the new path it will take, so it could be taken into account by the system. The same effect actually does occur between the Earth and the Moon.

[ToraToraTora]

lasers what not left on the moon. several matrices of laser reflectors were precisely set up perpendicular to the lunar equator so they would always reflect a laser beam back to the source. These are used every day by astronomers to verify the distance. These days thousands of amateurs have the equipment to do the ranging:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment

[jim360]

No I don't think anything of the sort, vulcan, but I'm glad someone took the bait :)

[10ClarionSt]

I think there's a lot of tongue in cheek stuff on this thread. I'm off for mid morning brunch dewntcher new?

[ToraToraTora]

jim would the time dilation also need to be factored in to that?

[jim360]

Time dilation effect between which two observers?

[ToraToraTora]

I mean the off and back of the light beam.

[Paigntonian]

The thing I don't get about this particular conspiracy theory is that if they're saying the moon landing in 69 didn't happen does that mean all the other moon landings were similarly faked? They never mention that.

[ToraToraTora]

they think they are all faked. TBF though moon hoax nuts were rare until the film Capricorn One, in which a trip to Mars is faked.

[New Judge]

//"Pigs In Space"! What did that used to be on? :o)//

The Muppet Show.

//they think they are all faked.//

They were I tell you. Further to my earlier answer the site at Dungeness was used for all the six subsequent "missions" and they filmed the whole lot in about five days ready for release at the appropriate time.

I was speaking to the producer in the Pilot Inn fifty years ago and told him he had chosen well. I explained that before I went to Dungeness I used to think that Leysdown on the Isle of Sheppey was the last place on Earth that God created. He agreed that Dungeness was a very good approximation to the lunar landscape. He explained that they had had to tidy it it up a bit to make it look realistic but once they'd sorted out the problem of the lighthouse and power station it was about as authentic as they could hope for. In these days of "super SloMo" technology you can, if you're careful, catch a glimpse of the odd fisherman's shack creeping into the corner of some shots, but all in all they did very well.

I was sworn to secrecy in the Pilot Inn and I was paid handsomely for my silence. Payment consisted of all the beer (Watney's Red Barrel) that I could drink for the five nights the crew were there together with a veritable cornucopia consisting of "Pilot Inn Home Made Steak & Kidney Pie", chips and peas (though one night I had to have cod & chips because the pies had run out and they were waiting for more to come in).

Anyway, fifty years I think is quite enough to maintain my silence even for such a huge reward. I can't believe that there are some people around who actually believe that men went to the Moon! They'll be saying we voted to leave the EU next! :-)

[spathiphyllum]

So people think the moon landings were fake but can't possibly fathom how 9/11 was an inside job.


Hey AB How Are Ya

[10ClarionSt]

NJ; there was me thinking that Orford Ness was Britains Area 51 when all the time it was Dungeness. Now that's got to be a conspiracy, surely! Maybe all of this has something to do with the first four letters of Dungeness? Yer know. What's brown and sounds like a bell?

[spathiphyllum]

Why would britian have an area 51?

[10ClarionSt]

To test the effects of Nuclear Fall Out. Twas thus.

[jim360]

Time dilation is the difference in time measured between two different observers, so I am not sure that it will necessarily make any impact for sending lasers to the Moon and back. To be sure relativistic effects for eg curvature of spacetime are important and will change the path that light takes, but it's not the main effect here at least.

[douglas9401]

What Tora says is twoo, twoo I tell ya.

She who must be obeyed's uncle worked on the project back in the day.

[spathiphyllum]

"To test the effects of Nuclear Fall Out. Twas thus."

The purpose of area 51 (or suspected) is extraterrestrial.

Area 51, in america - is rumoured to be reverse engineering advanced technology. Apparently there are 5 discoveries... 4 of them being archaeological.

I could tell you how i know this.. but i'm afraid they might kill me.

[Cloverjo]

Which project, Douglas? The faked moon landing or the real one?

[spathiphyllum]

Jim easiest way to see if moon landings were real.. Buy a good telescope and have a look at the stuff they left u there!

(Oh but people say they did that after they faked the landings.)

[retrocop]

I believe it is all true but it was not the first Moon landing.
There was a fim entitled,
'One of our Aircraft is Missing'

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035153/

Now we know how that Lancaster Bomber and it's crew got there first.

https://www.workshopshed.com/2018/04/world-war-ii-bomber-found-on-moon/