Re: for BMJ and all other parochial lot re moon landing



On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, rrc wrote:

Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
This is a mail that I got regarding the moon landing. Note that while I do not dispute the
United States' achievements in space, these questions do remain unanswered to date
-and I would be more than glad to see valid responses to the same.

"Capricorn One" is the best Hollywood movie on such a phenomena
alongside with the little 007 snide in "Diamonds Are Forever".

'Nasa Mooned America' by Ralph Rene was a decent compilation of facts
(plus his conjectures) on the subject matter.

The basic weakness include the heating theory since radiant heating is
the only thing that can happen in the vacuum of space which would
inhibit anyone or one's film from getting rapidly cooked given the
reflective nature of the suits, equipment, etc.

The deleterious effects of the capsule's lack of significant shielding
from solar radiation, however, could have had a cancer causing
biomedical effect but which didn't appear in any of the astronauts 5-20
years after the missions.

Yeah, but to play devil's advocate, if they didn't go on the trip (Kamal's view), then they wouldn't get cancer, either. Thus, no proof against Kamal.

As for the anomolies, well... they do exist but only together, as a
set, do they make for a "Capricorn One" type of a fraud case. Could all
of those anomolies, have occurred, along with a 100% successful mission
with no technical glitches in the landing equipment, rover, orbiter,
cameras, etc? That's where I'd get a little suspicious.


But we're trying to discredit Kamal's "evidence" or "arguments" that the trip never took place and all we got was faked evidence _for_ the trip.

I say --as I did before-- that the prism laser reflector array that they left at a particular crater location (originally for laser pulse earth-moon distance determination, IIRC) could almost be in the range of affordability for an individual to build the equipment and find strong echos from that location vs weak echos from everywhere else on the face of the moon orriented towards us. IIRC, all that is needed is a six-eight inch well collimated reflecting telescope and something like a 100 mw gas laser, and sensitive diode detector (maybe even a photomultiplier tube
and boxcar integrator and power pulse generator or Kerr cell light chopper). Couple thousand bucks, maybe, and a few nights of clear sky.

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