Did they land on moon? ..2?

Question

Hi. Few days back, i asked the same question. . .

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20080624112312AAALLpE

I had an answer, which directed me to another webpage, where certain Conspiracy questions were answered.

I, for sure, argue the answers were not NASAistic.

Cuz, for the answer to non-parallel shadowing, .. it said, there can be multiple shadows for a single light source.

Americans, researchers and my answerers..

Will there be perpendicular shadowing with a single light source?

Are you trying to answer, somehow to stop the mouths from cross-questioning??

An interesting answer was to the waving flag in VACUUM.

The answer was, the astronaut struck the pole so hard that the flag waved. And the flag waves in VACUUM under such condition.

Is this answer reasonable? Have u witnessed such a thing (object moving in vacuum)?

Convincing answers, convinced Americans!

Answer 1

http://www.redzero.demon.co.uk/moonhoax/ & http://www.clavius.org/ & http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxap... & http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Histor...

The Soviet Union (Russia, and satellite states) monitored their radio traffic all the way there, and back, triangulating from Moscow, and Vladivostok. The Soviet's small samples, from automated probes, with return rockets, of the lunar regolith proved chemically and isotopically identically similar to the hundreds of pounds of NASA samples, and unlike anything on Earth, when independently analysed. The Soviets (begrudgingly, no doubt) congratulated the Americans (I'm not an American, so have no stake in this) on their success.

The evidence, constituting proof beyond any possible doubt is there, but there will always be those who prefer to believe conspiracy theories, just as there are those who refuse to believe that humans and the great apes, and monkeys once shared a common ancestor, when even the Roman catholic church has accepted evolution. There are even those who believe that they have been kidnapped by UFOs, and those who believe in a flat Earth. It takes all sorts, to make a world. Into which category would you fall, I wonder.

Answer 2

I'm not American, I'm Australian and have never been to the USA.  The closest association I have with the space program of the USA is that I know a man, now retired, who worked in satellite and space probe receiving stations during the Moon landing days.  He is Australian too, like most of the other radio people who were there then.  I have never asked him anything about the Apollo missions other than that he was there at the time.  

That Flag

The flag was held out by a rod along the top, so that it would not droop down along the mast and so that it could be seen.  That was explained in 1969.  The flag itself was made of stiff fabric and folded up.  When it was unfolded, it retained some of the crinkles so in still photographs it might look as if it was moving.  

There is no air on the Moon.  When the astronaut pushed it into the ground, he twisted the mast slightly, just as you would do if you were doing the same thing. This made the flag wobble a little.  It continued to wobble a little longer than it would on Earth because there was no air resistance to slow it down.      

After a short time, perhaps only seconds, it stopped wobbling.  From then on it only moved when someone bumped it, or when it was struck by the blast from the Lunar Ascent Module departing.  The YouTube clip that shows it waving by itself has been faked by liars.

This question has been answered so many times that the dogs in the street know it.

Light Sources

Do you know the difference between "perpendicular" and "multiple"?  Perpendicular describes direction, multiple describes number.  I do not think you know what they are talking about when the subject of shadows is raised. So I will just make some general remarks.  

A single object will cast a single shadow when struck by a single light source.  There is one strong light source on the Moon, and that is the Sun.  There is also Earthshine, which is light reflected by the Earth onto the Moon.  There is light reflected by the white suit of an astronaut standing in sunshine, and there is some light reflected and scattered by the surface of the Moon itself.

I have seen one Moon rock.  It is a very light grey, almost white.  It was taken from the surface of the Moon by one of the Apollo landing parties.  If it was sitting on the middle of a table in a gloomy room you could easily see it.  So the surface of the Moon does reflect a lot of light.

EDIT

"How little, mark! those portions of the ball,

Where, faint at best, the beams of Science fall.”

The Dunciad, Alexander Pope.

Answer 3

have you seen a whale in the ocean? have you seen the rain forest ?  i believe the people who have written, filmed and seen them. the photos could have been "touched up for appeal".  so i don't need to go there to believe.

Answer 4

What they said ^

Answer 5

You don't have to believe us and the websites.

You can do your own research on the shadow issue, and set up some examples yourself

Convinvcing?

Do you really think the claim that NASA would be so stupid to use a waving flag is convincing?

Answer 6

Non parallel shadows exist on earth.  Take a picture of a fence when the sun is low.  The shadow of the post farthest from you will be straighter (more horizontal with the horizon) than the post nearest you.  Both shadows come from one source, the sun. Cameras help exaggerate this effect because of the curvature of the glass in the lens. The phenomenon is even more pronounced on the moon where the direction of the shadows is distorted by craters and the uneven surface.

The flag only waved on the moon while the astronauts were assembling it.  It takes a lot longer for a flag to stop it's momentum when there is no air to push against the fabric.  Yes, I've seen it hundreds of times.  I watch the videos constantly.

You can watch them too at the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal site. Unlike YouTube, the ALSJ site has the unedited versions of some of the TV and 16MM film shot by the astronauts from the surface of the moon:

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/frame.html

Answer 7

Seriously, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that a flag that is unfurled in a vacuum will behave pretty much the same way as one unfurled in an atmosphere. That's assuming that one is in the presence of a strong gravitational field (i.e. the Moon or the Earth).

It really is a non-mystery.

Answer 8

>>for the answer to non-parallel shadowing, .. it said, there can be multiple shadows for a single light source.

Americans, researchers and my answerers..

Will there be perpendicular shadowing with a single light source?<<

Yes. The shadows are not being cast on level terrain, and there is perspective to consider. The shadows can *appear* perpendicular without actually *being* perpendicular. I assume you have no trouble with the idea of railroad tracks appearing to be non-parallel despite the fact that they actually are, so why is this shadow concept giving you so much trouble? Look at the shadows in these images:

http://www.badastronomy.com/pix/bablog/2...

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc267...

Still insist they must be parallel?

>>An interesting answer was to the waving flag in VACUUM.

The answer was, the astronaut struck the pole so hard that the flag waved. And the flag waves in VACUUM under such condition.

Is this answer reasonable?<<

Very reasonable. What would stop the flag from waving around *when it is being moved* in a vacuum? The flag has mass, therefore has inertia, and is flexible, so it will move. What is more telling (and which you conspicuously avoid addressing) is the total LACK of movement of the flag when it is not being moved by an astronaut.

>>Have u witnessed such a thing (object moving in vacuum)?<<

Yes, actually, in a school physics class. Have you witnessed an object NOT moving in a vacuum? What makes your demands for our witnessing of the phenomenon reasonable?

>>Convincing answers, convinced Americans!<<

Being American has nothing to do with it.