Sunday, April 08, 2007

THE GREATEST HOAX OF ALL TIME??
Conspiracy theory of NASA space exploration --man's landing on the moon is all but FAKE?
Watched a video which unravels the conspiracy theory behind NASA space exploration during GP lesson as we know Soviet Union & USA were in the Cold War which somehow lead to the space race. Who can reach the Moon, who wins kinda thing, to put it simply.

Various glaring loopholes were being shown with interviews with experts in various fields to prove their point.

1) As everyone knows the space is a vacuum = no air on the moon, then why is the USA flag seemingly fluttering in the wind when the astronaut tried to place it on the moon's surface?


2) Artificial lighting seemed to be used as shadows seemed to be cast in 2 directions (when there's only 1 source on light on the moon -the Sun)
3) When the launcher is totally in the patch of dark shadows, how can the astronaut's white suit be so clearly seen from the photo below? It just means thee's a spotlight shining on him isnt it? haha



4) No sand/dust covering the foot of the landing craft even after it supposedly landed on the moon amid smoke from the engines

5) Same backdrop/landsacpe being shown in different day footage of the astronauts on the moon and this backdrop resembles Area 51 (restricted area in US) landscape. There were also crater lookalikes seen from satellite/aerial photos of the area. Could the whole thing be filmed there instead?
6) No deafening loud blasts when the astronauts supposedly blasted off the moon on the return journey back to Earth. Previous footages of the rocket launcher launching produced so much noise and caused much air pollution... Unless they improved their technology by leaps and bounds to create a sleek and silent launcher. Even the astronauts' voices could be heard in the background.. human voices can be louder than spacecraft launching? Amazing!^^
7) According to the space camera's designer, the camera mounted on the astronaut's chest is bulky & hard to handle. He had to move his body around to take pictures (no view finder), so how can those nice photos be taken with good focus on the subjects?
8) x2 fast forward of the video footage showed the astronauts 'running' instead of bouncing weightlessly on the moon's surface & the lunar rover (vehicle driven by astronauts on the moon) seemed to be driven on flat ground (for eg. in a studio) rather than on the bumpy uneven surface of the moon.
9) No side effects of radiation on the 3 astronauts though the spacesuit was showed to be not thick/strong enough to protect them from harmful radiation in space

10) Untimely deaths of related personnels -15% of the astronauts in the Apollo space programme died (a little too high casualty rate??) and a train crash killed a fierce Apollo space mission critic along with his family, his 500page report on Apollo's destined failure went missing till this day.
11) There's much more loopholes shown in that 40 min long footage that i cant remember~
Wanted to zzzzz off but was kept awake by the unravelling of the intriguing conspiracy theory.
Perhaps it's the most expensive movie ever made? With US$40billion budget.
Each of these loopholes never failed to baffle me. With such a sky-high budget, i think they were capable of doing a better job than this~
After watching this video, only one in my class still believed that man really landed on the moon. In stark contrast to the replies at the start of the lesson as we were taught since primary school that the Neil Armstrong and his friend (forgot his name) landed on the moon long before our time.

yunn. at 8:31 AM