9 SPACE ODDITIES:
1. Apollo 14 astronaut Allen Shepard played golf on the Moon. In front of a worldwide TV audience, Mission Control teased him about slicing the ball to the right. Yet a slice is caused by uneven air flow over the ball. The Moon has no atmosphere and no air.
:lol:Irrefutable proof!:lol:2. A camera panned upwards to catch Apollo 16's Lunar Landerlifting off the Moon. Who did the filming?
The Lunar Rover's camera is movable and can be controled by remote from mission control.3. One NASA picture from Apollo 11 is looking up at Neil Armstrong about to take his giant step for mankind. The photographer must have been lying on the planet surface. If Armstrong was the first man on the Moon, then who took the shot?
Aldo is right there4. The pressure inside a space suit was greater than inside a football. The astronauts should have been puffed out like the Michelin Man, but were seen freely bending their joints.
I'm almost certain he's wrong about the internal pressure in a space suit. If I recall correctly it was lower than sea level. And air doesn't have much mass. So unlike the body's internal fluids, it can't really exert that much force(He/she must have been watching way too many scifi movies). Methinks the suit can take it.5. The Moon landings took place during the Cold War. Why didn't America make a signal on the moon that could be seen from earth? The PR would have been phenomenal and it could have been easily done with magnesium flares.
Um, would a transmission from the moon to the earth count? There is no air on the Moon, so how can you burn magnesium?6. Text from pictures in the article said that only two men walked on the Moon during the Apollo 12 mission. Yet the astronaut reflected in the visor has no camera. Who took the shot?
It may have been the astronought was taking a picture of himself and the reflection of the camera was out of the view.7. The flags shadow goes behind the rock so doesn't match the dark line in the foreground, which looks like a line cord. So the shadow to the lower right of the spaceman must be the flag. Where is his shadow? And why is the flag fluttering if there is no air or wind on the moon?
Did he ever bother to notice how stiff the flag looked and realized the flag had been fixed in position?8. How can the flag be brightly lit when its side is to the light? And where, in all of these shots, are the stars?
Q1. It looks to me like the flag has been rotated so the light is striking the flag.
Q2: Ether because the sun blotted it out, or the stars were removed. 9. The Lander weighed 17 tons yet the astronauts feet seem to have made a bigger dent in the dust. The powerful booster rocket at the base of the Lunar Lander was fired to slow descent to the moons service. Yet it has left no traces of blasting on the dust underneath. It should have created a small crater, yet the booster looks like it's never been fired.
You can't see under neath the lander. Besides, the descent engine wasn't that powerful. And if there was wind, why is there no dust moving in the videos?
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