OT. Where they really on the moon?

[minipol]

No, it was a French documentary shown on Belgian television. And the errors they showed in the movie from the moon where so enormous and rediculous it's hard not to believe it.

[dogscoff]

I've heard all kinds of never-went-there arguments, and most of them can be discreditted except for one:

How did the astronauts survive outside the Van Allen belt? The Van Allen belt is an electromagnetic layer around the Earth that soaks up or deflects most of the harmful radiation from the Sun and makes life on Earth possible.

The moonshot spacecraft and/or spacesuits would not have offered any protection at all from that radiation- Neil Armstrong & co should have been turned to crispy bacon before they got anywhere near the moon...

[PsychoTechFreak]

The space suits and the space craft are just not strong enough to fight off the radiation either on the Moon itself or through the Van Allen radiation belt. (They went through the Van Allen belt in an hour, this was not enough time to be affected by the radiation. The astronauts were affected by radiation, they just were not made ill by it as the doses were small.)

From:
http://www.thevoiceofreason.com/Conspiracy/moon.htm

[oleg]

China is planning to send people to Moon in five years. Then we will know

Is't it ironic - it is entirely possible that soon China will be the only nation who send manned space expeditions ? (shuttles are ground, russian space program has no money)

[dogscoff]

The space suits and the space craft are just not strong enough to fight off the radiation either on the Moon itself or through the Van Allen radiation belt. (They went through the Van Allen belt in an hour, this was not enough time to be affected by the radiation. The astronauts were affected by radiation, they just were not made ill by it as the doses were small.)

I think whoever wtrote this misunderstood the point being made. It's not the radiation *within* the Van Allen belt that's the problem- it's the unshielded radiation of the sun *beyond* the belt.

[Ruatha]

Hey.
They where on the moon.
This conspiracy theory has been been answered to every thinking persons satisfaction over and over again.

It was a badly built up conspiracy theory when it was launched and it hasn't aged very well either.

I'm sure you can find the facts on plenty of places on the internet, try NASA or someother site and look for conspiracy or any such keyword.

(EDIT: look up these sites:
http://www.thursdaysclassroom.com
http://www.redzero.demon.co.uk/moonhoax/index.html
http://www.lunaranomalies.com/fake-moon.htm
http://www.lunaranomalies.com/fake-moon2.htm
)

[ March 05, 2003, 11:14: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[minipol]

Ruatha, i'll check out the links