Apollo 11 Moon Landing Revisited: Hoax ~vs~ Debunk

[JayUtah]

I would think in the polar regions where the sunlight is at a minimum, then inside a crater that never receives sunlight or at least only a brief amount of time.

Yes, that’s where the ice actually would be. But Metullus is taking this opportunity to recite some of Vixen’s gaffes in this thread.

 

[Reformed Offlian]

I should have said the current end. I have participated in Vixen threads before, so I know the basic framework, so I apologize for my poor word choice.

No worries, just having a bit of fun at your expense since the thread is currently slow.

 

[bknight]

Yes, that’s where the ice actually would be. But Metullus is taking this opportunity to recite some of Vixen’s gaffes in this thread.

My bad, I guess I missed some post when there was like 10-15 pages since last visited, sorry.

 

[Disbelief]

No worries, just having a bit of fun at your expense since the thread is currently slow.

I get it. Burning time until the fringe reset.

 

[catsmate]

I get it. Burning time until the fringe reset.

I think she's busy elsewhere.

 

[zooterkin]

Perhaps @Vixen could explain what the pieces of rock that will be available to view at Reading University next month are, and where they came from.

On Saturday 24 October 2026 (3–8pm), the University of Reading will host its own satellite event, supported by the Reading Astronomical Society. This is the third time we’ve hosted it, and this time it’s extra special, as we have actual Moon samples from the Apollo missions on campus

https://ourresearch.reading.ac.uk/met-spate/international-observe-the-moon-night-2026/

 

[Thermal]

Perhaps @Vixen could explain what the pieces of rock that will be available to view at Reading University next month are, and where they came from.

From Amazon. Duh.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Perhaps @Vixen could explain what the pieces of rock that will be available to view at Reading University next month are, and where they came from.

https://ourresearch.reading.ac.uk/met-spate/international-observe-the-moon-night-2026/

A very old tree obviously

 

[bknight]

Perhaps @Vixen could explain what the pieces of rock that will be available to view at Reading University next month are, and where they came from.

https://ourresearch.reading.ac.uk/met-spate/international-observe-the-moon-night-2026/

They obviously came from Antartica

 

[bknight]

From Amazon. Duh.
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Never seen that product before.

 

[Thermal]

Never seen that product before.

If you can imagine it, somebody is making it. And then there's Rule 34.

 

[Reformed Offlian]

Never seen that product before.

They were discontinued because they're highly radioactive.

 

[Carrot Flower King]

Perhaps @Vixen could explain what the pieces of rock that will be available to view at Reading University next month are, and where they came from.

https://ourresearch.reading.ac.uk/met-spate/international-observe-the-moon-night-2026/

Previous questions about lunar rocks have been met with the expected level of gibberish.

 

[welshdean]

I pointed her to the Nat. Museum of Wales, They've had a moon rock on display for years. I stand and stare at it in awe every time I go.
Mrs W asks what the fascination is and I always say 'It looks gneiss.'

ETA: Sorry about that

 

[Carrot Flower King]

I pointed her to the Nat. Museum of Wales, They've had a moon rock on display for years. I stand and stare at it in awe every time I go.
Mrs W asks what the fascination is and I always say 'It looks gneiss.'

ETA: Sorry about that

That "groan" emoji is well over due...

Anyway...Looks around living room...Yup, several chunks of Lewisian gneiss on show, likewise bathroom, bedroom...

Bathroom ones are my favourite, as they run from distinctly pre-gneiss garnet-mica schist, through various further stages of metamorphosis and re-metamorphosis to full on banded gneiss. There's even a piece of banded Strontian granite next to one of the mediumly banded bits in the bathroom.

And then there are the weird bits of flint from around Walberswick and Dunwich, which look like aliens.

Not to forget the Icelandic obsidian from the hills above Akureyri and the piece of pahoehoe type lava from a lava field near Reykjavik.

Have I mentioned I quite like geology?

 

[welshdean]

That "groan" emoji is well over due...

Anyway...Looks around living room...Yup, several chunks of Lewisian gneiss on show, likewise bathroom, bedroom...

Bathroom ones are my favourite, as they run from distinctly pre-gneiss garnet-mica schist, through various further stages of metamorphosis and re-metamorphosis to full on banded gneiss. There's even a piece of banded Strontian granite next to one of the mediumly banded bits in the bathroom.

And then there are the weird bits of flint from around Walberswick and Dunwich, which look like aliens.

Not to forget the Icelandic obsidian from the hills above Akureyri and the piece of pahoehoe type lava from a lava field near Reykjavik.

Have I mentioned I quite like geology?

I have a nice little collection too. Mrs W. boxed them up years ago, 'stupid bloody stones'.

 

[Carrot Flower King]

I have a nice little collection too. Mrs W. boxed them up years ago, 'stupid bloody stones'.

That is fighting talk!

Fortunately, I married another inveterate stone/pebble/shell collector, who has arranged many of our objets trouve into art works (loosely) in acrylic vases which live on window sills.

 

[catsmate]

That is fighting talk!

Fortunately, I married another inveterate stone/pebble/shell collector, who has arranged many of our objets trouve into art works (loosely) in acrylic vases which live on window sills.

I don't do random rocks but I have a chunk of Trinitite.

 

[Helen]

We have several very old granite/gneiss quarries along the coast here (one of the biggest ever in Sweden among them), the red granite was shipped world wide. They're long since abandoned, but the lanscape the quarries left behind is dramatic, and looking for particularly nice and colourful pieces of granite and gneiss there, by the sea is endlessly fascinating.