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Moon Hoax conspiracy

ERichardson said:
Have you watched it? Can you explain the tape of the astronauts discussing the faking of earth pictures?
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Been a while since i watched it but I don't recall the astronauts discussing faking earth pictures.
 
In 1969 computer chips had not been invented. The maximum computer memory was 256k, and this was housed in a large air conditioned building. In 2002 a top of the range computer requires at least 64 Mb of memory to run a simulated Moon landing, and that does not include the memory required to take off again once landed. The alleged computer on board Apollo 11 had 32k of memory. That's the equivalent of a simple calculator.
 
ERichardson said:
In 1969 computer chips had not been invented. The maximum computer memory was 256k, and this was housed in a large air conditioned building. In 2002 a top of the range computer requires at least 64 Mb of memory to run a simulated Moon landing, and that does not include the memory required to take off again once landed. The alleged computer on board Apollo 11 had 32k of memory. That's the equivalent of a simple calculator.
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Astronauts are smart.
 
ERichardson said:
In 1969 computer chips had not been invented. The maximum computer memory was 256k, and this was housed in a large air conditioned building. In 2002 a top of the range computer requires at least 64 Mb of memory to run a simulated Moon landing, and that does not include the memory required to take off again once landed. The alleged computer on board Apollo 11 had 32k of memory. That's the equivalent of a simple calculator.
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32K is actually far more than a calculator. The first Apple computers had only about 16K. They did a lot more than add numbers.

If you want a better discussion:

http://www.clavius.org/techcomp.html
 
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Redtail said:
Astronauts are smart.
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Is that a debunking?

The Space Shuttle, so far, has killed fourteen people, merely trying to attain an orbit about two hundred fifty miles above the Earth. How is it then, that a third of a century ago, with less computing power in the entire rocket than in a present day twenty dollar Wal-Mart watch, NASA claims to have gone 100,000% farther, six different times between 1969 and 1972, landing on another celestial body and then returning, without ever killing anyone? How could they have powered air conditioning in two hundred fifty degree heat for three days with batteries? Why is the "second round" of "returning" to the moon estimated to be no earlier than half a century after the first?
 
ERichardson said:
Your bad memory isn't really my problem. I watched the movie and the footage is in it.
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No need to get touchy. Now then did the astronauts say "Hey what were we supposed to do to fake the earth pics again?" or did the voice over guys say "Hey look at these astronauts faking the earth pics."
 
ERich, around here most still believe Oswald killed JFK, and Osama did 9/11. You won't convince anybody the moon landings were faked.
 
ERichardson said:
Is that a debunking?

The Space Shuttle, so far, has killed fourteen people, merely trying to attain an orbit about two hundred fifty miles above the Earth.
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That's one problem with resused equipment, sadly.

How is it then, that a third of a century ago, with less computing power in the entire rocket than in a present day twenty dollar Wal-Mart watch, NASA claims to have gone 100,000% farther, six different times between 1969 and 1972, landing on another celestial body and then returning, without ever killing anyone?
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Answer: THEY DIDN'T NEED THE COMPUTER TO DO EVERYTHING! (Neither do the shuttle pilots...the laptops the astronauts bring on board are far more powerful.)

How could they have powered air conditioning in two hundred fifty degree heat for three days with batteries?
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They didn't need air conditioning. You seem to think that outer space is hot. That is wrong. It has no temperature.

Why is the "second round" of "returning" to the moon estimated to be no earlier than half a century after the first?
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Politics. We went to the Moon mostly to beat the Soviets. Now there is no real competition except maybe China. It wasn't NASA's choice.
 
skepticalcriticalguy said:
ERich, around here most still believe Oswald killed JFK, and Osama did 9/11. You won't convince anybody the moon landings were faked.
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That is because they weren't. The evidence is overwhelming. Buy some of the Apollo full DVD sets and tell all those hours were faked. Go ahead. Tell me they were all faked.
 
ERichardson
Welcome to the forum. In your first post you felt the Van Allen belt issue was compelling. You have been provided multiple links showing there is nothing odd about the ship going through the Van Allen belt. You've ignored the links. You then move on to two other claims.

Is that what you plan on doing, presenting claim, then ignore the response and instead simply present another claim?

Please bear in mind the new guidelines for the CT forum.
Replying to this modbox in thread will be off topic  Posted By: chillzero
 
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ERichardson said:
In 1969 computer chips had not been invented. The maximum computer memory was 256k, and this was housed in a large air conditioned building. In 2002 a top of the range computer requires at least 64 Mb of memory to run a simulated Moon landing, and that does not include the memory required to take off again once landed. The alleged computer on board Apollo 11 had 32k of memory. That's the equivalent of a simple calculator.
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The birth of the IC
The integrated circuit was first conceived by a radar scientist, Geoffrey W.A. Dummer (born 1909), working for the Royal Radar Establishment of the British Ministry of Defence, and published in Washington, D.C. on May 7, 1952. Dummer unsuccessfully attempted to build such a circuit in 1956.
A precursor idea to the IC was to create small ceramic squares (wafers), each one containing a single miniaturized component. Components could then be integrated and wired into a bidimensional or tridimensional compact grid. This idea, which looked very promising in 1957, was proposed to the US Army by Jack Kilby, and led to the short-lived Micromodule Program (similar to 1951's Project Tinkertoy).[1] However, as the project was gaining momentum, Kilby came up with a new, revolutionary design: the IC.
The first integrated circuits were manufactured independently by two scientists: Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed a patent for a "Solid Circuit" made of germanium on February 6, 1959. Kilby received patents U.S. Patent 3138743 , U.S. Patent 3138747 , U.S. Patent 3261081 , and U.S. Patent 3434015 . Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor was awarded a patent for a more complex "unitary circuit" made of Silicon on April 25, 1961. (See the Chip that Jack built for more information.)
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The first integrated circuits contained only a few transistors. Called "Small-Scale Integration" (SSI), they used circuits containing transistors numbering in the tens.
SSI circuits were crucial to early aerospace projects, and vice-versa. Both the Minuteman missile and Apollo program needed lightweight digital computers for their inertially-guided flight computers; the Apollo guidance computer led and motivated the integrated-circuit technology, while the Minuteman missile forced it into mass-production.
These programs purchased almost all of the available integrated circuits from 1960 through 1963, and almost alone provided the demand that funded the production improvements to get the production costs from $1000/circuit (in 1960 dollars) to merely $25/circuit (in 1963 dollars). They began to appear in consumer products at the turn of the decade, a typical application being FM inter-carrier sound processing in television receivers.
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integrated circuitWP
 
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