Not the moon landings again!!

FreakBoy

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I recently found that a couple of my friends have fallen for the arguments stating that the Apollo Moon landings were faked. I've directed them towards Bad Astronomy and collected a few bits of information from other varying sources but I am finding it difficult to find quantitative information regarding radiation from various sources as they would be on the surface of the moon and what insulation is required to defeat these sources.

I've found plenty of information on the Solar Wind, Van Allen Belt, non-Solar Cosmic Rays and Gamma Bursts, but can't seem to find anything to compare the levels as well as show how one keeps the radiation from affecting operation of equipment and operation of... erm... humans.

It is my understanding that the radiation found on the moon is fairly minimal though I can't find sources to cite to them. I did find on a Wiki, information stating that only a few milimeters of Aluminum would protect electronics under certain circumstances.

Any other sites I should check?

Help!
 
Here are a few links. The next time you talk to them, you may want to try to get them to give you some numbers and hard facts to go along with their claims. Seeing as how you have science and math on your side, and they only have the bad stuff that comes from the likes of Sibrel and Kaysing, it might open their eyes a bit and make them more critical thinkers.

http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/robot_pages/MeetingAbstracts/spaceline/95608597.html
http://wwwsam.brooks.af.mil/af/files/fsguide/HTML/Chapter_25.html
http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/books/apollo/S2ch3.htm
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_dangers_040120.html
http://www.redzero.demon.co.uk/moonhoax/

Ranb
 
PERFECT!

This was exactly what I needed.

One of the greatest parts about this page is that it states what I was thinking about the radiation argument but couldn't state without falling into an appeal to authority.


Thank you!
 
Freakboy, if you mean the Clavius homepage in your "Perfect" comment, the creator of that site posts often on the Bad Astronomy BB as "Jay Utah". If your friends are still doubters, direct them to the BABB and have them post their questions in the Moon hoax part of the forum. Besides Jay, there are 4-5 other posters besides the Bad Astronomer that will blow any HB (Hoax Believer) argument out of the water.
 
Chalk this one up to a success!

Confronted with all of the information along with explanations as to the reasons why the hoax information APPEARS to be convincing the friends have abandonded the hoax!

Thank you all.
 
Oh the landings were real, but they faked the take-offs. (takes off?)

Buzz Aldrin is still up there. The guy who punches idiots is a stunt double.
 
Metullus said:
The moon landings were real?

Damn!
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Of course they were real. I'm not sure how anyone could think we weren't capable of landing on the moon, given all that alien technology we found at Roswell :p
 
Hutch said:
Freakboy, if you mean the Clavius homepage in your "Perfect" comment, the creator of that site posts often on the Bad Astronomy BB as "Jay Utah". If your friends are still doubters, direct them to the BABB and have them post their questions in the Moon hoax part of the forum.
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You can also find them at the Apollohoax Boards. It is worthwhile to read a couple of the debates, their technical knowledge of Apollo, spacecraft, and engineering is astounding. Any Hoax Believer (HB) who crosses JayUtah's path is quickly blown out of the water.

Now that I think about it, I should have tried to get JREF to get JayUtah to be a speaker at TAM4! *bangs head* Maybe for TAM5 . . .
 
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