Danny Jones Podcast:
The NASA / Apollo manned moon landing never happened, couldn't happen.
Here's the link:
This technological achievement is being disputed ostensibly on technological grounds. By technical experts? That know what they're talking about?
Amusing perspective, but this conspiracy theory raises more questions than it answers.
The expertise of the advocate? Quotation from the link:
"10 years later atomic bombs are 1,000 times more powerful."
Nuclear weapons have indeed reportedly evolved to be more powerful than the vintage used to end WWII. BUT !
Those dropped on Japan were A-bombs, "atomic" bombs.
The nukes that comprise today's nuclear arsenal are not A-bombs, they're H-bombs. The conspiracy theorist and ostensible technological expert should know the difference. Apparently not.
More fundamentally, NASA's race to the moon was of course a way to make good on President JFK's commitment to do so. BUT !
It was also the U.S. / West's way of demonstrating Western rocketry (technological) superiority over the Soviets. Why was rocketry significant?
Because ICBM's, Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles are rockets.
The Cold War idea was, by demonstrating our proficiency, instead of
winning a nuclear war against the Soviets, we can discourage, prevent it by accomplishing what the Soviets could not.
But there's something more fundamental about it than that.
This conspiracy theory isn't a quibble over a few percent one way or another. Their assertion is an order of magnitude more fuel would be required than was available on the Saturn 5.
IF that were the case, the Soviets would have known. They had rocket scientists too.
The U.S. had Skylab.
The Soviets had Mir, similar first gen. orbiting human habitation of space.
For this conspiracy theory to be believed, we would also have to believe the Soviets never bothered to do the math, check fundamental NASA / Apollo feasibility.
As the space race was surrogate to the arms race
There are other loose ends here.
NASA not merely communicated w/ Command and LEM modules, but even broadcast video from the moon.
At least one commercial broadcaster covered / carried this historic once in 500 years epic historic exploration.
Such radio transmission could not have come from Earth (if the entire undertaking was fake) without such falsification being readily detectable.
And it wasn't just Apollo 11.
Apollo 17
Sixth and most recent crewed Moon landing
Summary
Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon. ...
More from Wikipedia
If all this was an elaborate hoax, the entire solar system is in on it.
The "moon rocks" brought back for study in terrestrial laboratories? Dug from an abandoned mine Northwest of Albuquerque?
And if NASA's Apollo was a hoax, how do we explain the corroborating missions from India, China, and others?
Review this chart:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_space_travel_by_nationality
Over 50 other nations are listed here. Would these conspiracy theorists have us believe they're ALL in on it?
And if Apollo is a hoax, how was the expertise acquired to go to Mars with multiple rovers, etc. Review the extensive content of NASA's site.
NASA.gov brings you the latest news, images and videos from America's space agency, pioneering the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.
www.nasa.gov
If it is a hoax, it's a candidate for the most elaborate and enduring hoaxes in all human history.
And why bother? The Cold War is over. We won. Time to move on. Ockham's Razor
