The film in the camera according to Kodak melts at 150 degrees the moon is 250 plus at high noon when they supposedly where filming. The film in uncooled cameras would melt.
1. So he doesn't even know what part of the lunar day the astronauts spent on the moon. That part of his argument is dismissed.
2. Like so many of us did before we developed some sort of understanding of the lunar environment, he's referring to his own earth-centric experiences. He probably thinks that the surface, when it reached 250 degrees (which it never did while the astronauts were there), would cause the air to heat up. The trouble is, there isn't any. So how exactly would the camera heat up sufficiently to melt the film?
See? It's so hard for us laypeople to understand that only the surface would get hot and there would just be a small amount of heat radiated from it, but absolutely no convection like we get on earth. Our boot soles might be melting but our butt wouldn't be roasting. The camera was treated so that it simply reflected most of the heat that hit it.
The gloves at 4psi could not be used to change a camera!3. Yet there is movie film and video of astronauts manipulating the cameras and other objects. Not with the greatest of ease, of course, and Dave Scott temporarily damaged his hands while on the moon, but they still accomplished many tasks. Modern astronauts do exactly the same. Would your friend be silly enough to pay somebody to do some dentistry but insist he wear boxing gloves?
The soviets are big liars themselves.4. That one covers many imagined sins. Unfortunately, he sounds very much like a hopeless case. I refer to the quotes in my signature. Plus:
Don't bother me with the facts; my mind is already made up. -- Dr Stanton T. Friedman.
If you try to counter a person's emotional beliefs with rational arguments, you'll get nowhere. -- John Mosley,
Astronomy February 1990, p8.
Righteousness is as spiritually destructive as any other judgment. It also prevents us from being honest with ourselves and admitting our own dishonesty, or capacity for it. -- Valerie Davies,
Heaven is a Place on Earth - Eight Years of my Life, p179-180.
5. Try these on him. He's probably heard that the Russians were "bought off" with heaps of cheap American wheat, but they actually got a good deal on wheat long after Apollo 11 and, in July 1969, would have leapt on any opportunity to discredit the USA.
The West Australian, Friday 18 July 1969, page 16
Russians hail Apollo The Soviet news agency Tass yesterday put out an 800-word story outlining America's moon programme and hailing the three Apollo 11 astronauts.
Tass described the three men as "those courageous people entrusted with the most responsible task of landing on the moon."
Pravda, the Soviet Communist Party newspaper, wished the astronauts bon voyage. It said: "Let us wish its courageous crew a happy voyage and full success."...
—A.A.P.-Reuters
The West Australian, Wednesday 23 July 1969, page 8
Congratulations from Kosygin
Moscow, Tuesday Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin sent congratulations to the Apollo 11 astronauts and President Nixon yesterday through former vice-president Humphrey, who is visiting Moscow.
Mr Humphrey was called to Mr Kosygin's office in the Kremlin after the moon walk.
Mr Humphrey quoted Mr Kosygin as saying: "I want you to tell the President and the American people that the Soviet Union desires to work with the U.S. in the cause of peace."
Prompt reports
The Russian radio reported the landing of the astronauts within ten minutes of touch-down and announced the ascent from the moon even more promptly. Moscow television showed the moon walk yesterday.
A first screening was edited to blank out the American commentary and the voices of the astronauts. It ended just before the astronauts raised the U.S. flag on the moon's surface.
About two hours later, in another TV broadcast, the sound and the flag raising had been restored.
In Peking, the official newspapers, TV and radio totally ignored Apollo 11, but some Chinese people may have heard of the landing by courtesy of Radio Moscow. A half-hour Chinese-language news broadcast from Moscow gave 30 seconds to the landing.
In London, a man who almost arranged the death of Saturn rocket designer Wernher von Braun sent him a cable of congratulations — and relief.
Politician Duncan Sandys, who planned a raid designed to kill Nazi Germany's major rocket scientists at Peenemunde (one of them Dr von Braun), said: "I am thankful that your illustrious career was not cut short in the bombing raid at Peenemunde 26 years ago."
Manawatu Evening Standard, Friday 25 July 1969, page 1
Astronauts home — Perfect, but upside down, landing
NZPA Aboard USS Hornet, July 24 Apollo-XI's astronauts, their footprints stamped forever in history, splashed (upside down) "in excellent condition" today to make good America's commitment to walk on the moon in the 1960s....
[Large snip]
Soviet praise From Moscow, the Soviet President, Mr N. Podgorny, today congratulated President Nixon on "the successful completion of the outstanding flight of the spaceship Apollo-XI, the moon landing and the safe return to earth of the American cosmonauts."
The Soviet President's telegram said: "Please convey our congratulations and best wishes to the courageous space pilots Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins."
Russian television viewers saw their first live transmission from the epic Apollo-XI flight, as the moon-walking astronauts landed on the Hornet.