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Post by randomguy on Jan 29, 2010 13:52:45 GMT -4
Yeah, the only thing that happens at half-speed on the moon, relative to earth, is falling. Everything else is conducted at the same speed, with allowances for circumstances. Like having a huge rubber pressure suit on and carrying a 'portable' AC unit. Yes, one thing a lot of people forget (even scientists) is that while "weight" is 1/6 of what it is on Earth, the Mass is still the same which means that it still takes 1N of force to accelerate 1kg by 1m/s. That means that while that 60kg pack might only feel like 10kg, it still takes the same amount of force to move it. Let's see some of our "They moved to slow" CTs run about like spring chickens with 60kg packs on. Taking the devil's advocate position for a second: The hoaxer response would simply be to say "it was all faked anyways, the packs didn't really have that much mass in them because they were fake props"
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Post by randomguy on Jan 29, 2010 13:57:05 GMT -4
The Mythbusters did a great debunking of this idea. They filmed without any special gear, with a wire rig, and on a plane at 1/6th gravity. The plane footage was the closest match for Apollo, in ways that are obvious even to a layman. Which is precisely why, using the joys of ad hominem logical fallacies, the hoaxers dismiss this debunking attempt because "they are in on it too". When you are unconstrained by the bounds of logic, all sorts of possibilities open up. (facepalm) Here is an excellent resource for looking up which exact logical fallacy is being used at any one point: www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/The above website is dedicated to fighting people who deny the Holocaust. Funny that crazies of any stripe use the same methods.
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Post by trebor on Jan 29, 2010 16:24:40 GMT -4
The hoaxer response would simply be to say "it was all faked anyways, the packs didn't really have that much mass in them because they were fake props" Except of course the mass was evident in the way the astronauts moved about. All that mass would take a good deal of force to start and stop.
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Post by echnaton on Jan 29, 2010 19:24:11 GMT -4
Yes, one thing a lot of people forget (even scientists) is that while "weight" is 1/6 of what it is on Earth, the Mass is still the same which means that it still takes 1N of force to accelerate 1kg by 1m/s. That means that while that 60kg pack might only feel like 10kg, it still takes the same amount of force to move it. Let's see some of our "They moved to slow" CTs run about like spring chickens with 60kg packs on. Taking the devil's advocate position for a second: The hoaxer response would simply be to say "it was all faked anyways, the packs didn't really have that much mass in them because they were fake props" Then we are back to needing a air conditioned stage to shoot the moon walks because fake or not, those suits would have been very hot. If we had the stage, it would have been larger than anything known to exist on earth at the time to accommodate the apparent motion of the astronauts during the seamless shots. Then.... Well, lets just not go down that road.
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