Post by fattydash on Jul 7, 2011 14:25:03 GMT -4
On the evening of 07/20/1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin allegedly piloted the LM Eagle, to what was to become the renown "Tranquility Base".
Most Americans would not be made aware that evening of the fact that NASA scientists back home on Earth and even the astronauts themselves were by no means certain as to Tranquility Base's precise location. The LM it would appear had not been rigorously tracked to its place of rest upon the lunar surface.
Coincident with those epic events then occurring on the surface of the moon, enthusiastic journalists had gathered at world renown Lick Observatory. There, astronomer-scientist-laser specialists extraordinaire were prepared to fire a "ruby red" laser beam at a small reflective surface that Armstrong and Aldrin were to place at the Eagle's point of rest. When the laser found its target and the light bounced back to us here on earth, that light return would be recorded with a sophisticated sensing device and all would cheer at this magnificent demonstration of a human presence on the moon's countenance.
It must have been a grand disappointment for those journalists when the laser did indeed fire that evening, but alas, could not find its target. It had been hoped that light bouncing back to the Lick Observatory scientists after having made the 2.5 second round trip from the Earth to moon and back would serve to not only measure the distance between mother Earth and her closest luminary, but would also serve to precisely, that is within the diameter of the laser beam's lunar spot , determine Eagle's location.
The astonishing fact that no clear and decicsive effort seems to have been made on the part of the principals involved to ask the astronauts to try and determine their own location with their navigational equipment, sextant/scanning telescope/navigational computer reveals an unexplainable indifference on the part of the Apollo 11 program's flight directors with regard to the obvious importance of making a clear and precise determination of Eagle's location, a location once so obtained, could be relayed to the staff at Lick Observatory so the laser might target the reflector and help to "find" the astronauts.
Determining a point of departure by way of the Eagle's navigational equipment would be necessary for the spaceship to return to Columbia, the command module, once Armstrong's and Aldrin's work had been accomplished upon the moon's surface. So the very means the astronauts were to use in orienting themselves in terms of finding their way off the lunar surface and up to Collins in the Columbia was the same means they should have employed to find themselves upon landing so that their point of rest could be targeted by the laser. This was more than reasonable and it was not done.
Given that the means of identifying their location was available to the astronauts by way of their navigational equipment, indeed it was the only equipment available to put the astronauts back on track to Earth, given the availability of the Lick team, a team that actually began firing the laser shortly after the reflector was set down, but to no avail, given the importance of locating themselves upon the moon's surface in preparation for a navigated return to Columbia, given the absence of any account in the Apollo 11 transcripts or debriefing reports that such an important and obvious issue was clearly addressed and therefore presumably ignored, given the report of Apollo scientist Donald A. Beattie that it was not until August 1st that the Lick crew with the assistance of Beattie's team was able to find the reflector allegedly associated with Eagle(see Beattie's book, "Taking Science to the Moon", ebook reference location 2916) we can quite rightly, but very sadly conclude that the Apollo 11 landing was not authentic as there was no effort made on the part of the principals to find Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, find exactly where it was they were upon the surface of the moon. The alleged means was available, and their finding was of course a matter of the greatest importance. The Apollo 11 mission must have been fraudulent. The Apollo 11 landing simply cannot have occurred, as it is unreasonable for anyone to believe that 2 astronauts would land on the moon and have both the astronauts themselves, and those managing them back on earth claim no one, no one at all, knew really where they were.
Most Americans would not be made aware that evening of the fact that NASA scientists back home on Earth and even the astronauts themselves were by no means certain as to Tranquility Base's precise location. The LM it would appear had not been rigorously tracked to its place of rest upon the lunar surface.
Coincident with those epic events then occurring on the surface of the moon, enthusiastic journalists had gathered at world renown Lick Observatory. There, astronomer-scientist-laser specialists extraordinaire were prepared to fire a "ruby red" laser beam at a small reflective surface that Armstrong and Aldrin were to place at the Eagle's point of rest. When the laser found its target and the light bounced back to us here on earth, that light return would be recorded with a sophisticated sensing device and all would cheer at this magnificent demonstration of a human presence on the moon's countenance.
It must have been a grand disappointment for those journalists when the laser did indeed fire that evening, but alas, could not find its target. It had been hoped that light bouncing back to the Lick Observatory scientists after having made the 2.5 second round trip from the Earth to moon and back would serve to not only measure the distance between mother Earth and her closest luminary, but would also serve to precisely, that is within the diameter of the laser beam's lunar spot , determine Eagle's location.
The astonishing fact that no clear and decicsive effort seems to have been made on the part of the principals involved to ask the astronauts to try and determine their own location with their navigational equipment, sextant/scanning telescope/navigational computer reveals an unexplainable indifference on the part of the Apollo 11 program's flight directors with regard to the obvious importance of making a clear and precise determination of Eagle's location, a location once so obtained, could be relayed to the staff at Lick Observatory so the laser might target the reflector and help to "find" the astronauts.
Determining a point of departure by way of the Eagle's navigational equipment would be necessary for the spaceship to return to Columbia, the command module, once Armstrong's and Aldrin's work had been accomplished upon the moon's surface. So the very means the astronauts were to use in orienting themselves in terms of finding their way off the lunar surface and up to Collins in the Columbia was the same means they should have employed to find themselves upon landing so that their point of rest could be targeted by the laser. This was more than reasonable and it was not done.
Given that the means of identifying their location was available to the astronauts by way of their navigational equipment, indeed it was the only equipment available to put the astronauts back on track to Earth, given the availability of the Lick team, a team that actually began firing the laser shortly after the reflector was set down, but to no avail, given the importance of locating themselves upon the moon's surface in preparation for a navigated return to Columbia, given the absence of any account in the Apollo 11 transcripts or debriefing reports that such an important and obvious issue was clearly addressed and therefore presumably ignored, given the report of Apollo scientist Donald A. Beattie that it was not until August 1st that the Lick crew with the assistance of Beattie's team was able to find the reflector allegedly associated with Eagle(see Beattie's book, "Taking Science to the Moon", ebook reference location 2916) we can quite rightly, but very sadly conclude that the Apollo 11 landing was not authentic as there was no effort made on the part of the principals to find Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, find exactly where it was they were upon the surface of the moon. The alleged means was available, and their finding was of course a matter of the greatest importance. The Apollo 11 mission must have been fraudulent. The Apollo 11 landing simply cannot have occurred, as it is unreasonable for anyone to believe that 2 astronauts would land on the moon and have both the astronauts themselves, and those managing them back on earth claim no one, no one at all, knew really where they were.
