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Astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., Apollo 16 lunar module pilot, is photographed collecting lunar samples during the mission's first extravehicular activity at the Descartes landing site. The lunar rover can be seen in the background. [NASA]

Astronauts, Artists Agree: Moon Stinks of Gunpowder

1 posted on 10/26/2010 7:03:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

I understand that lunar dust got into everything... finer than sand.


3 posted on 10/26/2010 7:05:17 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: SunkenCiv

Hmmm, does the moon burn? LIGHT IT LIGHT IT!


5 posted on 10/26/2010 7:16:30 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: SunkenCiv
They got all their info from Randy Quaid.
6 posted on 10/26/2010 7:16:50 PM PDT by fish hawk
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To: SunkenCiv

Hmmmm, I love the smell of gun powder.


7 posted on 10/26/2010 7:17:02 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS= Obama's Mosque, taxes, painful death. Is this what you want?)
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To: SunkenCiv

Does it smell like modern smokeless powder or good ‘ol black powder?


8 posted on 10/26/2010 7:19:08 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I remember hearing one of the astronauts mention that the moon smells like burnt matches and I can’t think about it without the olfactory illusion of burnt matches.


9 posted on 10/26/2010 7:21:47 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: SunkenCiv

why are there no stars showing in that pic ...over the horizon....?


10 posted on 10/26/2010 7:31:42 PM PDT by spokeshave (Islamics and Democrats unite to cut off Adam Smith's invisible hand)
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To: SunkenCiv

well the moon can still exude gas even without atmosphere, so they smell it.

all of these sorts of evidences terrestrial/and not make me suspicious of the ‘scientists’ age estimates. My guess? things are a lot younger than they say they are.

Does that mean i believe in a 6,000 year old earth? not right now.


11 posted on 10/26/2010 7:41:02 PM PDT by valkyry1
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To: SunkenCiv
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13 posted on 10/26/2010 7:42:59 PM PDT by The Comedian (Don't run. You'll just die tired.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Is it a IMR 4064 type of smell or more like a Herco/Bullseye type of smell?


24 posted on 10/26/2010 8:30:24 PM PDT by Deaf Smith
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To: SunkenCiv

You’ve got to remember that the fake moon landing was shot in the same Burbank studio where all the Keystone Kops and other silents were filmed. There was a lot of shooting (with blanks of course, but still) in those movies and the odor remained for decades on the sound stages, which were not well ventilated to isolate them from the noisy surroundings.


27 posted on 10/26/2010 8:43:20 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s all those bottle rockets I shot as a kid.


30 posted on 10/26/2010 11:37:37 PM PDT by Defiant (I'm a Fabian Constitutionalist. Roll back FDR and progressivism!)
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To: SunkenCiv; Deaf Smith

IS that ball or stick gunpowder?


31 posted on 10/27/2010 7:33:18 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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