Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: P-Marlowe

Well, if you watch some of the videos as I have of the astronauts cavorting, you will see one thing for sure.

They kick up dust.
The dust falls back down.

Now I don’t know if the video was shot on the moon, on Mars, on some back lot near Hollywood, or in the Great Land of Oz, but I can tell you one thing.
It was shot in an airless environment!


19 posted on 05/11/2008 10:27:06 PM PDT by djf
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: djf

Back when the “Apollo hoax” thing first hit, I contemplated some of the basic physics behind a 1/6 g simulation in a 1 g environment. Assuming you relied on natural motion, you would have to slow time down by sqrt(1/6) or about 1/2.4, to get the proper appearance of vertical acceleration.

That is, a simple film of a ball dropped from rest in an earth studio could be slowed by sqrt(1/6) and be indistinguishable in principle from a record of the event in a lunar studio.

However, this means that all velocities would have to be scaled UP by 2.4 in the simulation, compared to their appearance in the film. For example, for the dust to achieve the recorded height, it would have to have 2.4 times the apparent initial velocity in the “actual simulation”, assuming of course it is carried out in vacuo.

The physical demands of this speed-up on the hoax astronauts would of course be extreme, and indeed impossible to meet.


52 posted on 05/12/2008 12:08:58 AM PDT by dr_lew
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies ]

To: djf

that’s for starting my week with a laugh


77 posted on 05/12/2008 5:44:56 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson