posted on Sep, 3 2011 @ 11:14 AM
Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter
000063 is simply providing a good opportunity to bring up Brian Mason who is considered an *expert* in meteorites & moon rocks, and determined,
While examining meteorites collected by U.S. expeditions to Antarctica, he wrote in his notes that they seemed to be rocks from the moon, an idea
that astrophysicists had said was impossible. Unwilling to show up other scholars in the field, his published comment was that they "had a passing
resemblance to certain Apollo 15 lunar rocks." Within a year, other scientists agreed. It wasn't the first or last time his work forced a
reconsideration of an entire field.
See it only takes one man of great determination to change the thinking of an entire field of science!
During the 1960s, an upsurge in space research and the imminent Apollo programme stimulated increasing requests for meteorites. With Ed Henderson
of the Smithsonian Institute, Mason initiated a search for new meteorites in the Australian Outback, where the arid desert conditions were favourable
to their survival and recovery. In four expeditions between 1963 and1967, the pair covered 40036 miles and made a significant number of finds. Then in
1965, Mason joined the Smithsonian, as the meteorite division expanded in anticipation of the need for significant scientific backup to support the
So to support your theory of a secret conspiracy, you cite the fact that NASA was openly looking for moon rocks that had
fallen to Earth. That seems odd, since you'd think that NASA would want to compare Earth-moonrocks with Moon-moonrocks, and would therefore seek to
obtain as many of said Earth-moonrocks before they got the Moon-moonrocks which they'd be comparing them with.
In February 1969, an exploding fireball scattered tons of the Allende meteorite over the Mexican countryside. In July, the Apollo 11
astronauts made the first Moon landing, returning with 22kg of lunar material and in December of that year, Japanese glaciologists picked up nine
meteorites on the icecap near the Yamoto Mountains of Antarctica. Source www.geol.canterbury.ac.nz...
In other news,
During the local summer of 1966–67, von Braun participated in a field trip to Antarctica, organized for him and several other
members of top NASA management. ...
Meteorites are prepared for study and conservation in museums using a laboratory clean room process that eliminates the water in the sample. It is
plausible that Apollo moon rocks were prepared using that same process, to remove the water first and, coincidentally, it could also be used to remove
any traces or mineral signatures that could confuse an astrophysicist about a meteorites terrestrial resting place. NASA (in the 1960's - where money
was no object) could have collected 22kg of meteorites from various places on earth.
I said "proof", SJ. Not your unbacked speculation which
ignores micrometeorite scarring. Proof that the moon rocks were faked.
Because back in the day Brian Mason proved that moon rocks can be found right here on planet Earth.
Meteorites ("Earth-moonrocks") are
different from rocks found on the moon ("Moon-moonrocks"). There is no known way to fake all
the characteristics of Moon-moonrocks. According
to many scientists, including, um, Brian Mason
, who has never said the Moon-moonrocks were fake.
Also, FoosM quote-mined my post. And then you quoted him, to avoid having to respond to me directly, so no one would notice how you are avoiding the
rest of my post, which is reproduced below.
Originally posted by 000063
Appeal to Authority is not a fallacy if the person in question is an authority. I can listen to my
cousin Jim-Bob about my stomach pains, or I can listen to a doctor. The doctor is by definition, more likely to determine the problem accurately than
Jim-Bob, unless Jim-Bob is also a doctor. And when thousands of said authorities has confirmed said evidence for several decades, and their opposition
is usually unlettered people on the Internet who find "anomalies" that "look wrong", I'm gonna take the former's side.
Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter
An argument by Appeal to authority?
What are you talking about?
Remember that there will only be 12 expert authorities on the subject of the Apollo moon landings. 3 of these experts have passed away leaving
9 of them alive.
Well, 80 year olds are often senile.
One of the still living experts is Edgar Mitchell who believes in aliens
You mean the government wants possession of their historical artifact that Mitchell
allegedly took without permission? Gosh, that's suspicious.
and has in his personal possession an Apollo 14 DAC camera that he wasn't supposed to bring back from the moon. And NASA want's that camera
back ...... really bad ..... you going to see Apollo 18?
I don't see what any of this has to do with proving the landings were
faked, relying on your usual empty rhetoric.
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