Anselmo wrote: >I heard somewhere that Apollo astronauts took a sundial to the Moon. Is >this true? >What is it like? Does anybody have any picture of it?
....that presupposes that the Apollo astronauts actually did go to the moon. A recent TV programme here in the UK showed what seemed, on the face of it, compelling evidence of strange irregularities in the photographs from the moon. In one shot the lunar landing module is positioned against a backdrop of hills, while in another, against THE SAME backdrop, it is not there! They could not have moved it, and the chances of getting two shots of a range of irregular distant hills which superimpose exactly, must be astronomical. Others showed strange lighting effects, shadows from two directions simultaneously, and objects cutting out the graticule markings on the camera lenses (used for alignment of images)....and of course the fluttering star spangled banner. As a worker in geosciences, I would also have to ask why NASA are so obsessed with even the tiniest quantity of rock getting into the public arena (except mounted in such a way that access to it is denied)? Could it be that any competent laboratory could show that it is identical to terrestrial material? Until I saw this programme I could not believe anything other than the grainy images I saw in 1969 were historic beyond belief. Now, I'm not quite so sure...... Peter Tandy -
