> In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:11:54 -0400: > Hi, > [snip] > >Or more CGI? An alleged lunar mining machine: > > > >http://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?ArticleID=1185 > > > >(scroll down for vid). > > > >Terry > > http://www.astronautix.com/flights/apollo20.htm > > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > The shrub is a plant. >
In case it wasn't obvious, as Robin has pointed out in his follow-up link there never was an Apollo 20 mission. The last mission was #17. Apollo missions 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 were considered successful as they landed on the moon and returned back with lunar samples. Mission 13 experienced a catastrophic failure in the fuel-cell oxygen / hydrogen mixture en route to the Moon. We were extremely lucky to get our astronauts back alive. If that mission didn't make one believe in a higher power occasionally at work...;-) ...with apologies to my atheist colleagues! How quickly we forget our history. For a historical recap see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program The U-Tube video link Terry supplied depicting ancient lunar artifacts of an artificial/intelligent nature were an absolute delight for me to view. Back in the late 60s when I was a young pup of a teenager - if I had at my disposal today's video technology, what do you think I would be doing? I had great fun in the evenings in sandboxes using my 35mm camera and a single light source - to get stark shadows and contrasts. As for the U-Tube video shots: great clay models of lunar surfaces and weird artificial contraptions. In many cases the fake video appears to have been spliced in with authentic lunar video shots shot by the apollo astronauts. * * * * I have personal story to share approaching lunacy proportions. Actually I talked about this on Vortex a year or two ago, but it probably doesn't hurt to mention it again since again we are on the subject of fakery. Back in the mid 90s I actually had the opportunity to view a copy of a negative plate shot from the window the Apollo 14 command module in orbit around the Moon, the reason being that R. Hoagland had claimed that on this particular negative one could see blatant artificial "towers" shooting up from the planes of Mare Crisium. R. Hoagland had claimed in one of his commercial video "lectures" that the artificial artifacts in this negative had been suppressed because of the controversial nature of the "towers". When I first viewed the negative, indeed, I saw impressive "towers" jutting up from the surface of Mare Crisium. How could ANYONE not see these "towers" I exclaimed to myself. They were so obvious, so HUGE, so blatant. But then I noticed something odd about them. There were several similar looking structures located in other parts of the negative. These other towers were all pointing -up- in the exact same parallel direction despite the fact that if they were real towers positioned on the surface of the moon they should have -curved- upwards in angular sync with the curvature of the lunar surface. They didn't. Then, it hit me like a bolt of lightening. These "artifacts" weren't artificial "towers". They were nothing more than simple scratches in the negative emulsion of the film. When this negative plate had been exposed to make a positive slide, indeed, one would end up with "tower" like structures - impressive ones too! This incident probably more than anything else caused me to seriously reevaluate my personal opinion of R. Hoagland's capacity to distinguish authentic anomalies from what a competent observer should have easily determined were obvious technical glitches. FWIW. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com
