Alx09":29e3mt2j said:
Hello everyone. Sorry if these have been posted before - but I'd like to have some thoughts on these videos. It's always interesting to listen to other peoples perspectives.
I'm not a professional when it comes to space, but I find it all very interesting. These videos recently caught my interest
Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlLN_Jcg1pc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-RPWhigpQg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyYto9H85Gw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22pk2polNeA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAp2Ni9frJE
Is everything in these videos trash - or are there actually any interesting points made? All Images / Videos / Voice communication seem to be from NASA archives.
Hi Alx09, I can now say that all those videos you posted should be viewed with much suspicion, because of something that came up in a thread that I started here:
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=20715&start=0
Those videos were all posted on YT by LunaCognita, who seems to be a purveyor of BS. In the above thread I linked, another video from LunaCognita was posted from Disclose.tv ...
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo ... _T__truth/
At 0235 in that video, a quote is given by Buzz Adrin from the book "First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong," in which he says the tv transmissions were "scripted," with "the exact words written down on little cards stuck in the panel in front of us."
The actual entry, from page 425 of that book is as follows - and thanks to Aussiebloke and JonClarke for pointing this out:
... For thirty six minutes the astronauts put on a show. The model of spontenaity, Collins disavowed the use of cue cards, Aldrin did a few zero-g push-ups, and Neil even stood on his head, (Collins: "Neil's standing on his head again. He's trying to make me nervous.") Head chef Collins also demonstrated how to make chicken stew whern travelling at a speed of 4,400 feet per second. Neil relates that most of the telecast seemed improvised but Aldrin notes that "we went to great lengths" to make it look that way. "The fact is they were carefully planned in advanceand for me the exact words were written down on little cards stuck onto the panel in front of us." Neil used no written aids, having thought through what he wanted to do and say only shortly before the TV transmission ...
I asked a question in the other thread about the Buzz Aldrin quote and today, Aussiebloke and JonClarke (who had copies of the book in front of them) posted to say that Aldrin was referring to a 36 minute show they put on, whilst in transit to the moon, to entertain the public.
LunaCognita chose to take the quote totally out of context, to make it appear that
everything said by the crew of Apollo 11 in the entire mission was scripted. So on the basis of that, I'm not confident we can trust the accuracy of all his/her other videos!