Walking on the moon?

[gingerjedi]

So what happened to American Airlines Flight 77? Are the passengers on a tropical island from which they can’t escape?? ...please!

[r0bly0ns]

http://www.popularmechanics.com/tech...42.html?page=6

[Bagpuss]

back to the Moon, conspiracy theorists would say the radiation from Van Allen's Belt would have killed the astronauts in their 1960s tin foil craft

[r0bly0ns]

Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_...ax_accusations
:
The Moon is ten times higher than the Van Allen radiation belts. The spacecraft moved through the belts in just 30 minutes, and the astronauts were protected from the ionizing radiation by the metal hulls of the spacecraft. In addition, the orbital transfer trajectory from the Earth to the Moon through the belts was selected to minimize radiation exposure. Even Dr. James Van Allen, the discoverer of the Van Allen radiation belts, rebutted the claims that radiation levels were too dangerous for the Apollo missions. Dosimeters carried by the crews showed they received about the same cumulative dosage as a chest X-ray or about 1 milligray.[58] Plait cited an average dose of less than 1 rem, which is equivalent to the ambient radiation received by living at sea level for three years.[12], pp. 160–162




Google is a realy PITA to use these days eh?

[wendigo100]

So, the Americans saw what happened to the twin towers and took the opportunity to fake a plane hitting the Pentagon.

It must have been a brilliant piece of organisation, given that they had only a few minutes to plan and execute it. Must be why they forgot to leave a few broken plane parts lying around for the cameras!

And what was the reason for doing it? Anyone out there know?

[Bagpuss]

mmm "Wikipedia" is to fact what Lada is to automotive engineering

[zathras]

http://www.popularmechanics.com/tech...42.html?page=6

None of which answers for me the simple question of why our terrorist who had previously only flown a Cessna took flew around the Pentagon and then flew it into the one bit that was being worked on, and was therefore fairly empty.

Why not just put the plane into a dive and be done with it.

For that matter why the Pentagon. If you were some self-respecting terrorist would you? Surely you would send it into the Whitehouse or alternatively the Capitol

[r0bly0ns]

I'm not giving my opinion either way about the moon landings or the pentagon, I am just demonstrating how easy it is to find something that supports your point of view, or discredits another, using google.


If you want me to find something about the lack of training and the pentagon being empty, I've got 5 mins of my luch break left, I'll see what google can do.....

[r0bly0ns]

Here you go.
http://www.oilempire.us/remote.html

I son't say I believe it, nor that I have actually read most of it, just demonstrating how much sh*te there is out there arguing both sides, that is incredibly easy to find if you just look for it...

[gingerjedi]

None of which answers for me the simple question of why our terrorist who had previously only flown a Cessna took flew around the Pentagon and then flew it into the one bit that was being worked on, and was therefore fairly empty.

Why not just put the plane into a dive and be done with it.

For that matter why the Pentagon. If you were some self-respecting terrorist would you? Surely you would send it into the Whitehouse or alternatively the Capitol

The hard bits are taking off and landing, they had to do neither.

Wasn't the 4th plane supposed to hit the capitol building but was forced down by the passengers? And the 5th plane didn't get hijacked as they aborted their mission or couldn't board or something.