Sure they went to the Moon with a 40 kbyte computer. Why not? They had elaborate manual procedures to make it work, however. When the X-20 program (DynaSoar) was active, the Boeing company figured out a way for the astronaut to manually pilot the vehicle all the way from orbit to a ground landing. We were able to do impressive things back in the days of slide rules.
The Moon Buggy was not for funsies. It was to get them farther from the landing site for samples and observations.
Why would there be a crater when the dust layer was thin, backed by rock, and the exhaust plume had expanded like a huge bubble? (That's what they do in vacuum: take a sharp outward turn past the exhaust cone.) That like expecting a helicopter to produce a sandstorm whenever it landed on arid ground.
13 feet on the moon would be 2+ feet on the Earth. Try that. Then try it again wearing 175 pounds of Moon Suit. With the bending of your limbs constrained by the fabric and joints. (We are working up to the realization that you don't know what you are talking about.)
The Moon is about 350,000 km from the Earth. The light speed delay is essentially 1 second. System delays would make it longer. Do you have any scientific reference that substantiates a claim that the delay was shorter?
Whether you see stars or not depends on how dark adapted you are and whether you have been gazing into the star field for some time, or glance at it from a lighted environment.
Not all the data is destroyed. Mostly what happened is that we still have the data, but it is on storage media for which we no longer have readout systems. That is a stupid oopsie, but not a deliberate plot. And what are we missing that you would be so concerned about?
We didn't "destroy" the technology to go to the Moon. We just threw it aside and let it rot, for want of continuing to go there. It takes a huge effort in time and money to make and launch an Apollo mission. We couldn't afford to keep it up. (Vietnam War and all that.) You can see it in museums. We also have lost the knowledge of how to build 16-inch naval cannon, for the same reason. Elon Musk is revving up a new approach. (Don't hold your breath for the Space Launch System. It is NASA's equivalent to building a pyramid.)
The Apollo 7 mission never left low Earth orbit because it was not meant to. It was an early test of the system.
The Van Allen belts did not destroy any computers. Not even for the lunar probe missions. Not even the electronics on Explorer I which was the satellite that detected them. Nobody was killed by the Van Allen belts. It makes a difference whether you are passing through at close to 10 km/sec or hanging out for a long time. (By the way, you shield a computer by putting it in a shielding box, not by making the entire spacecraft a shield.)
If all the other thousand pieces of evidence are as flimsy as these, you would not be able to sit on it without it collapsing.
Why did Michael Collins say he couldn't see any stars in space, clown? All while Neil armstrong looked like he wanted to blow his head off after supposedly achieving the greatest accomplishment in human history.
If I recall, he said we've been to the moon, not specifically that the moon landings were real.
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Sure they went to the Moon with a 40 kbyte computer. Why not? They had elaborate manual procedures to make it work, however. When the X-20 program (DynaSoar) was active, the Boeing company figured out a way for the astronaut to manually pilot the vehicle all the way from orbit to a ground landing. We were able to do impressive things back in the days of slide rules.
The Moon Buggy was not for funsies. It was to get them farther from the landing site for samples and observations.
Why would there be a crater when the dust layer was thin, backed by rock, and the exhaust plume had expanded like a huge bubble? (That's what they do in vacuum: take a sharp outward turn past the exhaust cone.) That like expecting a helicopter to produce a sandstorm whenever it landed on arid ground.
13 feet on the moon would be 2+ feet on the Earth. Try that. Then try it again wearing 175 pounds of Moon Suit. With the bending of your limbs constrained by the fabric and joints. (We are working up to the realization that you don't know what you are talking about.)
The Moon is about 350,000 km from the Earth. The light speed delay is essentially 1 second. System delays would make it longer. Do you have any scientific reference that substantiates a claim that the delay was shorter?
Whether you see stars or not depends on how dark adapted you are and whether you have been gazing into the star field for some time, or glance at it from a lighted environment.
Not all the data is destroyed. Mostly what happened is that we still have the data, but it is on storage media for which we no longer have readout systems. That is a stupid oopsie, but not a deliberate plot. And what are we missing that you would be so concerned about?
We didn't "destroy" the technology to go to the Moon. We just threw it aside and let it rot, for want of continuing to go there. It takes a huge effort in time and money to make and launch an Apollo mission. We couldn't afford to keep it up. (Vietnam War and all that.) You can see it in museums. We also have lost the knowledge of how to build 16-inch naval cannon, for the same reason. Elon Musk is revving up a new approach. (Don't hold your breath for the Space Launch System. It is NASA's equivalent to building a pyramid.)
The Apollo 7 mission never left low Earth orbit because it was not meant to. It was an early test of the system.
The Van Allen belts did not destroy any computers. Not even for the lunar probe missions. Not even the electronics on Explorer I which was the satellite that detected them. Nobody was killed by the Van Allen belts. It makes a difference whether you are passing through at close to 10 km/sec or hanging out for a long time. (By the way, you shield a computer by putting it in a shielding box, not by making the entire spacecraft a shield.)
If all the other thousand pieces of evidence are as flimsy as these, you would not be able to sit on it without it collapsing.
Why did Michael Collins say he couldn't see any stars in space, clown? All while Neil armstrong looked like he wanted to blow his head off after supposedly achieving the greatest accomplishment in human history.