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Satweavers — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:34:49 MDT

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In Arizona when you drive a four wheel drive vehicle across a dusty plane it raises clouds of dust. On the Moon, the Lunar Rover threw up Rooster Tails of Dust that traveled an arc and settled back to the ground. How do you fake that on Earth? The Hoaxers say the entire terrain was composed of beach sand that had been sifted to eliminate fine particles. Some say the beach sand was moist. With every new excuse, the Hoaxers make the complexity of this Hoax increase by another logarithmic leap.

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Satweavers — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:16:56 MDT

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Climbing out of The Grand Canyon on The Bright Angel Trail, you find soil that has been pounded to a very fine powder by the tread of millions of hikers annually and the notorious mule trains that plod through it.

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Satweavers — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:16:34 MDT

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More boot prints. Back from a hike during which I shot these very fine impressions of boot prints.

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Satweavers — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:05:19 MDT

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Out in the desert the soil is fine grained and very dry. It's been more than four months since there's been a drop of rain. The powdery soil retains detail so fine, you can see the creases in my palm print here.

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Satweavers — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:04:46 MDT

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The soil is composed of rock that has been broken down by physical forces rather than the decomposition of organic matter of loamy earth or the wave action upon beach sand.

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Satweavers — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:04:14 MDT

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In many respects it is more analogous to lunar regolith than beach sand.

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Satweavers — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:03:45 MDT

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Particle adhesion of the fine grain size enables the retention of finely detailed impressions.

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Satweavers — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:03:12 MDT

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Satweavers — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:02:42 MDT

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On the Moon, the regolith set into flight by the action of an astronauts treading, travels in simple ballistic arcs and settles to the surface again.

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Satweavers — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:53:30 MDT

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Another characteristic of this fine, powdery soil is its behavior when scattered by a sharp kick.

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Satweavers — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:53:05 MDT

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The fine particles interact with the atmosphere, carried about buy the turbulent behavior of the air, creating clouds of dust that persist for some time after the event that disturbed them.

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Satweavers — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:52:40 MDT

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This difference in behavior, combined with the other physical properties of the soil areartifacts that would have been impossible to simulate in 1969 with the very best special effects technology available. Even today, this effect is not done well in the best attempts of Hollywood's Special Effects Wizards.

Get out your 3-D glasses. Here\'s a Red Blue Anaglyph of a very detailed stereo view of a boot print in lunar soil. This image is from Apollo 12. There is nothing about this very, very fine powder that resembles beach sand.

Satweavers — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:29:40 MST

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Get out your 3-D glasses. Here\'s a Red Blue Anaglyph of a very detailed stereo view of a boot print in lunar soil. This image is from Apollo 12. There is nothing about this very, very fine powder that resembles beach sand. - BB-AS12-57-8448.jpg

Here's lunar soil doing what beach sand clearly is incapable of.

Satweavers — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:42:33 MST

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Here's lunar soil doing what beach sand clearly is incapable of. - BA-AS11-40-5878.jpg

Close up of boot imprint in beach sand.

Satweavers — Fri, 5 Jan 2007 00:11:45 MST

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Close up of boot imprint in beach sand. - SMBeachPrint4.gif

Boot print in beach sand. - Like these other materials, lunar soil behaves in surprizing ways in 1/6 gravity and the vacuum of space.

Satweavers — Fri, 5 Jan 2007 00:11:31 MST

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Boot print in beach sand. - Like these other materials, lunar soil behaves in surprizing ways in 1/6 gravity and the vacuum of space. - SMBeachPrint3.gif

Stepping on sand. - In their Technical Debriefing, the Apollo astronauts observed that the shiny insulation blasted away from their lunar module's lower half sailed miles in some instances as they lifted off from the moon

Satweavers — Fri, 5 Jan 2007 00:10:15 MST

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Stepping on sand. - In their Technical Debriefing, the Apollo astronauts observed that the shiny insulation blasted away from their lunar module's lower half sailed miles in some instances as they lifted off from the moon - SMBeachPrint2.gif

Beach sand at Santa Monica, CA. - Things thrown about on the moon exhibit behaviour you would not see on Earth. A paper tissue could be thrown as far as a steel pellet of the same mass, for instance.

Satweavers — Fri, 5 Jan 2007 00:09:44 MST

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Beach sand at Santa Monica, CA. - Things thrown about on the moon exhibit behaviour you would not see on Earth. A paper tissue could be thrown as far as a steel pellet of the same mass, for instance. - SMBeachPrint1.gif

Close up of boot print with rock. See? The rock was pressed into the sand when I stepped on it. You see no rocks in boot prints on the moon for the same reason. Yeah... sometimes words just aren't enough.

Satweavers — Fri, 5 Jan 2007 00:08:52 MST

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Close up of boot print with rock. See? The rock was pressed into the sand when I stepped on it. You see no rocks in boot prints on the moon for the same reason. Yeah... sometimes words just aren't enough. - SMPrintRock4.gif

While reasonably fine tread detail is preserved, you can clearly see the grain size, and the beach sand cannot preserve the edges of the sole. The impression collapses, flowing into the boot print.

Boot print with rock pressed into sand. - And there were prolonged and impassioned arguements about this for a long time, so I took these pictures at the beach on Christmas Day, 2006.

Satweavers — Fri, 5 Jan 2007 00:08:37 MST

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Boot print with rock pressed into sand. - And there were prolonged and impassioned arguements about this for a long time, so I took these pictures at the beach on Christmas Day, 2006. - SMPrintRock3.gif

Boot pressing rocks into sand. - Hoax bashers say, but beach sand will not retain these really sharp impressions of boots, and the Hoaxer said, "Will too!"

Satweavers — Fri, 5 Jan 2007 00:08:24 MST

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Boot pressing rocks into sand. - Hoax bashers say, but beach sand will not retain these really sharp impressions of boots, and the Hoaxer said, "Will too!" - SMPrintRock2.gif

Beach sand with rocks and pebbles. Proof that rocks can be pressed into the sand when a boot print is made. - The story continues next frame...

Satweavers — Fri, 5 Jan 2007 00:08:08 MST

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Beach sand with rocks and pebbles. Proof that rocks can be pressed into the sand when a boot print is made. - The story continues next frame... - SMPrintRock1.gif

Close up of Venice beach sand boot print not behaving like one in lunar soil. - So it was suggested that washed and sifted beach sand would scatter without leaving dust clouds.

Satweavers — Fri, 5 Jan 2007 00:07:51 MST

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Close up of Venice beach sand boot print not behaving like one in lunar soil. - So it was suggested that washed and sifted beach sand would scatter without leaving dust clouds. - Sand4copy.gif

Sand flows back in to fill boot print. - The absense of clouds of dust is evidnce it was not shot on Earth in an atmosphere of... air. No dust clouds, no filming in Nevada or a soundstage, therefore moonwalks happened on the moon.

Satweavers — Fri, 5 Jan 2007 00:07:27 MST

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Sand flows back in to fill boot print. - The absense of clouds of dust is evidnce it was not shot on Earth in an atmosphere of... air. No dust clouds, no filming in Nevada or a soundstage, therefore moonwalks happened on the moon. - Sand3copy.gif

One small step for Satweavers. - If you kick lunar soil in the moon's atmospheric vacuum, the soil will follow ballistic curves falling back to the surface without air to suspend dust in lingering clouds.

Satweavers — Fri, 5 Jan 2007 00:06:54 MST

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One small step for Satweavers. - If you kick lunar soil in the moon's atmospheric vacuum, the soil will follow ballistic curves falling back to the surface without air to suspend dust in lingering clouds. - Sand2copy.gif

Beach Sand at Venice, CA. - The story: There were some protracted and impassioned discussions about the properties of beach sand compared to the powdery lunar regolith in their ability to retain impressions of bootprints.

Satweavers — Fri, 5 Jan 2007 00:06:49 MST

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Beach Sand at Venice, CA. - The story: There were some protracted and impassioned discussions about the properties of beach sand compared to the powdery lunar regolith in their ability to retain impressions of bootprints. - Sand1copy.gif