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- Subject: Re: Moon dust
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:06:46 GMT
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- In article <1k1a58INN3d1@dmsoproto.ida.org> rlg@omni (Randy garrett)
- asks...
-
- > One piece of evidence advanced for a young universe concerns
- > the depth of dust on the moon. In my younger years, I remember
- > quite a bit of concern about the depth likely to be encountered
- > on the moon. Many people expected 20 - 40 feet of the stuff
- > based on calculated accumulations. Fortunately for Neil
- > Armstrong, there turned out to be much less -- of order
- > a few inches. Anyone know what the accepted reconcilation
- > of the discrepancy is?
-
- The "accepted reconciliation of the discrepency" is that the "measured"
- accumulation rate was off by more than a couple orders of magnitude. I don't
- have the refences at hand, but I am sure others would be more than happy to
- provide both the references and a more complete description of this "accepted
- reconciliation".
-
- Your comment, "Fortunately for Neil Armstrong, there turned out to be
- much less -- of the order [of] a few inches", makes me curious as to a
- related point, however. Maybe you can help me out.
-
- If scientists REALLY expected there to be a 20-40 foot accumulation of
- lunar dust, why do you think they would let the first Apollo launch go off as
- scheduled? Doesn't this suggest a rather depraved indifference towards human
- life? Don't you find it rather difficult to believe that not even one
- scientists would say, "Hey, wait a minute. You are sending those fine
- astronauts off to their death!" Not only are you suggesting that the Apollo
- 11 launch was tantamount to premeditated murder, you are suggesting that there
- was a global conspiracy of scientists to commit the crime.
-
- Here are the logical interpretations one can put on your claim that Neil
- Armstrong was fortunate:
-
- 1) There was a global scientific conspiracy to kill the Apollo 11 astronauts.
-
- 2) None of the Apollo launches ever occurred, and a scientific conspiracy
- is now in place to hide this fact.
-
- 3) The story that scientists in the 1960's believed that there was a 20-40
- foot accumulation of moon dust is nothing more than a myth.
-
- As a scientist, which of these interpretations do you think is the most
- viable?
-
- --
- Matt Brinkman
- brinkman@edseq1.llnl.gov
-