I work for NASA in a capacity that deals with obtaining and allocating funding for individual missions, both those the public knows about, and those they don't. I basically have to know some details to help create the cover stories and get funding along with the real dollar costs of any real/secret missions NASA is engaged in, so funds can be diverted to the right place at the right time. Usually that means coming up with bullshit "science" missions at the last minute to get money in order to keep actual missions going that have gone overbudget. I can't tell you everything, but let's just say there's a reason the JWST took so long to actually happen, kept being delayed and needing more money. That was a good running excuse that made my job easier because so many people wanted to see it actually happen as it got closer and closer.I've never posted on this site before, but the latest shit going on quite frankly has me pretty rattled. A while back I was told by a supervisor that I'd have to come up with justification for funding to send a secret mission back to the Apollo 17 landing site on the moon. That's kinda weird, I of course wondered why they'd go back there, but it's not too far out of the ordinary in terms of shit we're asked to divert funding for, etc. so I never thought much about that at the time. It was a pretty expensive project though so it did occupy a lot of my work time later. Based on the parameters, rumours, and deduction, I found out the Chinese were pissed at the US about something and there was still evidence of it at the landing site. I heard some real crazy shit I have trouble believing, but the problem is the Chinese are sending their own mission, so we have to beat them there and extract some kind of materials, while preferably leaving no trace the site was ever tampered with. Does anyone know if something was off with Apollo 17 in particular? Do you have any evidence of anything amiss? What are the Chinese looking for?
>>39241055>I know secret things>uh what do you guys know? I dont know shit really
>>39241115Not exactly what I'm saying/asking, but I understand your frustration. I just know a lot of you guys pick up on details and watch a lot of shit. Like that channel with those spergy old fucks who go on about film in a vacuum, they might not be right about everything, but it's amazing how often they get something right.Like I can tell you that just about every time a rocket blows up on the pad, during liftoff, or falls into the ocean, that's me and my department moving money. Like you think NASA has to rebuild not only the rocket and the payload, but the payload, (expensive satellite or whatever), has been removed 'Capricorn One' style at the last minute, (although doesn't have to be literally the last 'minute' in the case of an unmanned mission of course). It's basically more financially advantageous for us to just strip shit down, write it off, and then carry on, rather than let an expensive mission go ahead as planned. Especially if it was a bullshit "science" mission in the first place. What amazing "scientific breakthroughs" have you gotten from NASA lately? Think about it. There's nothing really to learn, which is why space telescopes are our go-to lately.I do know what I'm talking about, I'm just looking for some missing pieces because I'm not personally that familiar with the older Apollo missions, and I know you guys have spent a lot of time analyzing and talking about them.
we never landed on the moon stop trying to pass your lies as real life events, what next, are you gonna tell us the mars rover is doing burnouts on mars like in the movie wall-e? give me a break
>>39241055I could go into the hundreds of reasons why this is extremely obvious bullshit but instead I'll just say that that is not at all how NASA works in terms of funding and hopefully just move on from there.If you're going to larp, try to do even the slightest bit of research.Oh duck it I'll greenbelt>Secret mission to the Moon>That requires a massive fucking rocket that can be seen for hundreds of miles>That can be tracked by every government in the world>That can be tracked by a ton of amateurs too>But it will be secretYou can't have a secret space launch you fucking idiot. How do you think nuclear weapons don't get fired off every time a mission is launched and the initial burn is detected by every ICBM detector on the planet? Because you have to publicly tell others and book the sky traffic and find the correct route to not smash into other people's satellites and a billion other tiny things that you didn't think about with your shitty larp.Just fuck off man. Fuck off with your crap fiction. Go and write it on a fan fiction site or talk to an AI role-playing or something. Just stop shitting up the board with this horseshit.
>>39241055Hello? Captain Obvious? We didn’t go in the first place, now that China is going we have to go there first to put our flag and shit there to keep up the charade.
>>39241055I've read that the lander module was surrounded by ships and the astronauts were told to finish their mission series, take some rocks and fuck off my lawn.Might still be some evidence of that meeting lying around, and perhaps China is upset they were fed bullshit by USG about it. They might want to destroy confidence in USG by exposing the Moon landing coverup, to further discredit USG for Taiwan leverage.
>>39241265You don't know what you're even talking about. It's 'experts' like you that make it so easy for people in my line of work.>>39241221Well there'd be no reason to go there and try to bring something back if they didn't even send anything at all, obviously.
>>39241168are you affiliated with the YWNBAG division on Seidnet? if so, I can clue you in on some on some of our most recent intel
>>39241351Yeah I do. It's you and your shitty larp that didn't even bother to look up the extreme basics before writing your wall of horseshit that's wrong. I've been involved in this industry since before you were born and know exactly how "realistic" the idea of "a secret launch" is. Do you have any idea what UNOOSA is and why it exists in a world of first strike capability? No you don't because you're a fucking sperg who can't even write a vaguely realistic larp. Do you realise how much monitoring goes into a lunar landing just on an espionage level, LET ALONE the massive bilateral cooperation that happens because the fucking Earth is a globe? Do you realise that NASA and CNSA have been looping round the Wolf Amendment for years up to and including the Chang'e missions and literally worked together on 4? No you don't. Because you're a shitty fucking larper.Secret space launch, you absolute fucking idiot. Yeah see that massive fucking rocket over there, everyone just ignore that please because it's a secret that only me and some schizos on a shitty forum know about. What do you mean every single person on Earth has the ability with a $100 piece of kit to track the exact positioning of lunar missions? Yeah well it's a secret to them too.You stupid fucking cunt. Fuck off.
>>39241419>I've been involved in this industry since before you were bornNASA shill detected.
>>39241168Apollo 17 and Nansen is an interesting topic. The astronauts seem to hint that “something” is there, and they hint that they have to hide it in their imagery. This may be something left by someone else that they simply dont want the Chinese looking at. Perhaps it is something that can be moved and theyre worried the Chinese will ship it back? I wonder how they knew about it in the first place, if indeed something were there? If anything the funding would be used to get proposals regarding highly specific things on short notice by contracting NASA scientists to perform compartmentalized tasks that only when seen in total paint the full picture of what is actually being developed but otherwise just appear to be highly specific and lucrative work. Get a bunch of top tier scientists to solve every aspect of your problem on short notice, then use the actual black money to make it a reality.
>>39241419So first NASA couldn't have faked shit because their enemies would have said something, but then they're all working together so they wouldn't all be hiding rocket launches?I smell shill logic.
>>39241351>>39241419based larp detector
>>39241055When the spinning ball-Earth is finally exposed worldwide for the 4000+ year deception it was, Earth's entire population will suddenly be faced with the reality that every government, every space agency, university, secret society, religious organization, mainstream and alternative media outlet have ALL been duplicitous in propping up a monstrous manipulation to fleece and control the masses. The resulting mass mental exodus away from the control system is exactly what humanity needs. Once the flat Earth truth gets out, these lying politicians, spokesmen, reporters and teachers suddenly change from being heralded voices of authority to being ridiculed, shunned and denounced as they deserve. Once the flat Earth truth gets out, these governments, universities, media outlets and other entangled organizations which have long been hard at work weaving this multi-generational ball-Earth myth, suddenly and completely lose all credibility. Once the truth of our flat Earth gets out, so does the truth of these few elite families/societies who have kept this most important and fundamental reality from us for these hundreds of years! Essentially, once the flat Earth truth gets out, so does every other important truth by proxy, because this "mother-of-all-conspiracies" holds under its umbrella literally ALL of the other conspiracies, and exposes them.
Interesting, i had no idea shilljew followed /x/ threads closely. OP said something triggering a response.There's an archived thread from YEARS back that circulates rarely about nephilim DNA/body/similar being buried on moon and somehow China found out about it before the mission. Hazey on the deets, but again you see the pic floating around every year or so.Either way, OP said some shit and triggered a legit response.
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>>39241486One thing is for sure, science goes out the window at NASA when it comes to politics, otherwise you wouldn't have the whammen and space nigger bullshit. Tells you all you need to know. If they'll pretend these dumb bitches are competent when they're obviously not, what other obvious shit are they lying about? Obviously they have no trouble perpetrating the DEI 'conspiracy' even though tens of thousands of people at NASA have to be involved to keep the house of cards from collapsing under its own weight.If they weren't faking some of it, you'd have more people dead, same Boeing can't hide planes are falling out of the sky.
>>39241514I guess it doesn't matter since the real science all happens with antigrav tech in secret projects. Hollowing out America, expecting us to die in the apocalypse anyway.
>>39241521>the real science all happens with antigrav techNo but didn't you see the obvious NASA shill above saying they could detect secret launches so secret missions were impossible? I'm sure he was taking antigrav and other tech into account too right?
>>39241055>I've never posted on this site before6/10 LARP but can you explain WHY you are posting "on this site you've never posted on before"?
>>39241545I've read it. We all laugh about this shit at work, but are often shocked at how much shit fags on /x/ get right. It's fascinating because we have no idea how a bunch of spergs actually figured so much shit out based on scant evidence. The hivemind is amazing when you really know how well it's scoring. Of course a lot of crap too, but I knew to come here to pick your brains to help figure out what's really going on.
>>39241055I can tell this is a larp; the US wasn't allowed on the moon by the post singularity intelligece that inhabits it; this is known; what I want to know is how many extrasolar colonies does NASA have (they obtained frl tech in the 60's)
>>39241444Again, how do you people think ICBM launch detectors and other early warning systems work for space launches?Do you think China see the first stage of an ICBM fire off unscheduled on American soil and just think "nah its probably just a secret lunar mission"?How do you even HAVE a "secret lunar mission" in a world where 510+ countries have independent early warning systems? And have to literally check with each other before launches to ensure they don't smash into a satellite? None of this even mentioned the fact that a lunar mission requires a ground control crew of hundreds of people. Do you know those little desks that you see in films with somebody monitoring? That's not one person's job (generally), that's an entire department with one person doing live monitoring. Who just didn't bother to mention that they worked on an active lunar mission? And this is just the extremely obvious stuff that 0IQ losers like the OP could work out is very clearly wrong. There's much more intricate details if you know even 1% about how spaceflight works.Absolute fucking spergs here at times, jesus christ.
>>39241562>the hivemind>works at NASAOK this is now a 0/10 LARP thread
>>39241528>NASA shillI worked on ESA projects, out of all the things that NASA care about and are willing to put their budget towards, telling schizo spackers that they're idiots on an obscure Internet forum probably isn't top of their list>antigrav tech Oh ffs. No mate, they didn't need to use antigrav tech to get to the Moon instead of the SLS because they used their hidden teleportation tech to just walk there instead. Nice place, we all take regular teleports to the hidden Moon base in the space industry. The coffee there is decent.
>>39241629Could you make your shill status any more obvious?
>>39241633>Anyone who pokes holes in my extremely stupid larp is a shill >:(No you're just a fucking idiot.
>>39241168There are extremely old structures that were found on the moon. Buildings, monuments, things like that, from a past civilization. They don't know when or who or what put them there. Heard they have no idea just how old the structures are. Tjey could be a billion years old. Maybe some higher up knows what they are. But there was a past civilization there, and it's there now to be studied.
>>39241599Ya NO SHITWhy the fuck is anyone still replying to this spacefag??!
>>39241670Because they're a faggot like you?
>>39241629>mateGo fuck yourself retard.
>>39241168>I understand your frustrationtroll/aihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BziLpkDXoqUall moon landing make believers are trolls
remember the recent sticky thread?they're rolling out a psyop
>>39241683>British person uses British idiom >I AM FURIOUS ABOUT THISSorry mate.
>>39241750Whatever you say pal.Eat shit.
>>39241494we had mastered landing on the moon. we had several manned moon missions with dune buggies and sheeyit lol. the larp got so bad that they had to pull the plug on it and say they didn't find shit and ran out of money, quickly covered up by that other star wars program larp that reagan finessed. it was more believable at the time because star wars and the zillions of its clone tv shows and movies made it that waythe truth is, china has proof that we never flew to the moon. no american flag, no dune buggy trails (lol i just can't get over that shit), NADA when they launched orbiters and rovers there themselves. they've been blackmailing us for ages over this shit, but we're too chickenshit to admit it was all fake. we'd rather suck xi ping's dick all day for some ungodly reason
>>39241055why does your op pic look like a picture of an action figure
>>39241801they can't admit it's fake because it would open a can of wormssuddenly people would wonder why no man has ever been on the moon or beyond low earth orbit
>>39241829That's how you know it's real, it looks too fake to actually be fake, so it must be real.
>>39241168>t it's amazing how often they get something right.they never get anything right because they are retards.>I do know what I'm talking aboutnot seeing that so far.
>>39241055>I work for NASAStopped reading
>>39241801there is no 'we' in atheism
>>39242275Wtf retard they literally lived in clans/tribes back then. Without the "we" germanics pre-christianisation had not exist. And I don't talk about vikings or so called nordig-germanic tribes. Same like n Africa, in parts til today.
>>39241168>It's basically more financially advantageous for us to just strip shit down, write it off, and then carry on, rather than let an expensive mission go ahead as planned.Is this why VIPER just got canned despite being 100% complete and ready to launch?They’re still paying for the rocket and launching a dead weight into space to replace VIPER’s mass on the mission, while the actual payload gets to just sit on earth and probably be shuffled off to some private corpo scum.
>>39241265>You can't have a secret space launch you fucking idiot.
>>39241265>You can't have a secret space launch you fucking idiot.Which is why spy satellites can't exist right? And why picrel can't be doing god-only-knows-what while you sing us a back to sleep with your lullaby:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37And who said 'secret mission' = 'secret launch' in the first place again? Weren't we talking about doing secret missions and funnelling money under the guise of legit 'muh science' missions.>I could go into the hundreds of reasons why this is extremely obvious bullshit but instead I'll ...... just latch onto this one thing that wasn't even said to strawman your whole claim because I got 99 deboonks and what you actually said ain't one.Obvious NASA shill is obvious.
>>39243405Because lunar missions and LEO missions are completely different things with different requirements you fucking spacker>Spy satellitesSpy satellites aren't secretly launched, their position and capabilities are what are secret. Which is exactly why countries have to declare to ensure the route is clear all the time. Thats one of the major reasons why launch windows are a thing.Dealing with you utter retards and your stupid ideas on how spaceflight is achieved in reality is giving me a headache. It's like talking to a class of down syndromes
>>39243565The NASA budget allocation also doesn't work anything close to this either but that's like step 2 of the problem and you bunch of midwits can't even get off step 0. You genuinely believe instead that there's a secret NASA department which is the highest possible security clearance and one of those guys thought they'd post on /x/ while making basic errors on how their fake job functions. You know, just for a laugh, while sharing this incredibly secret information. Again, you're fucking idiots.
>>39243593>which is the highest possible security clearanceBut let me tell you how it REALLY works and why this OP is wrongDo faggots like you ever read your posts before you post them? How does a retard like you even solve the captcha? Oh right, special access for special people, which also lets you respond and post faster than anyone else. Funny that.
>>39241055When asked if it was impossible to cross the Van Allen radiation belt, a Rothschild replied, ‘of course!’When asked if they had ever been to other planets he replied by saying the question assumed other planets exist.How can a planet and a crescent moon be in line but the ‘planet’ give off full equal light?Contradiction Alert!Kiss off 4chan for truing to get my email address.Wankers.Kiss for stupid captcha background color, too.
>>39243724well poisonermoon landing was fakeplanets exist
>>39243747Thanks for posting. I just saw Venus and the moon lined up with the sun off to the right… the moon was crescent and Venus looked nothing like any of your pics, or the moon.It was very bright and looked fully lit.Sharing facts is not poisoning the well.I shared how a Rothschild responded.Technically, he didn’t say planets don’t exist, either.How can I see a fully illuminated Venus and a crescent moon when both are lined up?
>>39243809did you look through a telescope?
>>39243747>moon landing was fakenope>>39243835he was looking through his glass crack pipe
>i work for nasastopped reading
>>39243974That's original. What's it like being a one-of-a-kind snowflake?
>>39245028whats it like replying to a dead thread 4 hours after the last post
>>39245338Well I guess you wouldn't know, because yours never last that long.
>>39241598>writing an effortpost on the "how do i summon a succubuse" board
>>39241419Dude, they control the media. Say Daddy Elon is launching another Falcon Heavy and in reality they’re going to the moon. Done deal bro not hard
>>39247156What you're not taking into account is that NASA shill expects you to believe that's impossible because reasons.
>>39241055Sounds fake and gay. We’ve got anti gravity craft, why are you glowies still trying to spin this semetic garbage that is NASA.
>>39243835I didn’t, but Venus was as fully bright as I’ve ever seen it (and circular in appearance) and the moon was 25% lit.My eyes could be deceiving me — the good news this is an easy test anyone can replicate. Now you know to look.PS — look at all the flags with a crescent moon and a star… NONE have a crescent star.https://www.learnreligions.com/international-flags-with-a-crescent-moon-symbol-2004484#:~:text=The%20Pakistani%20flag%20is%20predominantly,white%20crescent%20moon%20and%20star.
>>39248652>NONE have a crescent star.because a crescent star would look like a crescent moon, as ours does during a solar eclipse.
>>39241055>I work for NASA No you don't, you are just another grifter looking to promote your book or splurge out all the nonsense coming into your brain as a result of injesting large amount of illegal substances, stop it and throw your computer right out the window.
>>39248652>I didn’tthen do ityou will be amazed
>>39248652you're probably just seeing venus in a fuller phase than you've seen previously, and perhaps under better viewing conditions too. Which moon are you meaning? Our moon?
>>39248811>throw your computer right out the windowI can't because the launch would be detected by everyone all over the world.
>>39241055They hauled a suitcase nuke up there with the intent of a rather elaborate seismographic study and when they flipped the switch "nothing happened" and everyone's fascinated to find out why. Probably was an unanticipated void in a battery or something full of normal air and in vacuum it popped and so "no bang".Then everyone gets paranoid back home because any indication it won't go boom when the button is pressed is all top national security incident etc.Would have been kind of cool if it worked.
>>39249547>elaborate seismographic studywhy bother? they could just kept throwing SIV-B boosters at the place or something even more massive. setting a nuke off would be really very noticeable too.
>>39241055Apollo 17 found orange volcanic soil, showing that the moon once had vulcanism.There are other biproducts of vulcanism that can be mined. Old lava tubes could serve as protective shelter for colonial structures, as well as potentially provide a source of ice water.When rocks melt, water in the rocks dissolves into the magma. As the magma rises towards the surface and cools, pressure decreases, crystals form and the water is released as vapor. Which under the moons lack of atmosphere would have frozen as ice around or as solid icecaps sealing off the top of those tubes.Water is necessary not just for drinking but for rocket operation.Just the chance that there is water there makes it a primary target for further study and exploration.There I did your job for you, just spit on that thing and put your name on it.
>>39249713apollo 17 never was on the moon
>>39249855>because i say so.
>>39249912european scientists tried to look at the landing sites with an earth bound telescope that has the angular resolution to distinguish the headlights of a car on the moon but they didn't see anyhing
>>39249931it only has that resolution (which would still only produce a few pixels anyway) if the adaptive optics can work. That requires a laser guide star to be visible with good contrast, ideally against a total dark background.You can see how aiming the array at the brightly lit surface of the moon would make that impossible.Plus, theres the point that you would just call it fake if it had been able to resolve those few pixels. You know you would, but you are not honest enough to admit it.
>>39249969>what is a new moon
>>39249977and then you expect to see what exactly?
>>39249997it's using infrared doesn't it?
>>39250003near infra red and optical wavelengths, but why do you think the LM would be a different temperature to the surrounding regolith and rocks etc? And, even if there was a detectable difference, why would you accept the presence of a couple slightly different colored pixels? Why would that be any less dismissed as being faked than all the other stuff you dismiss?
>>39250041why didn't they present those pixels?
>>39241055Good job boomer. Great story
>>39250051probably it wont work at its best resolution under the conditions. remember, the required minimum resolution to get a couple pixels from something the size of the LM descent stage is the absolute maximum that array is capable of under ideal conditions.Now, thats a reasonable explanation. Id like to know if you would had accepted those pixels as proof that the landing happened. Or would you then just be a believer in unmanned landings?
>>39250080that's the reason to not show what they have seen?seems unlikely
>>39241055The Chinese claim to be from the Moon, they consider themselves the owner!
>>39241055Tell us about the manned missions to Ganymede.
>>39250087theres no evidence they were able to get any kind of imagery. feel free to email the people involved if this is what would help you quit falling for moonhoax memes on the internet
>>39250153>theres no evidence they were able to get any kind of imagerywell duh
>>39250162and while you assume the worst (outright deception, a cover up etc etc) i do not. But what you're dancing around is the fact that none of this would matter to you in the slightest. you would just call fake, call it one more proof of the giant, never whistleblown, coverup and carry on happy in the belief that, once again, you have seen through the lies.
>>39250186it doesn't matter what i believeit should be scientific proof they said they would deliver but they did not
>>39250208no, they said in several different ways that they would attempt it, that it would be a test etc. They nowhere said they could produce anything or made any promises at all. Its as if you never read the article they were quoted in...most of which was exaggeration by the science journo.
>>39250222>Dr Richard West, an astronomer at the VLT, confirmed that his team was aiming to achieve "a high-resolution image of one of the Apollo landing sites".>Dr West said that the challenge pushed the optical abilities of one VLT mirror to its limits: if this attempt failed, the team planned to use the power of all four mirrors. "They would most probably be sufficiently sharp to show something at the sites," he said.
>>39250225>aiming to achieve>pushed the optical abilities to it's limit>if it failed...>would probably be sufficiently sharpcan you not see how couched in uncertain language that is? And, possibly for the reasons ive mentioned above, it wasn't sufficiently sharp.
>>39250208>it doesn't matter what i believei agree it doesn't matter at all. But of course, since you wont say, im going to accept your concession that you would naturally dismiss it as fake no matter what.
>>39250233they did the experiment and failed to produce any resultwhy?
>>39250259ive tried to explain a reason why the arrays max resolution probably cant be reached when trying to view stuff on the moon. Its the most reasonable explanation due to the way the adaptive optics work, and thats as far as i've got in trying to understand the way the system works overall. It may be that they didn't try it on an unlit moon, maybe there are other reasons why that doesn't work, perhaps not least because of something you completely ignored above - that it would require a difference in temp between the LM and the stuff around it. There are very likely other reasons too, but i dont know them at the moment.Perhaps they did get something, but perhaps its looks like shit, and who really wants to publish that to a media which is often bitching about how much money is 'wasted' on such projects? Who would want to attach their name, and career, to something like that? i dont know....i haven't seen much further comment on this from the people involved. Contact them if you like. Once i know more about the array i think i might. But im sure you and other like you will call any response i might get from them fake and/or lies no matter what.
>>39241486Too bad Dugay doesn't understand 6th grade physics>>39241598>my assumptions trump your observationsMidwit. Who else could defend official spacelarp
>>39250311bla bla bla
>>39250322for the final time this evening i will accept your concession. good night.
>>39241657Midwit: not smart enough to poke holes in official lies, just smart enough to be ashamed of his sheepish inadequacy and project it onto anyone he can construe as his own shadowMidwits are the bane of civilization and more
>>39250351>concessionyou have no interest in the truth only interested in winning arguments (which did not)
>>39242275There is no 'war' in Heaven
>>39243405Yup typical triggered midwit>Onoes they talkinabout my dick I gotta make sure they KNOW it's big
>>39250311Fake AND gayThanks for your STRAIGHT answers, notNASA bozo My tone aside, I appreciate your patient elaborate replies
>>39241055the earth is a stationary plane, therefore whatever you wrote is either a lie or a figment of imagination
>>39241115This. Op is a larping faggot. There is no "going to the moon". Even glowniggers and Hollywood has understood this.
>>39241055Lame larp
>>39241168You're just a black book cover to do fucked up shit. Space is fake and gay and even normies are waking up to your lies. You lost. Maybe instead of worshipping jew masters, you should have been serving the people who USED to believe in you.
>>39249855>apollo 17 never was on the moonThen how did they many moon rocks? They couldn't have because space idiot. Also van allan asteroid belt is not everywhere stupid so they did with orbit rocket.
>>39250361Sorry, only just picked this up. Have been working on a secret lunar mission all day. Oh shit, I mean satellites.My favourite part of this whole larp is the idea of a secret lunar mission that is being hidden from the public and requires billions in funding.Instead of just travelling a few kilometres more in the very public and fully funded lunar missions that are already happening. My second favourite bit is how they claimed they laundered money through the JWST project. That began in 1998 and was cross funded by numerous space agencies and private sectors and had possibly the most audited books in the history of any space engineering. Rather than the SLSS project who's books are a mess and has had massive project cost increased just in the last few years. Must be trying to throw us off the scent while posting their above top secret classified ideas on 4chan.
>>39253206NASA’s Apollo samples are a combination of terrestrial basalts, eucrites and tektites.
>>39253418What about samples from Russia and China? Ate they real?
>>39253433In 2013, China landed the Chang’e 3 lander which deployed a tiny rover carrying an Active Particle X-ray Spectrometer to analyse the soil. Analysis of the spectral peaks show the chemistry of the actual lunar soil to be completely unlike any rock from the Apollo missions or any rock we know about. The soil detected by the Yutu rover is chemically 43% by weight calcium oxide, 39% titanium oxide and 4% silicon dioxide. It also contains chromium oxide as a major element (>1% by weight) and strontium, yttrium and zirconium as minor elements (0.1-1% by weight). For direct comparison: Apollo soils are generally 10% calcium oxide, 0.5-10% titanium oxide and ~45% silicon dioxide; with chromium oxide as a minor element and strontium, yttrium and zirconium as trace elements (<1% by weight).
>>39253454Well yes, that's expected behaviour. Different parts of the Moon have different ages and compositions. You wouldn't expect the geology of Arizona to be the same as Shanghai for example.
>>39253454>chemistry of the actual lunar soil to be completely unlike any rock from the Apollo missions or any rock we know about.Where are getting this information from? did you make it up?Anyway, once the chinks actually returned samples the story was a little differenthttps://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/9/2/nwab188/6397035
>>39253700https://astronomynow.com/2015/12/23/chinese-lunar-rovers-rock-analysis-reveals-a-more-diverse-moon/>The basalts at the Chang’e-3 landing site also turned out to be unlike any returned by the Apollo and Luna sample return missions.“The diversity tells us that the Moon’s upper mantle is much less uniform in composition than Earth’s,” Jolliff said. “And correlating chemistry with age, we can see how the Moon’s volcanism changed over time.”Its to be expected because they say its from a place unlike where apollo and luna sampled from.
>>39241055>What are the Chinese looking for?I dunno, if you actually work at NASA, go work on a satellite that has a cislunar orbit.
