It’s like a bad dream: A piece of moon rock given to the Dutch Rijksmuseum in 1969 by the three Apollo astronauts has been revealed to be fossilized wood. This is certainly fuel for conspiracy theories!
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James Carville has called it ‘the crazy test:’ Ask a person if we landed on the moon. If he says ‘no,’ he’s crazy.
But we don’t all agree, and Jay Weidner is among those who doesn’t. He does not believe that we landed on the moon during the Apollo missions. He believes that ‘the odds are, it’s all faked.’ However, Jay does NOT believe that we’ve never been to the moon, he believes that we’ve gone there, but not in a way that can be publicly known.
Agree or disagree, you will find this unusual interview fascinating.
Jay Weidner’s website is JayWeidner.com.
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Yes, we really did go to the moon 40 years ago on the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, sparking a moon race that is still going on. A lunar geochemist says is still lots to learn from the moon rocks collected there. And we almost didn’t collect them at all!
Researcher Randy L. Korotev has studied lunar samples and their chemical compositions since he was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin and “was in the right place at the right time” in 1969 to be a part of a team to study some of the first lunar samples. He says, “We went to the moon and collected samples before we knew much about the moon. It’s only been fairly recently that we decided that we should look closer at these Apollo 11 samples. We know even more now and can ask smarter questions.”
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Countries (including the US) are vying to set up colonies on the moon. But once they get there, they’re going to have to build shelters.
Researcher Houssam Toutanji has developed the concept of creating concrete structures on the lunar surface without the use of water. Traditional concrete consists of cement and water mixed with aggregates. While some parts of the Moon may have water, that resource may be more valuable for astronaut?s consumption rather than building structures. But his research shows that those astronauts can turn to a new type of waterless concrete that uses lunar soil as the aggregate and sulfur as a binding agent.
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