Charlie Duke on the moon

While a member of the Experiments team speaks to the flight director on the audio track in this clip, Duke performs some acrobatic juggling when he uses his scoop to lift a very friable, white, anorthosite rock sample from the ground near Buster Crater. As he raises the scoop, the rock flies up and he almost catches it in his right hand as it falls. It bounces off his hand, flies up, rebounds off his left hand, and he reaches again with his right before it falls to the ground. Laughter in Houston can be heard on the soundtrack. Trying again, Charlie uses the scoop to flip the rock up in the "air" like a deft hurler and catches it in his right hand as it falls. However, he drops his sample bag to the ground in the process.

Source: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a16/video16.html

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[Laurelindo]

@LunarTuner There's one question hoaxers still need to give a satisfying answer to: in which way is it completely impossible for thousands of physicists to prepare for this?

They just need to make calculations, make enough good preparations and practice rigorously, and that's exactly what they were doing for almost a decade.

Hell, they even had a tragic accident with Apollo 1 and also made test flights very close to the moon before doing the real thing.

[LunarTuner]

@yesiamawizardjonny, your argument is subjective--purely your perception & not quantifiable. On the other hand, falling dust, tools or dropped rocks, other objects & swaying things can all be measured. Their motion is observable, quantifiable and subject to the unyielding, universal laws of physics. Are you willing to say that all dust, tools, rocks & objects in Apollo videos are also on wires? For your theory to work, they all must be on wires too.

Try again, Vince ;)

[yesiamawizardjonny]

@LunarTuner Funny. Take the footage of Adam Savage on wires and slow it down. Matches the Apollo missions perfectly. Sorry, tuner, you're argument sucks a fail.

[TracyAndersonFoxhunt]

@kppttrst that's the whole point. you speak scientifically and they speak emotionally. they never seem to agree that it would be a good idea to study the subject

[TracyAndersonFoxhunt]

@Groovnstar he's not that mobile in his suit

[bufonoise]

0:40 hear the laughs

[LunarTuner]

Blackheart77ce, which is it? "Strings" or slowed down video? Both would cause the astronaut to look ridiculously slow. You sound like quite an expert on what it's supposed to look like considering that you don't think you've ever seen 1/6th G.

[kppttrst]

"Except the atheist."? If they were all making a big lie in the first place, what difference would it make if they swore on the Bible or not? (That's a question CT's can't answer) They would STILL be lying! "Earth's fall rate"? Slow the camera down, speed it up, it doesn't matter. The only thing that is different is the gravitational fall. I could go on and on about CT's contradicting theories...

[smartyjones2004]

The design of the suits limited the movements of those astronauts.

[JediSurvivorOrder66]

I agree. I also saw that Moon Movie documentary.