Re: moon dust info - clarification
Joel Duff (crinoid@midwest.net)
Mon, 2 Nov 1998 16:16:27 -0500
>>Now, in regards to the "Moon Dust" debate, First, some historical
>>perspective.
>>I don't know where you were in 1969 when the Apollo Lander made it's
>>historic
>>touch down. But like the Kennedy Assassination and other life defining
>>moments, I remember watching avidly the entire event, glued to my
>>TV. I grew up when "mountains of dust" was widely accepted,
>>and taught in science classes in school because it was a necessary
>>implication from the basic presupposition that the solar system was
>>billions of years old. I remember commentators talking to engineers and
>>scientists at NASA about this very problem AND I remember distinctly
>>that the amount of dust the Apollo astronauts were expected to encounter
>>was a real concern.
>>
>>Now it may well be that since 1969, there is new information, that the
>>old mechanism and assumptions proved faulty. But it is sheer historical
>>revisionism to say that this was NOT a wide-spread assumption in
>>the 1950's and 60's. Therefore, Whitcomb, Morris, et. al., who pointed out
>>the fallacy in later books were not being deceptive, or selective in use
>>of evidence, but simply responding to a strain of thought that proved
>>fallacious on direct investigation.
Regarding my previous e-mail, I have gotten some very very informative
private e-mails that have been very helpful. I am well aware of the
general claims and have read most of the pertinent stuff (Talk.origin FAQ
etc..) some time ago but it is this above comment that I am wishing to get
some specific comments on. Is Abshire's claim that, at least publically,
it was widely accepted and taught in classes that there was mountains of
dust and were there actually NASA scientists claiming this was a problem
right up to the moment that the astronauts landed? I understand that
scientists knew it wasn't likely a problem but what was the actual public
perception of the situation. Do some of you have personal recollections of
what Walter Conkrite (sp?) might have actually been saying those days on
the evening news?
Joel Duff