look closely as this piece of crap. cheap beach chair seats on a chinsy frame (justified as keeping it lightweight). this was 9.5 million dollars in 1971. in todays terms, it is 67.8 million dollars.
https://tools.carboncollective.co/inflation/us/1971/9500000/
do you think, for that amount of money in 1971, NASA could have come up with something better (never mind more convincing)?
those important looking gadgets are basic stuff-- dont let that fool you:
in 1971, both antennas are there to send video footage back to earth. and nixon can call the moon.
in 2022, i cannot get a phone signal in my front yard.
They cost $38m to create, just four were built and three lie abandoned more than 200,000 miles from the nearest road. Phil Dolling tells the story of the Lunar Rovers
www.classicandsportscar.com
Of all the design challenges, the wheels were the most demanding. Rubber could fail in the harsh terrain and extremes of temperature, so hand-woven galvanised steel mesh ‘tyres’ were created.
yeah, WOW, those wheels are the most demanding. its got to be hard to come up with a novel round-ish type shape that can roll along.
so here is NASA, using gavanized steel when, for the extraordinary expense paid at the time, the engineers could have used titanium which was readily available by the 1950s. the titanium would have been lighter than the steel, and all things considered, better for the frame. although aluminum is a bit lighter, titanium is much stronger as a thinner-walled metal. in other words, the aluminum would have be much thicker to be as strong as a thin piece of titanium metal.
en.wikipedia.org
this is a replica in epcot center (FL, USA).
i think a high school science club would have done a better job.
What is the temperature on the Moon?
coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu
The average temperature on the Moon (at the equator and mid latitudes) varies from -298 degrees Fahrenheit (-183 degrees Celsius), at night, to 224 degrees Fahrenheit (106 degrees Celsius) during the day.
nylon webbing on the back of the beach chair at -298 degrees... hmm... (and its been mentioned already that rubber tires wouldnt hold up to the extreme temperature, yet here we are, looking at nylon at almost 300 degrees below zero.)
in 2022, the best plastics will hold up before cracking at 200 degrees. the nylon webbing in 1971? if they were on the moon, the astronauts wouldve leaned back and cracked that nylon like a pringles potato chip.
Learn when the ductile / brittle transition occurs with the standard to measure this point with its minimum and maximum values.
omnexus.specialchem.com
this is just another example of how none of this moon landing story makes sense.