Radio waves travel at the speed of light. Any live communication with the earth, between Apollo 11 and Houston, would have to have the precise Earth-Moon delay in the conversations. No problem, I thought. Just listen, measure, and compare.
If this is the definitive live record -
We have this -
“Columbia, Columbia, this is Houston, AOS, over.”
[1.07 second pause]
“Houston, Columbia…”
The pause ought to be 2.51 seconds – minimum. That’s 1.258 seconds for the message to go out, and 1.258 for it to come back, if the astronaut replied instantly. If both Houston (H) and Columbia (C) spoke instantly, and both continually spoke without interrupting each other, you would see a pattern, if recorded on earth, like this:
CH—CH—CH—
A pause of 1.07 seconds would be a distance between Earth and Columbia of 159,965 kilometers, or 42% of the journey to the moon. Had Columbia begun her reply in order for the message to arrive at the time recorded in this record, she would have had to start speaking when Houston was saying “Columbia, Columbia.” But etiquette and standard practice is to wait until the “over”. When you listen to the record, it sounds like a natural conversation, with everybody saying “over” at the end, to punctuate the communication, wait for the other party to speak. But the pattern continues.
“I guess you’re about the only person around that doesn’t have TV coverage of the scene.”
[1.07 second pause]
“That’s alright, I don’t mind a bit.”
In order for “That’s alright” to arrive on earth 2.5 seconds after transmission, Columbia would have had to utter it when Houston was speaking the word “doesn’t.” It would have been like this at the Columbia end:
“I guess you’re about the only person around that doe-That’s alright I don’t mind a bit.”
Talk about completing each others’ sentences!
But what really attracted my attention is that in the “brand new” and “refurbished” NASA video of the same situation, the pauses are the right length.
“I guess you’re about the only person around that doesn’t have TV coverage of the scene.”
[3.37 second pause]
“That’s alright, I don’t mind a bit.”
More, there is an echo-artifact stuck in the middle, in-between “scene” and “That’s alright”. It’s an
“echo” of “the scene”. It arrives at a perfect 2.62 seconds after being uttered, exactly the time it would take to moon bounce. It’s “perfect”. Here is the “refurbished” audio, showing the end of the sentence, and the echoed word “scene”.
The problem is that neither the pause nor the echo in the “original” version was there. The proper signature delay is only there in the “new and improved” version.
http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/apollo-moon-hoax-audio-delay-...