I was on the interwebs months ago, and I ran across a conspiracy theory on something to do with some streaks that show up in moon pictures between earth and the moon. I thought it was about a space elevator conspiracy or something. Some one asked a question of me earlier about something similar to do with HAARP, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what the hell it was. Anybody have any idea what the Hell Im talking about?
Probably either a figment of some tinfoil-hatter's imagination, or radiation from the van Allen belts interfering with the camera. (To anyone who suggests that this radiation would have been fatal and this proves we never went to the Moon, the radiation levels were already determined to be non-fatal before manned missions were planned, and in any case, over 90% of the Apollo astronauts who left Earth orbit later developed a specific form of cataracts caused by radiation poisoning, proving that they
were exposed to an unusually large dose of radiation, such as would be caused by travelling through the van Allen belts.)
HAARP refers to the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, which has been blamed by tinfoil-hatters for all sorts of things including earthquakes, floods, storms, drowsiness, and lack of appetite, despite being just a big HF radio transmitter with some fancy sensors to measure changing ionospheric conditions and how radio waves are affected by them. Since this is boring to most people, and most people assume that such a huge project ought to have a correspondingly exciting purpose, they tend to believe that the whole thing is just a cover-up for something nefarious, when really it's just a boring experiment studying boring radio waves. It's important and useful research for radio astronomers and people developing long-range RADAR equipment and the like, but that's just not exciting enough for most people.
How's this for Moon conspiracy: apparently, Buzz Aldrin was supposed to be the first man on the Moon, but Neil Armstrong decided that since he was in command, that honour ought to belong to him. Aldrin went along with it, presumably because low-gravity boxing techniques had yet to be developed, but got his revenge by refusing to take any photographs of Armstrong. If you've ever wondered why there are no pictures of Neil Armstrong on the Moon other than the fuzzy images recorded by the lunar module's TV camera, now you know.
