4x4Wire's TrailTalk Forums: Moon landing in 40 minutes!

Stony, there's a world of difference. These are groups of scientists who have obtained samples of lunar rocks and soil. I'd bet they would have to explain to NASA exactly what they were going to do with those samples and how they were going to do it.

Once their experiments are complete, they write a manuscript and submit it to a scientific journal. The manuscript is considered by the editor and if he/she feels it might be suitable for publication it is sent to 3 or 4 independent, anonymous reviews who are experts in the field. They review the manuscript carefully and provide detailed comments about any problems with the methods used, type of analysis and accuracy of interpretation with regard to the results and previous studies by others. Believe me, the comments a rarely pleasant! The editor then looks at the comments (which may recommend the manuscript is rejected) and makes a decision on whether to ask the authors to address the reviewers comments or reject the manuscript. If the editor feels the manuscript can be sufficiently revised for publication, the authors are invited to respond to the reviewers comments and make necessary revisions based on those comments. The responses and revised manuscript is then sent back to the reviewers who have an opportunity to comment further. In that case further revisions may be required (more than once!). Only then does the editor make a final decision about publication

Normally, if you are invited to respond and revise after the first round of reviewers comments it indicates that there's a pretty good chance of publication, but no guarantee. The review process can go back and forth several times and sometimes takes months.

So you see it couldn't be more different from getting some video footage, probably from elsewhere on the internet, editing it (if you're good no one could tell what you did) and posting it on you tube

A you tube video is NOT a reliable source of information. Wikipedia is the same. While Wikipedia is great, have you ever checked the 'discussion' tab? So often it contains a discussion about the inaccuracies, misinterpretations etc. It is otherwise not reviewed and could be a pile of rubbish.

The peer review process that I described above shows that accuracy and authenticity is checked BEFORE publication, but only if it is good enough to be published. It's not a perfect system, but...

My point in posting the links to those papers was;

1) It shows a credible source of information discussing lunar rocks/soil which are therefore on Earth
2) Since the lunar rocks/soil are here on Earth that means someone went to the moon to get them

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