The result was keep. The article has been substantially rewritten and now sufficiently meets the criteria for inclusion. Nakon 04:42, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
A moonshot conspiracy book which says the moon has much higher gravity than NASA admits, and other amazing claims. The article is referenced only to the book. I could not find references or reviews to satisfy Wikipedia:Notability (books). It is held by only 21 libraries worldwide, per Worldcat. Edison (talk) 23:08, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
The book notes:
Discussion about the book's ideas continue are discussed from pages 132–137.To quote from his favorite TV show, where Hoagland had arrived by 1996 was hardly a place No Man had gone before. William L. Brian II, Oregon-based author of the 1982 book Moongate: Suppressed Findings of the U.S. Space Program, sketched out a similar planet-shaking, NASA-scamming history of the solar system.
Brian set out to build a case (complete with algebraic proofs—and more caution-to-the-wind speculation than Hoagland has ever mustered) for NASA's "monstrous suppression" of the facts about alien intelligence on the moon.
The basis of Brian's cosmic thesis is his belief that NASA is lying when it says the moon's gravity is one-sixth that of the earth (Hoagland disagrees with this assumption). Using calculators too complex to go into here—they're helpfully assembled in appendix B of his book—Brian purports to prove that NASA learned during the 1960s that the moon's gravitational field was actually a whopping 64 percent as strong as the earth's.
The source notes:
Brian, William L., II. Moongate: Suppressed Findings of the U.S. Space Program, the NASA-Military Cover-up. Portland, OR: Future Science Research Pub. Co., 1982. As the title suggests, this is a sensationalistic exposé arguing that "the true circumstances surrounding the Apollo missions and related discoveries were carefully suppressed from the public." The author claims that far from NASA's space program being a civilian effort as advertised, "the military had almost complete control over it and...many NASA findings were withheld from the public." The title of Chapter 10, "Evidence of Extraterrestrial Interference in the Space Program," will suggest the highly speculative and tenuous tenor of the book, much of which is quite technical, to boot. Lightly footnoted with references alike to scholarly sources and The National Enquirer, the work should be consulted with great caution by those without a solid grounding in space history and technology.
The article notes:
Google Translate says:"Lunaticul" Brian
William L. Brian al II-lea, autor al cartii "Moongate: descoperirile secrete ale programului spatial al SUA", lansata in 1982, isi va face si el aparitia in "teatrul de razboi" al teoriilor conspirationiste, schitand un peisaj asemanator al lucrurilor, undein. Brian si-a propus sa faca o ancheta referitoare la ascunderea masinata de NASA a inteligentei extraterestre de pe Luna. Baza tezei sale este aceea ca NASA minte atunci cand pretinde ca gravitatia Lunii este de sase ori mai mica decat cea a Pamantului. Astfel, Brian doreste sa demonstreze ca NASA a descoperit, in anii '60, despre campul gravitational selenar ca acesta are, in realitate, 64% din forta celui terestrui. Implicatiile acestei descoperiri sunt, potrivit lui Brian, suficient de infricosatoare incat sa stimuleze o musamalizare a NASA. Daca atractia gravitationala a Lunii ar fi intr-adevar apropiata ca valoare de cea a Pamantului, legea gravitatiei universale a lui Newton ar fi in intregime gresita si fizica conventionala s-ar baza pe o fundatie nesigura. Mai mult, autorul sustine ca o gravitatie puternica a Lunii ar mai implica si existenta unei atmosfere, care ar duce mai departe la posibilitatea existentei vietii, poate chiar a uneia evoluate.
William L. Brian II, author of "Moongate discoveries secret US space program", launched in 1982, and he will make an appearance in "theater of war" conspiracy theories, like sketching a landscape of things , undein. Brian has proposed to make an investigation of NASA hiding extraterrestrial intelligence machine on the Moon. The basis of his thesis is that NASA claims to mind when the moon's gravity is six times smaller than that of the Earth. The Brian wants to demonstrate that NASA discovered in the 60s, about lunar gravitational field that it has, in fact, 64% of the land force. The implications of this discovery are, according to Brian's scary enough to stimulate a cover of NASA. If the gravitational attraction of the moon would be really close in value to that of the Earth, Newton's law of universal gravitation would be entirely wrong and conventional physics would be based on an uncertain foundation. Moreover, the author argues that a strong gravity of the moon would imply the existence of an atmosphere, which would further the possibility of existence of life, perhaps one evolved.
The book notes:
Book 15: Brian, William L. Moongate: Suppressed Findings of the U.S. Space Program, The NASA-Military Cover-Up. Future Science Research Publishing Co., P.O. Box 06392, Portland, Oregon 97206-0020. Reprint Health Research.
A brilliant expose of the NASA-Military cover-up. Beautiful photographs of anomalies on the moon. (See also book 16 below). Study the logistics of the Lunar Module lift-off from the lunar surface. Contains another excellent chapter on the hollow earth. These two chapters by Brian and Cater (above) cover in precis form almost all the arguments detailed in chapter two this book. Brian has also written for Nexus magazine.
The book notes:
That the moon's gravity is one sixth of the earth's has been assumed for centuries, though there is now evidence that this [is] not the case. William L. Brian II, a Nuclear Engineer from Oregon State University investigated what he calls a "NASA cover-up" in his 1982 book entitled "Moongate: Suppressed Findings of the U.S. Space Program, The NASA-Military Cover-Up".
Brian centers his argument for a cover-up on the so-called "neutral point" between the earth and the moon. This neutral point, and all gravitational bodies have them, is the point where a space vehicle enters the predominant attractive zone of the moon's gravity. It is the region in space where the earth's force of attraction equals the moon's force of attraction...
Cunard (talk) 02:22, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
This article is about the book itself rather the fringe theory espoused by the book, so I don't think a merge is required by WP:FRINGE since the book passes WP:GNG. Cunard (talk) 20:29, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
As I wrote to you at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change, WP:DELETIONISNOTCLEANUP and there is no deadline. That the article is currently "a summary of the book" is not a valid reason for deletion. The article has the potential to contain secondary analysis (see the sources I provided above):Presenting fictional material from the original work is allowed, provided passages are short, are given the proper context, and do not constitute the main portion of the article. If such passages stray into the realm of interpretation, per WP:PRIMARY, secondary sources must be provided to avoid original research. Plot summaries cannot engage in interpretation and should only present an obvious recap of the work.