No, the USA did not. It was a hoax. Then why no one else?
2006-07-08 07:30:04 · 28 answers · asked by AGHOST 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
This video of Buzz Aldrin, at age 72, hitting the conspiracy documentarist is the best answer for you: http://www.csicop.org/articles/20021018-aldrin/
2006-07-08 07:56:42 · answer #1 · answered by kai_j_miller 1 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Okay. I will go through the three most common signs of a hoax for a moon landing with the scientific explanation of each one.
Why are there no stars in the photographs?
It might be interesting to note that the astronuats couldn't see any of the stars when they were on the moon either. How could this be, you ask? Stand under a streetlight and look straight up to the sky. Do you see stars? Straight up, you will not. You know they are there - you've seen them before - but you cannot see them now. It is because your eye's pupil cannot be wide open and very tiny at the same time. Your pupil cannot take in the brightness of the streetlight with the vast darkness around it at the same time. It's the same concept on the moon. The sun is the brightest thing around. The astronauts eyes could not process the brightness of the sun and the vast darkness of space at the same time. So, like anyone elses eye their pupils grew small so they could not see the stars. The camera couldn't pick up the stars because of the same reason. Take a picture of the skyline of any major city in the world. You will not see any stars in the photographs that you have taken. But why? You saw the stars there. You know stars were there. But where did they go? It's called light pollution. Any major city in the world lights up the sky so much that it blocks out the stars in the sky.
The Flag! It was waving! There is no wind on the moon!
True, there is no wind on the moon. And yes the flag did move. But did you look carefully at the flag when it moved? When the astronauts left the flag alone it did not move. When there were near by, disrupting the flag it moved. Why would it be moving? The astronauts sent a chain reaction from the pole of the flag into the flag itself. Even in space a flag simply doesn't become cardboard. It still is made of the same thing it was on earth. The pole that held the side and the top of the flag (both poles were needed to make the flag "flat") was disturbed - thus making the flag twitch.
But what about the multiple light sources? Why are the shadows all jagged? What about the flag? Why are both sides lit?
It's rather simple. The shadows that are jagged is because of the lay of the land. Stand in a rocky pasture during the nighttime. Make sure the land has different degrees of height. Is your shadow a straight line? No, it will conform to the uneven-ness of the ground that it lays on. You can also do this with a table piled of different objects. An architect lamp works best for this - point the light source at your hand or another object you are holding, make sure the shadow of such object is over the table's objects. The shadow will conform to the objects on the table. The flag is easy as well. Shine a flashlight through a flag. Does the light come out the other side? Do both sides look bright? That's because the flag is transparent. Light can pass through the flag to make both sides look bright.
Now, I myself believe in the scientific explanations of why the moon landing really did happen. I still have that twang of doubt though - but that's because I am stubborn and don't want to let go of something I have believed in for so long. I hope you do more research about the moon landing and next time you say that something is a hoax, give the evidence - so people can give you the reasons why they might occur.
2006-07-08 16:06:13 · answer #2 · answered by Marilynne 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I get bored when people say the moon landing never happened. USA and Russia were in a race to do it, do you really think if there was the slightest chance that USA did not land on the moon that Russia would have agreed that they did. The moon landing happened in 1969 and several times after that. They're also planning to do it again in a few years and then move onto other planets in our solar system.
2006-07-09 07:48:04 · answer #3 · answered by shaun_ready 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Twelve white men have walked on the moon. Nobody else. And that's probably the biggest reason NASA's talking about trying to do it again, but this time send a multicultural crew there. A little of THIS color, a little of THAT color, all kinds of chummy "see how well we're getting along" propaganda all the way. Bet the fatality rate is higher then than before. Watch as reruns of Lost In Space make a comeback as a sly way of persuading couch potatoes that all the MIA rainbow coalition astronauts landed somewhere nice.
2006-07-08 15:05:26 · answer #4 · answered by David S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude, no one has landed on the moon because there really isn't a moon up there. The Germans destroyed it in 1940 as part of a secret expirement which went horribly wrong. The old TV show Space 1999 is actually based on the events. You are simply seeing an optical illusion which is just another conspiracy cover-up.
2006-07-08 15:55:28 · answer #5 · answered by Jeff L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you think the Russians and Chinese would let us carry out this "hoax" and be able to claim the victory of a moon landing?
Of course the US landed on the moon many times. No one else has gotten there yet because of the enormous resources and technology it takes. No one else has them, yet.
2006-07-08 14:37:43 · answer #6 · answered by being_of_now 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A few years back I bumped into Harrison Schmitt, astronaut on the Apollo 17 mission. I did it deliberately, so, for the rest of my life, I could say, "I bumped into Harrison Schmitt."
Anyway, this was after he'd given a speech at Caltech's alumni day about mining the moon for energy. During that speech, he talked about walking on the moon.
Now, Caltech has an honor code. If Schmitt was lying to me (or to any member of the Caltech community), he'd be breaking the honor code.
I don't think he'd do that. I don't think there's a good reason why astronaut-geologist Schmitt would lie to me.
Therefore, I believe American astronauts have indeed landed on the moon.
No one else has gone because the trip is very expensive and appears to be economically unfeasible (i.e. the cost/benefit ratio seems to be unfavorable).
2006-07-08 14:52:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh come off it... why would they bother with the rigmarole, especially when most of us have highly powerful telescopes at our disposal. Plus, many of us live in democracies, however shoddy, and as a result, most of our scientists aren't suppressed or controlled by the military or some crazy 'religious authority'.
There was a big thing in the 60's and 70's with the moon. The reason why no-one else went there, after the dodgy Russian missions, is that we want to channel our resources to further afield, e.g. the Cassini-Huygens probe
2006-07-08 17:50:37 · answer #8 · answered by hasina_ghani 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact that this question is actually asked is positive proof that the lunatics are out there and thriving. I'm surprised you didn't ask why ships don't fall off the edge at the horizon ... after all, the Earth MUST be flat. Anyway why go to the moon for cheese when you can get it from Tescos.
2006-07-08 15:06:39 · answer #9 · answered by deadloud 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The truth is we can never land on the moon because it is just an illusion put there by Houdini. We actually live inside the peanut butter jar of really big ants.
2006-07-10 21:28:44 · answer #10 · answered by Howard, Fine and Howard 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you think that was a hoax, then I have a bridge spanning the Mississippi River which I will sell you very cheaply. Wake up.
2006-07-08 14:33:39 · answer #11 · answered by quietwalker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋