I have been visiting websites that have disected the whole concept that Americans just visited a Hollywood set and never really set foot on the moon. Is there any real credence to this theory?
2006-07-11 02:13:30 · 27 answers · asked by redseapedastrian 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Oh GREAT! Another conspiracy theorists. Just what we need.
2006-07-11 03:06:47 · answer #1 · answered by mamacass0304 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I saw a program on the Discovery Channel regarding this one. There were two pretty good arguments against the conspiracy theorists that they never did address. First, the Russians were trying to reach the moon at the same time, and they had spy satellites everywhere. Do you think they would have kept their mouths shut if they even suspected it didn't happen? Also, an astronomer stated that they use equipment left on the moon for scientific experiments all the time. There are three pieces of machinery that they triangulate from to discover things like the distance the moon is from the Earth at any given time. How did the equipment get there if we didn't go?
As for the flag, it was made so that it would stick straight out, not out of regular cloth. In the tapes, you'll see that the only time it moves is when the astronauts are handling it. And I wouldn't tell the astronauts they didn't go to the moon. One time someone accused Buzz Aldrin of faking it, and he punched them.
2006-07-11 04:34:39 · answer #2 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I truly believe man kind stepped foot on the Moon.
Rocket technology and guidance technology was advanced enough to put men on the surface of the moon. But video technology was poor at the time.
Go back in time check out the size of the TV cameras in that era, big hey!
They had to find means of keeping the weight down. Many reports stated why were there no stars in the sky, simply put they used vidicon tubes, with the brightness of the surface of the moon would have washed out any images of stars, basically the moon was so bright and the starts were so dim the camera was not sensitive enough. Example in the city at night, with all the light pollution, you are luck if you can see 1 % of the stars.
The heavens are littered with stars, unfortunately you will have the luxury, to view them unless you are hundreds of miles away from any city. Same applies on the moon
If you were on the Moon and looked at earth, you would not know we were here.
2006-07-11 02:28:56 · answer #3 · answered by Juggernaut 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if that were true and it was a Hollywood production so many people would have had to keep their mouths shut for 30 years without telling anyone or writing a book etc..and we all know that can't happen. Someone would've spilled the beans by now with proof to make some $$
SO I'd say we went to the Moon.
George Bush was so high in the 70's he doesn't recall us going to the MOON and whats to send men there AGAIN...oh my
2006-07-11 02:21:39 · answer #4 · answered by RJ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, i don't think we did. I was watching the Discovery channel and they were talking about how it was impossible for us to have reached the moon back then because of the rocket they were in. The rocket was made of some-sort of material that would of been destroyed way before it reached the moon. There are also a lot of questions on some of the pictures of the men standing on the moon, the shadows do not make sense. It was also said that all of these pictures were taken in Area-51. I really don't think we did, unfortunately.
2006-07-11 05:27:50 · answer #5 · answered by ange!s26 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question. I have heard the same thing. Why did we stop going to the moon after 2 times. And why did Russia give up on going to the moon? I've also heard that in the past few years the Apollo astronauts have given statements saying that there were UFOs on the moon when they went and that they were told to go home and not to come back.
2006-07-11 02:41:24 · answer #6 · answered by cj 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes there is real credence to this. The Van Allen belt alone would be proof that man has never been to the moon.
Man has yet to be able to create a material that would permeate it and still be able to stay off the ground.
2006-07-11 09:25:45 · answer #7 · answered by debisioux 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
"Not every waving flag needs a breeze -- at least not in space. When astronauts were planting the flagpole they rotated it back and forth to better penetrate the lunar soil (anyone who's set a blunt tent-post will know how this works). So of course the flag waved! Unfurling a piece of rolled-up cloth with stored angular momentum will naturally result in waves and ripples -- no breeze required!"
2006-07-11 02:16:44 · answer #8 · answered by squirrel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, there will always those that will wear the tin hat and calm it was all fake. But it really did happen, no goverment have denied it. Even Russia during the cold war did say Americas were the first to go to the moon. America in turn said they were the first into space.
2006-07-11 02:16:28 · answer #9 · answered by DutchApplePie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its all based on faith... do you have faith in your government? does gravity exist? you can't physically touch it, smell it, taste it, hear it, or see it, but you accept that it exists. Did the lunar landing happen? you have nothing to prove that it did or did not. Some say it was a "conspiracy" to break the attention of the American public from the Vietnam conflict, while others say that it was to beat the Russians from claiming it first. Either way, I don't have a telescope powerful enough to see the flag, and i don't believe in gravity, evolution, or the Big Bang theory... just kidding. lousy republicans.
2006-07-11 02:22:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the flag doesn't wave in the "wind" in space since there is no air. Plus it would float downwards, but not move other than that.
Moon landing could have been fabricated, although by now, I believe we have been there...just maybe not the first time we said we were.
2006-07-11 02:16:30 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋