How is it possible to fool the thousands of scientists and technicians if the moon landings were fake?

Question

Let's stop this nonsense. You do not have to go into fine detail. It is totally ludicrous to think that all those who worked on Apollo could be fooled into thinking they were putting men on the moon.

These are highly intelligent people, with their fingers on the pulse of the project.

And who are the army of super-intelligent people that set up the scam that could have fooled so many intelligent people.

the whole concept of a moon hoax is as stupid as those who believe that the twin towers were not caused by airliners, when thousands of New Yorkers saw them approach and hit.

It is as stupid as believing the Earth is flat or that the Earth was created 6000 years ago,

Please, people, apply logic to your thought before you take on a belief.

We went to the moon. If you dont believe it, tell me logically how you could fool all the people that worked on the Apollo over ten years time span.

Answer 1

You are, of course, entirely correct in all of this. Although the spacecraft left on the moon are too small to be seen from earth, the reflectors left there by the astronauts are used to this day to measure the distance between the moon and earth (which is, by the way, increasing at about an inch a year due to tidal friction). And the conspiracy theories abou 9/11 are even more stupid. Is anyone seriously of the opinion that, during the hour and a half between the time the airplanes hit and the buildings collapsed, someone rushed into the burning buildings to plant explosives to demolish them? C'mon, people, let's get real.

Answer 2

It's very possible, when u understand how the "education" system works, but I get the impression that you don't understand, so just take a look at your question. You state "It is as stupid as believing the Earth is flat or that the Earth was created 6000 years ago" - yet at one time it was widely accepted that the earth WAS flat, and it is STILL believed that the earth is 6000-8000 years old. Here is some logic for you, since that is what you asked for: You have clearly made up your mind on this issue, but you have never been to the moon, you have never seen, first hand, anyone on the moon, you don't know anyone who has been to the moon, and you can not explain how to get to the moon. You have made up your mind because someone that you consider an "authority" told you "we" went to the moon, and the only evidence you can give to support that conclusion consists of "my professor said" or "the Discovery Channel said" or "this book said," and that really isn't any more valid than "the Bible said," but I suspect you would throw that one out. When you consider that most people(including scientists and technicians) are just like you, in that they will believe whatever they are told, as long as it is told to them by a percieved "authority" then it isn't hard to see how all those people that you have so much respect for could be fooled. I suggest you do some research on the 1938 radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds," after which thousands of Americans actually fled New York and Philadelphia because they believed martians were invading - "BECAUSE THE RADIO SAID." I would also remind you that many programs like the Apollo programs are "compartmented," meaning that while thousands of people are involved in it, none of them understand the full scope of the project. You state "These are highly intelligent people, with their fingers on the pulse of the project." The people who make the helmet for the spacesuit probably don't know much about how the LEM works, and the people who build the LEM don't know how the rocket engine works, so on. Thousands of people work on the program, and while many may indeed be highly intelligent, most of them are "in the dark" when it comes to understanding the whole of the project and the only thing they have their finger on the pulse of is getting paid on Friday. I have previously stated that you seem to have made up your mind, so this answer is for the open minded people, who don't dogmaticly believe anything.

Answer 3

Although my wife's father performed fuel calculations for the original Apollo landing, I'll spare you that speech. Instead, I will encourage you to watch two programs. The first show is called Conspiracy Moon Landing that it currently showing on the National Geographic Channel and it pretty much obliterates all of the popular conspiracy theories.

I would also encourage you to watch a movie called Capricorn One. Made it 1978, it is a fictional story about a fake mission to Mars. Although it is a science fiction story, it is a good example of how utterly impossible it would be to fake a moon landing for any length of time.

12 men walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972 and we have neither the resources nor the technology to pull off that big of a hoax for so long. Hundreds of thousands of people have worked on the space program. It would be far easier to put someone on the moon than to try and fake it and keep it secret for nearly 40 years.

The landings came at a time when our space program was ultra competitive with the former Soviet Union. Remember how big of a deal it was when Sputnik was put into orbit? They had the technology to monitor our moon shots and transmissions. Don't you think they would have called us out if they had evidence that it was all fake?

Perhaps the most definitive proof of our trip to the moon is what we left behind. For the last 35+ years, scientists have been beaming lasers to the moon and measuring the return times. How are they doing this? The beams are reflected back by equipment left on the moon on at 3 different locations.

Case closed.

Answer 4

How is it possible?

It isn't. That's the main point the conspiracy theorists who never passed a science course refuse to accept - without merit.

They readily accept the bogus theories of crackpot, book writing pseudoscientists, but reject competent real scientists simply because that's what they want to believe.

So many thousands of people were involved in the project that it would have been impossible to fool them all. Whoever thinks the govt could have pulled off a hoax like that successfully is vastly overrating the collective intelligence of the government and the ignorance of the public.

Real conspiracies don't involve multiple tens of thousands of people all over the world from janitors to world-class scientists labouring to fool the whole world for generations to come.

The returned lunar samples containing cosmic ray signatures that no technology on earth can duplicate then and now, the special laser reflector devices left behind that they had to manually position and fune tune before returning, and are still functioning today, are adequate evidence we were there - but there is a lot more than that.

Future analysis of the evidence in favour of a moon landing will vidicate that position 100 percent.

Answer 5

I couldn't agree with you more! And let's not forget the 100 + pounds of lunar material that's been returned to Earth and passed around to research laboratories and universities around the world. All...repeat, ALL...researchers agree that the soil and rocks are of non-terrestrial origin and match what lunar material was expected to be like.

What's amazing is the number of gullible people who base their conviction that the lunar landings were all faked on nothing more than that American flag that looked like it was blowing in a breeze.
Sure doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how that could have been done.

This website completely and scientifically discredits all those so-called "proofs" that the lunar landings were faked ==>http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

Answer 6

I agree with you 100%. Lets see, moon rocks, books about scientific discoveries. People make the space ships, not computers. People are smarter than computers since people made computers. Astronauts are paid a lot to risk their lives and their health in outerspace. and what about biographies and autobiographies of honest astronauts, like Franklin Chang-Díaz? And the pictures. They just cannot be fakes. My astronomy books have the written interviews of astronauts and people who worked on those projects.

It's just ridiculous to beleive moon landings have been fake. You are entirely correct, nick s. Completely.

Answer 7

I agree that the moon landings had to have happenend because it would have been just as hard to convice that many scientists, technitions and Americans that we were actually landing on the moon when we wern't. the Discovery Channel has a show, i can't think of the name, that disscusses all the discrepencies in the moon landings.

Answer 8

What was our technology and sociology like at the time of the moon landing, in 1969?

To give you an idea:

Laugh-in was a top variety show, for its sophistication and contemporary humor;

Nixon was president, and would get re-elected three years later;

"Granny Glasses" were in style;

women wore vinal go-go boots to discos;

Men wore bell-bottom striped jeans;

Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I've Got Love in My Tummy; Sugar Sugar (by The Archies); Chewy, Chewy; Goody Goody Gumdrops; and Build Me Up, Buttercup were all big-time hits.

No microwave ovens, home computers, cellular phones, unleaded gas or cable TV.

Reel to reel audio tapes were the latest in technology. 8-track tapes had not been marketed to the public yet.

Stereophonic Sound and Sensaround; no Dolby.

The Vega, Gremlin, Pinto and Pacer were cars of the future.

'Nuff said!

Answer 9

Well obviously they were in on it. :D

Kidding, but I do find it interesting...the "evidence" supporters of the hoax-theory present. I'm still open to the idea that the first landing might have been fake, and that we've been to the moon since then.

Answer 10

I agree with you whole-heartedly- history is littered with people who deny the obvious until they are blue in the face, even in the face of evidence that runs contrary to their point of view.

It will never cease to amaze me that people will deny the moon landings. What next, deny that we ever went up into space? Deny ships sail the oceans?