Because this question is asked every hour it seems, I thought I would just shoot it down now. For those who say the moon landing is faked, what evidence or proof do you have. Please list in a relatively short post and I will debunk it accordingly.
2006-08-16 08:24:35 · 6 answers · asked by johngrobmyer 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The effectiveness of keeping a conspiracy intact is completely dependent on the number of people involved; the more people there are, the less likely the conspiracy will hold over time. There were literally tens of thousands of people involved in the Apollo program, and it has been over thirty years since the last lunar landing; faking the landings and keeping the people silent would have been more difficult than actually performing them.
On three of the Apollo missions, laser reflection dishes were set up which scientists use to this day to accurately calculate the distance between the Earth and the Moon. This equipment could only have been set up manually; no robotic missions could have performed these tasks.
The Clementine lunar satellite was able to take a picture of the Apollo 15 landing site, but the resolution was too low (100 meters) to be considered overwhelming evidence. The Indian space program plans to send a remote sensing spacecraft in 2007, called Chandrayaan I, which has a five meter resolution. Assuming the craft is successful, its images should provide definitive evidence that the moon landings were real.
No matter what evidence one provides, however, someone will always come up with an excuse to negate it. "The scientists are in on the conspiracy with the laser reflector experiment", or "The images from the satellite are fake", or "They set up the Apollo landing sites afterwards using robots". One has to set their own limits on when evidence becomes definitive, and then stand by that limit.
2006-08-17 09:24:26 · answer #1 · answered by ndcardinal3 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This subject has been beaten to death ad infinitum.
Every week it seems that some moron thinks he "knows" that the Moon landings were faked.
It's blatant nonsense.
They cannot provide proof and what flimsy "evidence" they put forth is so inane and easily dismissed that one has to wonder if they suffered from lead poisoning as children.
I really wish this issue could be, as you say, put to rest. But I'm afraid with all the morons out there, it never will be. Just because they are incapable of grasping the scope of such a project, they think no one else can either.
They are of course, dead wrong.
2006-08-16 15:42:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In support of John's apparent frustration at the loons who insist the moon landings were faked, allow me to simply point out that the name of the oft cited website "badastronomy.com" is so named for a very good reason.
2006-08-16 15:31:06 · answer #3 · answered by sparc77 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I probably cant put it to rest but if u cant understand it u want go very far,u are finished.
U probably want believe me ,I am 76 yrs. old and sat the tracking console on several of our Gemini shots.
Hope u finally get it.
2006-08-16 16:02:45 · answer #4 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
july 20th 1969. ahh brings back memories. one giant leap, and one big kick in the balls for those non believers.
2006-08-16 15:34:45 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I though that you were going to put this to rest.... Your "question" only invites more argument.
2006-08-16 15:30:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋