Conspiracy nuts, please answer the questions here....?

Question

400,000 people were involved in the Apollo missions - that was about 1 in 500 of the entire population of the USA. Look around your sports stadium next time you go see your favorite football or baseball team – on average there will be about 100 people in there who were involved in the Apollo project.

Just ask yourself: if the moon landings were fake, how the heck could you ever either fool all these people, or if they were in on it, how you would keep them all quiet.

Also, when you actually study the Apollo process, right from the first developments with the Mercury and Agena missions in the mid 1960s to the final landings in 1972, you realize how much time, effort and evolution went into the whole thing.

So, all you people who are crazy enough to listen to cr@p conspiracy stories, but who have never given much time to the actual Apollo story, please tell us sensibly at what point did it start being a fake?

Do you believe that Glenn never orbited in 1962, or the early Apollos never orbited Earth and practiced docking, or went on to orbit the moon?

At what point did the faking start switching in, which would have meant massive and surreptitious changing of millions of lines of software, tinkering with all the thousands of pieces of electronics, and all at some imaginary time when the thousands of controllers and technicians weren't looking.

And who was this army of technicians, engineers, software experts, graphics experts, electonics experts, who set up this scam without all the other thousands of experts being aware.

You don't have to go into all that cr@p about flags waving, stars not showing in the sky, landmarks looking strange - they can fool all the ignorant people who have not the brains to see that an airless, low gravity object like the Moon behaves totally different to earth. You don't need to go past all the questions I pose above.

When armed with the knowledge of the history of America in space, only a real idiot would think the moon landings were fake.

So, I say to all those who do not want to be thought of as congenital idiots, to go do the research, and stop listening to all the subversive people who want and love to find conspiracy in everything good in America (and it's not even my country).

A good start - go buy Tom Hanks mini series on DVD - "From Earth to the Moon". It is a re-enacted history of the whole thing, but combines actual footage. If you have no time to read, watch this series, and be proud of and moved by something truly fantastic that your country achieved.

Too much time on my hands? No. It bugs me because it worries me that there are nuts in this world who believe anything without looking at the big picture.

As far as I am concerned there is no difference between these people and those who blow up innocent people because someone told them that's the way to heaven and all those virgins.

Also, you people are no different to Timothy Mcveigh. how can anyone say, "it is my opinion". How can you just have an opinion.

Instead of getting at me, answer the dammed questions I pose. Go do the research, and stop being so absolutely childish.

Answer 1

I absolutely agree. I have an extreme amount of respect for the Apollos, and for people to just call the world's biggest achievement in astronomy a hoax, it just gets me down right pissed!!! I mean, how could their fellow Americans do that to them, I wonder what these conspiracy finders would do in the Apollos' position. Wouldn't you feel like you've just done a HUGE achievement that no one in this country cares about. Jeez people, have a little more respect and a little more brains. You are all like little seventh graders, they just want to start drama, and watch someone will find your question and my answer and come to us with their conspiracy "facts" and try to lure us into believing the "hoax!" No way buddy not me, so don't EVEN TRY!!! WE WENT TO THE MOON........and that's that. Get over it. The truth is hard to accept when you're wrong huh???

Answer 2

I'll take this one but I'm no conspiracy nut. I'm an anti-conspiracy nut.

Simple answer: It NEVER started being fake. It was all real. I was thirteen years old in 1969 when Apollo 11 reached the moon. I read every word available about all those missions and I am amazed by some of the inane stuff people write these days.

So the flag they put up 'waved in the wind'. Read the background, people! The flag had fine strands of springy wire woven into it so it would look like it was waving in the wind! That information was published BEFORE the mission. Does anyone really think they would put out a fake shot with a flag waving in a real wind? And if there was wind, why wasn't the dust blowing around? Because there wasn't any wind.

Do you know that on the next mission (Apollo 12) their best camera got messed up because one of the astronauts made a mistake and removed a piece of protective film? So they couldn't get any pictures with that camera. They could have fixed it with a screwdriver but they didn't have one exactly the right size to do the repair. If you are going to fake something you want to do it well, with good pictures, so if the camera got messed up you'd just cut that scene and shoot it again, wouldn't you? They couldn't because they were on the moon.

The fact is that some peole will never listen and never believe. There was no need for a conspiracy, those events were real, and anyone who cannot accept the evidence...well, okay. It's a free country.

But please don't insult the men and women who have given their lives on your space missions by saying that such and such didn't happen. Thanks.

And thanks for the other voices of reason who've chimed in. You give me some faith that the world's not gone completely mad...

Lenky

EDIT: Thanks Lees68TBird. A perfect response, right in line with my expectations. I rest my case...

Answer 3

I want to say that I appreciate that you brought this matter out. I have this man in the church I attend that doesn't believe in the Lunar Landings, and all I can do is shake my head at the amount of ignorance of such people. I am 50 years old, and have watched the Space Program from the very beginning because of my high interests in the field. You might also bring up the fact about the three astronauts that lost their lives in the Apollo 1 testing...why would they give their lives in vain?? Another thing...How could we ever "photograph" the Earth at such great distances, if they had not gone to the Moon back in those days? For those who refuse to believe that we sent men to the Moon (which is NOT all that great an accomplishment people!!), then these unbelievers have far more many questions to answer than those of us who believe and have common sense relative to the facts before us. The Moon is a mere 240,000 miles from the Earth and not so great a distance that man cannot bridge it...and we did so, July 20th, 1969. (I was 13 years old, and at Woodstock at the time).

Answer 4

This is the paradox of conspiracy theories. They just colapse on themselves due to the enormous amount of lying that would be needed.


Unfortunantly, there is never anyway to completly 100% satisfy a conspiracy nut, because anyone can be "in on it". The best way to confront these people is to debunk thier reasoning as to why the conspiracy occured. IE, why would we fake the moon landing. Or why would the government purposefully let 9/11 happen.

Answer 5

I love this. (This is my favorite topic)
I unfirmly believe that the man never landed on the moon I love the arguements. Oh man, I used to argue with a Sgt of mine back in the Army till we were both blue in the face. Which was fun becused we were 29Y's (26Y to the older generations & 31S to the younger crowds) This was the funest arguement.
My stand is always, we never went to the moon.
1. Why or how did the government use so many poeple to put on this fraud, because the more poeple you use to commit a fraud the more "real" it becomes.
2. Why does the government continue to commit this grand fraud, because if they tell the "truth", the the world will know the whole story of what happened.
3. What about Satellites, ect... its all carriered by these terestrial circuits, which were built by the "big bell" telecos of the past, thats why it was broken up to keep people from realizing the frauds they had been involved in.
4. What about the photos, well any backlot warehouse in Hollywood are able to give those phots.
5. What about the moon rocks, They are just abnormal river rocks.
6. the point in whihc it was all faked from the begining, it was the bigest cover up in history, JFK wanted it done so they did it, IN HOLLYWOOD.
7. Yep I love this arguement!.

Answer 6

Bla. Valid responses don't come from ' nuts ' - conspiracy or otherwise. Besides. Evidence is something that rises like lava. Can't touch it.

Answer 7

I'd say you have to much spare time at your disposal.

Answer 8

The earth is flat.

Answer 9

You talk too much

Answer 10

here here! i second that!