was the moon landing real? reason why it could be fake?

Question

there is a question regarding the position of the earth and shadows? why was the flag moving as there is no wind in space

Answer 1

In my opinion it wasn't faked. There are lots of reasons for the supposed shadows/flag problem...read it all here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Landing_Faked

Here are a few Q and A's...

1. Crosshairs appear to be behind objects.
* Overexposure causes white objects to bleed into the black areas on the film.

2. Crosshairs are sometimes misplaced or rotated.
* Popular versions of photos are sometimes cropped or rotated for artistic impact.

3. The quality of the photographs is implausibly high.
* Not true. There are many, many poor quality photographs taken by the Apollo astronauts. NASA chose to publish only the best examples.

4. There are no stars in any of the photos.
* The sun was shining. Cameras were set for daylight exposure.

5. The color and angle of shadows and light are inconsistent.
* Shadows on the Moon are complicated by uneven ground, wide angle lens distortion, and light reflected from the earth, and lunar dust.

6. Identical backgrounds in photos are listed as taken miles apart.
* Shots were not identical, just similar. Background objects were mountains many miles away.

7. The number of photographs taken is implausibly high. Up to one photo per 50 seconds.
* Simplified gear with fixed settings permitted two photographs a second. Many were taken immediately after each other.

....a few years ago New Scientist teamed up with a sceptics society and analysed all of the so called "evidence" that it was a hoax. The results were conclusive that its simply just conspiracy theorists.

People will always believe in conspiracies though - and for that reason its impossible to convince them otherwise.

As for the Van Allen belts...

"The astronauts could not have survived the trip because of exposure to radiation from the Van Allen radiation belt and galactic ambient radiation (see Radiation poisoning)". Some hoax theorists have suggested that Starfish Prime (high altitude nuclear testing in 1962) was a failed attempt to disrupt the Van Allen belts.

A.* The Moon is ten times higher than the Van Allen radiation belts. The spacecraft moved through the belts in just 30 minutes, and the astronauts were protected from the ionizing radiation by the metal hulls of the spacecraft. In addition, the orbital transfer trajectory from the Earth to the Moon through the belts was selected to minimize radiation exposure. Even Dr. James Van Allen, the discoverer of the Van Allen radiation belts, rebutted the claims that radiation levels were too dangerous for the Apollo missions. Dosimeters carried by the crews showed they received about the same cumulative dosage as a chest X-ray or about 1 milligray. Plait cited an average dose of less than 1 rem, which is equivalent to the ambient radiation received by living at sea level for three years.

* The radiation is actually evidence that the astronauts went to the Moon. 33 of 36 of the Apollo astronauts who were on the nine Apollo missions to leave Earth orbit have early stage cataracts that have been shown to be caused by radiation exposure to cosmic rays during their trip.

In a nutshell, people grasp desperately onto the idea that it was a hoax because they are unhappy with the way that the superpower governments have conducted themselves over the last 30 years. Personally I think its really sad that such a tremendous moment in history is clouded by the opinions of idiots.

Answer 2

If the moon landing were not real, the Russians at the time would have made the Americans look rather foolish as they tracked all their movements with great interest in case they put any weaponry on there or laid claim to the moon.
The flag would move as the temperature differences on either side of the flag would have caused expansion and contraction in different areas and as the flag moved different areas would expand and contract making the flag wave.
The shadows on the moon would be very different to those we experience here on earth, the light on earth is largely diffused by our atmosphere and in direct sunlight casts a single shadow as there is little reflected light. The moon on the other hand has no atmosphere and there is a lot of reflected light off the surface, this reflected light casts multiple shadows. N

Answer 3

Some people have found oddities in the images which they suggest are proofs that the moon landings didn't really happen.
I have a fairly simple problem with this:
Assuming that the supposed 'fakers' were smart enough to set this whole thing up, why wouldn't they be smart enough to look at the photographs and say 'hmmm... fluttering flag... no atmosphere... people might call that into question'.
Surely if the photos were fake they would have been very carefully screened for that sort of thing before they were released.

In fact, all of the questions raised about the photos have been comprehensively answered. It's just that some people refuse to believe the truth. So, yes. The Moon landings did happen. And Elvis really is dead.

Answer 4

Every reason for why we didn't land on the moon has been proven wrong by science. The flag wasn't moving on the moon. There was a bar in the top to keep it extended out, and the ripples was because the flag was folded up for transport, so it looked like it was waving in the wind, but it fact it wasn't moving at all. All the photos of the flag looks exactly the same.

Answer 5

I think that the the flag was moving because of the wind machines send in space and I think that the moon landing was not faked.

Answer 6

The launch and landing would have been interesting to fake. Launching would mean clearing people away so as not to catch them falling back to earth, the "landing" would mean taking the nose up in a bomber or something and dropping it.

The poster above make an interesting point, the cameraman was the first guy, much like sherpa's had been going up and down mountains for hundreds of years!

It was the Cold war though and Russia had beaten the US into space, (so much for the adages held about communsim by americans and invention) US had to pull something out of the bag, with their ex-nazi scientists they were able to pip Russia to a landing.

Answer 7

the moon landing was definitely fake. The easiest reason for this has to do with the Van Allan belts. These are electro magnetic belts surrounding the earth that protect the earth from the ravages of deep space radiation and solar radiation. All satellites, the space station and all shuttle missions have been inside these belts. The only manned space missions to ever claim to have been outside of these belts have been the lunar missions. But to this day there is no technology available to construct usable space suits that would protect and astronaut from the radiation levels outside of those belts. Not to mention that every computer and electronic system in the space vehicle would be fried. Why do you think that all other missions, satellites and stations have been inside those belts. Just google Van Allen belts and see what pops up.
To essexfriendly, the website you provided a link for is obviously run by 3 year olds because their explanation of the van allen belts is completely wrong. The site claims that the van allen belts contain radiation, actually the van allen belst as I have stated above, shield us from cosmic radiation. Please read a book instead of relying solely on information you have read on the internet. Just google van allen belts, the wikepedia explanation is more accurate than the site you quoted.

Answer 8

It took at lot of people to agree to a fake!. How could you possibly convince thousands of people to go along with a moon landing scenario?. For all the conspirators, how do you perpetrate a lie so big?.

Answer 9

Fake! There is no moon, what you see up there is just the bulb of god's desk lamp. The photos where all made by atheists in Arizona.
NASA stays for National Atheism Society America's.

Answer 10

totally fake who filmed Armstrong coming out of the capsule, everywhere they went was lit up yet you don't see them erecting lights.if theres no gravity on the moon how did an astronaut on another so called landing manage to place a golf ball on the ground without it floating away. Unfortunately some people believe anything they see on t.v, these same people think soap operas are real life