Who thinks yes, we landed on the moon.?

Question

If you said yes, please give me your I Q rating?

Answer 1

No - (let me guess all you people who think we did will give me a thumbs down !!!!)

- My old pocket calculator has more power than the computers used 'to get to the moon'
- photographic evidence
- the camrea evidence
- if they got there, why did they then just 'stop'
and not sent many other missions there / set up a research station etc

I do, however, think that they DID get there years later - after all what would happen if a space craft passed over and there was no moom buggy, footprints & flag.

IQ ? HAH !!!! IQ does not measure important things like common sense, creative thinking, social skills etc etc
(and YES I do know mine - its above average I just choose to dismiss it)

Answer 2

1) Twelve 12 American astronauts have walked on the moon.

Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin
Apollo 12: Pete Conrad & Alan Bean
Apollo 13: << failed to land on the moon >>
Apollo 14: Alan Shepard & Edgar (Ed) Mitchell
Apollo 15: David Scott & James Irwin
Apollo 16: John Young & Charles Duke
Apollo 17: Eugene (Gene) Cernan & Harrison Schmidt


2) What about the Van Allen radiation belts? Wouldn't it have killed the astronauts?

The existence of the Van Allen radiation belts postulated in the 1940s by Nicholas Christofilos. Their existence was confirmed in *1958* by the Explorer I satellite launched by the USA.

The radiation in the Van Allen radiation belts is not particularly strong. You would have to hang out there for a week or so in order to get radiation sickness. And, because the radiation is not particularly strong, a few millimeters of metal is all that is required for protection. "An object satellite shielded by 3 mm of aluminum will receive about 2500 rem (25 Sv) per *year*."

"In practice, Apollo astronauts who travelled to the moon spent very little time in the belts and received a harmless dose. [6]. Nevertheless NASA deliberately timed Apollo launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimise the radiation." When the astronauts returned to Earth, their dosimeters showed that they had received about as much radiation as a couple of medical X-rays.


3) Why haven't we been back?

a) The "moon race" was an extension of the cold war. It was mostly about national prestige. We got there first and achieved our primary objective. There was some good science: surveys, measurements, sample collection. But it was mostly about being there first. Once we achieved our primary objective, there was no political will to go back. There still isn't. Perhaps, if we discover He3 or something else valuable, there will be.

b) I used to travel to Crested Butte, Colorado every year to ski. Because I don't go anymore, does it mean that I never went?


4) The U.S. government scammed everyone?

In 1972, there was a politically motivated burglary of a hotel room in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. There were only about six or eight people who knew about it. However, those people, including Richard M. Nixon, the President of the United States, failed to keep that burglary a secret. It exploded into a scandal that drove the President and a number of others from office.

If six or eight people couldn't keep a hotel room burglary a secret, then how could literally thousands of people could have kept their mouths shut about six faked moon landings? Not just one moon landing, but six of them!


5) What about the USSR?

Even if NASA and other government agencies could have faked the six moon landings well enough to fool the general public, they could NOT have fooled the space agency or military intelligence types in the USSR. The Soviets were just dying to beat us. If the landings were faked, the Soviets would have re-engineered their N-1 booster and landed on the moon just to prove what liars Americans are. Why didn't they? Because the landings were real and the Soviets knew it.


6) Why does the flag shake? Where are the stars?

Take a look at the first two websites listed below. They deal well with all of the technical questions.


7) Finally, please tell us what you would accept as definitive evidence that the six moon landings were real. Is there anything?



P.S. My IQ is 143.

Answer 3

If you had lived in those times, you'd think this was the most ridiculous question you ever heard, as you would doubt your own mother before you'd doubt if man actually landed on the moon. The 15-year period from the early '60's to mid '70's was very exciting. I grew up during that period watching the Mercury missions culminate into putting man into stable orbits around Earth; the Gemini missions doing so with 2 men; and the Apollo missions, including the devastating and tragic deaths of Grissom, Chaffey, and White aboard Apollo I, each attaining first closer to a manned lunar landing, then the actual first landing, followed by more extensive missions, and including the near-tragedy but ultimately the finest hour of man, Apollo 13. I tell you from the bottom of my heart, it happened, and it was so significant to me that I actually get angry when any idiot gets press time by trying to make a case that it didn't. It's beyond insulting.

But if you really have any doubt and 2 or 3 boatloads of money for 'scope time rental, I think the recent optical interferometric upgrade to the 2 Keck telescopes atop Mauna Loa, Hawaii have sufficient resolving power to actually see some of those gadgets we left up there. Of course, if you're really the type who doesn't believe it unless you actually see it, what are you doing using a computer? You can't see the electrons traveling through the wires, turning millions of transistors on and off billions of times per second, therefore computers can't possibly work, right? So computers must also be a hoax, perpetrated by the same government that brought you the Apollo hoaxes, all for the purpose of trying to make us all believe that our society is more advanced than it actually is. Of course, why it is so important that we believe this is beyond me, certainly serves no useful purpose, and seems harder to fake than to actually accomplish the real thing.

As far as my IQ goes, I've taken maybe a dozen tests over my lifetime, results ranged from 135 to 155, with the 155 being the most recent. I think it was a bit exagerated tho, I'm reasonably certain that I'm about 140 or 145 tops, especially considering the fact that I'm having a hell of a time passing second-semester calculus class right now, and had to take first semester twice (ended up with a "C" - very tough CalTech-wannabe professor). 150 is considered genius level, 180 is virtually astronomical, and only a few people per generation enter that realm, and I suspect none of them happen to be hanging around Yahoo!Answers at the moment.

Gary H

Answer 4

Of course we landed on the moon. It's reasonable enough to believe the government would WANT to create a giant cover-up of our failure to do so that would last for decades, but not to believe that they COULD. Hell, the Soviets weren't even able to cover up the fact that they couldn't go to the moon and their entire press was controlled by the government! So the only way our government could convince us all that we'd been to the moon, without any slips, for nearly 40 years, is if we actually had been. Besides, they left stuff up there like a flag and a mirror setup. The flag isn't visible from here but scientists bounce light off the mirrors all the time.

Oh, and my IQ's around 200. That's not only smart enough to understand that the government is not omnipotent, but smart enough to know when I'm being insulted. Are you?

Answer 5

Not me, for the following reasons:

1. Congress definitely authorized NASA to spend billions on plastic space ship models.

2. All the thousands of people who allegedly built the equipment were really lying, and actually playing with Lego blocks.

3. The moon rocks didn't really come from the moon -- I dug them out of my basement.

4. The little voices in my head told me all this.

Answer 6

Think we landed on the moon -- no. KNOW that Americans landed on the moon, Yes!

IQ more than high enough to qualify for International MENSA.

Those who think the U.S. did NOT put a man on the moon ought to list their IQs -- I'd bet they're only in double digits.

Answer 7

Yes,we landed on the moon!

Answer 8

Yes I do believe we landed on the moon. My last Intelligence Quotient test was about a year ago in collage (not a requirement) score was 158…for whatever reason you might be asking.

Answer 9

Yes, we definitely landed on the moon.

My IQ is about 70, which is about all it takes to understand that we did actually land on the moon.

PS - This is obviously a loaded question as all of us who answered in the affirmative have gotten thumbs down. Sorry to those of you who whose lives are meaningless without conspiracies.

Answer 10

Yes IQ 160