Did people really go to the moon, or was it all a scam ?

Answer 1

Wow, again...
It's just tragic that this question keeps coming up, and even more so when you understand that those of you who believe in a "hoax" have absolutely no understanding of either science or common sense. A few points for the "hoaxers" .

-The shadows are NOT in the wrong places. They are exactly where shadows are supposed to be given both the level of the ground and the perspective at which they were taken. A simple study in photography and/or physics will show you this.

-The hubble CANNOT, in fact, resolve images as small as the lunar buggies, nor anything else that still sits on the moon. It was designed to view galaxies thousands of light years across not to view images along the order of a few meters. And there are no Earth-based telescopes with this ability either.

-The flag did have a horizontal rod going across its top. Obviously, if this wasn't there the flag would have rested against the vertical pole. It was made of a plastic material, not cloth, which gave it its wrinkled appearance simply because it didn't extend all the way to the end of the horizontal pole. In addition, the flag was NOT waving, except when the astronauts were trying to work the pole into the lunar surface. Air or no air the end of the flag would have moved when the pole was shaken around. It's called inertia, look it up. Incidentally, for those who are so smart and KNOW it was a hoax: If the flag was waving from some sudden wind why exactly don't we see any dust flying about?

-The dust on the Moon has a resiliant silica quality which can hold its form. It is not beach sand. Thus, there are footprints.

-Regarding the dust from the rovers...hoaxers argue that the dust should have stayed off the ground longer. Please study your physics. In the videos, you can clearly see the dust rising from the lander wheels in a parabolic arc and immediately falling back to the ground. This is EXACTLY what happens in a vacuum environment like the Moon. On Earth dust is held aloft by air. The Moon, of course, has no air and thus the dust immediately falls.
And since you now understand that, understand this: If the video was shot on a sound stage like you people believe it would have been impossible to fake the way the dust fell. It would have required a vacuum chamber larger than any that even exixts today.

-The Moon is NOT a weightless environment. It's gravity is approx. 1/6 of the Earth's.

-No stars in photos...answered a thousand times. Learn and understand photography and the properties of light. Or better yet go outside on the next sunny day and take a picture of the sky and tell me how many stars are in the photo. Atmosphere or not, you can't take pictures of very faint objects when you are being washed in sunlight. It simply doesn't work.

-Radiation...This is the favorite of those who want to make themselves sound smart but have no clue what they're talking about. The Van Allen Belts can indeed be dangerous if subjected to them for extended amounts of time. The Apollo astronauts were not subjected to this.

-The cover up...The Russians, our worst enemy and space rival at the time, had every capability to track the lunar missions to the moon and back. And yet they never cried hoax. Interesting.
-During the time, NASA employed nearly 400,000 people, both under contract and in-house. Parts had to be made, engines built, plans devised, people prepared, see where I'm going? How do you keep a secret with that many people for so long? Answer, you don't.

-Okay, so you say, "well, only a handful of people knew about it..." Alrighty then, what about the thousands who actually made all the components and were told these components had to take men to the moon. Either these people say it cannot be done or they're in on the lie.
So you have two conclusions...Either you understand that 400,000 people were actually in on an impossible lie or that it was possible to send a man to the moon.

Oh, and every one of you who says that because we haven't been back to the moon in 30 years proves that we never went...that statement borders on idiocy that I can't even fathom. I went to Florida once, saw what I needed to see and then left. I haven't been back. Does that mean I never went? And that doesn't even take into account the inherent expense and danger of going to the Moon.

BTW, if the government was so smart and so good at creating and maintaining such an elaborate hoax how could they have made so many idiotic "mistakes" and allowed everyone to figure it out? Are we assuming that the world's best scientists are not bright enough to notice these? Please.

-These things go on and on, too numerous to discuss here. I suggest you people learn how to read and discover things for yourselves before you start believing mocked-up truths that have absolutely no basis in reality.

It's incredibly sad when people begin taking such a monumental human achievement and start wrapping it in myth, all because their understanding of what was and what is possible is beyond their own level of thought.

I would LOVE to edit this some more. Anyone else have a some powerful "evidence" they would like refuted? Step right up

Answer 2

I can see the case for it being a scam. My idea is this - there's an American flag and a car left on the moon. With the powerful telescopes we have nowadays, can't we take pictures of these objects? Why hasn't anyone done this? Maybe because we never went. Just because something is on TV doesn't make it true. I'm for landing the space shuttle on the moon. I think it's possible.

Answer 3

Yes, we DID go to the moon. Even Moscow accepted this fact, as they were winning the cold war. The idea that we didn't originates in groups like the Flat Earth Society, and people who saw "Capricorn One" too many times and believed it was a true story.

Answer 4

Russia said we did. During the cold war I don't think they were in on any scam that showed they lost the race to the moon.

Answer 5

Americans went to the moon many times -- several times we orbited, six times we landed.

Check out www.badastonomy.com for the refutation of all the "moon landing was a hoax" BS.

Answer 6

I believe a scam, we just did not have the technology back then, we do now and why has anyone not been going to the moon?

Answer 7

people actually went to the moon, the question is did people go there in 1969 or did they go sometime later. But yes men have been to the moon

Answer 8

Well, it did seem kind of convenient that we got to the moon first in the cold war, when it seemed like Russia was beating us in a lot of things. It doesn't matter if you saw it on tv...whether you saw it on tv or not doesn't tell you whether it was real or staged. And I thought of that same thing - why can't we get pictures of the flag? Why haven't we been back for so many years, too?

Answer 9

YES, People have been to the moon.

Answer 10

i believe we went to the moon. simple because the special effects needed at the time would cost more than actually going. besides i watched it on tv when it happened.