man on the moon...i dont think so!!?

Question

if man landed on the moon, why cant we see the flags he left there, with a telescope?

for those people who do belive that man landed...how about this fact........If debris from the Apollo missions was left on the Moon, then it would be visible today through a powerful telescope, however no such debris can be seen. The Clementine probe that recently mapped the Moons surface failed to show any Apollo artefacts left by Man during the missions. Where did the Moon Buggy and base of the LM go?

in answer to aximili12 question...the landings were all filmed in a studio or in inner orbit and not outer orbit..this can be proved by the blue sky out of one of the spacecraft windows when they were supposed to be in outer space, so the sky should be black. ...also why did some rocks have the letter 'C' on it?props from the prop store i think

otis f..thanks for ure reply...1 point i will raise at the moment is ....Bad Astronomy writers say that a flame would not be visible on the surface of the Moon because it is a vacuum and has no atmosphere. There is film footage of Apollo 16 LEM leaving the Lunar surface and what do we see... a flame...how comes?...I will look into your other points tomorrow ..thanks

Answer 1

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) Why haven't we been back?

a) American astronauts visited the moon on six occasions.

b) 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.

c) 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?


3) 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.


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? Who took the video of Neil Armstrong?

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?

Answer 2

Even if we used the hubble space telescope it still wouldnt be possible to see the flags and left over equipment from the apollo's. Trust me, man has walked on the moon. Every single arguement that the people wjo claim he didnt has an explanation. The flag waving, no stars in the photos and so on.

In case your wondering, the flag was erected with wires and cameras and film dont have the exposure to capture stars.

Its the same when you look at footage of the space shuttle in orbit you cant see any stars in those shots either for the exact same reason. Also if the landing were faked why bother doing it another 5 times and have 1 mission neally end in tradgedy (Apollo 13)

Answer 3

1)Earth based telescopes can not resolve objects much smaller than a building on the moon. If you had a satellite in lunar orbit you would be able to photograph the debris.

2)The famous 'c' or '2' on the rock was a hair on the photograph when it was copied. The NASA original negatives had no such letters or numbers on them.

3)If you saw a flame, it's probably cause rockets in space carry a source of oxygen to burn. At any rate, I just watched a film of a LEM taking off from the moon, I saw no flame, just debris being blown around.

Answer 4

Good question...where is the flag? Where is the landing pod and the dunebuggy they left behind? Surely the Hubble telescope could see these things. Unless the U.S. Government faked the whole thing to make Russia believe we were a little more technically advanced than they were. Also...how about this point....We sent all these people and things to the moon back in 1969 and here we are 40 years later and we can't even keep a space shuttle in low earth orbit without killing everybody on board! And to think some people are having a hard time believing that our own government was behind the terror attacks of 911. Give me a break....Wake up people! God Bless America!

Answer 5

Telescopes can't possibly be that strong. And the debris might be at the other side of the moon! And have you ever heard of the Space Race? Soviets watched every move Americans made, so if we didn't land on the moon, the Soviets will have just told everyone and tried to beat us at it. So, if you don't believe men walked on the moon, why are there moon rocks, and tons of pictures of space walks? Think about it!

Answer 6

The most powerful telescope only has a resolution that would permit to see a football stadium as a single pixel, so imagine a tiny flag. But the astronauts left a mirror there, and a high intensity laser beam is shot regularly on it to measure the earth to moon distance. Without the mirror, the beam would not come back, but it does. So, how did the mirror get there?

You have the right to disbelief men walked on the moon. Myself, I doubt that YOU exist.

Answer 7

It could be on the other side of the moon, plus a telescope isn't enough to get a close look at it. If you were on the moon looking at Earth through a telescope, would you see any civilization? Didn't think so!

Answer 8

Some one was on about this,one of my more intelligent friends.lol and he was saying it was all a big con,,some thing to do with on the photos while the man was walking the sand wasn't floating up but apparently it should of been plus a shadow to do with the flag,,so we'll probably never know,,but i do still believe the cow jumped oer the moon that's not a miff

Answer 9

Because the resolution of our telescopes isn't high enough, and don't say Hubble could be used, because why would we bother pointing it at the Moon in order to confirm something that we know is a fact? Fact, fact, fact!

Answer 10

Because telescopes are not very good. Also- the wind thing does not matter, if he put the flag in, it starts waving.... it will never stop waving because of no air resistence!