Please watch this before responding!: http://www.goyk.com/video.asp?path=2934
2006-12-23 03:19:15 · 12 answers · asked by Brendan G 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
u didn't watch the video!
2006-12-23 03:21:58 · update #1
Hmmm. Well, obviously I don't think the landings were faked or I wouldn't have pointed you to a video that takes the piss out of conspiracy theorists!
2006-12-23 13:23:07 · update #2
Watch the video people! (And for Pete's sake, of course Brendan knows that P&T are satirists ... that's why he posted it. Sheesh. Penn practically hits you with a 2-by-4 with it. Thumbs up from me.)
I laughed so hard, I'm sure all six American flags planted right now on the moon, ALL fluttered.
2006-12-23 03:40:43 · answer #1 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
uhhhhh no. It was not faked, there is no air on the moon so how could the flags wave??? I'm DYING!! Have you ever seen footage of the actual landing? gimme a break! why would they fake it anyway? it would've been a huge expense for nothing! and what about the families that saw the shuttle launch? Oh my gosh I think that is SOOO funny! but no, they were not faked, Captain Obvious...
2006-12-23 13:01:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I watched the video and I can't figure you out! Penn Gillette is a satirist! Look the word up if you don't know what it means. This is not a serious video; they made that guy look like a jerk!
For the 50,000th time: THE MOON LANDINGS WERE NOT FAKED!
2006-12-23 12:52:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Moon landing was not faked.
. . . and believe it or not, the Earth is round
2006-12-23 11:21:08 · answer #4 · answered by RationalThinker 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Rachel, they made the guy look like the "loon" he is!
Thank you for sharing the video with us!
2006-12-23 13:57:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You get your conspiracy theories from Penn & Teller. I guess they would know: they're masters of illusion and deception.
2006-12-23 11:22:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 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?
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?
2006-12-23 13:27:52 · answer #7 · answered by Otis F 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
*sigh* i've seen this before, its a JOKE. not a fact.
2006-12-23 11:26:40 · answer #8 · answered by vickywwang 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I was there
I saw it
2006-12-23 11:21:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
not watching it but i agree
2006-12-23 11:22:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋