Why would people think that the moon landings and the Mars rovers are a hoax, and then believe we are .....?

Question

visited by UFOs? Travel between the stars in any reasonable time is extremely difficult due to the enormous distances involved. Our closest star (after the sun) is Proxima Centauri at over 4 light years away. The Voyager 1 space probe will take over 74,000 years at an average speed of 61,200 kmph (38,000 mph) to reach this distance. So why is this more believable than the moon landings or Mars landings?

Answer 1

People are funny that way.

Another example is how the landing doubters say they would believe in the landings if NASA released a Hubble picture of the stuff left on the Moon. They claim all these other NASA photographs are fake, but they will accept just one more as genuine! This is especially comical since any such Hubble photo WOULD be fake, because Hubble cannot see things that small on the Moon!

Answer 2

Some of it is about sensationalism. People get attention by concocting crazy theories about far-fetched things. I personally don't care whether or not we're secretly visited by aliens. When they want to drop the secretiveness and let us know they're here, then I'd care, but otherwise it really doesn't matter to me.

People who believe the moon landings were faked really annoy me. Most of them heard some drummed up piece of "evidence" of a hoax and eschew all critcal thinking abilities and simply believe what they hear without any further investigation, and then go about trying to make people who believe it did happen feel like morons for believing it. Either way, I'm not sure what benefit it would bring if it was proved we didn't walk on the moon. It seems a silly waste of time to investigate such things.

Answer 3

>For one, our economy is shot, the country is virtually bankrupt. There is no way we could afford to build the rover. The total cost of the Curiosity mission is $2.5 billion. America manages to afford to pay for its military to the tune of that much every 33 hours. Not days. Hours. Curiosity is a drop in the bucket by comparison. Do you actually think that that one last drop is the only bit your country can't afford? >Let alone fund a mission to send it to Mars. Not to mention the "footage" resembles a lot of terrain used in a lot of Sci-Fi films featuring the "Red Planet". Gee, maybe that could be because the movies wanted it to look realistic? >Theoretically it would take roughly a year for the rover to even make it to Mars. About eight months, actually. And that's how long it did take. It was launched in November 2011. >we wasted billions of tax payers dollars to be the first country to reach a dead rock. Actually, at least 5 other landers built by the United States have also landed on Mars, the first one in 1976.

Answer 4

There are flying object some are identified as metheorites some are rockets ,some are missiles and some are never identified. And when they are identified its too late. It does not matter if man set foot on mars the moon or any where else ,most people care where they set foot on earth , where they lay they head to sleep at night and what jobs they have in order to provide food for their family and where they go after they die.
Sending probes to mars is only a scientific luxury. Not all people in this country can afford it. Money can be spend to help the poor.

Answer 5

The same people who believe the moon landing was a hoax are probably not the same people who believe in UFOs.