Wow, the 1st time I've seen this question all day.
yes we did.
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~korista/moonhoax2.html
2007-01-20 00:51:50
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answered by Anonymous
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i so totally agree with you..
no human has ever gont to the moon..
it was a hoax
many reasons for it..read the following n im sure u will be convinced
Motives
Several motives have been suggested for the U.S. government to fake the moon landings - some of the recurrent elements are:
Distraction - The U.S. government benefited from a popular distraction to take attention away from the Vietnam war. Lunar activities did abruptly stop, with planned missions cancelled, around the same time that the US ceased its involvement in the Vietnam War.
Cold War Prestige - The U.S. government considered it vital that the U.S. win the space race with the USSR. Going to the Moon, if it was possible, would have been risky and expensive. It would have been much easier to fake the landing, thereby ensuring success.
Money - NASA raised approximately 30 billion dollars pretending to go to the moon. This could have been used to pay off a large number of people, providing significant motivation for complicity. In variations of this theory, the space industry is characterized as a political economy, much like the military industrial complex, creating fertile ground for its own survival.
Risk - The available technology at the time was such that there was a good chance that the landing might fail if genuinely attempted.
The Soviets, with their own competing moon program and an intense economic and political and military rivalry with the USA, could be expected to have cried foul if the USA tried to fake a Moon landing. Theorist Ralph Rene responds that shortly after the alleged Moon landings, the USA silently started shipping hundreds of thousands of tons of grain as humanitarian aid to the allegedly starving USSR. He views this as evidence of a cover-up, the grain being the price of silence. (The Soviet Union in fact had its own Moon program).
Proponents of the Apollo hoax suggest that the Soviet Union, and latterly Russia, and the United States were allied in the exploration of space, during the Cold war and after. The United States and the former Soviet Union today routinely engage in cooperative space ventures, as do many other nations that are popularly believed to be enemies. However, this suggestion is challenged by the impression of intense international competition that was under way during the Cold War and is not supported by the accounts of participants on either side of the Iron Curtain. Many argue that the fact that the Soviet Union and other Communist bloc countries, eager to discredit the United States, have not produced any contrary evidence to be the single most significant argument against such a hoax. Soviet involvement might also implausibly multiply the scale of the conspiracy, to include hundreds of thousands of conspirators of uncertain loyalty.
oh yea..n NASA claims that they have "lost" their tapes right...of the mission n the landing n stuff
i mean helllooooo....how can they misplace something so impotant huh?
it is such important piece of evidence...
this makes everyone more suspicious...did they go on the moon...
i dont think so..
2007-01-20 01:18:30
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answered by Anonymous
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The way things leak to the press, do you really think this could have kept secret if it really didn't happen.
I'll bet you saw Elvis at the laundramat last week, and that George Bush ordered the attack on the World Trade Centers.
2007-01-20 00:59:25
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes we went.
I don't understand how conspiracy theorists can believe that such a massive deception as this would be could be kept a secret over all these years. There would be too many people involved. Someone would leak it. Its just not logical, my friend.
2007-01-20 00:58:18
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answered by kathy_is_a_nurse 7
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I'm positive people went to the moon. We have the resources, and have sent probes to planets much farther. They have pictures, samples from the moon, and recordings. I mean, how much more do you want?
2007-01-20 01:58:41
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answered by Anonymous
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yes you may be right!
A number of different versions of the hoax have been advanced. The various claims do not present a complete narrative of how the alleged hoax could have been perpetrated, but instead focus on perceived gaps or inconsistencies in the historical record of the missions. Several of these ideas and their most readily identifiable proponents are described below:
1. Complete hoax — The idea that the entire human landing program was faked. Various sources argue that the technology to send men to the Moon was insufficient and/or that the Van Allen radiation belts made such a trip impossible (Kaysing 2002).
2. Partial hoax / Unmanned landings— Bart Sibrel argues that Apollo 11 and subsequent astronauts had faked their orbit around the Moon and their walk on its surface by trick photography, and that they never got more than halfway to the Moon. A subset of this proposal is advocated by those who concede the existence of laser mirrors and other observable human-made objects on the Moon. Marcus Allen represented this argument when he said "I would be the first to accept what [telescope images of the landing site] find as powerful evidence that something was placed on the Moon by man." He goes on to say that photographs of the lander would not prove that America put men on the Moon. "Getting to the Moon really isn't much of a problem—the Russians did that in 1959, the big problem is getting people there." His argument focuses around NASA sending robot missions because radiation levels in space were lethal to humans. Another variant on this is the idea that NASA and its contractors did not recover quickly enough from the Apollo 1 fire, and so all the early Apollo missions were faked, with Apollo 14 or 15 being the first authentic mission.[4]
3. Manned landings, with backup stagings— Dr. Brian O'Leary once suggested that, as a hypothetical situation, NASA could have falsified some portion of the video and photographs of the Moon landings to replace those damaged or lost during the actual mission. Hoax proponent David Percy apparently took O'Leary's hypothetical as a sincere belief. O'Leary has since reasserted the idea as merely hypothetical.[5]
4. Manned landings, with cover-ups—William Brian and others believe that, while astronauts did land on the Moon, they covered up what they found, whether it was gravitational anomalies, alien artifacts, or alien encounters.[6] Phillip Lheureux, in Lumieres sur la Lune (Lights on the Moon), said that astronauts did land on the Moon, but that, in order to prevent other nations from benefiting from scientific information in the real photos, NASA published fake images.[citation needed]
Deaths of key Apollo personnel
In a television program about the hoax allegations, Fox Entertainment Group listed the deaths of 10 astronauts and of two civilians related to the manned spaceflight program as having possibly been killed as part of a cover-up.
* Ted Freeman (T-38 crash, 1964)
* Elliott See and Charlie Bassett (T-38 accident, 1966)
* Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (Apollo 1 fire, January 1967). His son, Scott Grissom said the accident was a murder.[56]
* Ed White (Apollo 1 fire, January 1967)
* Roger Chaffee (Apollo 1 fire, January 1967)
* Ed Givens (car accident, 1967)
* C. C. Williams (T-38 accident, October 1967)
* X-15 pilot Mike Adams (the only X-15 pilot killed during the X-15 flight test program in November 1967 - not a NASA astronaut, but had flown X-15 above 50 miles).
* Robert Lawrence, scheduled to be an Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory pilot who died in a jet crash in December 1967, shortly after reporting for duty to that (later canceled) program.
* NASA worker Thomas Baron (train crash, 1967 shortly after making accusations before Congress about the cause of the Apollo 1 fire, after which he was fired.) Ruled as suicide. Baron was a quality control inspector who wrote a report critical of the Apollo program and was an outspoken critic after the Apollo 1 fire. Baron and his family were killed as their car was struck by a train at a train crossing.[56][57]
* Lee Gelvani said he almost convinced James Irwin, an Apollo 15 astronaut whom Gelvani referred to as an "informant", to confess about a cover-up having occurred. Irwin was supposedly going to contact Gelvani about it; however he died of a heart attack in 1991, before any such telephone call occurred.
2007-01-20 00:54:20
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answered by Anonymous
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If it makes you feel good to think that, that's fine, you go ahead. That's not actually a question though is it.
2007-01-20 00:56:47
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answered by gerrifriend 6
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Yep
2007-01-20 00:58:33
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answered by Beavis 2
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good thing it really doesn't depend on what you think, cuz they went there
2007-01-20 00:51:54
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answered by Anonymous
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Did you really ask that question!???
That answers your question..........think!
2007-01-20 00:55:31
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answered by YourDreamDoc 7
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