Moon landing?

Question

so did it happen or is it a load of made up rubbish in a hollywood film studio? (shadows going the wrong way and saying they had moved to another area of the planet when they had not! same rocks in the film footage) so real or not u decide, your answer may be the luck one for those sort after 10 points!!

Answer 1

I think this might answer your question - it's taken from one of my answers from a couple of days ago. If you want to have a laugh, click the link, scroll down to my answer and click the link that's there.

Since the first landing on July 20 1969, people have found something about it that doesn't quite fit in with their pre-conceived notions.

One of the first "doubt theories" to appear, was regarding the shadows on the lunar surface - they didn't appear the way they "should" (read that as the way people thought they should). When asked, these people (scientists, no less) stated that the shadows were "all wrong". When asked to elaborate, they stated that the shadows didn't appear as they would on Earth - too sharply defined, as if under artificial light! Duh! It's the MOON, not Earth - there isn't an atmosphere to diffuse the light - shadows would be sharper! The other thing with the shadows was the casting - the shadows appear to be at different angles - proof of several light sources. No. You can have 2 people standing next to each other (on Earth) on a bright day - their shadows will be at differing angles. This is called reflection and refraction.

Another "doubt theory" that appeared - again, posited by scientists - was regarding the Van Allen Belts which surround the Earth. These belts of radiation are attracted to the Earth because of the magnetic field. They (the scientists) stated that 12" of lead shielding would be required to traverse the belt, without the astronauts showing signs of radiation sickness - correct - if you're moving through it at around the speed of a jet, or around 550-600mph! As Apollo 11 was moving at more than 30 times that speed, the astronauts were exposed to a total of about 1 rem (about 1/25th the amount required for radiation sickness).

Then there's The Peculiar Walk Theory: "Experts" say men wouldn't walk like that on the moon, therefore the footage was filmed at one speed (on Earth) and played back at half that speed! Ummm - have they been there? Armstrong and Aldrin were wearing 500lb suits with backpacks in a hostile environment at 1/6th the gravity of Earth - and they think they're gonna walk NORMALLY?

And here's the best one: My own MOTHER thinks it never happened; wait'll you hear her reasoning. Hope you're sitting for this one - falling down to roll about laughing can hurt.

Her reason is that the Saturn V rocket (with the Apollo 11 capsule attached of course) looked "jerky, like it's on strings" at launch. Duh! She was in her home country (UK) watching on a B/W tv IN 1969! Of course the launch footage looked jerky - the steadicam hadn't even been THOUGHT of. She thinks that you can keep a camera (handheld or on a tripod) still while a 100+ ton bomb with 3 men strapped on top launches itself into the air at 1000mph! Anybody who has ever been to a shuttle launch knows that even the GROUND shakes! Ah! She has been to one - and still didn't make the connection . Oh well.....

Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins have stated categorically for nearly 40 years "Yes; we did go to the moon". There were thousands of people involved in preparing for launch and hundreds more oversaw the launch and subsequent landing on the moon (and, according to conspiracy theorists, hundreds more must have been involved in faking the landing). And with all these people involved, are we expected to believe that NOBODY has EVER let the cat out the bag? Because nobody ever has, that must mean the cat and the bag don't exist, which in turn means three heroes (what else can you call somebody who deliberately straps himself into a bomb to further human knowledge?) DID land on the moon on July 20 1969.

Have a good one.

Answer 2

I'm sorry, but if you don't believe one of the greatest historical events of the history or the USA didn't happen, then you have some serious problems. I don't know what you mean by moving to another location, but the shadows I think I can explain. The direction of the light hitting the moon may have been different than on Earth, so that could account for it. I don't know if it actually is something like that, but it seems probable to me. Then again, I'm just a twelve year old that lives in MT.

Answer 3

Its been shown time and time agin, we did land on the Moon. could I additionally remind you that there replaced into 6 Moon Missions that landed on the lunar floor in the process the Apollo era. None of those Apollo Moon touchdown's have been hoaxed. i'm going to talk and disprove the conspiracy theories you may properly be accustomed to. think of roughly it logically; The spacecrafts have been genuinely released by skill of NASA, it rather is confusing to faux. 2d the Apollo crafts could desire to no longer have orbited the Earth for 8 days as a number of the conspiracy theorists have claimed. If NASA had of performed that they could have been caught on their lie, fantastically in the event that they did it six circumstances. The Russians tracked the Apollo missions very heavily and that they knew for a fact that not one of the missions have been faked. in the event that they only had the slightest clue that the Moon touchdown replaced into faked it could have been the appropriate propaganda weapon for use against the U. S. and to Capitalism. The flag waves because of the fact it replaced into planted interior the soil and Armstrong twisted the poles. it rather is sparkling because of the fact in different photos you will discover the flag isn't shifting while he walks previous it. additionally the reason there is not any blast crater under Apollo 11 is using the fact while the craft landed it decreased velocity upon touchdown on the Moon's floor, so all that it did replaced into blow away dirt. the comparable is with driving right into a parking zone for the reason which you do no longer stress in at 30 miles an hour. Over 3 quarters of a million people have been engaged on the undertaking in finished. it could have been impossible for each a million of them to maintain a secret. Even filming the touchdown could have been harder than touchdown on the Moon itself. think of related to the type of persons they could have mandatory to shoot the Moon touchdown in a action picture studio. finally if the Moon touchdown replaced into faked, we could have found out years in the past. those issues do no longer final 40-one years without an answer.

Answer 4

the source site i put in for you will clear up any doubts you have. of course they landed on the moon and not only once but six times.

I'm not going to try and convince you the site i gave you will do that however i do want to give you a different slant on the moon landings
yeah all them conspiacy theories sound great (not! it's more to do with their lack of scientific knowledge or doping the public into given them money for their dvd's and books ). however the facts are far more fanscinating if not downright terrorfying. in the last few years infomation about the missions to the moon are coming to light. i will list a few
1/ the computer (no bigger than a calculator) for landing the module on the moon when it was switch on simply crash (overloaded with to much info) and Armstrong had to take over the controls and manually land the craft wherever he could with only 15 seconds of fuel left after landing. that why they overshot the appointed landing site.
2/ they knew even before they went that there chances were only 50/50 of making a successful round trip.
3/ president nixon like all politicians couldn't resist the major publicity by ringing the astronauts and telling them how proud he was of them only to realise that they might not make it back. so he got his p.a. to write a speech in the event of astronauts not surviving.
4/ when Armstrong and Aldrin reenter the lander they realise the ignition for the take off motors was damage. with some quick thinking from Aldrin he jury rig the ignition with a pen and tape.
5/ after 6 sucessful landings (and don't forget apollo 13 where they failed to land on the moon but bearly manage to get back to earth) nasa decided it was to dangerous and losing public to much attention to sent any more missions. they knew their luck couldn't last any longer.

the list goes on. in their madness to beat the Russians to the moon Nasa and the american government took some serious chances on these men lifes totally unacceptable to todays standards but what should not be taken away is the pionneering bravery of all the astronauts involved. they were far braver than you or I.

Answer 5

I say they actually landed. When you think of some other things scientists have been able to do, is it really so hard to believe that we landed on the moon?

I think the shadows going the wrong way were actually because of little hills where we thought there weren't any. Our perception of hills is dictated by shadows. At least in pictures which are 2d

Answer 6

i think it did happen. the reason being that the americans were in a race with the russians to get the first man on the moon, and if it was faked the russians would have screamed blue murder. they had the technology to see the americans on the moon.
having said that, there is something dodgy about a lot of the photographs, and i think that the photos were stagemanaged on earth so that they could guarantee good quality photos.

Answer 7

I believe it happened. It was the big space race, and we wanted to win. It really breaks my heart when people are so adamant about making it out to be some big hoax. I know if I were Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin, I'd be completely crushed. It's like saying that the scientist that cloned Dolly didn't really do it...
(Although there was the one professor in Korea who claimed to clone a dog and it turned out to be fake... But he lost his job.)

Answer 8

Yes, it happened. And what do you mean saying they moved when they didnt? The moon landing site, the original one, was never landed in - the pilot changed the landing location while still in the process of coming in. They didn't take off and then land again...

Answer 9

They weren't faked. They happened. Just ask the Russians, they were tick off because they did not get there first!

Let the feeble minded hoax sayers produce evidence to the contrary!

Answer 10

I've met Buzz and believe me... It happend