Ther are skeptics or non belivers that say that people did not actaully reach the moon instead it was done in a movie studio.
They say this because America did not have the tecknology to do it and America did it because they did not want to be left outside because Russia put the first man in space. So america and russai were competing. What do you belive?
2007-03-26 06:15:00 · 15 answers · asked by Dr. J 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
It happened.
First off, there's the laser ranging system that was placed on the moon and which has been videotaped in action (including the reflection panel that astronauts placed on the moon in a visible location).
Then there's the flag: "Why does it look like it's moving if there's no air?" they say. Because it has metal rods inserted in it to make it look all wavy. It looks better that way.
Look, if it were fake, the USSR would have been ALL over it and announced it to the world. They didn't. Why not?
Because we landed on the moon, that's why.
2007-03-26 06:18:19 · answer #1 · answered by Brian L 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
In regards to the "waving flag" and other theories pointing to a faked moon landing, I encourage you to go the youtube and find the videos by svector on this subject. In regards to the waving flag, it is far from difficult to explain - svector's video shows that the only times the flag appears to be waving are when an astronaut is trying to plant the flag. Once planted, Svector then presents footage showing the astronauts moving around for about a half hour (the footage is speeded up so that it only lasts about 3 minutes), and NOT ONCE DO YOU SEE THE FLAG MOVE.
If that doesn't convince you the flag waving claim is ridiculous, then you're just being ornery.
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Dang, what's with some of these posters!? You can tell them to just LOOK at something, and either they don't do it (afraid to be proven wrong, apparently) or they won't believe irrefutable evidence! This evidence refuting the waving flag claim has been around for a long time, and, no, the flag did NOT move when the astronauts were not moving it themselves! How can anyone dispute that?! How can anyone be that close-minded and, frankly, that stupid?! (Yeah, yahoo.com, go ahead and censure me for this post. I don't give a flip.)
2007-03-26 13:38:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
America did have the technology to put men on the moon, developed over years of space flights to test what was required. Apollo flights 7, 8, 9, and 10 each tested portions of the technology, including the launch system, the life support systems, the LEM (lunar entry module), and reentry and splashdown. For Apollo 10, the LEM detached from the command module and descended toward the lunar surface without landing, then ascended and docked with the command module. It was all done very carefully and in stages.
America didn't have the technology in 1957 to send men to the moon, but it developed it quickly and had it in 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin landed on the surface. It was a tremendously exciting time and project, and almost anyone who was living in the United States then remembers where he or she was when the words "The Eagle has landed" were broadcast.
2007-03-26 13:30:36 · answer #3 · answered by Isaac Laquedem 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Those were the days when America had the technology to do it. And if it had been faked, you can be certain the Russians would have been the first to cry foul (and very loudly). After all, up to then, they had been first in everything else connected with space.
Now America has the technology to fool itself. It has done so with sufficient regularity for its citizens to be convinced that it must have always been so.
We were the best. We now wallow with the rest.
Go read Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. We're stuck in our version of the second Punic Wars.
2007-03-26 14:30:30 · answer #4 · answered by Raymond 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No they don't say that. It was started by the Flat Earth Society. When they came back with photo's of a round earth, the society claimed that it was staged in a studio so they could still claim the earth was flat. Since then a bunch of gullible sheep latched on to the rumor not realizing where it came from. Then that great scientific source, the Fox network did a show on it and the rumor spread.
2007-03-26 13:22:15 · answer #5 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not a question of "belief" as those this were some opinion poll. The USA went to the moon--ad common sense ought to tell tese conspiracy nuts that if we had tried to fake it, the Soviets would have been all too happy to expose the hoax--and easily could have.
Such fantasies are dreamed up by losers who want to pretend they're important--usually because of personal inadequacies.
2007-03-26 13:54:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This issue is getting tiresome. Seriously, it pops up every stinkin' day here.
Yes, we did go to the moon. Check out the link below, it refutes all the various moon hoax believer claims quite nicely.
2007-03-26 13:42:53 · answer #7 · answered by Bramblyspam 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's true. Only the wackos believe it never happened. How do you think we obtained pictures of the earth from far away, back in the days before Photoshop?
2007-03-26 13:18:58 · answer #8 · answered by yodadoe 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Go to www.clavius.org, and read what's there. If you've any doubts left that we did go the Moon, come back.
2007-03-26 15:25:15 · answer #9 · answered by sillustani 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I personally believe that you should use spell check, "Doctor". Disputing history is a poor excuse for not learning it.
2007-03-26 13:19:23 · answer #10 · answered by Surveyor 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋