Why do some people think that man never landed on the moon when faking it would have been much more difficult?

Answer 1

Because they are deluded enough to think that faking it would actually be easier. They don't consider how complex it is. In their strange a twisted reality going to the Moon is next to impossible, whereas faking it is really easy to do. When confronted with the actual complexities of faking a lunar landing, AND KEEPING THAT FAKE QUIET FOR SO LONG, they invariably fall back on how anything is possible given the money. Except of course landing on the Moon.

Most of these people don't even know what was actually involved in the Apollo program. Some don't even know that more than one landing took place, and most have no idea what any Apollo mission prior to Apollo 11 actually did. Nor do they know what Project Gemini was and how that contributed, or about how the hardware used was built by well known companies such as Boeing and IBM.

It's ignorance about what was involved, and ignortance about what would be required to convincingly fake it.

Answer 2

Exactly right! Creating six fake moon landings would be much more difficult that actually going to the moon. There are so many things that would have to be simulated. It isn't difficult to develop a simulation for things that you have experienced. But to simulate something you've never done? That's very, very difficult.

Here's a little something for the hoax lovers...

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?

Answer 3

I don't think faking it would have been more difficult than doing it, but i don't believe it was faked: some of the fakers would have come out of the closet by now. All the consipracy evidence i've seen can be easily countered with simple science.

I think some people dislike governments (often with good reason) and so want to believe in governmental conspiracies. Fact is most governments aren't clever enough to do a good conspiracy.

I once met someone who believed that the moon footage WAS fake - but not because they didn't go there. Instead they believed that the real footage was too full of aliens and so they couldn't use it. Amazing what people can convince themselves of.

Answer 4

I have wondered this for years. I used to work with an otherwise intelligent person who adamantly believed that they were faked. We finally sat down, he presented his evidence, I presented mine. He went away at least considering it was possible....

The belief that it was faked was actually losing popularity for years. Then Fox did their "documentary" about the moon landings being faked and it surged back into the mainstream.

Check out www.badastronomy.com They have some good info about it, including a page dedicated to the Fox tv movie's illogical claims.

Answer 5

I think the reason some people doubt the landings were real is that we only sent a few missions many years ago and then stopped. The thinking is, if we could and did do it then, then why don't we still do it now? If we don't do it now, it must be because we can't. And if we can't now we couldn't have then. It is a reasonable rationale. But it is wrong.

Answer 6

If you watch The Discovery Channel, you would see that the people perpetuating this bogus conspiracy theory live in trailers, have very few teeth and own over 100 cats. Personally, I feel that disputing history is a lame excuse for not learning it. I can debunk every peice of "evidence" that these idiots are claiming by using common sense and scientific facts. If you'll notice, there are no astrophysicists, neurosurgeons, or for that matter anyone who has a library card calling the Apollo missions a hoax.

Answer 7

There are still people who believe the Earth is Flat (search for Flat Earth Society)... Why do you find it so hard to believe that there are people who think the Moon landing was faked?

Answer 8

Their belief is based on the contention that landing men on the moon was impossible combined with the fact that it was a political necessity. But if we hadn't landed men on the moon, the science community would be leading the conspiracy charge and they are not.

Answer 9

They traveled to the moon to film an elaborate fake landing to play back on earth....

Answer 10

Faking it wouldve been a lot easier!!! Were talking about sending a rocket, a new invention, into space. Testing it wether or notnhe can land on the moon, and your saying faking it wouldve been harder! You have some issues...a lot of issues...