I know it`s been talked about before, but...Did we land on the moon in 1969?

Question

How can humans possibly put a man on the moon in 1969, when technology is STILL so unreliable that we have coputer glitches that screw up simple election votes? (And consider how far we`ve come in 38 years)
Man still hasn`t figured out the simplest of computer glitches, how can they have put together a system to put humans on the moon way back in '69?

Answer 1

of course we did.

Answer 2

Yes. They even left a flag stuck up there. They landed in an area of the moon called Taurus Littrow, and there are many photographs of where they landed. Those photographs are genuine and can be proven to be genuine because of certain things in the photos which I need not go into here. I understand where your question is coming from, but it is just a little disturbing to think that something so historic is actually being questioned by some younger people.

Yes, there are computer glitches, but the computer you own today outcomputes anything they had in 1969 by a factor of a billion. There has been much technology and much science in the last 40 years.

As for the election votes, who knows what happened? That is a whole separate topic, but much more open to ambiguity than the moon landing.

Answer 3

The mechanisms and machinery that put man on the moon in 1969 did not rely much on computers, which were in a very primitive state back then. However, humans are very ingenious and persistent, and the Apollo program was a prime example of this. If you thrown enough resources and people at a program you can achieve almost anything. Look at any of the engineering marvels from history -- it is difficult to believe that they ever were built. We are so reliant on computers and have such short attention spans nowadays that long term efforts involving vast resources, manpower and planning become unbelievable.

Of course the US landed men on the moon in 1969 and subsequent years. They did it with money, people, luck and ingenuity.

It is even more impossible to believe that the US government has the ability to create a vast hoax involving hundreds of people and keep it secret for 38 years. And why would "they" want to? Not one person who worked on the Apollo missions has come forward and said "We fooled you!"

Answer 4

Yes we did it!
There are reflectors on the moon which even today we are using to measure the distance to the moon. I think this is the irrefutable evidence that we went to the moon.

The problem with computers is they are to complex and they only work as well as the programmers who program them.
The people who controlled the Apollo missions knew the astronauts lives depended on their work so had a very big incentive to get it right.
Also all the computers which they used were very basic but were designed to only do the jobs they were used for. not like the modern PCs. We expect them to do everything from go on the Internet and answer peoples questions while counting election votes and we want it to do it on a pretty screen.
I sometimes think we ask too much of our poor PCs

Answer 5

If we didn't land on the moon and lied about how we actually did the Russians would have had a field day in the public relations dept, because they tracked the Apollo mission all the way to the moon and back with there radar.
Also, why would The U.S government lauch 5 missions to the moon, could you really keep thousands of people quite about a lie ?

Answer 6

Let's turn the question around. Let's assume we didn't go to the moon.

Our government would have had to be smart enough to pull of 6 simulated moon landings, involving thousands of scientists, engineers, etc. without any one of them giving it away.

They would have had to be smart enough to construct moon rocks that at first glance seemed to disprove accepted ideas about the composition and origin of the moon, and yet decades later confirmed discoveries made with totally independent evidence.

They would have had to be smart enough to remotely deploy a precisely-angled and positioned laser reflector on the moon's surface - one that astronomers still use today.

They would have had to convert a group of talented, smart and brave pilots with well-known military track records into a bunch of the biggest liars and cheats in history, who would go to the grave without revealing the truth.

...and many other things.

Also, if it was a fake, why go back 5 more times and push your luck - if you were behind some grand scheme to fool everyone, would you repeat it 5 times over the course of several years, and even fake some failures like Apollo 13?

Keep in mind that much of the moon missions were observable by amatuer astronomers - to pull off a fake moon landing, they would have had to do 90% of the work of a real one.

With all of those things to consider, the idea that we went to the moon seems much more plausible. If we didn't, and someone pulled off this hoax, maybe we should get them to work on some of our government's problems today, because those would be some smart people!

Answer 7

We did land on the moon in 1969(only armstrong stepped on the moon) . Thats because they spent lots of money to do this thing and lots of people were in it. Today, nobody wanted to spend that much money again to see the same crap. And I think its just luck that the computers didn't glitch during their landing at that time. like what happened in appolo13 they got screwed.

Answer 8

The reason for today's glitches:
CHEAP SOFTWARE!
I am a computer nerd and programmer, and I am always debugging. NASA spent 25 BILLION dollars sending astronauts to the moon! They probably had a thousand highly skilled engineers and programmers check over the software! Election counting software is probably thrown up in 5 minutes by some corrupt, politically biased small company.

And by the way, we have photographs of the moon landings. PHOTOGRAPHS! Not just fuzzy ones, either. Please believe your own eyes!

Answer 9

While the computers used for the Apollo program were primitive (and most would consider the computers used in spacecraft even today to be primitive) they had the advantage of being predictable. That is, regardless of the input conditions, the final state of the computer could be absolutely determined. This quality makes it possible to _prove_ a computer program to be correct, something that can't be done for most "modern" computers.

Answer 10

of course it happened
- as far as the examples you sight as technology failures, I'd say these are general population problems
too many people are using voting machines, computers, the city of New Orleans, with out understanding the science and math and limits of technology
- compared to the public internet, the general public, the election process, outer space is a controlled enviroment, very few humans to create human error
-- rockets were Nazi technology (UGH!) but in scinece A=A

Answer 11

The technology is not comparable. The computer on Apollo was a single-function device with a dedicated task, operated by highly trained people and supported by many others back here on Earth.

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