America is sad!
2007-05-08 10:05:21 · 16 answers · asked by Blah-Blah590 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I mean come on they have enough freakin evidence to say it was!
2007-05-08 10:13:54 · update #1
No, it was not faked. People who think it was are sad.
By the way, there were 6 landings, not only one.
2007-05-08 10:11:36 · answer #1 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
What a lot of people do not realise is that conditions on the moon are very different than those on Earth, so what would be expected to occur, used as staple for conspiracy theorists, did not, and could not. Most of these are to do with the nature of the vacuum.
One of these is the fact that there was deep dust around the lander that would have been blasted away by the landing engine if if were in an atmosphere. As it was not, the only disturbance to the dust was directly from the rocket's exhaust, there was no air to displace that would have kicked it up. The dust itself was silicate, which in a vacuum sticks together like wet sand, which is both how it was described by the astronauts and what it was accused of being by conspiracy theorists.
Another point brought up is the lack of stars visible in the sky. This was because the sun was up, the camera was set to daytime exposure so the light from the stars was not detectable by the camera at that setting. The stars were underexposed to the point of invisibility on the photos.
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2007-05-08 18:00:40 · answer #2 · answered by Bullet Magnet 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
They dont have ANY evidence! The 2 old duffs that made these accusations didnt have any more physics knowledge than you do! To a seasoned physicist, the proof that we DID land there is easily seen. Our space program has seen many brave astronauts venture out in exploration and anyone who believes that these brave heros were part of a hoax is total ignorance on their part! I for one watched the first landing on TV from my grade school classroom. I also watched every telecast of the missions I could and wasnt even aware til years later how close the astronauts came to losing their life on Apollo 13. Dont tarnish these brave people with stupidity!
2007-05-08 17:34:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If it was faked, then why didn't the Soviet union expose the U.S. and NASA as being a fraud? You know that they would if they could!
And if they faked it, then where did all of those large Saturn-V rockets go to that we all saw taking off? They had to go somewhere.
And who put those laser mirrors on the moon, then? The mirrors are still there, because scientists still use them to measure how fast the moon is moving away from the Earth. Did space aliens put the mirrors on the moon? Come on, get real!
2007-05-08 17:32:58 · answer #4 · answered by Randy G 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
NO, the landings were not faked.
The conspiracy theory evidence is a bunch of garbage, easily disproven by anyone with the tiniest modicum of scientific knowledge. Check out these easily found sites for some TRUTH:
www.badastronomy.com
www.clavius.org
2007-05-09 15:25:49 · answer #5 · answered by Dave_Stark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it was faked.
They use the same eveidence to prove & disprove the landings...You can "discredit" any evidence, that doesn't mean it isn't real.
Do you have proof of birth? That certificate looks like a forgery to me, Is that even the right state seal? And that home video was probably staged...there's not enough blood, and too many nurses...Look at how grainy it is!
2007-05-08 17:50:02 · answer #6 · answered by Capt Crasher 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
no.
in my lifetime, we have seen special effects become quite impressive, but they evolved up from crap decades ago. special effects of the time were not up to the challenge.
plus, I have heard that telescopes followed the lunar missions as well, providing eyewitness accounts if true (I don't know this one for a fact, though).
If NASA had put all that money into special effects and made a secret leap forward in that field rather than rocket science, Reagan's SDI program would have taken off earlier; instead it got delayed throughout the 1980s because that was when government funds went into computer animation.
Any leap forward creates spin-off technologies; SDI's computer animation spun off into the private sector, too. The Lunar era side developments were not in special effects, they were in fields related to space travel - teflon for example (therewere others, but I don't recall them off the top of my head).
2007-05-08 17:43:52 · answer #7 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You're "enough freakin' evidence" is easily proven wrong by science. Look it up on the internet sometime.
2007-05-08 17:32:50 · answer #8 · answered by Mercury 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, they don't have any evidence to say it was faked. They do have plenty of falsehoods and misconceptions about science, though. http://www.badastronomy.com will answer any questions you have about the moon landing.
2007-05-08 18:39:47 · answer #9 · answered by eri 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Very bad elaborated evidence.
Those people that pointed out that 'evidence' are sad.
2007-05-08 17:50:06 · answer #10 · answered by boris_sv_2001 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋