Apollo Moon Landing hoax accusations, true?

Question

I asked b4 but didn't give any examples

Therefore allow me to give some examples

1.) there's no wind on the moon why was the flag waving, was it b/c the astronaut was shaking it, if so that was a pretty hard shake.

2.) The lighting, there couldn't have been that much light on the moon at the time, the sun can't reach all parts and light every single part.

3.) How come when the shuttle thingy landed it didn't make a blast crater? How come moon dust didn't fly everywhere?

4.) How come in most of the pictures claim to have been taken on the moon in different places. Like in one for example it has the same background as another but yet it says it's 2 miles apart yeah right!

5.) How come we don't see any stars?

I believe that the whole thing was shot at Area 51, in the desert, I mean the desert surface kinda resembles the moons so called surface.

Answer 1

i believe it was all just a big lie. the goverment is full of lies and has been trying to brain wash the people of the us ever since the begging. i think this country is full of crap and is in need of a large scale revolution. VIVA LA REVOLUTION!!! peace.

Answer 2

1) The flag didn't wave. There were no waves propagated in it although it did move.

2) There WASN'T sun on every single part. Just look at the film. There were single shadows everywhere. Not only that, but the sun was much brighter because it had no atmosphere to shine through

3) The reason why the landing module didn't blow out a crater is because moon dust isn't that deep. It's just a few inches. Underneath is hard rock. Secondly, there WAS much dust blasted by the module as it landed (again, see video). It's just that dust has nothing to "hang" to since the moon has no atmosphere. So dust on the moon falls at the same rate as an anvil on the moon falls.

4) Ok, go to a desert with a lot of sand. Take a picture of a large mountain that is 30 miles away. Now, move 2 miles laterally and take another picture of the mountain. See much change?

5) It is the same reason why you can't see stars in the daytime and why you can't see out of your house's windows at night when your inside lights are on.

Answer 3

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?

On the subject of stars, take a look at the first link. Sorry, but there *are* stars in that photo. For the rest, visit "badastronomy" and "clavius". 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 4

Like I said before, all these questions are easily answered with a little basic physics or by going to http://www.badastronomy.com

Quickly:

1) Yeah, they were shaking it. You can see that in the video.
2) Yes, it can. The Sun is very bright, as you see every day.
3) The Moon is covered by less than an inch of dust. The rest is rock. The dust didn't fly everywhere, just up and back down, because there's no atmosphere on the Moon. That effect was not reproducable on Earth without current digital technology.
4) You don't have anything between the astronauts and the mountains for scale. The mountains are huge, but probably a hundred miles away - you have no atmosphere interferring with your view.
5) The Sun is very bright. You need a long exposure to see stars, even on the Earth at night. Those were very fast exposures.

Answer 5

1) Flag has a rod through the top so it will stand out straight, if you rotate the pole as you are putting it together, the flag will wave.

2) There is no atmosphere on the Moon to diffuse the light. That will cause the light to be brighter.

3) Again, no atmosphere to keep the dust particles suspended. Also, one-sixth the gravity means less thrust required for the landing.

4) I'd have to look at the pictures you are talking about. But, a picture on the Moon's surface lack the normal frame of reference that your mind automatically fills in when looking at a picture on Earth. For instance, if you see trees in the background, your mind automatically fills in the approximate height of the trees. In the Maria on the Moon, there is an area that is almost flat for hundreds of miles. If you take a picture at one spot with a few mountains in the background and then take the picture pointing in the same general direction two miles to one side or the other, you will get a background that appears to be identical.

5. The exposure time of the camera was set to provide a good image of the astronauts and the surface. Stars are dim enough that it takes a longer exposure to image them on film. Even with today's digital cameras, if you take an exposure of the night sky with the same length of time required to take an exposure of a brightly lit object, the sky will be black in your picture too.

Answer 6

Most of those examples you give are based on pure ignorance, based on the fact that most people cannot think outside their Earthly experiences.

Except for the "no stars" thing. Jeez, 5 minutes learning about photography tells you that you cannot take pictures of dim objects (stars) in bright light (moon surface). That is pure ignorance on the part of the idiots who put this stuff around. Anyone can test this stars thing out - go to a floodlit sports game and see if you can photo the stars.

Squeezie above says it all in a few lines. Yes, it might be possible to film the landing in the desert, but to integrate that simulation into the systems at mission control and other stations all over the world, for the three years of the moon landings, and never get one single hitch in the simulation such that hundreds of controllers never notice, is beyond all comprehension.

Anyone who believes all this hoax stuff are either very ignorant, or are just easily led by others.

Which are you.

Answer 7

There were several moon landings and the program was canceled because of high cost, lack of use in the Moon and falling public interest. People aren't interested in further landings because it has been done before, most people can't recall the names of the astronauts in the second moon landings. I'm sure the Moon landings did happen.

Answer 8

L.O.Laughs!...Our Government are like a bunch of 12 year old kids. And as History shows they done many things that if Dr. Phil had been standing there at the time he would have said.."What are you doing "...I was a younger man at that time and I watched it on a black and white TV..It could have been staged for political reasons, but then that would make it a conspiracy theory wouldn't it ?

Answer 9

Here's the explaination for all of those things:
http://www.redzero.demon.co.uk/moonhoax/

The moon landings are real. We use mirrors placed on the surface to measure the distance from Earth to the moon to this day. Do you honestly think that you were able to uncover this great conspiracy while the Russians who we were competing against in the space race were never able to figure it out? Please.

Answer 10

Remember there were 6 moon landings, Apollo 11,12,14,15,16,17. Do you really think they were all staged?

NASA did not have a huge budget at the time, there's no way they could have afforded the high cost of multiple studio rentals.

Answer 11

I am sure this question needs to be moved to another area. How about Government Conspiracies of Paranoid Delusions? Once upon a time better men than you went to the moon. They risked life and limb and some of them died. How dare you insult their memory with this rubbish?