"A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to The Moon"...seen it???

Question

Just wondering what you thought of this moon movie?

Anyone out there agree that the moon landing was a great big hoax?

Or do you really think that the "footprint" is on the moon and will be for millions of years?

I'm just wondering about other's opinions on the matter.

Please don't take offense, I'm honestly not trying to offend.

Answer 1

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 2

You can find the most incredible stuff on the web; if you don't believe the Americans landed there in 1969, how about a website that says the Germans landed on the moon during WWII and built underground cities.

"Ever since their first day of landing on the Moon, the Germans started boring -and tunneling under the surface, and by the end of the war there was a small Nazi research base on the Moon. The free energy tachyon drive craft of the Haunibu-1 and 2 type were used after 1944 to haul people," materiel and the first robots to the construction site on the Moon. When Russians and Americans secretly landed jointly on the Moon in the early fifties with their own saucers, they spent their first night there as guests of the .... Nazi underground base. In the sixties a massive Russian - American base had been built on the Moon, that now has a population of 40,000 people, as the rumor goes. After the end of the war in May 1945, the Germans continued their space effort from their south polar colony of Neu Schwabenland. I have discovered a photograph of their underground space control center there. "

Answer 3

We'll never know unless another country tries to go to the moon and confirm whether the flag and footprints are there or not. The thing is nobody is stupid enough to waste billions of dollars to go to the moon, because it is pointless and its a barren place. Well, I guess somebody was stupid enough to go not just once, but a few times.......or they just told the biggest lie ever.
But you get the point.

Don't listen to people trying to tell you "don't question the validity" or "you have to believe it", do actually question it and think for yourself. Thats what great minds do.

Answer 4

To even question the validity of the Apollo missions to the moon displays a great lack of critical thinking skills.

That said, the footprints we left behind won't be there for "millions" of years. It's not like the surface of the moon doesn't change over time, what with the endless rain of space dust and meteroids.

Answer 5

I think the footprint is really there, and Apollo happened exactly as advertised.

Some interesting points you may like to consider about that movie:

1: The section that the producer claims proves they were looking at a transparency of Earth stuck to a window is heavily edited, and omits a section of the same footage that shows Earth conclusively to be distant and outside the window.

2: The producer claims that footage is only available on his video. It isn't. I know this for a fact because I have the complete, unedited footage in my own collection, and I assure you I didn't get it from him. What's more, I paid about the same for it as his video costs to buy, and I got far more for my money because on that same DVD set is the complete television and film record of Apollo 11.

3: I e-mailed the producer personally to ask about some claims on his website. He states them as fact, but when pressed is unable to name his source or explain why they disagree with every other source available, and switches instead to telling me I should buy his video. Conclusion: he is a liar.

4: The producer is known for harassing the astronauts and asking them to swaer on a bible that they really walked on the Moon. Thse who do he says are lying and going to hell. Those who refuse he insists are hiding something. Buzz Aldrin punched him once, which the producer uses as evidence of a man with something to hide. What he doesn't show you is that he lied to Aldrin to get him there, and followed him around, physically blocking his departure from the building, and calling him a liar, fraud and thief. Hell, I'd punch someone for doing that, whether I had something to hide or not.

The producer of that film is a liar and a con-man, who can't achieve anything worthwhile himself so settles for notoriety by attaching himself to the achievements of others. It's cultural vandalism, pure and simple. Don't fall for it. Read about Apollo, learn what amazing achievements were made, and hear the tales of those involved. Don't let one man's ill-educated lies and chicanery twist your view of the world.

Answer 6

I think that they actually landed on the moon

Why don't you? Honestly things like this it doesn't really even mater I guess. I could care less. It's not like it is gonna change the world dramatically or anything.

I didn't see the movie.

Answer 7

Haha great movie I watched that in my Astronomy class at school and thought it was a load of crap. Once again Hollywood has the Amercian public questioning a great achievement in the world.

Answer 8

i saw the movie and if you believe what they are saying, then it almost proves that we never landed on the moon. they make a very compelling arguement. and if you think about what was going on in the cold war, then it is very possible that the government set it up as a way to trick the russians.

Answer 9

i think they were up to somthing. there is a foto from the moon of 1 of the astronouts and he has 3 hands. so i question it...