Does anyone on here believe that people actually walked on the moon..?

Question

--if you do please tell me how you can believe this seeing as:

there was a great camera shot

the flag was moving when there is no wind on the moon!


how would YOU justify it??? ---cos i dont believe it!

if your gna answer the question please expain HOW it could have waved! ..not that you have to believe it, simply because you HAVE TO! lol

Also another point... how come we haven't gone back?

Answer 1

i'll only believe all this space nonesense the day I actually go there and see it with MY OWN EYES

Answer 2

The previous post about the flag waving because of the wire is, I think, the best answer to why the flag was waving.

Why was there a great camera shot?

Wow, I wonder why one of the most expensive space exploration programs would have a good camera shot. After all, why spend 100s of millions of dollars to get to the moon, and then just snap a picture with a Kodak camera? I know how there was a great camera view ... they set up the camera view. Like with a tripod.

If the response to the moon questions is: if we have been there why haven't we been back? Then my response is: If we filmed the landing in the studio, I bet they would have pretended to have landed at least a couple other times too. It would have been way cheaper then doing it for real.

The fact is that terrestrial landing and exploration is a very expensive proposition, and NASA's budget has been cut pretty much every year for the last 15 years. Even when current President George W. Bush announced in one of his state of the union speeches that we were going to Mars, he only gave NASA about 30 million more, money that actually came from NASA's proposed Hubble replacement program.

And another good reason why we haven't been back is that the moon - while scientifically valuable - cannot hope to draw the needed funds. We live in a society that asks "Why should we be spending money on space - We need money here!" People want real reasons for this. So NASA says that there there is a possibility of Mars bases, and draws on people's interests in extra-terrestrial life, to gain funding and continue research.

Space exploration has given us countless inventions and innovations over the last several decades. Someone mentioned Kevlar, but they also refined computer circuitry, telescopic and photographic technology, microwave technology and even something as simple as freeze-dried food.

So yes. We landed on the moon. We haven't been back. It's not a conspiracy, it's a failing on the United States for falling behind in leading the world in scientific advancement.

Answer 3

Do You honestly think that They did not practice withe camera prior to going to the Moon? Of course the shots looked good.
The flag "waved" because the weight in the corner oscillated back and forth in the low gravity and vaccuum of space.
With a strong enough telescope You can actually SEE the various landing sites.
You do realise that the radio signals were monitored by just about every 'Ham' radio operator on the planet. Triangulation is hard to bluff.

Answer 4

No.

Don't forget at that time everyone was paranoid over the possibility of nuclear war, any technological thing couldn't be seen to be a failure. Although how the Russian KGB never blew the whistle, still puzzles me to this day.

Did some one out there tell both Russia & America to 'stop being paranoid' and keep thier differences to this world. Arthur C. Clarke perhaps got it right with his series 2001 and 2010.

Answer 5

If you have not seen the film 'Capricorn One' then please get hold of a copy and watch it. It is well over 40 years since men are supposed to have walked on the moon and what has it achieved apart from Kevlar being used now?. How has the moon been used? What was the point of having a race to the moon with the Russians anyway? I personally witnessed the TV landing etc but am still sceptical after all these years.
Best wishes, Mike.

Answer 6

Of course we have walked on the moon. Listen, I don't buy everything I see on TV hook, line and sinker, but the entire space program is not a sham. It's clear we have the capabilites to send craft into space. Evidence? Satellites for television and radio.

We've sent out the Hubble telescope that has taken gorgeous photos of deep space.

Do a search on the Mars Rover and take a look at the amazing pictures of Mars' surface. We have the capability to land craft on other planets. The moon landing is not a conspiracy.

Answer 7

You'll forgive me, but I'm staying in the "We Did Land On the Moon" camp. The previous posting, explaining how the telescoping flag device wasn't quite permitting the flag to hang properly, sums it up very well, and far more convincingly than a faked moonlanding scenario. Still not convinced?

Okay - so, you're going to base a massive, dark conspiracy to fabricate the moon landings on what appears to be our Old Glory blowing in an environment devoid of wind. Goodness knows, we have countless videotapes of flags being draped in airless voids as our frame of reference, don't we? And goodness knows if, God forbid, some unseen party actually perpetrated the moon landings in a soundstage, they'd have the foresight to realize spontaneous gusts of wind are just bound to spring forth in such a highly controlled indoor environment, right?

Putting aside my sarcasm for a moment, the whole moon landing conspiracy theory rests on a pitifully thin body of evidence that suggests an utterly amazing amount of inconsistency. Think about it: "They" (our unseen fakers) managed to successfully pull off the Saturn V launch. "They" convinced us all the monitoring and communication going on at mission control was genuine. (Please do not tell me all those men at those consoles were in on it.) "They" depicted men walking on the moon in gravity one sixth of our earth's. (Yes, slo-mo technology existed back then, but you couldn't do it live, so why not do a retake if your flag was "blowing"?) "They" faked the astronauts' capsule falling from the sky and splashing down in the ocean without anyone ever noticing it was a total sham. And to top it all off, "They" - who I should think would have taken every precaution to not call attention to themselves - actually allowed hundreds of images of their faked lunar surface to be taken and then released to the public, placing themselves at the greatest possible risk of being found out. So all this time and effort, all this manpower, expertise, secrecy, and huge expense goes into concocting the most elaborate hoax the world's ever seen, and where do they screw up? The FLAG?!

Remember, "They" would've needed some pretty smart cookies to pull off all the other tricks they executed. So do you really believe they'd risk it all and let Armstrong put up the American flag with the fan running?

(And for the record, I think "Capricorn One" is a terrific movie.)

Answer 8

On July 20, 1969, two Apollo 11 astronauts planted an American flag on the surface of the moon. The flag was a standard 3-foot-by-5-foot nylon flag that was altered by sewing a hem along the top. A telescoping crossbar, hinged to the flagpole, was extended through this hem so that when the flag was planted on the Moon, it would stand out instead of hanging limp against the flagpole (as it would normally do, since there is no wind on the Moon). When the flag was planted, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had a little trouble getting the telescoping crossbar to extend to its full length, and so it ended up being a little shorter than it should have been. As a result, the flag was bunched up slightly and looked like it was actually "waving in the breeze."

No need to thank me.

Answer 9

There has been a total of 12 men who Have walked on the moon

Sting not being 1 of them

Answer 10

NASA / America say they are going back in a few years time.......if the technology existed about 40 years ago to land on the moon,why would it take so long to go " back " now ?
I agree with the answer containing the comments about Capricorn One,brilliant film.But then again surely Americans wouldn't lie or cheat would they ? yeah right they would,they had to at least seem to beat the Russians.

Answer 11

of course they walked on the moon. why should anyone make up such an elaborate lie? and if they had lied im sure lots of people would have known and they would sell the story to the sunday papers in no time at all.