He says that they couldn't of landed on the moon because of when Neil Armstrong was putting the flag in the soil that it 'waved' and he said " there's no way that it could have waved because there isn't any wind on the moon"
2007-06-05 17:14:45 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Your friend is quoting completely inaccurate "conspiracy theory" statements that have been refuted hundreds of times in all kinds of venues over the years. Both of you should do some reading of your own to find out the truth.
I saw the landing, millions of other people saw it, thousands of scientists and technicians were involved in the space program for years before the landing - there is no way they could make thousands of private citizens keep that kind of secret.
The flag wasn't waving - since there is no air on the moon the only way to have the flag stick out and be visible to the camera was to have a horizontal wire along the top to hold it up. When they put it into the ground that wire wiggled a bit from the impact.
A few weeks before the launch there was a whole program on TV (I think it was CBS News, I think Walter Cronkite was the anchor) talking about what the astronauts would be doing on the moon, and they showed an example of the flagpole with the horizontal wire.
2007-06-05 17:23:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The flag was held up via an extensible metal pole. The first time around, the pole didn't extend all the way, giving the flag a rippled appearance. Future moonwalkers did that on purpose because they liked the appearance of the flag waving in the breeze.
To think that they would go to the effort of faking the moon landings, and not remember to make the flag correct... that's just retarded. Seriously. Your friend is destined for a life of flipping burgers (or flipping on his stomach and letting some homeless dude pound his *** for money) and nothing you can do will save him.
2007-06-05 20:23:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fox TV and the Apollo Moon Hoax (February 13, 2001) On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. The program was an hour long, and featured interviews with a series of people who believe that NASA faked the Apollo Moon landings in the 1960s and 1970s. The biggest voice in this is Bill Kaysing, who claims to have all sorts of hoax evidence, including pictures taken by the astronauts, engineering details, discussions of physics and even some testimony by astronauts themselves. The program's conclusion was that the whole thing was faked in the Nevada desert (in Area 51, of course!). According to them, NASA did not have the technical capability of going to the Moon, but pressure due to the Cold War with the Soviet Union forced them to fake it. Sound ridiculous? Of course it does! It is. So let me get this straight right from the start: this program is an hour long piece of junk. From the very first moment to the very last, the program is loaded with bad thinking, ridiculous suppositions and utterly wrong science. I was able to get a copy of the show in advance, and although I was expecting it to be bad, I was still surprised and how awful it was. I took four pages of notes. I won't subject you to all of that here; it would take hours to write. I'll only go over some of the major points of the show, and explain briefly why they are wrong. In the near future, hopefully by the end of the summer, I will have a much more detailed series of pages taking on each of the points made by the Hoax Believers (whom I will call HBs).
2016-05-17 21:47:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The flag waved because he shook it - it was on a horizontal strut and will wave for some time after he takes his hand away, as there is no air resistance to slow it down.
People who believe that idiocy know nothing of space and the differing conditions on the moon, and are ready to believe any conspiracy stuff because they know no better. Don't be one of them.
Yes, a simulation could have been filmed in the desert, but how would you interface that into the systems at Mission control to fool hundreds of controllers (3 shifts of them round the clock) on 6 missions over 3 years?
The simulation would have to work seamlessly for all that time for the contollers not to notice.
That is totally and utterly impossible.
Tell your friend he's an ignorant so-and-so, and that he should do some real research before ignorantly believing that conspiracy stuff.
2007-06-05 17:28:20 · answer #4 · answered by nick s 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
all the little details that he says can go both ways, i agree with that..but, as for me being a scientist, a true, honest, astronaut like Armstrong and Aldren, you would never lie in a situation like that. they knew they were changing mankind with what they did, and they would have quit or exposed everything in the name of science
2007-06-05 18:36:52 · answer #5 · answered by rubiks87 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You probably can't.. Don't try. Your friend probably doesn't believe a lot of things he hasn't experienced himself. I think it's the GOOGLE Syndrome where we have to see and do everything firsthand.
2007-06-05 17:25:55 · answer #6 · answered by richard t 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe his right, who knows? We've been tricked about a lot things because of our ignorance!
But, we saw the clips [for years] ot this epic event. It would be sad if it was all a lie.....
2007-06-05 19:23:39 · answer #7 · answered by godshandmaiden 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Don't even waste your time. Find someone else to kick it with. He's just too stupid to have any future.
Doug
2007-06-05 18:10:47 · answer #8 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't even bother with him.
2007-06-05 18:25:03 · answer #9 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast23feb_2.htm
Answers everything he'd need to know. :)
2007-06-05 17:24:37 · answer #10 · answered by Makayla 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋