I have heard about lots of things prouving that the famous said: "one small step...a giant step" was said on earth!
2007-07-08 17:20:08 · 12 answers · asked by TaeKwonDo87 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Yes, the Apollo missions were real.
The conspiracy movement is based completely on bad science and faulty common sense. Don't buy a word of it. It should tell you something that no reputable scientist denies the landings. (Don't you think that it would be scientists who would suspect a conspiracy?)
The "evidence" in favor of a conspiracy has been soundly refuted by scientists. The simple fact is that there isn't a single shred of evidence against the landings.
Contrary to what conspiracy theorists say, we don't simply have to take the government's word for it. Here's some key evidence in favor of the landings, often conveniently overlooked by conspiracy theorists:
1) the reflector that Apollo 11 left on Mare Tranquilitas, which has been detected thousands of times by professional astronomers
2) Independent radio telescopes actually tracked Apollo 11 as it landed. This would not have been possible if there was no ship on the Moon.
3) Geologists have positively identified the Moon rocks as being lunar in origin.
2007-07-08 18:44:51 · answer #1 · answered by clitt1234 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The "conspiracy theorists" who come up with these "proofs" are either deliberately playing games, or are delusional--takeyour pick. But the lunar landings did happen.
I've seen at least a dozen "proofs"--none of which are even remotely valid. Mostly all they prove is a total lack of scientific knowledge on the part of the writer. Here's one (of many ) examples: one idiot wrote that the fact that the astronauts left footprints inthe dust close to the LEM "proved" it was fake--because, supposedly, a real rocket landing would have blown all the dust away.
Except that the moon is in a vacuum--no air. Dust has to be blown by something--and the gases from the rocket will blow away the dust it acutually hit--directly under the LEM. But there's no air to transmit that force outward--so nearby dust won't be affected.
See what I mean? That's acutally one of the more "plausible" inventions--but all it shows is the ignorance ofthe guy who mmade it up.
2007-07-09 00:52:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I, personally, don't believe eveything I see on television. Why did we bomb Japan with our only two nuclear weapons instead of one? Because we wanted them to think we had more than one nuke. We have been trying to be technologically superior to other countries for a long time and the next best thing to being superior to another country is to make them think we are. In late 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched a satellite named Sputnik. The only thing Sputnik did was send a beep via radio waves back to Earth. This scared the United States to death because now the Soviet Union had satellite capabilities and the U.S. didn't. Good reason to lie about the moon landing 12 years later. Faking a moon landing is definately something you can't put past our government. But on the other hand we might have actually landed on the moon in 1969. It's just hard to believe there is only 11 years in between the U.S. sending it's first probe in to space and having a successful manned mission to the moon. We may never know the truth.
2007-07-09 00:50:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes The U.S. did have a man walk on the moon. People who say differently are just trying to change the past. I saw the astronaut walking on the moon and placing a U.S. flag there.
2007-07-09 04:23:11 · answer #4 · answered by Thunderrolls 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the moon landings happened. Think about it, the russians were also trying to get to the moon and you can bet they were tracking us the entire time in hopes that we would fail. If we didn't go don't you think the USSR would have been broadcasting that all over the world.
2007-07-09 14:50:18 · answer #5 · answered by myke2010 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The landings were real. People who are trying to say they were fake are crazy. Some of them actually believe the Earth is flat and all space flight is faked, not just the Moon landings.
2007-07-09 00:23:10 · answer #6 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well i can't prove they didn't so i have to accept the Television pictures as being real.Which i have no problem doing.People have done things and have been to places we don't even know about and yet we accept that .We have to otherwise we would want proof for everything that has ever happened from 5000years ago to the present.And that would be impossible.
2007-07-09 01:37:33 · answer #7 · answered by ROBERT P 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Man DID really walk on the moon. Live with it.
2007-07-12 03:15:59 · answer #8 · answered by Tim O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely, yes. There will always be doubters, some people still believe in a flat Earth.
2007-07-11 14:02:24 · answer #9 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, man did walk on the moon. I saw the broadcast.
2007-07-09 00:27:47 · answer #10 · answered by happybidz2003 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋