2007-07-16 07:03:23 · 9 answers · asked by taogent 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Although my wife's father performed fuel calculations for the original Apollo landing, I'll spare you that speech. Instead, I will encourage you to watch two programs. The first show is called Conspiracy Moon Landing that it currently showing on the National Geographic Channel and it pretty much obliterates all of the popular conspiracy theories.
I would also encourage you to watch a movie called Capricorn One. Made it 1978, it is a fictional story about a fake mission to Mars. Although it is a science fiction story, it is a good example of how utterly impossible it would be to fake a moon landing for any length of time.
12 men walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972 and we have neither the resources nor the technology to pull off that big of a hoax for so long. Hundreds of thousands of people have worked on the space program. It would be far easier to put someone on the moon than to try and fake it and keep it secret for nearly 40 years.
The landings came at a time when our space program was ultra competitive with the former Soviet Union. Remember how big of a deal it was when Sputnik was put into orbit? They had the technology to monitor our moon shots and transmissions. Don't you think they would have called us out if they had evidence that it was all fake?
Perhaps the most definitive proof of our trip to the moon is what we left behind. For the last 35+ years, scientists have been beaming lasers to the moon and measuring the return times. How are they doing this? The beams are reflected back by equipment left on the moon on at 3 different locations.
Case closed.
2007-07-20 06:08:27 · answer #1 · answered by Carl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no hoax, unless you accept bad science as evidence. Scientists have been able to conclusively refute every single claim by the conspiracy crowd.
Consider:
1) Apollo 11 left a reflector on the Moon that astronomers have used thousands of times to measure the distance to the Moon.
2) Independent radio observatories were able to monitor the communications from Apollo 11. This would not be possible if the radio transmissions weren't coming from the Moon.
3) The Moon rocks have been positively identified as being lunar in origin.
4) No reputable scientist denies the landings. If there was something fishy about the Moon landings, don't you think that scientists would be the first to pick up on it?
2007-07-16 14:16:28 · answer #2 · answered by clitt1234 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Oh! At first I though you were referring to the idea that the Apollo missions were faked. But there was something called "The Great Moon Hoax" in 1835 in which famous astronomer John Herschel was falsely reported to have seen life on the Moon with a new telescope. That really was a hoax. See the source.
2007-07-16 14:07:11 · answer #3 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
You mean the moon landing hoax? Yeah. I know it wasn't a hoax. You can basically take anything that ever happened and pretend like it didn't, but the fact is that there are literally thousands of people that were directly involved with the moon landing, dozens of books by astronomers, scientists, and astronauts, and hundreds of samples from the moon held in museums all over the world. The evidence to the contrary: speculation that it COULD have been faked... and that is it. Hmm...
2007-07-16 14:12:13 · answer #4 · answered by Mr. Taco 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
If you're talking about the Apollo landing...it was really a good one.
Just think, all those amateur (and professional) astronomers on Earth who were watching the lunar lander land on the surface of the moon and take off later were really fooled. I wonder how they did that?
2007-07-16 14:18:04 · answer #5 · answered by oldprof 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes. Supposedly the moon landing was a hoax. Right. The internet is filled with theories right about everything. 911, the moon landing, JFK, UFOS, chemtrails, etc.
Some of them MIGHT me true, conspiracies exists but that doesnt mean everything is a conspiracy.
Pick your poison.
2007-07-16 14:09:29 · answer #6 · answered by fefe k 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Well, I know we went there, discovered it was not made of cheese and cancelled the Apollo program.
2007-07-16 14:10:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
is that where the Americans pretended to land on the moon but really they in where in the desert
2007-07-16 14:08:14 · answer #8 · answered by mirrorbee 6 · 0⤊ 6⤋
yeah its that we never landed on the moon that it was all done in a studio somewhere in the desert to make it look as we diid land
2007-07-16 14:07:53 · answer #9 · answered by muchacha 2 · 0⤊ 6⤋