is moon landing a hoax?

Answer 1

Of course we landed on the Moon. This isn't my opinion; it's a scientific fact. The conspiracy theory is based completely upon bad science, faulty common sense, and anti-government bias.

We don't have to take the government's word for it. Consider the following:
1) Apollo 11 left a retroreflector that astronomers have detected thousands of times. It's used to precisely measure the distance to the Moon.
2) Independent radio telescopes, when pointed at the Moon, were able to detect the Apollo transmissions. If there hadn't been a ship on the Moon, they wouldn't have heard anything.
3) The Moon rocks have been examined in detail by geologists, who have positively identified the rocks as being of lunar origin. They explain that there's no way for NASA to falsify this.
4) No scientist rejects the landings. If there was something fishy about the Moon landings, would it not be scientists who would realize it? Instead, scientists are the first to vigorously defend the landings.

Evidence just can't get any more incontrovertible than this.

On top of all of that, there isn't a shred of legitimate evidence against the landings. Ironically, the very evidence that the conspiracy theorists cite only proves that the landings were real.

Answer 2

There are many mysterious pictures that seem to suggest a hoax. But at the same time, how do you explain the laser reflectors on the moon that are still in use today.

It doesn't really matter because in 10 years NASA is going to be landing on the moon, regardless of whether or not it has done it before.

Answer 3

No it isn't. If you were alive to see it in the 1960s and 1970s like I was you would not even consider any possibility of a hoax. It was a BIG deal. VERY public and all over the place. You who did not live through it have no clue. No clue at all how big it was. It changed the world. There is no way so much stuff could have been faked. You migh just as easily have faked all the super bowl or even world war 2. All the picky details that the hoax people trot out are just bad science, self contradictory or just plain lack of common sense. It takes a true idiot to buy all that crap.

Answer 4

Anyone with a bit of clever pseudo-science can pull the wool over the eyes of people who are techno-ignorants. But very often just a tiny bit of common sense enables anyone who is willing to think for themselves, to see though the crap.

Take bumble-bees. There was always that science that said it should be impossible for bumble bees to fly. But of course, we see the damned things flying all the time. I have seen in the past, arguments that nuclear bombs are a hoax; that it is impossible to detonate atomic weapons and stop the chain reaction going on forever. Yet, tell that to the Japanese.

Apply a bit of common sense to the rubbish coming out about the twin towers collapses being the result of controlled explosions. Ignoring the very obvious point that thousands of New Yorkers saw airliners fly over them, if the airliner thing was a hoax, why don’t hundreds of American and United airline personnel cry “Nah, we never lost any planes”. And the local air traffic control “Nah, we never lost those flights off radar”.

You see, you don’t have to get caught up in high-tech arguments about whether airliners exploding or their fuel burning being able to soften steel and bring down those buildings. Those simple points above make all the other scenarios look absolutely stupid.

Anyone can apply this simple basic logic to show the moon landings really happened, without resorting to arguments over flags waving, stars in the sky, dodgy looking bits in the film etc. 400,000 people worked on the Apollo project from 1961 to 1972. Hundreds of intelligent and able controllers, many of them having come through the early Mercury and Gemini programs. If anyone thinks that all these people in three shifts per day (we’ve all seen the shots of Mission control, full of screens, readouts and people) could have been fooled by simulations rather than the real thing, and for 3 years consisting of 6 landings, they must be really really gullible.

And so many of the the people who repeat the moon landing hoax stuff, talk like Neil Armstrong was the only lunar astronaut. The later Apollos included the moon rover. That vehicle in itself would have involved dozens, perhaps hundreds of engineers, in its design and build. Does anyone for a minute think that these people would not be very interested in the film of their “baby” travelling across the lunar surface? And when these engineers look at that film, is it possible to believe over all that time, not one of them would notice something strange, something not right, that would alert them to it being a simulation?

It is utterley ridiculous that if it was a hoax, the hoax makers could be that clever so that the simulations would not be noticed, not just by the rover builders, but by all the engineers connected with Apollo, all keen to see how their personal bits were working on the moon. And it is even more ridiculous to even consider that a simulation could work so perfectly as to fool all those mission controllers for all those trips, and it never has the slightest hiccup or telltale indication that it was done in a studio.

The Bumble bee flies, and just as certainly, 12 men walked on the moon between 1969 and 1972.

Answer 5

I was going to generate a topic asking for proof that the sky isn't one, big, digital/pixel backdrop that's hiding something on the other side of it (see: The Truman Show starring Jim Carey) but I see it like this - Why keep scaring myself? And even if their is some sort of conspiracy invovling what's above us perhaps the goal is not to worry about or realize it.

It would be nice if I could build my own rocket and take it up as far as it could go just to prove to myself what's up and away but I'm too lazy.

Also, I take a step back and look at my life - I'm not being put through any torture. Sure, I've had good times and bad times just like everyone else but my life isn't bad enough where I want to escape from the planet.

Answer 6

no.

"These conspiracy theorists are also forgetting that even today, the McDonald Observatory in Ft. Davis, Texas routinely bounce lasers off mirrors placed on the Moon by the Apollo astronauts. They do this to get accurate positions of the Earth in the Solar System."

Answer 7

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Answer 8

In order to belive that men walked on the moon, you need to belive that the earth is not flat.

I place people who deny the moon landings in the same catagory as people who believe that the world is flat.

Answer 9

no its not a hoax. like all these conspiracy stories there is too much proof for the actual landings .... rocks with different mineral content to anything on earth etc etc.

Answer 10

No but the flag they planted on the moon was fake because the moon has no wind and in the film of lance armstrong and buzz landing on the moon the flag is waving which is impossible