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2007-08-13 23:24:44 · 10 answers · asked by F1reball226 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Most people in this particular forum believe it. A few here know first hand that it happened because of direct or indirect involvement in the space program.
Let me ask you this, do you really think the government is that competent to keep a secret like that for 40 years?
2007-08-13 23:33:59 · answer #1 · answered by most important person you know 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Personal opinion is irrelevant. We landed on the Moon. That's not a subjective belief - it's an incontrovertible scientific fact. The conspiracy theory relies solely upon bad science and faulty common sense.
We don't have to take the government's word for it. There is a mountain of independent evidence that proves, to the highest possible standard, that we went to the Moon. Consider:
1) Apollo 11 left a retroreflector on the lunar surface that astronomers have detected thousands of times.
2) Independent radio telescopes, when pointed at the Moon, detected the Apollo transmissions. If there hadn't been a ship there, they wouldn't have heard anything.
3) The Moon rocks have been thoroughly analyzed by geologists, who conclude that the rocks formed billions of years ago on the Moon. They explain that there's no way for NASA to fake the rocks.
4) No scientist rejects the landings. If there was something fishy about the landings, would it not be scientists who would notice? Instead, scientists are the first to vigorously defend the landings.
This evidence is irrefutable; to reject it is to reject all modern science. The pro-conspiracy answers above contain only misinformation and misconceptions, formulated by errant common sense. These answers don't stand up to scientific examination.
2007-08-14 05:38:47 · answer #2 · answered by clitt1234 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe it was a hoax plain and simple.
Simple first than one to think about.
#1Simple
If we can see a 6' crater on the Moon with a telescope,why can't we seen the LEM spacecraft on the Moon's surface? It's simplily NOT there.They alledgedly landed on the side facing the Earth we ought to be able to see it.Right?
#2Think about this
How did the they ever make a footprints on the surface of the Moon.It has very little gravity and no water because the Sun would burn it off in no time.No atmosphere either.
What make the soil hold together to form a footprint?Moisture and the adhesion Right?
There are many other reasons I believe it was a hoax. I would seriously look carefully of the evidence
Do you really trust our government?
Maybe there is a Santa Claus and an Easter Bunny after all.
2007-08-17 09:58:57 · answer #3 · answered by n2ltr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it really happened. They even left a laser reflector there:
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEhelp/ApolloLaser.html
The race to the moon really was a race with the Russians to get there first. If it would all have been fake, the Russians would have known for sure, and you wouldn't even be asking this question. Also the radio communication with the astronauts during their stay on the moon was there for everybody to receive. All radio signals can be roughly traced back to the point of transmission by a technique called triangularization. This means, from 3 places on earth you can determine what direction the radio signals come from. When you draw the lines of all 3 received signals, they cross at the point of transmission. This has been done all over the world, and there really has been no-one in the world claiming these radio signals didn't come from the moon.
I think some people even doubt their own existence. I hope you are not one of them.
2007-08-14 00:14:49 · answer #4 · answered by Batfish 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It's not a matter of belief. I have watched hours of TV and film footage. I have seen quarterly film reports of the development of the Saturn V. I have seen annual progress reports from the spacecraft centres. I have seen thousands of photographs of the landings and the flights that led up to them and the development that led to those flights. I have handled lunar soils samples. I have seen actual flight hardware. I have read documents published at the time. I have read books published since by the people who did it. I have met and spoken to astronauts and ground controllers involved in the project. I have a decent understanding of the sciences needed to interpret what I've seen. I've spent seven years discussing the subject on internet forums and via e-mail.
More than that, I have read and listened to many people who think it was all faked. None of them can demonstrate significant understanding of the technical fields involved. None of them can come up with a plausible sequence of events, or even a plausible reason for faking it. None of them are willing to defend their belief rationally. Some of them are outright frauds and liars.
The evidence that Apollo was genuine is overwhelming. The evidence it was faked is based on lies, misunderstandings and innuendo, not fact and science. It was real, and no-one, despite many atempts over the years, has been able to come up with a decent argument to make me believe otherwise.
2007-08-14 00:00:25 · answer #5 · answered by Jason T 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Well, I'm intelligent enough to realize that the plural of "man" is "men" and not "mens", so I'm more intelligent than you. And the engineers who put the men on the moon were more intelligent than me. They were, in fact, intelligent enough to actually accomplish the feat, which is remarkable, but not as remarkable as the stupidity of people like you who insist it never happened.
The reason it worked, with only one fatal accident and one near-disaster, was because every one of the 100,000+ engineers who worked on Apollo refused to allow an error on their shift. Typically, they would say, "do you want to explain to the widows?"
2007-08-14 00:01:15 · answer #6 · answered by poorcocoboiboi 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I find it hard to believe that man landed on the moon in 1967, yet now in 2007 we're still having problems just launching people into space.
2007-08-14 04:37:28 · answer #7 · answered by Sunrayye 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I know we did becuse I paid attention in all my science and history classes.
2007-08-14 05:48:13 · answer #8 · answered by Mr. Smith 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no... i was loking at that on the national geo channel. they showed the flaG MOVING AS IF AIR WAS HITTING IT and how a letter 'c' was marked on one of the rocks on the moon; atechnic used on stage setup to know locations. there was a lot of factors and one of the most important one that got me to believe was radiation and how a soloar flare hit the moon on that day, on the area they were supposed to be...and they lived. It was impossible for anyone to survive that kind of radiation.
2007-08-14 00:34:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 7⤋
prove to me that they didn't.
2007-08-13 23:38:27 · answer #10 · answered by Tim C 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋