2007-09-12 17:26:30 · 16 answers · asked by engelfeurs 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
That's because there are a large number of people who weren't born yet when the moon landings occurred so they are more likely to believe they were faked. I happen to believe they really occurred because (a) I watched the Apollo 11 landing on live TV and (b) there were way too many people involved with the space program to have been able to keep the secret of a faked landing for this long. Somebody who was directly involved definitely would have talked by now, especially if that person had been offered a huge sum of money or had a book to sell.
2007-09-12 17:40:46 · answer #1 · answered by RoVale 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It's the general state of our culture today. How many college grads know who the vice president of America is? Pseudoscience websites outnumber science websites. And how many people do you think pick up a book or go to the library anymore except to use the computer stations? Some people find it more entertaining to get their information from youtube or some psychic website than a legitimate one. I suppose for the same reason that people still read tabloids like the Enquirer instead of the daily newspaper. The intelligence level of society has degenerated. Some people could care less what is real and what is not as long as they feel entertained. It has become just too much work to actually sit down and spend time gaining true knowledge and real facts. Going to a psuedosite allows people get away from the real world for a while. Like watching a movie. They could really care less if there is a Moon much less if anyone landed on it. Sure, they are going to grow up less intelligent and more ignorant about the world but what does that have to do with getting the latest ipod or the latest videogame or getting a phone with speed text? How does one ever explain the truth about lunar landings or the nonexistence of alien bases or false ufo footage or fictitious things like Nibiru to a person who lacks a fundamental base to form knowledge and grasp ideas of the real world? How many people who come here and ask a similar question like 'do you believe in ufo's?' are truly looking for the truth and facts instead of opinions which reinforce their narrow mindset? In the end, I believe that one must blame the educational system for not teaching prudent basic facts and also parents who simply send their kids off to school to learn and then turn on the tv after supper.
2007-09-12 19:16:35 · answer #2 · answered by Troasa 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
1. It's just part of human nature to want to know some 'truth' that others don't know. People believe all kinds of weird things, thinking that 'knowing' those things makes them smarter, wiser, etc. than others who don't know them.
2. The Apollo landings were only six years after President Kennedy was assassinated. The assassination was investigated by a commission, The Warren Commission, headed by the chief justice. Only a few years after their report came out, it was found not to be consistant with the facts. Nobody -knows- why and how and by whom Kennedy was assassinated, but most people by this time didn't trust the official investigation, and government crediblity in general took a big hit. (Watergate was only 4 years later! That certainly didn't help).
Anyway for people in 1969 it seemed impossible. The photos and video sent back were fuzzy and indistinct. So it just seemed more likely to some people that the moon landing had been faked.
There was even a move, Capricorn One, in 1978, about a faked mission to Mars. NASA realizes at the last minute that the mission is impossible, so they stage a fake landing to protect their funding. It wasn't a very good movie, but interesting in light of what people think could have happened with the moon landings.
2007-09-12 17:53:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wasn't alive when the moon landings occured and I think they're real. It's usually people who were influenced by the hippies-kids born in the sixties and seventies and even the eighties. They all love conspiracies.
Also, you seem to answer your own question-because our society IS unintelligent. That's why a lot of people don't believe in moon landings.
2007-09-12 19:27:32 · answer #4 · answered by Echo 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the guy who mentioned the flag waving on the moon is a good example of what is wrong in the world.
there is a wire in the flag to hold it up, even a flag on earth will not just stick straight out unless there is one crazy wind blowing. the flag "waves" because he is moving the pole. the pictures were blurry because the cameras were already out of date by the time they were allowed to go into space.
anyone with any scientific knowledge can easily destroy any conspiracists ideas, i mean none of them hold up against actual logic.
most people don't even try though, they get an e-mail or watch some lame show on tv and suddenly they believe that they are smarter than the rocket scientists at nasa.
same thing with the 911 conspiracists, ridiculous, why does it happen?
most people are too lazy to use their own brains so they just trust someone else's.
sad really.
2007-09-13 00:03:11 · answer #5 · answered by Tim C 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Half of any large population have below average IQ or whatever you wish to call it. This is one good reason for a multitude of things like "Moon landings are a hoax", astrology, "vaccination is evil", "UFOs are full of extraterrestrial beings" , young Earth creationism and also petty crime. .
There is no point in arguing with the adults who believe this crap, they are little better than morons and will never change, but you can at least try to stop the kids from being deluded or lied to.
2007-09-12 21:17:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
because of the fact the moon, as all toddlers comprehend, is made up of green cheese. And any physicist will inform you, you are able to no longer land a spaceship on green cheese. that's a techniques too comfortable, and the nice and cozy exhaust could... properly, you get the photograph.
2016-11-15 02:34:29 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are a lot of idiots out there. They are willing to believe or not believe in anything. I saw it happen and I will always believe. There is not anyway that anyone can change my mind.
You get a star for that question too my friend.
2007-09-12 18:03:34 · answer #8 · answered by B. 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Ther seems to be some evidence that the moon landings, or at least some of the photos were faked. Whether it is true or not that the entire landings were faked, is debatable. I personally believe, and with discrepancies in some of the photo evidence in mind, that they did land on the moon, but for whatever reason, the images weren't good enough to show to a public that was desperate to see quality images of the landings, so they recreated some or all of them to keep the public happy.
2007-09-12 18:07:23 · answer #9 · answered by Chin 2 · 0⤊ 6⤋
Because Hollywood exists and according to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, "space was made in a Hollywood basement". It doesn't matter, because anything that we can imagine is possible.
2007-09-12 17:45:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋