Man landed on the moon!

[smudgedon]

So, the moon landing. Real of fake?

 

GO!

[Adrian@TORQEN]

FAKE. Bloody obvious.

[smudgedon]

Explain......

 

And if it's fake, explain how we're able to photograph the lunar buddy and other bits left behind, as well as reflect light off them from Earth using a laser

[DoogyRev]

Explain......

 

And if it's fake, explain how we're able to photograph the lunar buddy and other bits left behind, as well as reflect light off them from Earth using a laser

 

Looks just like the Lunar Rover

 

[Harryjax]

The Moon landing conspiracy theories claim that some or all elements of the Apollo program and the associated Moon landings were hoaxes staged by NASA and members of other organizations. Various groups and individuals have made such conspiracy claims since the mid-1970s. The most notable claim is that the six manned landings (1969–1972) were faked and that the twelve Apollo astronauts did not walk on the Moon. Conspiracy theorists (henceforth conspiracists) base their claims on the notion NASA and others knowingly misled the public into believing the landings happened by manufacturing, destroying, or tampering with evidence; including photos, telemetry tapes, transmissions, rock samples, and even some key witnesses.

 

Conspiracists have managed to sustain public interest in their theories for more than 40 years despite there being much third-party evidence for the landings and detailed rebuttals to the hoax claims.[1] Polls taken in various locations have shown that between 6% and 20% of Americans surveyed believe that the manned landings were faked, rising to 28% in Russia. Even as late as 2001, the major television network Fox broadcast a documentary named Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? claiming NASA faked the first landing in 1969 to win the Space Race.[2]

 

Since the late 2000s, high-definition photos taken by the LROC spacecraft of the Apollo landing sites have captured the lander modules and the tracks left by the astronauts.[3][4] In 2012, images were released showing the Apollo flags still standing on the Moon.[5][6]

 

Wikipedia is great.

[Adrian@TORQEN]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/brain-flapping/2012/dec/13/moon-landings-faked-science-confessions

[Harryjax]

I remember watching the appolo missions on tv in black and white.

 

It definitely happened.

[smudgedon]

I'll believe Wikipedia and photographic evidence over The Guardian

[Harryjax]

Explain......

 

And if it's fake, explain how we're able to photograph the lunar buddy and other bits left behind, as well as reflect light off them from Earth using a laser

 

Looks just like the Lunar Rover

 

 

If you zoom in they left the key in the ignition.

[smudgedon]

What would even be the reason/motive behind faking it and conning billions of people? Makes no sense

 

Conspiracy theories annoy me

[DoogyRev]

What would even be the reason/motive behind faking it and conning billions of people? Makes no sense

 

To beat the Russians to it of course.

 

I personally think they went, but there are some very odd things about it which the conspiracists have bought to light

[rtbiscuit]

from that gaurdian article i had to laugh at the following

 

THE HIGGS BOSON = The Higgs Boson isn't a real thing, I'm afraid. It doesn't even sound like a real thing. A "boson" is a member of a ship's crew, isn't it? The whole thing was concocted as a ruse to build the Large Hadron collider, which is actually a cover for the world's biggest go-kart track, something that would never have got funding on its own merits.

If we're being honest about particle physics, the atom as is commonly portrayed doesn't exist either. There are actually only four known elements, "Earth", "Wind", "Fire" and "September". Nuclear power is actually the name given for when there is a higher density of fire in one place than normal.

 

VACCINATION = Although rational types have been decrying antivaxxers for years, unfortunately they are correct. Vaccinations are unnecessary; they're a cover for the true nature of disease. It was discovered long ago that all diseases were actually spread by the Dodo. Upon this realisation, scientists decided to initiate a brutal extermination campaign, which lead to their apparent extinction. However, racked by guilt over their actions, the science community concocted the whole vaccine story to explain why people weren't getting so sick anymore, and have persevered with it to this day.

Dodos actually still exist, but in real life they closely resemble pigeons. The story about them being extinct was made up to prevent panic, and the image of the dodo as a large bemused chicken is based on a model created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop, commissioned to back up the story.

 

RELATIVITY = The theory of relativity is, as many have guessed, made up. It doesn't make any sense when you think about it, time slowing down as you go faster? Gaining mass as you approach light speed? It's all based on an incident Einstein experienced when on a particularly long train journey where his watch was broken and he went to the buffet car a few too many times. He came up with relativity as an excuse for why he was late and bloated, and the other physicists just went with it. By the time it was discovered what had happened, Einstein was the most famous physicist around and they kept it going rather than risk undermining their most respected scholar.

THE WORLD IS ROUND = It isn't I'm afraid. It's flat. But it's not static, the land is constantly moving across it like a

. Hence we get night and day, night is when the belt is on the underside of the Earth. This also explains why some long-haul flights take less time on the way back than the way there or vice versa. Planes are either going the opposite way to the direction of travel of the belt, or trying to accelerate in the same direction, which takes longer.

 

SCHRODINGER'S CAT = It was actually a ferret, but 'Schrodinger's ferret' just sounds wrong. And a little bit rude. Also, it was dead.

 

GENERAL ANAESTHETICS = These don't actually do anything, they're a money-making scam by pharmaceutical companies. People undergoing surgery fall asleep of their own accord as operating theatres and surgeons are kept as boring as possible.

[smudgedon]

!!!!

 

Good find Rich, didn't bother reading anything else

[rothers2901]

I recently watched a mythbusters programm which looked at just this subject. They took the most takled about conspiracy theories and put them to the test. The conspiracy theorists gave examples of what thet said wasnt possible on the moon, the mythbusters went on to replicate what they said want possible. They concluded most definately went to the moon.

[jumping350]

its a tricky one but why the need to fake photos if you have actually been there.....on one doc i saw the shuttle was infront of part of the cross hatch etched into the lens?? hmmm no tampering there then

Edited January 9, 2013 by jumping350

[ChrisS]

Real -- I was there.

 

But then that could have been the herbal tea .........................

 

Rumor has it Ebized was the get away driver of that moon car. :wink:

[Ebized]

 

Rumor has it Ebized was the get away driver of that moon car. :wink:

 

Good God and I thought I had dreamt that

[The Chubby Ninja]

The hadron collider is a cover for the worlds biggest go kart track haha. I thought the mythbusters episode was a bit biased and could of been done better. IMO the space race was more about spying on the russians rather than getting to the moon

[sipar69]

This brilliant sketch sums up my view of Moon landing conspiracy theories

 

(I can believe they sent a man to the Moon a lot easier than I can believe in God, ghosts and all that other superstitious hokum that so many people are willing to accept without question )