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[Blankwire]

I remember hearing conspiracy theories about the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, and the government faking the landing. What's your take on the matter?

[jasong]

That theory is absolutely ridiculous.
So, in my opinion, I don't believe it was fake.

[Blankwire]

Originally posted by jasong
That theory is absolutely ridiculous.
So, in my opinion, I don't believe it was fake.

I didn't read it, but this came up in a Google search. Might be worth a look.

[VolkNet]

This document is incorrect scientifically.

The shadows could only have been created with multiple light sources and,in particular, powerful spotlights. But the only light source on the Moon was the sun.

There are actually multiple light sources. The sun and the earth and the moon itself.

The whole notion is pretty funny actually.

[trau]

Oh come on already, how can anyone believe these conspiracy nuts. I love how they all claim the waving flag as proof that its all a fake. The flag had a rod running through it to hold it out, it was really that simple.

[varg]

No way it was faked. What a stupid waste of money for building a rocket (if it was)....

[LazyD]

I find it unbelievable that people would even say the moon landing was faked,these conspiracy nuts where running out of ideas....

[Disgruntled]

The argument "You can't trust the government" has a general ring of truth to it. On the other hand, I see no reason to believe that someone with a conspiracy theory to barter for money or attention is automatically trustworthy.
As a federal employee, I think the biggest weakness in a lot of conspiracy theories is that it requires the conspirators to be more diligent, competent, and faithful to the conspiracy than most of the government is in the performance of its non-secret, routine duties.

[EthicalEpi]

Well, I voted yes, but only because there wasn't an option that said "not sure".

I'm surprised I'm the only one though. Some of the evidence from those who claim that it didn't happen is hard to completely dismiss. I'm thinking in particular about the pictures where there are crosshairs that are supposedly etched onto the surface of the camera lense that appear to be going behind some objects, and the photographs that are supposed to have been taken from different locations at different times and are basically the same.

It seems unlikely that it was faked to me to be honest, but it appears that there has been a bit of photographic doctoring going on so if that's the case it does cast a little doubt over things.

Politically faking a moon landing at that particular point in time would have been quite tempting I imagine, so there would be a motivation.

In all probability they did land on the moon, but I wouldn't claim to be certain about that. You should have an option for "Who knows?".

[hellind2]

There was also another theory that US never sent anyone on the moon. The tv footage you saw were actually sets.

And to counter this theories, Discovery Channel did run a documentary to proove that US did indeed sent someone to the moon.

[Lev]

Originally posted by hellind2
And to counter this theories, Discovery Channel did run a documentary to proove that US did indeed sent someone to the moon.

I think I saw that, on either Discovery or National Geographic channel. Was fairly convincing, I think they addressed nearly every "major" issue/debate.

[EthicalEpi]

I've seen a couple of documentaries about this myself, and at the time I thought it was a pretty proposterous notion, but the thing that really set me wondering "maybe?" is that the NASA guy being interviewed was tending to fall back on the "this is a proposterous notion" stance rather than actually addressing some of the more puzling points that were being put to him.

It's very easy to think "how could our government lie to us about something like this", but you know governments have a history of lying about all sorts of stuff. Then there's the old observation that a big lie repeated often is more likely to be believed.

Unless there's a reasonable explanation for every reasonable point that the conspiracy theorists put up for scrutiny, then I'm going to think "they probably did, but maybe they didn't".

I wonder whether all of the people who have voted here have done so because they're thinking "how could the government lie like this", or because they've actually taken the time to look at all of the arguments and evidence available and make their own mind up based upon that?

[Amish_Geek]

If the moon landing were a fake, then why can I see the moon lander on the moon with a powerful enough telescope? They left the lander there, and took the conical nose capsule back from the moon.

[EthicalEpi]

Originally posted by amish_geek
If the moon landing were a fake, then why can I see the moon lander on the moon with a powerful enough telescope? They left the lander there, and took the conical nose capsule back from the moon.

you can see the moon lander on the moon with a powerful telescope?

I guess if that's the case then they obviously did go there. I wonder if there are any photographs of this anywhere (that haven't been produced by nasa).

If anyone can post a link to a photograph of this I would love to see it (this wasn't mentioned on the documentaries I saw from what I remember, so it surprises me that that's actually possible - you must have one hell of a powerful telescope!).

[EthicalEpi]

You have a telescope as powerful as this amish_geek?:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/...?oneclick=true