The Moon Landing: An elaborate hoax?

[Iron Man]

This has been a topic that has caught my ear. Do any of you believe humanity landed on the moon, or it was completely staged?

[Sith Lord 13]

I'm yet to see convincing evidence of a conspiracy. So I say it happened.

[Iron Man]

Well, a pretty convincing component of the theory is that the Van Allen Radiation Belts would have prevented us from leaving orbit.

[Disco Jones]

actually that's fucking retarded

(that we could possibly put a man on the moon, I mean)

[ShatteredWings]

Um yeah. There is NO way we would have poored that much money into a MOVIE to fake out the russians in the cold war.

Too many people would have known about it being a hoax to keep it from being 100% public information.

[karl]

My granddad told me he watched it on TV. He said it was in 1969.

[Death]

Well that's fucking retarded.

(that people actually call a event & fact a hoax)

I mean really, what evidence is there to say otherwise? Everything that the moon conspiracists say has been proven wrong (they've even busted this on Mythbusters, if any of you have seen it). Here's 8 reasons why. (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/photogalleries/apollo-moon-landing-hoax-pictures/index.html)

[Perseus]

Yeah, we've been there. We can shoot lasers onto these glass things that reflect back to Earth. That shows we've been there. And also there's the whole moon rocks thing, y'know.

[Clawhammer]

What would be the motive behind such a thing? Sounds like your sources are... unreliable.

[Disco Jones]

well, you see, space travel is hard

you got radiation and shit, man

and when you have obstacles in space travel, that means you can't do it at all

it's the same irrefutable logic that makes it obvious that aliens built the pyramids

[Ryhanna]

My granddad told me he watched it on TV. He said it was in 1969.

Yeah, lot's of people saw it, butit doesn't necessarily make it real.

There's two things I can think of that make me suspect it was fake:
1 - The flag waves... Like, on the moon.... where there is no gravity, and therefore no wind.... Whoopsies, I forgot - the aliens waved it around in celebration of our accomplishment! :P

2 - The radiation should have killed Lance ... Um, Neil Armstrong (LOL honest mistake...) and Buzz Aldrin (And that third guy) years ago. If they really went to the moon, they shouldn't still be walking here.

[Death]

Both your points are invalid.

1 - The flag waves... Like, on the moon.... where there is no gravity, and therefore no wind.... Whoopsies, I forgot - the aliens waved it around in celebration of our accomplishment!

Why are you assuming that the flag waving is from gravity? The sheer momentum from the force required to stick the flag in causes waving - and there's no atmosphere to cause it to stop. Also, pehaps you would like to explain why they were able to make a flag wave in a vacuum.

2 - The radiation should have killed Lance ... Um, Neil Armstrong (LOL honest mistake...) and Buzz Aldrin (And that third guy) years ago. If they really went to the moon, they shouldn't still be walking here.

Sometimes, radiation can take decades to have effect. Remember the Chernobyl incident? There are still old people living there eating irradiated foods because they know that they will naturally die before the radiation takes effect, if it takes effect. It probably has not been long enough.

I dare you to go to NASA and say that to their face. Would you? Because the last guy who did was simply punched right in the face. TBH, if I were in the shoes of the NASA guy, I would have been pretty pissed off too.

[Sith Lord 13]

Um, actually, the flag doesn't wave. It looks like it's waving in still photos because of how it's sitting. Go look at the videos.

[Perseus]

well, you see, space travel is hard

you got radiation and shit, man

and when you have obstacles in space travel, that means you can't do it at all

it's the same irrefutable logic that makes it obvious that aliens built the pyramids

So, all those satellites we have up there are all fake, since space travel is impossible, by your standards.

[kermit]

Even if we didn't (oh but we did) we can today. We land robots on mars man, we have probes 10.5 billions miles from the sun. We're on the verge of Genetic, Robotic, and Nano Revolutions! The Exponential trend of technology is neigh! Welcome to the knee of the curve.

[Death]

Um, actually, the flag doesn't wave. It looks like it's waving in still photos because of how it's sitting. Go look at the videos.

Even if at the time, that was indeed the case, that still proves my point.

[Disco Jones]

So, all those satellites we have up there are all fake, since space travel is impossible, by your standards.

Yes. Do you mean to suggest that we can put a man on the moon, but not make wires that won't tangle?

[Perseus]

Yes. Do you mean to suggest that we can put a man on the moon, but not make wires that won't tangle?

Lol, those are two entirely different things. Enjoy believing there are no satellites while I wonder even how wires get tangled in the first place. :P

[Jess]

of course it's true!!!

[Camazotz]

At the time of the moon landing, we did not possess the technology to fake such an extraordinary event.

[Ryhanna]

Both your points are invalid.



Why are you assuming that the flag waving is from gravity? The sheer momentum from the force required to stick the flag in causes waving - and there's no atmosphere to cause it to stop. Also, pehaps you would like to explain why they were able to make a flag wave in a vacuum.



Sometimes, radiation can take decades to have effect. Remember the Chernobyl incident? There are still old people living there eating irradiated foods because they know that they will naturally die before the radiation takes effect, if it takes effect. It probably has not been long enough.

I dare you to go to NASA and say that to their face. Would you? Because the last guy who did was simply punched right in the face. TBH, if I were in the shoes of the NASA guy, I would have been pretty pissed off too.

Yeah, okay, I can accept that.

Does anyone know why they havent gone back to the moon? Just curious... you would think they would have heaps to research...

[Perseus]

Yeah, okay, I can accept that.

Does anyone know why they havent gone back to the moon? Just curious... you would think they would have heaps to research...

Lol, it costs a lot of money, and Obama just pretty much scraped the Space Program. NASA wanted to get a base up there by 2020, I think is the date, but now I don't think that is possible.