Apollo moon landings faked ? What do you believe?

I was 24 in 1969, and I was a radio amateur (Ham). A group of us built a directional antenna array and tracked the Apollo and other spacecraft on their missions. I still have the pictures of the instrument dials indicating that the Apollo missions actually were on the surface of the moon. So that's how certain the facts are. The Apollo moon landings are among the best documented events in history.

So I agree with those who say that there is something missing in the brains of the people who believe and want to believe that the moon landings were faked.

Stars cannot be exposed on film with the short exposure times needed to correctly capture the sunlit lunar surface activities. In fact, you won't see stars in any picture of a sunlit object in space, for precisely that reason. As for the photo that shows 'stars', and the rock with the letter on it, reproduction flaws are the answer. A star cannot appear in a photo, but a piece of dust on the scanner used to reproduce the pictures can. Internal reflections in the camera itself can also sometimes cause spurious points of light to appear. The rock with the letter on it appears to have a C engraved on it. However, there are many arguments against that being an actual mark on the rock. Leaving out the technical, no-one who maintains it is an actual letter carved into the rock itself has been able to come up with a decent explanation as to why they would carve such an obvious marking on something and have it in such a prominent place in the photo, then actually release that picture to the public at large with such a glaring error on it. This is actually quite common among hoax theories: NASA is at once sufficiently brilliant that they can pull off the greatest hoax of all time, and yet at the same time stupid enough to make schoolboy errors that anyone can spot. Getting to the more technical aspect, one thing that hoax proponents never tell you (probably because they don't know) is that there are actually TWO photographs taken that show that rock with the C on it, and one of them has never appeared anywhere with the C present on the rock. The one that does have the C on the rock exists in two forms: with and without the C. Analysis of a high-resolution picture showed that the C was a small fibre that presumably was on the scanner when the picture was reproduced for publication. Apollo pictures have been reproduced many times, and it is a very rare thing for a hoax proponent to work from an early reproduction or anything like the original when 'analysing' the pictures. A low-res jpeg on a website is not a good starting point for a photo analyst! So I believe the photo was authentic, but the C was nothing but a reproduction artefact.

Do not assume that Y!A thumbs down ratings are in any way representative of the actual population's perception of reality. I think the gallup poll showed something like 6% of Americans believe in the moon landing hoax/conspiracy... yes, that does translate into millions of people, but no more or less than any random thing you could poll people on which has tremendous scientific and historical backing. I would imagine that similar percentages of people believe in the flat earth, or that the moon shines with it's own light, or that the speed limit is the highest readable marking on your speedometer.

The thing is, especially here at Y!A, it that the percentage of people that believe in the hoax, regardless of what the actual percentage is... is more obnoxious with their ratings than those who understand the physics and photography (not very complicated either) that is involved.

Either that, or one single "thumb troll" has multiple accounts.

Recently on Y!A there has been a persistent troll with many sock puppets who has a predilection for the Moon hoax question. He routinely votes down -- with each of his sock puppets -- anyone who even remotely accepts the Apollo missions as genuine. You were probably a victim of this misguided person.

According to appropriate evidence and expertise there is no doubt that the Moon landings were real.

no one really thinks the Apollo program was a fake, but lots of people like a good conspiracy, so you got thumbs downed...

at least, that is MY theory.

the opposing viewpoint is scary... even with every possible proclaimed "proof" of hillbilly physics thoroughly and vigorously debunked, showing that the Moon landings were historical fact... some moroons still believe it was faked. WHY? Uh... how about them NASCAR races, boys?

yup, me n clem both think the NASA boys really went to the Moon.

and they took Elvis.

Any intelligent and honest person knows that the landings were real.

Unfortunately, Y!A has a problem with some idiots...

Some people have nothing better to do than waste their time and brain activity thinking about trash, baloney, conspiracies that don't exist, and things that cannot be proved either way without more FACTS.

Just watch "In the shadow of the moon" documentary. your answer is in their sentences. Just see...

they were real. Some people believe the world is flat too.

it happened...

anyone who believes differently has mental issues