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did we really land on the moon?

it would be easy to fake it and if we did why cant we now ? we have so much more technology guess we will never know

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there just pushing it because by that time the world will end and never can i think we fact it to show that usa is so great but in reality we are not we just like all the other countries mit be more powerful but that it.

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jason t and everyone else they fact it on myth busters and fact or faked and a bunch of other shows i think you guys should look up glen perkins he worked for nasa and he told people it was a fake and got killed so ya im guessing it was fake thanks tho.

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and the gravity thing is so easy you just slow the film down and bam there you go and the feather and hammer thing easy put weight on feather bam easy

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yeah i watched it to i was 18 and why did they stop the program then start back up then

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and why did the rocks we bring back have c on it it was a movie prop and there was alot of things saying we didn't i want to believe but america is a lie and i am not proud to be an american

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  • 1 decade ago
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    no and anyone who says we did is a paid gov disinfo agent

  • 5 years ago

    Its been tested time and time agin, we did land at the Moon. May I additionally remind you that there was once 6 Moon Missions that landed at the lunar floor in the course of the Apollo technology. None of those Apollo Moon Landing's have been hoaxed. I will speak about and disprove the conspiracy theories you will be acquainted with. Think approximately it logically; The spacecrafts have been undoubtedly introduced by way of NASA, that's complicated to false. Second the Apollo crafts might NOT have orbited the Earth for eight days as one of the conspiracy theorists have claimed. If NASA had of performed that they might were stuck on their lie, in particular in the event that they did it six occasions. The Russians tracked the Apollo missions very intently they usually knew for a undeniable fact that not one of the missions have been faked. If they simply had the slightest clue that the Moon Landing was once faked it might were the perfect propaganda weapon to be used towards the US and to Capitalism. The flag waves for the reason that it was once planted within the soil and Armstrong twisted the poles. This is seen for the reason that in different photos you'll see the flag isn't relocating whilst he walks beyond it. Also the intent there is not any blast crater underneath Apollo eleven is for the reason that whilst the craft landed it diminished velocity upon touchdown at the Moon's floor, so all that it did was once blow away grime. The identical is with using right into a vehicle park for the reason that you do not force in at 30 miles an hour. Over three quarters of 1 humans have been operating at the task in complete. It might were unattainable for each and every a million of them to maintain a mystery. Even filming the touchdown might were MORE DIFFICULT than touchdown at the Moon itself. Think approximately the quantity of humans they might have had to shoot the Moon touchdown in a movie studio. Lastly if the Moon Landing was once faked, we might have learned years in the past. These matters do not final forty one years with out an reply.

  • 1 decade ago

    It would most certainly NOT be easy to fake it. Have you ever even LOOKED at the sheer amount of material that wold have to have been faked? Do you have ANY idea what that would involve? Have you even bothered to LOOK for yourself at ANY of the Apollo record before deciding it would be easy to fake?

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    >>jason t and everyone else they fact it on myth busters and fact or faked and a bunch of other shows<<

    No they did not. They demonstrated the flaws in the arguments.

    >>i think you guys should look up glen perkins he worked for nasa and he told people it was a fake and got killed<<

    Evidence for that claim, please?

    >>and the gravity thing is so easy you just slow the film down and bam there you go<<

    Bull. There are hours and hours of film and TV, and I have seen it ALL. It absolutely could NOT be faked that way. There are many movements in it that are not influenced by gavity, and if you speed it back up to make the gravity look Earth-normal then they wave their arms in absurdly high-speed ways, among other things.

    >>and the feather and hammer thing easy put weight on feather bam easy <<

    And the large number of examples of dust behaving as you would expect in a low gravity vacuum? Of the large mylar blankets floating around in ways that would be impossible in air?

    >>yeah i watched it to i was 18 and why did they stop the program then start back up then<<

    So you're 60 years old, but can't even write proper English? And they did not stop and restart the program.

    You are clearly ignorant of any of the actual evidence beyond your sketchy memories (always assuming you are not just some teenage troll, which seems more likely).

    >>and why did the rocks we bring back have c on it<<

    That rock was never brought back. Why does it only have a C in some version of ONE of the TWO photographs it was incuded in?

    >>it was a movie prop<<

    Do you really think movie props are marked with such conspicuous letters?! WHat movies have you seen?

    >>and there was alot of things saying we didn't<<

    And they're all rubbish.

    Source(s): In the past decade I have seen ALL the photos from all the missions, ALL the film and TV from the eleven manned Apollo flights, hours of film and video showing the development of the program and the training of the astronauts, read thousands of pages of documentation from the time, spoken to astronauts and mission controllers, and handled lunar rock and soil samples. What have you done?
  • It would not be easy to fake a moonlanding, in fact it is impossible even now to fake many aspects.

    The telemetry transmissions from the spacecraft could not be faked, and anyone could listen in. Including the Russians.

    The rock samples returned would be impossible to fake, and although the Russians brought some soil back with an unmanned lander, the manned Apollo missions brought back a vast amount of samples, including core samples many of which were photographed in situ before collection. This is impossible to fake.

    The films shot on the moon show unmistakeable evidence of vacuum, and 1/6th gravity. Again this is impossible to fake on the required scale.

    If you disagree, you need to show how any of these things could be done in1969. They couldnt be done then, and they still couldn't be done now.

    The moon landings were not faked.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    What *would* make you believe the moon landings were real? Whoa..slow down. Answer that question in the privacy of your own skull. Meanwhile, which one of the following seems less unlikely?:

    1) It was real. Americans landed on the moon

    2) It was fake. At the height (depth?) of the Cold War, the Russians connived with the Americans and didn't reveal the whole thing as a fake, despite the propaganda victory it would have given them, and their lack of scruples about lying.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes, we really did. Fakiing it isn't all that easy; especially back in 1969.

    We can't land on the moon now for the same reason Ford can't build a Model-T.... The tooling for the machines needed has been altered or destroyed; but, that's not to say that we can't begin ramping up for a new set of landings (and perhaps a permanent base).

    If all the American people got behind the program, we could re-start the lunar landings... but, you have to convince the people - and Congress - as they're the ones controlling NASA's budget. Until that happens - we're stuck without a space program.... the worst mistake possible.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    <Big sigh>. Yes, we did land on the moon, SIX times. The reasons we have not gone back in a manned vehicle since December, 1972 include the Vietnam war ( hot flip side of the Cold war), and we are no longer building powerful launch vehicles like the Saturn V. There was no fancy digital image processing software like Photoshop yet in the late 1960's and early 1970's. The PC revolution didn't take place until the late 1970's through the early 1990's. I used ERDAS 7.5 on satellite images in spring of 1993 (Landsat MSS and TM images). The license for ERDAS cost $25,000.

    Source(s): Dr. H. Lee Masters, now dean of the Graduate School of the University of Oklahoma. I was in his last advanced remote sensing course. B.S. in physical goegraphy, May, 1994; M.S. in Geolog, specialized in remote sensing and GIS, July, 2000. and I lived through it. I was 16 years old in July, 1969
  • 1 decade ago

    Yes we did, several times. The only reason we don't now is because it is really really expensive. Short sighted politicians don't understand that gifted minds need challenging problems to deveolop wonderful new technologies and applications of existing technologies in order to get the creative juices flowing. So becasue of the space program regular people like us end up with Personal Computers, microwave ovens and cell phones to name but a few things that have changed life on the planet.

  • Stan
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Yes, without a doubt, NASA has had astronauts walking and driving around on the Moon. The astronauts set up reflectors (mirrors) to allow scientists to bounce lasers from their surface to precisely determine the Earth - Moon distance. We still do it routinely.

    Our technology has advanced tremendously and it is certainly within our capability of sending more people to the Moon. However, political conditions have changed and space is no longer a priority, sadly.

    People who believe we have not been to the Moon are ignorant of the facts and see conspiracies behind every accomplishment. They are people who are very disturbed and live on the fringe... they can not be happy people.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think we did for one simple reason. It happened at the height of the cold war. It is logical to assume that the ussr (now russia) would have had spies in nasa, if they'd have faked it why didn't the soviets go public with it either at the time or since?

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    This topic is as ridiculous as questions about 2012.

    Both should be banned because people will only believe what they wanna believe.

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