Moon Landing Hoax
Published on 6 Aug 2005 at 3:02 pm.
21 Comments.
Filed under Thoughts & Ramblings.
I was just watching Conspiracy Moon Landing on the National Geographic Channel (don’t ask me why… I was bored I guess) and it just kind of underscored something I’ve always known anyway. To be perfectly candid, if you subscribe to the notion that the moon landings were faked in any way, shape or form… you are quite honestly an ignorant boob.
There is really nothing else that needs be said. That’s it… no discussion required. You are an ignorant, STUPID, pathetic boob.
PS - For crying out loud take a freakin’ shower once in a while and get yourself to a dentist.
End of lesson.
Stuart on 6 Aug 2005 at 11:03 pm: 1
About a year ago (in the UK) there was a documentary which did a fairly thorough debunking of the lunar conspiracy documentary. They interviewed the laser ranging people who make use of the corner-cube reflectors that the Apollo astronauts left on the surface. They talked to people at Jodrell Bank (radio observatory in the UK) which independently tracked the Apollo lander. They also talked to a lot of other scientists who all provided evidence that the landings did happen.
Rob on 7 Aug 2005 at 12:39 am: 2
They spoke with those folks from Jodrell Bank on this program as well. They discussed independently monitoring the Apollo conversations and they also showed a plot (which I presume was built from frequency Doppler shifts) of the Eagle lander’s decent phase. This plot included the “hump” where Armstrong assumed manual and momentarily climbed the spacecraft to avoid a rubble-strewn crater and land further downrange.
Although it made me quite mad (apparently) the show was quite good at debunking most of the conspiracy points I’ve ever heard through actual experiment and recreation.
Additionally — and this is my own observation — in light of the sheer amount of data, media and hardware, it really would have been alot easier (and less expensive) TO JUST GO TO THE MOON… than to fake it.
Tom on 10 Aug 2005 at 5:55 pm: 3
Agreed!
Stuart on 11 Aug 2005 at 8:26 am: 4
The Jodrell Bank plot is from frequency Doppler shifts and is on the wall in the Jodrell Bank Visitor Centre cafe for all to see!
tony on 1 Nov 2006 at 12:55 pm: 5
your all idiots, If the moon landing was real why don’t we do it again and plus you can just look at the ship you can tell its just some kind of movie made up scientific futuristic wannabe space craft that doesnt even look as if it could do anything except float up when up when being being pulled by strings r-tards.
Rob on 1 Nov 2006 at 1:20 pm: 6
WOW! Enlightening and compelling arguments. Now I’m not so sure.
James on 5 Dec 2006 at 10:06 pm: 7
The Russians never protested and they had spy satalites watching us they wanted to get to the moon just as bad
User on 6 Mar 2007 at 9:51 pm: 8
Whats the point of faking it? Other than political, there were none. We should give thanks to all the people who gave their lives in the Apollo missions, and those who were brave enough to break the tethers of Earth for so long..
john on 8 Apr 2007 at 11:41 am: 9
both arguments soung good in principal, but man landing on the moon leans much more to the bs side
EF on 8 May 2007 at 8:17 am: 10
Sorry for the ad hominem but it is the only conclusion I have since the conspiracy theorists dismiss all empirical evidence of a moon landing. I believe the moon hoax “theorists” (theory as in the layman’s term, not a scientifically sound theory) suffer from a mild form of retardation.
Rob on 15 Jul 2007 at 1:29 pm: 11
EF - “a mild form of retardation” That was priceless… for some reason I didn’t see this comment until now. Made my day.
Lauren Kennison on 14 Aug 2007 at 10:12 pm: 12
O.K. I agree it would take more effort to cover up fake landings than it would to just do it. But here is the thing I have never been able to get past (and I haven’t ever seen or heard anyone else mention it): The USA’s first satellite went up in January of 1958. I think it was about the size of a basketball. Eleven and a half years later, not only to we put several men on the moon, we bring them back, no problem. To me this seems like going from Kitty Hawk to a 747 in 11 1/2 years. Or going from a Muntz 6″ TV to a Sony 60″ LCD in 11 1/2 years. Am I the only one that is befuddled by this?
Rob on 15 Aug 2007 at 3:09 am: 13
That’s a good point, but consider these things;
1. It was a matter of national pride… WE WERE GOING TO BEAT THE RUSSIANS no matter what the cost. NASA (and the country) was dedicated to making this happen.
2. Money was no object. The entire country was behind this and the coiffures were wide open.
3. Risk could be taken then that just couldn’t happen these days with our alarmist mentality and sensationalist media.
That’s just off the top of my head. It’s not so far fetched
Paul on 18 Aug 2007 at 7:00 am: 14
“coiffures were wide open” - did the nations hairstylists fund the Apollo missions? Thought the conspiracy theories were daft, but this…..,
Rob on 18 Aug 2007 at 9:05 am: 15
LOL. OMG… the conspiracy is true!!! All because my spell checker chose “coiffures” instead “coffers.” You hear that NASA? … we’re on to you!!!
puck on 19 Sep 2007 at 1:34 pm: 16
Could the confusion be due to the fact both points of view are correct? We did go to moon, collect rocks, set up the mirrors, etc. BUT we also produced fake pictures, movies etc on the (I’ve heard 50/50) chance that the astro’s didn’t make it. If they had died on the way to the moon the pics would have been used and the claim made they died on the return leaving the U.S. with bragging rights as the fist on the moon. Very important at that time in history. Are hoaxers failing to realize that evidence of fakery in the photos prove only that photos were faked, not the trip itself.
Keith on 20 Sep 2007 at 11:54 am: 17
Getting to the moon carried no real practical benifit beyond demonstrating the United States supposed technological prowess. It’s largely an emotional argument. On the one side you have the “rah, rah, rah” go team USA pro-Apollo cheerleaders. On the other side the skeptics. As I recall the USA took a winner take all approach during the Cuban Missile Crisis only to get caught with its pants down many years later as it admitted to withdrawling its missiles from Turkey after the fact. My recommendation is that this lofty self image of the US is largely manufactured.
Lisa on 10 Oct 2007 at 3:51 pm: 18
I want to believe the astronauts. I remember reading a book many years ago, can’t recall the name, but we all know every time the government is asked they say “No no, never heard of no aliens or UFO’s or whatnot. Nope, not.” According to this mysterious book I can’t remember the name of, (just look through them all, it’s in there somewhere) The astronauts, all but one said, “We saw unfamiliar and unexplainable things, UFO’s, every time we went up.” So to me, government lies. Astronauts, maybe hopefully, please, not as much.
Carl on 6 Aug 2008 at 7:56 pm: 19
I don’t believe a word that comes out of their mouths. 50 Billion it cost the tax payer to go to the moon and that was in 1969.
And we ain’t been back since the 1970’s, or no other country as attempted to go even though technology has dramatically advanced in the last 30 odd years.
Sorry like, but I think it’s bull squirts.
A bit like when the Astronauts got asked about UFO’s etc, and they all said they didn’t see zip, but now the likes of Edgar Mitchell is saying he knows that the UFO’s do exist and Buzz is saying they seen UFO’s on the way to the moon.
Funny how they all of sudden start saying this 30 years later.
Can’t wait for one of these old fuckers to blow the whistle about not going to the moon… Be funny as fuck to see the Apollogists get out of that one.
joe on 16 Oct 2008 at 3:02 pm: 20
japan has sent a ship to the moon JAXA/NHK,to take close up pictures and collect soil samples,its still taking pictures as we speek,ok,i know what your gonna ask and no foget about finding the lunor landings or matching rock samples to apollos samples.heres why,last night i was reading about the JAXA ship they sent to the moon and guess what i found out?a NASA sponsored intrument called the MOON MINERALOGY MAPPER will ride along side the JAXA ship,it will have a infrared spectrome tellescope,to survey the lunar terrain,HMMM why do they need to ride along?TO COVER THERE TRACKS,heres might idea of how this mess can be solved SCIENCE.next ship they send to the moon ,have a device that measures the amount of radiation,if the readings are off the wall ,or way to hi for living things to pass then CASE CLOSE.if it happend,they whould have space stations set up by now and the rich whould fly round trip flights to the moon
joe on 16 Oct 2008 at 3:09 pm: 21
NASAs watching this JAXA project really closly becouse they will have the answers.